My Grandmother, Annie Ostafyczuck, kept her report card from school in Sniatyn. About the only thing I can read on the report card is that her religion is defined as: Greek Catholic. Here’s her report card and a postcard of a Greek Catholic church in Sniatyn – maybe the one she attended.
The church:
Both my Paternal Grandparents list their birthplace as: Sniatyn, Galicia which is now a part of Ukraine. My Grandmother goes further and lists her nationality as: Ruthenian. The history of Eastern Europe is quite confusing to me. The names and rulers of various peoples and places changed so often that it’s very difficult [...]
Well, it took me a few hours but my first page is up: Descendants of William Knickerbocker. I was thinking of starting a few more generations back, but things aren’t as firm beyond this ancestor as I would like them to be. Also, it was a difficult choice on when to stop listing descendants; I’m [...]
Family legend had it that my Grandfather, Bazyli Wynohradnyk, was a cook in a logging camp in the Great White North of Canada. When I received the information from the Department of Homeland Security ( in a previous post) it indicated that my Grandfather had indeed emigrated to the U.S. through Canada.
After long searching on [...]
