The Carpatho-Rusyn Surname Project Archive

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Nick Benyo- Researching:
Villages:

  • Hrab(Grab)
  • Ozenna
  • Ortutova/Lipova, Slovakia
  • Medzibrodie/Velke Sulin, Slovakia
  • Litmanova, Slovakia

Surnames:

  • Mishko
  • Stehnach
  • Kosarovich
  • Sabol
  • Rusin
  • Guba
  • Chisar
  • Hricov
  • Evancho
  • Petrilak
  • Micyski
  • Benyo
  • Jakubcak
  • Marcisak
  • Hlinka
  • Vislocky

Settled In:

    Plains, PA - Bayonne, NJ - greater NYC area

Lisa Schell- Researching:
Villages:

  • Zavadka

Surnames:

  • Paczak
  • Furin
  • Sarsony
  • Hardy

Settled In:

    Initially settled in Dubois, PA. Later moved to Sharon/Farrell PA.

Mike Roelofsen- Researching:
Villages:

  • Kurimka, Saros county
  • Biendecose [sp?]

Surnames:

  • Kurila / Kurilla
  • Pavlus/Palyus

Settled In:

Emigrated to USA in 1920's settling in Cleveland Ohio. Then moved back to Slovakia. Then to France and finally to Forest, Ontario Canada. They had three daughters, Mary (born 1919 approx), Annie (born 1926) and Helen (born 1932). No records found. I am trying to establish if I have any blood relatives in Slovakia.

Ronald B. McComb - Researching:
Villages:

  • Visk (Vyshkovo) in the former Hungarian County of Maramoros, Visk (Vyshkovo] is south of the Tisa 9.2 miles east of Khust (Chust)

Surnames:

  • Pikolcz
  • Kereszturi
  • Szepi
  • Botos
  • Otvos

Settled In:

    The Pikolcz and Kereszturi families with connections to the other Visk families came over the the US between 1904 and 1914. Most thru the German port of Bremen. They settled in Chicago Illinois and Missouri Valley Iowa.

Donia Reiss - Researching:

  • Village of Szklary, Surname: Zemlanska, settled first in New York and then in West Frankfort, Ill.
  • Village of Krampna, Surnames: Shkvir / Krilyak / Kobeljak, Settled in Johnstown/ Conemaugh, Pa., and later moved to West Frankfort, Ill.
  • Village of Myscowa, Surnames: Hach / Chach / Chac / Blonska, Settled in Desloge, Mo. in 1900 and later moved to St. Louis, Mo.

James Brodsky - Researching:
Villages:

  • Ruska Nova Ves-Saris County

Surnames:

  • Boyko

Settled In:

Mary Ann Nescot Gallo - Researching:
Villages:

  • Petna/Pantna, Gorlice district, Lemko Region
  • Przegonina/Pregonina/Perehonyna, Gorlice district, Lemko Region
  • Jasionka/Jasjunka, Gorlice district, Lemko Region
  • Bartne/Bortne, Gorlice district, Lemko Region
  • Bednarka/Bodnarka, Gorlice district, Lemko Region

Surnames:

  • Nescot/Nescott/Nyszczot
  • Lepak
  • Hajtko

Settled In:

    Claysville, New York Herkimer, New York Southwestern Pennsylvania (towns of Manor, Jeannette, and Keystone, near Herminie, all in Westmoreland County; also town of Donora.)

Orianna - Researching:
Villages:

  • Chust
  • Torun
  • Volova

Surnames:

  • Prizant
  • Fiksler or Fixler

Settled In:

    Looking for a Sima Prizant, daughter of Herman and Esther, sister of Clara. She was last seen in Chust in 1945.

Gene Fatula - Researching:
Villages:

  • Orlov, Saros county
  • Jabluniv / Yabluniv, Bereg county
  • Wallingdorf and Lipjausky (district?)

Surnames:

  • Figula
  • Fatula

Settled In:

??? - Researching:
Villages:

  • Sambron
  • Ol'savica, former Spis County

Surnames:

  • Zeedick (Zidzik)
  • Olshavskyj

Settled In:

    Looking for information about the Zeedick (Zidzik) family from Sambron in what is now Slovakia. They settled in Western PA and northeast OH in the middle to late 1800's. Also seeking information on family and descendents of Rev. Michael Manuel Olshavskyj, born circa 1750 in Ol'savica, former Spis County. Some Zeedicks (Zidziks) said to have immagrated to Punxsutawney, PA in the late 1800's. I am looking for links between the Olshavskyj and Zeedick (Zidzik) descendents.

