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CIUS PRESS PRESENTS
A GUIDE FOR UKRAINIAN
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
John D. Pihach
Ukrainian Genealogy: A Beginner's Guide
272 pp.
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John D. Pihach's Ukrainian
Genealogy is a guide to tracing one's Ukrainian
ancestry in Europe. Consideration is also given to North American
records that are specifically Ukrainian or relate to the
immigrant experience. Because the overwhelming majority of people
of Ukrainian origin in Canada and the United States have roots in
western Ukraine or southeastern Poland, the guide concentrates on
the resources of those regions. This handbook is intended
primarily for those whose ethnic roots are Ukrainian, although
some of the material in it may be useful to other groups with
roots in Ukraine.
Chapters 1 and 2 discuss general topics that are preliminary to
research. Personal names are examined in chapter 3. Chapters 4
and 5 outline the early religious experiences of Ukrainians in
North America and the church records that are available. Chapter
6 addresses the crucial question of determining the name of the
European ancestral community. Chapter 7 explains how to locate
places on a map, describes the various administrative divisions
that existed in the past, and looks at the many types of maps
that pinpoint the location of the ancestral village and even the
actual home. The resources for learning the history of a specific
region are covered in chapter 8. Chapters 9 and 10 are devoted to
church-based birth, marriage, and death records, the principal
overseas genealogical resource. Chapters 11 and 12 survey other
overseas materials. Several appendixes describe Ukrainian
transliteration schemes and present a key to the scripts of the
languages that were used in record keeping; provide a starting
point for research by other ethnic groups with roots in Ukraine;
and list useful Web sites.
John D. Pihach received a B.Sc. degree in physics from the
University of British Columbia and studied studio fine arts at
Langara College, Vancouver. He has spent many years wandering
about Asia and Europe and has made a dozen trips to Eastern
Europe, where he has done genealogical research at several
archives. He works as a weather observer and is the library
chairperson of the East European Genealogical Society in Winnipeg
and author of several articles in Galician genealogy..
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