Mosty Wielkie was located in the old Polish province of Galacia, that became part of Austria-Hungary after the First Partition of Poland in 1772. In 1785 the Imperial government in Vienna ordered that copies of all parish registers of births, marriages, and deaths be sent to the archives in Lemburg (now Lviv). Most of the city’s residents were ethnically Ukrainian, although there were significant numbers of Polish and Jewish inhabitants as well. At that time Mosty Wielkie had two churches

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Half of my ancestry runs through a single Ukrainian community. Both of my father’s parents were born in the municipality now known as Velyki Mosty (Великі Мо́сти). Presently part of the Ukraine, before the Second World War it was within Poland and known as Mosty Wielkie, and earlier, along with the rest of Galicia it was a component of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. My grandfather, Dmytro Karpowich, was born in Mosty Wielkie, November 7, 1890, the youngest son of Ivan Karpowich (1847-?)

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