Mike Rock - Researching:
Villages:

  • Zavada (near Presov)
  • Kamionka, Lemko Region
  • Simpleski

Surnames:

  • Rak (americanized into Rock)
  • Miklos
  • Stebnicky (Americanized into Stebnisky)
  • Hrin
  • Other family names from area: Dzavoronok, Romanek, Dobryk

Settled In:

    Freeland, PA

Keith Koshute, 104 9th St., Windber, PA 15963 - Researching:
Villages:

  • Matovce, Saris County
  • Chertezh and Rus'ki Komarovci, Uzh County

Surnames:

  • Knap
  • Bartek
  • Koshuta
  • Varga

Settled In:

    Windber, PA ~1897-1900

George Dabrowski - Researching:
Villages:

  • Roztoka Welyka (Roztoka Wielka)
  • Perehrymka (Pielgrzymka)

Surnames:

  • Dabrowski
  • Galajda (Halajda)
  • Salamon,Salamun
  • Myszkowski

Settled In:

    Both migrated as teenagers to the US, through Ellis Island 1903/4. Eventually settled in New Castle PA and had 5 children.

John Udall - Researching:
Villages:

  • Kamjanycja, near Uzhorod
  • Uzhorod

Surnames:

  • Salak. Village Kamjanycja, near Uzhorod
  • Hasyc. From Uzhorod itself

Settled In:

    Both migrated as teenagers to the US, through Ellis Island 1903/4. Eventually settled in New Castle PA and had 5 children.

Dean Chapla - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown

Surnames:

  • Chapla

Settled In:

Anthony Hall - Researching:
Villages:

  • SASOVA
  • ORTUTOVA
  • BREZOVKA

Surnames:

  • GMITROVA
  • KOSZTURA
  • HRIZCKO

Settled In:

Steve and Joe Telatnik - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown

Surnames:

  • Telatnik
  • Sekal
  • Barvincak
  • Chervanak

Settled In:

    around Indiana, Pa.

?? - Researching:
Villages:

  • Snakov, Saros County, Slovakia
  • Jakubiany, Szepes County, Slovakia

Surnames:

  • Compel (Jakubiany)
  • Hrabcsak (Snakov]

Settled In:

    Pittsburgh, PA

Michael Shimko - Researching:
Villages:

  • Selo Hleboke (near Uzhgorod)

Surnames:

  • Prokop

Settled In:

Brad - Researching:
Villages:

  • Snakov

Surnames:

  • Fecko/Fetsko/Fetzko
  • Borsuka
  • Cizmar

Settled In:

    Michael J. Fecko b. 1870 in the village Snakov, Malcov province. Left 1888 for USA; arr. Ellis Island NY. Worked in the Bowery and then moved to PA working in Pittsburgh area in mines, steel mills. Five or six brothers are thought to have arr. in USA around same time, worked in PA(?).
    Three oldest children born in PA with first wife Mary Borsuka. Recruited to work in Fernie, B.C. Canada as coal miner in 1904. Second wife Suzanna Cizmar b. 1885 also from Snakov. Suzanna came to USA 1910 or 1911; arr. Ellis Island. Worked as a maid in Philadelphia before arranged marriage to Michael Fecko in 1914 in Fernie B.C. Michael's nephew John Fecko from Slovakia worked briefly in Canada before returning to Slovakia.
    Any information, especially on Michael Fecko's brothers and their descendants would be greatly appreciated.

Jim Werdell - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown

Surnames:

  • Krajniak

Settled In:

Jim Gambrel - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown

Surnames:

  • Beskorowany (Bezkorowaynyj)
  • Pendziwol
  • Kozak

Settled In:

Richard and Laverne Daley - Researching:
Villages:

  • Michalovce
  • Gorda
  • Pakocze

Surnames:

  • Daley (Daleij)
  • Gajdos, Gaydos
  • Koscak
  • Szoulyak
  • Julius (Yulek, Yulick)

Settled In:

    first in Brooklyn, NY, then Pittsburgh, PA.

