On 13 Jun 2012 at 22:05, Jonathan Katz wrote:
My family left the Kiev area in 1915 or so, after the
Cossacks raided
their store and the Czar attempted to conscript the men of the family
into his army. Sorry I can't be of more help :(
Not Ukraine, but my father's father didn't escape Tsarist
conscription. He came to this country in 1918.
--Chuck