My grandfather Иван Будз by 1907 had apparently moved from the Scranton area to Berwick. I don't think there were international money orders then so sending money back home was done through steamship ticket agencies. Honestly I don't know how (and if) the money made it from the US to the recipient in Austria-Hungary since to me it seems the information isn't precise enough. But I have six of these "international money orders" sent over several years so it must have.

The sometimes florid cursive orthography is confusing. What's next is my interpretation based partly on information from other documents. The excruciating details follow that.

Ivan Budz paid to John Fedorco US $61.75 for 300 kronen to be remitted to Alex Butz in Zhukotin, Lviv Region, Turka District.

Ok. Here are the excruciating details. The last letter in Ivan's last name is either Cyrillic cursive or Roman cursive, probably the latter, which would make his last name Bud. To add to the confusion, the recipient's last name is spelled in Roman cursive as Butz. The spelling of the recipient's first name is confusing in several respects. I recall from family lore an Alex Butz from "the old country." But the first letter looks like a Roman cursive capital 'O' which could suggest possibly Oleg, but the follow letters don't support that possibility. Assuming it's an 'A', Alex makes perfect sense but the terminal 'a' is confusing. The spelling of Zhukotin as Zsukotin is odd but plain enough. But what follows is perplexing. L.P. could be Lviv Province. Alsom, since the Cyrillic 'P' represents a Roman 'R' it could be Lviv Region. And what follows L.P. is frankly unknown. A guess would be Lemberg, since the terminal character is apparently a cursive Roman 'g'. Lemberg is synonymous with Lviv in some sources. Pau Turka plainly designates the Turka district.

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