Bill Kanuck - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown - Presov region

Surnames:

  • Kanyuck / Kanuck
  • Orecni
  • Stofan
  • Urda
  • Kuzemka
  • Banjas
  • Butya
  • Andruska

Settled In:

    Moon Run Pa, and lived in Imperial Pa.

Nick Babiak - Researching:
Villages:

  • Luh - Lemko region

Surnames:

  • Babiak
  • Mlynaryks

Settled In:

James Kundart - Researching:
Villages:

  • Valaskovce, Zemplin, Old Hungary (modern Slovakia]
  • Nyzna Rybnica (formerly Also-Ribnyicza or Alsohalas), Ung, Old Hungary

Surnames:

  • Hadvab
  • Kundrat
  • Osifat
  • Pcsolyar

Settled In:

    Settled in and around McAdoo, PA (including Audenreid and Beaver Brook).

Mary Russo Demetrick - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown

Surnames:

  • Dmytruk / Demetrick
  • Ballow

Settled In:

    Came to East Syracuse New York turn of the century. Others settled in Indiana Penn, then New Brunswick NJ.

Elmer Kuber - Researching:
Villages:

  • Antalovci, Ung County, near Uzhgorod

Surnames:

  • Kuberka

Settled In:

Michael J. Metrinko - Researching:
Villages:

  • Bortne
  • Zawadka Rymanowska
  • Tylawa
  • Wilsznia

Surnames:

  • From Zawadka Rymanowska, Dmytrenko (also spelled Mitrenko), Swiantko, Dolinski, Stebnicki, Tylawski, Nimczyk, Iwanko, Batutianski, and Zawadzki
  • From the village of Tylawa, the name Fuczyla
  • From Wilznia, the name Mudrik or Mudryk
  • From Bortne, the names Horbal and Dziamba

Settled In:

Miriam Anderson - Researching:
Villages:

  • not listed

Surnames:

  • Kolojeski
  • Broda
  • Swiderski
  • Koloje

Settled In:

Alvin Leder - Researching:
Villages:

  • Velyki Luchky

Surnames:

  • BOJKO (Boiko)
  • MACEGA
  • SMOLINSKA
  • MINOZAKEWYEG

Settled In:

Joe Kudrick - Researching:
Villages:

  • Chorne in Saris Co.

Surnames:

  • Kudrick
  • Scsur (Schur--American spelling)
  • Lipko

Settled In:

Mary Ann Privat - Researching:
Villages:
  • Sighet / Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania

Surnames:

  • AKSZENYUK or AXENYUK

Settled In:

Michael Metrick - Researching:
Villages:

  • Lukowe
  • Komancza

Surnames:

  • Dmytryk (other possible spellings; Mytryk, Metryk, Mitrik, Metrick)
  • Kadylak

Settled In:

    Settled in Hammond IN, and somewhere in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Tom Chuderski - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown - Sanok area

Surnames:

  • Paszkiewicz

Settled In:

Carolyn Petrus - Researching:
Villages:

  • Velky Ruskov, Zemplin County

Surnames:

  • Roman
  • Petrus, Petras, or similar spelling

Settled In:

Clifford G. Fill - Researching:
Villages:

  • Volovec

Surnames:

  • Fil / Fill
  • Horbal

Settled In:

Tom Molodetz - Researching:
Villages:

  • not listed

Surnames:

  • Molodetz

Settled In:

    My grandfather, Demetrius Molodetz, came to this country in early 1900's, settling in Cincinnati, Ohio.

T.A. Shipley - Researching:
Villages:

  • Izby - Lemko region

Surnames:

  • Cygler
  • Frycki
  • Cymbolik
  • Macieowski

Settled In:

Sylvain STYM-POPPER - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown

Surnames:

  • STYM

Settled In:

Michael W. Jaremko - Researching:
Villages:

  • Poljany Surovchyni or Regetow
  • unknown

Surnames:

  • Bonnin or Bornin
  • Zebb or Zuff (?)
  • Kuzma
  • Jaremko,Jaremkiv

Settled In:

Stephen Rudowski - Researching:
Villages:

  • Krolik woloski/Polski

Surnames:

  • Oresick/Oresyk
  • Rudawska
  • Wolosonwicz
  • Rudowski

Settled In:

Stephen D. Paduhovich - Researching:
Villages:

  • Rostoke
  • Rostoka Mala/Velyka, Nowy Sacz district

Surnames:

  • Huba
  • Prokopczak
  • Paduhovich / Paduchowicz

Settled In:

    My great grand father Cemen Paduchowicz age 32 immigrated from Rostoke, Galicia to Mt. Carmel, PA in 1893. I'm looking for any family roots I can find.

