TO: Jessica MITCHELL

Send an email to DGMILLERZ@OUTLOOK.COM.  I can reply without being blocked by gmail spam filter.

My reply will contain information you should find of great interest.

Check family tree of Ancestry member Debra Lee Peters Waddell.  It has much information on your g.grandfather Mihal KALIMON, including the fact he died in an accident at ARMCO Steel.

Happy Thanksgiving.

David, Robert Rusnak is my 2nd cousin.  We share the same great grandparents.  My grandmother was his aunt!  They are the Bobaks and Kicin's or Kincisky.  I am on Ancestry as well and did the DNA test.  My family tree is Kalimon_Mitchell and it is public.  I have to wonder if we are also related?  My grandmother married another Rusyn Michael Kalimon and I am having the hardest time with any DNA matches on that side what so ever.  

Jessica

Here are two churches located in Lyndora, likely serving RUSYN patrons.

BYZANTINE CHURCH:  https://www.archpitt.org/place/lyndorapa-2/.

UKRAINIAN CHURCH: http://peterandpauloclyndora.itgo.com/.

RUTHENIAN language is nearly always associated with Western Ukraine.

For ANYONE wanting to find distant relatives, I highly recommend taking a DNA test.  Ancestry has the largest database of persons and records.  My Heritage has MANY Eastern European members and fairly large database.

Both tests are autosomal (non-gender).  This allows searches for both male and female at the same time in a database.  They are only accurate to 4 generations (20 centimorgans and higher), which is where most people find ancestors.

I belong to BOTH.  Ancestry shows 7 X distant DNA cousins with BOBAK surname on their family tree.  My Heritage shows one 4th cousin named BOBAK who is from Ukraine, and one distant cousin.

Ancestry member RobertRusnak58 is a distant DNA relative to my paternal grandfather Michael RUSNAK/RUSNAK born 1882 near Kosice, Slovakia.  Robert and I share DNA with persons having KICIN and KICSINY on their tree.

My Ancestry DNA profile is 91% Eastern Europe/Russia and 9% Balkan.  My Heritage show 17% Scandinavian.  All four grandparents were born late 1800s in Austria Hungary which dissolved at end of WW2.  Today their birthplaces are located in Eastern Slovakia and Western Ukraine.  Most settled in Southwest PA.  A few in Northeast PA and New England.  Worked in mines and steel mills.

Hope my personal information helps others find ancestors.  If interested, I can provide a document with research tips.  Send request to my email address.

I have been reading  here several articles on Lyndora. I have been trying to post genealogy articles of interest  to others on the Connection under the Rusyn Then and Now section. Would anyone like to write a paragraph on a find to share with others? People really would like to hear your success story.

Sharon     shangp@rcn.com

Hello Mary Anne,

Family name is Kalimon - My great grandfathers name was Mihal Kalimon he was married to Martha Karlitsky (Karlicki).  When Mihal died at 24 she married another Rusyn with the name Metro Fields (I do not think that is he official last name).  My other family in Lyndora/Butler were the Bobaks and Kicins (Kicsiny/Horevaj).  My Maternal side is also Rusyn - Last name Antos and Porochowyk/Parschowky).  They actually all listed Ruthenian as their language in the census and on ship manifest.  It feels like chasing ghost!