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16 February 2020 4:50 PM

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Anonymous member

Hi,

So great to get your reply. Did you know your grandparents? Have you done research on there villages or ancestry? I never knew my grandparents as they died before my birth. My grandfather came in the early 1900's to Dunmore, PA and other families followed. They were boykos and he came from the highlands living in present day Verkovina, Ukraine. Years later my grandmother joined him bringing her 2 daughters with her. My aunts I knew well, however, when I asked questions about there homeland no one wanted to talk about it!!!! It took years of questioning before I started to get answers to my questions.

Sharon

16 February 2020 12:17 PM

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Timothy Bunn

My maternal grandfather emigrated to the United States when he was 18 from a village in or near a Carpathian Mountain pass. The village is Lupkow, now in the southeastern border area of Poland, near the Slovakian border. His name was Timko Smolnycki. He emigrated in the late 1800s. He was Lemko-Rusyn. He died in 1965 at the age of 76. Once he settled in Syracuse, NY, he married Anna Bodnar, a Slovak who was born in the United States.

16 February 2020 12:33 AM

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Anonymous member

Hi Everyone,

I am happy to make the first posting to what will be a fabulous message board.

I would like to begin with my surnames - Pohanish (Povkhanych, Pohanics), Straskulic (Sztraskulich), Ehnot, Ivaskovich and Yonko. Anyone related. Add your names and lets get this board going.

Sharon Pohanish Jarrow

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Carpatho-Rusyn Society

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Munhall, PA 15120-1929
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The Carpatho-Rusyn Society is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to manifesting Carpatho-Rusyn culture in the United States and supporting Rusyn culture in the Homeland in east central Europe. It works to educate Rusyns and non-Rusyns about Rusyn culture and history, and to support the development of Rusyn culture on both sides of the Atlantic. As a membership organization, it boasts over 1,800 members worldwide who support the organization's work through their annual contributions of dues as well as voluntary contributions to funds that support Rusyn cultural development abroad as well as humanitarian aid for Rusyn communities in Europe.