I had the good fortune to encounter someone that was researching their family tree/history that included some information about my mother’s family. Due to this connection I was able to fill in information about my maternal ancestors back to my great-great-great parents on the Tyzbir side. The other person was researching their own family history and ended up including information about my grandfather, Gregory Tyzbir, lineage. One of the relatives of the other researchers married an descendant of Gregory & Anna Tyzbir. She was able to send me copies of the images of the church records for them. This allowed me to fill in quite a few gaps I had in the Tyzbir Family Tree. These images also gave me a starting point in my own review/search of the church records.
To that end I did find another birth records for a Petrus (Peter?) Tyzbir who was listed as born on 27 September 1904 born to Andreas Tyzbir and Euphrosinia Kuchar. Andreas & Euphrosinia are my great grandparents. This would then mean that there is a 20 year gap between the birth of my grandfather Gregory and Petrus Tyzbir. There may have been other children born to my great grandparents within that time period. That is where I’m at with my Tyzbir research; trying to find other children born to Andreas & Euphrosina.
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I know that it’s been quite a while since I updated the status of my family research. I’ve been spending a lot of time on MyHeritage.com working on the current family information and trying to clean up/verify the data the best that I can. I’ve also spending time on my family data files that I maintain on my laptop with Legacy Family Tree software.
So I’ve had to re-evaluate my efforts and decide where and how I want to spend my time and effort in conduction my family research. I’m at the point right now where my effort need to be focused on the actual records that are found in Eastern Europe. There is very little that can be found on line. Additionally, in discussing my family research with numerous researchers from Eastern Europe I have found that:
- The Iwaniw surname was a fairly common name in Galicia region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Therefore, just having the Iwaniw surname does NOT necessarily mean we are related. To determine that I would need documented lineage information.
- The other point is that official records from that region and time are extremely limited due to being destroyed during WWII or lost. I was lucky enough to find that my grandfathers death record survived as did his marriage record to my grandmother. I still have a lot to review to determine the best path to follow further.
I have decide to consolidate and focus my efforts to a couple of specific web sites. Currently, my family research/data is located/stored at:
- Tribal Pages – I will no longer be updating the information on this site. The data will remain but if you come across it exercise caution in utilizing the information found there. It probably isn’t up-to-date or current.
- Ancestry.com – even though I have found additional and new information on relatives and connections on here, I will no longer to updating the information found here. The information found here is more up-to-date than on Tribal Pages, it’s not going to be as accurate as the data on MyHeritage.com.
- Facebook Groups – I will probably be shutting down The Iwaniw Connection group and Iwaniw & Tyzbir Genealogy group. Neither group is generating any activity and no one is actually participating in any discussions or exchanging any information.
- Any Rootsweb web pages that I use to manage.
- I am divided on what I will do with The Iwaniw Project. This is an offline project where I am collecting publicly available information about people with the surname of Iwaniw.
If anyone wishing to contact me about my family research or wish to collaborate pertaining to family research can contact me through the form on this site.
Previously, I wrote that I was looking for confirmation on the death of my grandfather, Michael Iwaniw. I was told and it was repeated to me that he had passed away shortly after the birth of my father. During my research I had come across another Michael Iwaniw that was close to the same age as my grandfather (born in the 1880’s) and was born in the Village of Lutowiska but was married to someone who was not my grandmother. Armed with this bit of information I began to formulate different possible scenarios. One scenario was that my grandfather divorced my grandmother and married someone else and started another family. But I had no documentation to prove this or disprove it.
So, finally, after exhausting all other research avenues with no results, I turned to the online Ukrainian/Galician community on Facebook. I realized that I was going to have to hire a researcher in Ukraine and/or Poland to search out actual documents pertaining to my grandfather. But which documents to search for? When I contacted the 2-3 researchers regarding locating record documents on my relatives, I come to find out that the amount of hardcopy documents are extremely limited. The one researcher in Ukraine informed me that the only records available in L’viv archives for the village of Lutowiska, Lesko district were the church records pertaining to the death records from 1918 to 1944. That pretty much determined which record was going to be searched for. My grandfather’s death record.
Where to start? The only place that could be started from. The information that was I told was that my grandfather died when my father was just a baby. My father was born in 1918 and that is the year that the church records start. So, I had the researcher start at 1918 to search for my grandfather’s record of death. If the record was found in 1918-1919 then it would confirm that my grandfather passed away when my father was a baby. If not, then other documents would be needed to be located and proved that the story that my grandfather passed away when my father was a baby would have been false.
You may be wondering what the final outcome was. The Ukrainian researcher was able to locate my grandfather’s record of death. The date of death in the church record was 29 January 1919 and the cause was inflammation of the intestines. He was 36 years old when he passed away. This puts his birth year at 1883. My grandfather passed away when my father was just 2 months short of his first birthday.
The research service I used for my Ukrainian records search was Dorosh Heritage Tours and Ancestry Research (http://www.DoroshHeritageTours.com) and you can contact Andriy Dorosh via email at andriy@Doroshheritagetours.com.
I’ve been searching for Iwaniw relatives online peertaining to my genealogy research. I have come across many people with the Iwaniw surname but, unfortunately, I haven’t come across anyone that is related to my family line. What I have found regarding that situation will be a blog post for another time.
As I stated I have been searching for relatives with the surname of Iwaniw with little luck. But if i look at the family tree I can see why. My father had 3 brothers and one sister. Well, his sister married and took on her husbands name, Marika Iwaniw became Marika Koval. Even though she had 3 children, none of them would have carried the last name of Iwaniw.
My farther’s oldest brother, Wasyl, had disappeared during the war and he was the reason I started my gemealogy research. I am not aware of any of his descendnents. So, taht is a temporary dead end. My father’s other brother, Mukola (Nicholas) has never contacted my father but I may have a lead on him from information I found through Anolsen Archives. But that is for another blog post.
Then there is my Uncle Ivan. I met him in when he came to visit. The actual year escapes me but it was some time in the 1970’s. He had 5 daughters. All would marry and none would carry on the Iwaniw name. Fast forward to this past January when I received a message my account on MyHeritage.com from someone names Julia. She was writing to me to find out if I had a picture of her great-grandfather, my Uncle Ivan. I come to find out that Julia is the granddaughter of my cousin, Olga, who is the daughter of my Uncle Ivan. So, now I have a connection to a relative in my father’s fmily line. And as a bonus, she is also interested in conducting her family research. She has helped in filling in the many gaps that I have in thqt line. My Uncle Ivan had 5 dughters and they are all still alive in Easter Ukraine.
Using information that Julia has provided, I have been able to connect with other descendents of my Uncle Ivan and build out the family tree. It was by sheer luck that I was able to connect and communicate with my 1st cousin twice removed. Due to the war in Eastern Ukraine I have not been able to connect or contact my cousin Olga except through Julia or her mother Svilana. who I also was able to connect with.,
My old genealogy blog had to be shut down. The previous web host company decided to increase their quarterly hosting fee by almost 500%. From $23 USD every 3 months to $114 USD every 3 months. They weren’t worth it. So, I found a new web hosting company to host my genealogy blog.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to move the old articles to this new blog. Don’t despair. You can still access the old articles here.