Journey To Find My Family Roots

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.