Lemkos in Cleveland founded a local organization in 1929 to preserve their traditions. Two years later, representatives of Lemko associations throughout the United States and Canada met in Cleveland to form the Lemko Association. Until its relocation to Yonkers, New York in 1939, the association was based and published its newspaper, Lemko, in Cleveland. During the 1950s, the local branch of the Lemko Association moved to the Lemko Club in Tremont and published magazines, newspapers, and books in the Lemko dialect, but efforts to attract young members were generally unsuccessful. In the mid-1980s, the Lemko Club was sold and planned to relocate in the suburbs. By the 1980s, most of the old Rusyn neighborhoods were abandoned and immigrants' descendants, as well as new immigrants, relocated to suburban areas, with the Rusyn culture kept alive largely through the churches, which had mostly also relocated.
SOURCE: https://case.edu/ech/articles/r/rusyns. Includes names to contact.
The University of Pittsburgh may have some historical records. Maryann Sivak knows who to contact.
Also, contact Bruce Romanchuk of FACEBOOK GROUP: Lemko Ancestry & DNA.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (Ruthenians are from Ukraine):
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85055009/marc/
https://tccweb.org/carpathorusynheritage.htm
Rusyn-language newspapers have appeared in the Vojvodina since 1924. The most important publisher of Rusyn-language materials is the publishing house Ruske Slovo, which annually publishes several books and four magazine titles, in addition to the 20-page weekly newspaper Ruske Slovo (Rusyn Word). Ruske Slovo has a print run of about 2500 copies.
