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Our Kasperski family ancestral village is now in the Ukraine. Trybuchowce (Trybukhivtsi) is 3 kilometers southeast of Buczacz (Buchach) which was Eastern Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the wojewodztwo Tarnopolskie (Tarnopol province, now Ternopil oblast) in the Republic of Poland from 1920 to 1939. During these years there was considerable inter-marriage between Polish and Ukrainian families. I have traced KASPERSKI in Roman Catholic Church records for the parish of Buczacz back to 1740.

Other family names I am researching for this area are: WASIK, MONETA, CHOMIK, BRUCHAL, KACZMARSKI, BASZCZYN, CHOMYN and WASYLYK.

Many names being searched by those posting names on the Ukrainian Research list are names I have run across in my research. I am very familiar with Roman Catholic parish records, but less so with Ukrainian Catholic records. Although now it would seem that the careful genealogist should search both!

Surname: ORESICK / ORESIK / ORESYK / RUDOWSKY / RUDOWSKI / RUDAVSKY / SUDYK / SUDIK / SUDICK / SUCHORSKY

Region:

Galicia: Sanok County: Villages of Krolik Polski, Krolik Woloski, Balutianka, Wilka

Galicia: City of Lviv

Galicia: Nowy Sacz County: Village of Muszynka

Religion: Greek Catholic

1. Nikolaj ORESYK (born before 1859) and Eva SUDYK ORESYK (born before 1859) were Greek Catholic farmers in the village of Krolik Polski, Sanok, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. They most likely worshiped at the Greek Catholic church of Krolik Woloski or Balutianka. Their known children are Michael (1879-1945), Peter (1881-1967), John (1883-1939), Wasyl (b. abt. 1888), and Steve (1890-1974).
2. Nikolaj ORESYK is thought to be born in Balutianka in the 1850s. Two brothers of Nikolaj are known: Andrew, about whom nothing is documented, and Iwan, who married Anastasia BONKOWSKA of Hayi Smolenski (Brody region, Galicia), and was a railroad worker in Lviv, where he died in 1914.
3. Iwan ORESYK and Anastasia BONKOWSKA ORESYK had four children in Lviv: Maria, born in 1893 and later lived in Rakovetz, Pustomyty region, Galicia; Mychalyna, born in 1895, married to Volodymyr SICHYNSKY, an architect, born in 1894 in Kamianets, Podilsk, Ukraine, and residents of Paterson, New Jersey; Sophia, born in 1897 and married to a ZYWAR; and Petro, born in 1901.
4. Michael ORESICK (1879-1945), oldest son of Nikolaj ORESYK and Eva SUDYK ORESYK, first emigrated to the US in the 1890s. He married Tekla PRYSLOPSKY of Muszynka in Pittsburgh in 1901. Lived between Ford City, Pennsylvania, and Muszynka for twenty years. Settled in Muszynka, Poland permanently in 1927. Children of Michael and Tekla ORESICK are John (1902-?), Mary (1904-1942), Anna (1906-1984), Metro (1908-1978), Josephine (1912-?), Helen (1921--), and Paul (1922-?).
5. Peter ORESICK (1881-1967), son of Nikolaj and Eva SUDYK ORESYK, immigrated to the US in 1901. He married Pauline KOKRA of Daliowa, Sanok County, Galicia, in Paterson, New Jersey in 1903. They were life long residents of Ford City, Pennsylvania, and their children were John (1904-1967), Mary (1906-?), Michael (1908-?), Anna (1910-1945), Charles (1913-1956), Nicholas (1916-1950), Frank (1919--), and George (1921--).
6. John ORESICK (1883-1939), son of Nikolaj and Eva SUDYK ORESYK, immigrated to the US in 1903. He married Paraskeva PYTEL of Krolik Polski. John worked as a coal miner in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. Their children are Michael (1905-1973), Anna (1906-?), Sophia, Mary, and Steven about whom little is known.
7. Steve ORESICK (1890-1974), son of Nikolaj and Eva SUDYK ORESYK, immigrated to the US in 1909. He married Anna RUDOWSKA of Krolik Polski in 1912. They lived in Ford City, Pennsylvania and their children are Peter (1913--), John (1916-1944), Michael (1917--), Nicholas (1919--), Andrew (1921--), Mary (1923-1991), Joseph (1927--), Paul (1930-31), and Leo (1934--).
8. Anna RUDOWSKA, daughter of Michael RUDOWSKY and Anastasia SUCHORSKA of Krolik Polski, Sanok, Galicia. Other children of Michael and Anastasia are Wasyl (1883-1920) and Frank (1889-1960). Michael RUDOWSKY had at least one son, Nicholas (b. 1881) by a first marriage to Anastasia ZAWISKY.