You MUST include in your subject, somewhere, UARL. I receive a lot of email every day from many sources and it's the only way I will know what your email is about. If not, I might inadvertantly throw it away.
My research is in the Ukraine, Galicia, Lvov, Bobrka, Brynce, Cerkicwne Poland in 1928).
Family names: HRYCIW, HLICKYJ, DEMENCHCK, DREBOT.
Note: This query appeared in Nase Luede Summer, 1996.
John M. Morris
4 Forest Laneway, Apt. 2504, North York, Ontario, Canada M2N 5X8
Searching for Iwan KRWEC, born about 1895 in Zulin, Stryj, Austria Hungary (now Ukraine). His mother's maiden name was MELYNK, and his father's name was Mike KRWEC. He left Europe via the SS Willehad from Hamburg Germany 7 July 1913 and arrived in Canada 19 July 1913. Iwan worked in Manitoba. He stayed a while with a Mary SHEMKO and her husband on a farm south of Winnipeg, possibly near Carmen, Manitoba.
In 1915 he assumed the name of John (Jack) MORRIS and left Manitoba for the East. After 1920 most of his life was spent in toronto where he died in 1968, leaving a wife, Rose and four children. Anyone having knowledge of this man (Iwan KRAWEC) and or his family in the Ukraine or elsewhere, please contact me.
Note: This query appeared in Nase Luede Summer, 1996.
John Movius: feefhs@feefhs.org (email)
P.O. Box 4327, Davis, California 95617-5327
Researching the MäVIUS, MAEVIUS, MEVIUS, MOVIUS, von MöVIUS, MOEVIUS, MöWIUS, MOEWIUS, MOVIA, MEVIA, MöBIUS, MOEBIUS surname and its many transliterations worldwide.
Family lines for all these transliterations lived in most provinces of the German Empire. MOVIUS was in Pommern from the 15th century and in Lithuania and Livonia in the 17th century. MOEWIUS was in Poland, Silesia and the Banat in the 18th and 19th centuries. Persons with the von MEVIUS and MOBIUS surname were known to live in the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Thus any or all of them may have had descendants living in the Ukraine at one time or another. Any sightings of this surname (or variants of MOV, MAV, MEV or MOB) are of interest.
Joan Prasiloski Page
Site 30, C-8, Gabriola, British Columbia, Canada V0R 1X0
I have no birthplace and no exact date of birth (approximately 1873) for my maternal grandmother, Maryannie or Maryanna KROCHMAL. She married Jan KAMINSKI who died on Krzywcze, Borszczow, 9 Feb 1905. Maryanna K. Kaminski arrived in Vita, Manitoba in 1913 and then proceeded to British Columbia where she married Vincent PRASIOLOWSKI and after his death she married Michael ANTONOVICH who she outlived and she died 6 January 1959.
My grandmother had some of her sisters descendants named MASLAK, BURDA and ZIOLKOWSKI who lived in Manitoba. Do you know any way I can locate details on my grandfmother and her ancestors? I find no Krochmals on the Krzywcze LDS Roman Catholic Church records. Can you tell if the surname in Ukrainian, Polish or German?
Note by editor Wally Rusel: Searching the female linage can be more complex than the male lines..the search should concentrate on her siblings and descendants. Start by locating family members in and around Vita, Manitoba (Winnipeg, Brandon Portage la Prairie as many sought employment in larger centers), asking for the association with any religious group. Check microfilm shipping manifests from 1913 back. Write Records Control, Citizenship Registration Branch, Secretary of State, P. O. Box 7000, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada B1P 6G5 for records of naturalization and citizenship. There is no charge.
There is no way of determining the ethnic identity of a surname unless you have something to compare: church, language, customs. Our records have KROCHMAL used in the Ukrainian community.
Note: This query appeared in Nase Luede Summer, 1996).
Comments from Lindy Kasperski (email):
15 Irvin Crescent, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4R 5L3
This posting is a very good example of those of us with mixed Polish/Ukrainian heritage that we may not be aware of. Joan indicates the ancestral village of her maternal grandmother is Krzywcze. Upon consulting Brian Lenius', "Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia", we discover there is Krzywcze Dolne and Krzywcze Gorne (the first is a valley village and the second a mountain village) which were in the Borszczow judicial district during the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Regarding KROCHMAL: There is a book in the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society (provincial headquarters) library in Regina by Anna Krochmal listing Ukrainian Catholic parishes in Galicia and the Republic of Poland.
Next: Although Polish language uses Latin alphabet i.e. Kasperski is Kasperski in Polish and English, unlike the problem the Ukrainian family researchers have; there are still many tricks to fool us Polish researchers. The letters k and g are both hard consonants in Polish and have been interchanged many times. There are many Grochmals (which in Polish would sound almost identical to Krochmal) also.
