LYSEN

My wife says he never liked to be called Polish! He was very proud of his Ukranian roots. In England he went to a church bought by the Ukranian community so they could continue to worship in the Ukranian manner.
I have learned from another site that the Germans will have directly changed his name to the Western European spelling to LYSEN. However this may change once I hear from the German Archive service in Bad Arolsen.

Hi Colin,

I looked up names quoted by Geo Z, called the phone info center in Lviv and the first phone they gave me said - yes, his grandmother was Paraska Lysen from Shklo (poln. Szklo http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szk%C5%82o_%28osiedle%29).

You can write me for details.

Hi Colin,

sorry for the vain hope. The guy must be a bad genealogist (me too ), he is not your relative.
I also called the village Starychi where the most Lysens come from. The ladies in the village office were very excited and tried their best, but coul find no relation.

So it remains to wait for the answer from Germany and then to search more precisely.