Richard Knapp - Researching:
Villages:

  • Starina, Saros
  • Legnava(Lagno),Saros

Surnames:

  • Csabra
  • Knapp (Knap)

Settled In:

Todd Greer - Researching:
Villages:

  • Litmanova

Surnames:

  • Barovjan / Barovian

Settled In:

Edward Schmitz - Researching:
Villages:

  • Myscowa

Surnames:

  • Dohada
  • Chymicz

Settled In:

Joanna Barna - Researching:
Villages:

  • Kunkowa/kunkova
  • Bartne

Surnames:

  • Klapik
  • Capp
  • Nalysnyk
  • Barna

Settled In:

Joe Snadel - Researching:
Villages:

  • Serednycia

Surnames:

  • Sznadel / Tshnadel

Settled In:

John Andrako - Researching:
Villages:

  • Nizhna Viznicza
  • Kopinovce

Surnames:

  • Turjanicza
  • Andrejko

Settled In:

Anne Marie Hules - Researching:
Villages:

  • Valkovce
  • Presov

Surnames:

  • Bartko
  • Paranich

Settled In:

Joseph Sefchick - Researching:
Villages:

  • Kyjov, Saris
  • Kuz'myno, Bereg
  • Irljava, Ung
  • Spizak, Spis

Surnames:

  • Banjas
  • Sztanko
  • Fedorko
  • Sefchik

Settled In:

John Zatkovich - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown

Surnames:

  • Zatkovic
  • Zatkovich

Settled In:

Marilyn Thompson - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown

Surnames:

  • Semanchik
  • Polochko

Settled In:

Robert J. Wasilko - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown

Surnames:

  • Wasilko

Settled In:

George Sawchak - Researching:
Villages:

  • Wola Nyzna
  • WolaWyzna

Surnames:

  • Peleschak
  • Komanecky
  • Shubiak
  • Sawchak

Settled In:

Jean Durcak - Researching:
Villages:

  • Ljuta

Surnames:

  • Puzjak
  • Didicin

Settled In:

Eugene Tremblay - Researching:
Villages:

  • KOZUCHOVCE

Surnames:

  • SOPKO
  • VOROBEL
  • BOJKO

Settled In:

David Mark Dutko - Researching:
Villages:

  • Stebnik, Saris
  • Cigelka, Saris
  • Stebnik
  • Cigelka, Saris

Surnames:

  • Simko
  • Oleyar
  • Dzuback
  • Dutko

Settled In:

Cheryl Dutko - Researching:
Villages:

  • unknown, near Uzhorod
  • unknown Lemko region
  • Becherov, Saris region

Surnames:

  • Regan (anglicized)
  • Kopina
  • Hafiniak

Settled In:

George T. Sikorski - Researching:
Villages:

  • Ozenna

Surnames:

  • Zelesko

Settled In:

Alan Nagy - Researching:
Villages:

  • Zemplenska Sirava-Benatina
  • Zemplenska-Stolisa?
  • Benatina-Dubrava
  • Zemplenska, Benatina

Surnames:

  • Krassnowski
  • Cornick
  • Babich
  • Kresnovsky

Settled In:

Anne Jacobs Walker - Researching:
Villages:

  • Turia Remetta/Tur'i Remety near Unghvar/Uzgorod

Surnames:

  • Greenbaum
  • Jacobs/Jacobovicz/Jacobovitch/any variations

Settled In:

Alice Gillihan - Researching:
Villages:

  • Becherov
  • Sanok

Surnames:

  • Ananewicz
  • Barna
  • Matayko / Matako

Settled In:

Andy Zarick - Researching:
Villages:

  • Bardejovske
  • Seradina

Surnames:

  • Zarick
  • Czarick
  • Matayko / Matako

Settled In:

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