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.
While conducting my family research I have been provided much information pertaining to both of my lineage surnames, Iwaniw and Tyzbir. I have been able to identify at least 2 other families in America with the last name of Tyzbir and I have been told of another one.
The 2 families I came upon were Tyzbirs of Vermont and the other were the Tyzbirs of Nevada. The other that I have been told about was Tyzbirs of Connecticut/Rhode Island. Neither of which are connected to my family line that I can find. In discussing this with my cousins in Ukraine, they inform me that there were three other Tyzbir families in the city they lived in and they were not related.
As for the Iwaniw lineage, that’s another story. If you’re on Facebook you just need to search on the surname of Iwaniw and you’ll be surprised on the number of Iwaniws that are found just on Facebook. Are we all related? Not that I can document. Although there are a few duplicate on the list and a few that I am fairly sure are related via other documented means, I don’t know where in the collective tree is the common ancestor is located. But then how can there be so many just on Facebook? A few years back when I was starting my family research I received an email from a researcher/historian named Maciej Augustyn (vbroda@poczta.onet.pl). I have misplaced the actual email but I had the foresight to print out a hardcopy of that email.
In that email, they were responding to a collaboration request I had posted regarding the Iwaniw Family in Lutowiska. I am going to transcribe what was in the email exactly as they wrote it:
“Mister Iwaniw!
My name is Maciej Augustyn. I’m historian!
Iwaniw was typical farmer family in Lutowiska.
In my archiv is list of voter from 1870. In Austriatime in Galicia voter was only head of family.
In this list write
Stefan Iwanow number of home 28
Fedio Iwanow number of home 17 (name Fedio = Fedor = Teodor)
Mikolaj Iwanow nr of home 111
Stefan Iwanow nr of home 16
In this time write another version You name Iwanov = Iwaniw.
Maciej Augustyn
Ustrzyki Dolne”
What I make of this is that the Iwaniw (Iwanow) surname was a fairly common name in the area. Similar to Smoth, Jones, or Brown in America.
So, without proper, legible documentation it is difficult to determine the relationship between different Iwaniw families that lived in Lutowiska, Lisko district in Poland. I had previously posted an update about my grandfather, Michael Iwaniw. But there was another Michael Iwaniw from Lutowiska. It was estimated that they were both born around 1880’s. The difference was that my Michael Iwaniw was married to Matrona Smolii and the other Michael Iwaniw was married to Kasia Iwaniw. My Michael Iwaniw had a son in 1918 but passed away in 1919 in Lutowiska. The other Michael Iwaniw had a son that was born in 1924 who then subsequently emigrated to Australia. Both of our families were resettled in 1951 from Lutowiska to Dudchaney Ukraine. That is where the other Michael Iwaniw died and was buried.
In conclusion, there are a few Iwaniw families in the world but I have no idea if we are related or not. I would love nothing more than to be able to document the relationships. These families are:
- >Iwaniws that emigrated to Australia – 2 different Michael Iwaniws born around the 1880’s and from the same village.
- >Iwaniws that emigrated to the State of Michigan, USA.
- >Iwaniws that emigrated to Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA – there is a strong indication that there is a family connection but nothing that can be documented with any certainty.
- >Iwaniws that emigrated to Argentina.
- >Iwaniws that emigrated to Great Britain. I use to communicate with the one family member that was their family historian/researcher but he passed away many years ago. We were never able to make a genealogical connection.
So, if you believe that we’re related we should communicate and compare notes. To contact me click on the Contact link above.
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.