Our ancestral village of Trybuchowce (Trybukhovtsi) near Buczacz (Buchach) has at least two different branches of GROCHMAL families who settled in Alberta. My grandfather grew up with a Grochmal in our ancestral village: they served together in the Austrian army in the first war, both were married in same church in Buczacz, in the same month and year, May 1922, and both emigrated to Canada in the later 1920s - one to Alberta and the other to Saskatchewan.
Buczacz is close to Borszczow: As administrative districts in the Austro-Hungarian Empire only Czortkow and Zaleszczycki are between them. These districts basically were the powiaty or powity (counties) which did not change when this area came under the Republic of Poland in 1920; and, the entire area became wojewodztwo Tarnopolskie (Tarnopol Province) which today is Ternopil Oblast.
A reasonable assumption would be that Marysia Krochmal (possibly Grochmal) can be found in Roman Catholic records for the parish Krzywcze which would indicate the name is Polish. Or, Ukrainian Catholic records for the parish of Krzywcze Dolne might turn up the records being sought.
Darlene S. Voda
RR#1, Box 109-A, Laceyville, Pennsylvania 18623-9619
Phone: (717) 869-1146
My area of research is Galicia, Sambor District.
Villages: Laka, Dublany, Ortynice, Bilina, Wielka, Tatary.
Family names: HORODISKEY, BANDROSKI, URBAN, CZAJAKOWSKI/CZAJKOWSKI Americanized to CHICOSKY, VINICKI/WINICKI, YONICK/YANICK, KROVICH, CZULOWSKI/CELOSKI/CZALOWSKI/CZELEVSKI/CZELEVSKA, CZOLOUSKI.
Note: This query appeared in Nase Luede Summer, 1996.
Additions: CZALOWSKI CZULOWSKI/CELOSKI: Joseph Czalowski born 1840 Austria, married Catherine Bandrosk (both born in Austria). Leon Czalowski, their son, born circa 1862 (probably in the Laka, Sambor District of Galicia). Leon married Anna Vinicki/Winicki born circa 1868 Austria. Anna was the daughter of Thomas and Tessi ? Vinicki. Leon Czalowski died 11 Sept 1936 at Home, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Anna Czalowski died 23 May 1937 at Home, PA. Children of Leon and Anna Czalowski:
1. Mary Ann Czalowski born 5 March 1890 or 1896, Laka, Galicia, Austria, married 7 August 1911 Chester PA to Nicholas Czajkowski/Chicosky born 15 Sep 1884 or 1890 at Laka, Galicia, Austria, son of Paul and Anna Horodiskey. Nicholas died 16 Apr 1975 Bradford County, PA; Mary Ann died 4 Jan 1977 Lakawanna County PA.
2. Elizabeth Czalowski born circa 1902 Galicia, Austria; first marriage to Edward SABOL; second marriage to George KROVICH.
3. Dorothy Czalowski born circa 1904 Galicia, Austria, married Nick Yonick son of Sam and Katie ZAJAZYK Yonick 13 June 1926 at Homer City, Pennsylvania.
Other family related surnames; URBAN, SAKASH, BALLOU, TELEP, WYSOCKI, RUSNAK, WASCZKIEWICZ, BILNISKA/BILINSKI.
M. Hutzel: MHutzel@aol.com (email)
I am trying to find out some information about the above person. He was born in approximately 1891 in Kiev, in the Ukraine. He is the grandfather of my husband. He emigrated to Sweden or Denmark from Russia during the revolution. Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Bill Warwaryick
Box 2341, Westlock, Alberta, Canada T0G 2L0
Searching for WARWARYCE / VARVARICH, SIDANYCZ, SEMEC in Szumiacz (village), Turka, Galicia, Ukraine. SHARKO, BASEYE in Worczyn near Vladimir Volnski, Kowel (region) Volyna, Ukraine. KOSIY, JUNGER, GURGULA in Pukasowce, Bludniki (post office) near Halicz, Stanislau (now Ivano Franko) Galicia, Ukraine. KOSIY. SAWCHUK in Seredne (village), Stanislau (now Ivano Franko) Galicia, Ukraine.
Note: This query appeared in Nase Luede Summer, 1996.
Bill Watamaniuk
1208-91 Street, Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada V0H 1V0
Searing for SKOREYKO, GORDEY, ZOTEK, DREBIT, SHYMKO, MELNYK, HUNCHAK, FESCHUK. All have their roots in the village of Boriwtzi, Povit Kitzman, Bukovina. These names repeatedly enter into various generations and branches of my family and may help me tie up several annoying loose ends.
Note: This query appeared in Nase Luede Summer, 1996.