I don’t think I have any ancestors from Bukovina, but the The Bukovina Society of the Americas caught my attention.

Where, and what, is Bukovina?

From 1775 to 1918, the easternmost crown land of the Austrian Empire; now divided between Romania and Ukraine. As a multi-ethnic province, its name has several spellings: Bukowina or Buchenland in German, Bukowina in Polish, Bucovina in Romanian, and Bukovyna in Ukrainian, all of which mean Land of Beech Trees…Bukovina, on the eastern slopes of the Carpathian mountains, was once the heart of the Romanian Principality of Moldavia, with the city of Suceava being made its capital in 1388.

While under various rules over the years, including the Ottoman Turks, Russians, Austrians, Hungarian, and others, and a major battlefield during World War I, it became Russian territory after World War II and is now divided between the Chernivetska oblast of the Ukraine and Romania to the south.

An areas only 10,422 square kilometers, and home of a variety of cultures and ethnic backgrounds which moved through the area during it’s many hand offs to ruling parties, you will find “Armenians, Hungarians, Jews, Poles, Romanians and Ukrainians (at this time, generally referred to as Ruthenians). German colonists came from three distinct areas: Swabians and Palatines, from what is now Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz, in southwest Germany; German Bohemians, from the Bohemian Forest (Böhmerwald), now in the Czech Republic; and Zipsers, from the Zips mountains, now Spis county, Slovakia.”

It could be that one of your ancestors was either from or passed through the area, so it may be worth exploring if your family hails from Eastern Europe.