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Looking for information on one's ancestral village can be a difficult task made further daunting my the great divide of language. Luckily for me and undoubtedly for many others, there is a great genealogy forum via ukraine.com called http://www.ukraine.com/forums/genealogy/ whose users have been a great help to this novice researcher.
My forum post was simple: Looking for a pdf copy of a section from this book on Tarasca / Тарасца district (p. 417 - 469) showing Sabadash / Сабадаш." from Tales of the inhabited areas of the Kiev province by Pohylevych L.I. (1864). Сказки населенных пунктов Киевской области.
Here is a little background on the author and book:
Leonti Ivanovich Pohylevych / Pohylevych L.I. (1819 – 1893) was a Ukrainian ethnographer who worked in Kyiv. His work included studies on both the monasteries and churches of his area along with tales from the surrounding area. It is his last book that was of interest to me for it's mid-19th century description of it's towns, villages and religious structures.
I had found the book available online…but, alas that darn language barrier and I felt almost helpless in even thinking I could find a copy of the little section on our grandfather’s little village.
And, here is the scan of the original that some generous soul from the forum provided me:
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| Сказания о населенных местностях Киевской губернии. Лаврений Похилевич, Киев (Лавра), 1862 |
This forum has been of great help and I am most appreciative of the invaluable information provided me out from the kindest of others here. So, here was this scanned image from the book as requested...but, what it said was another thing. They say taking tiny steps is the way to getting toward one’s goal. Now that I had a copy of the original text...the next step was a translation.
One day and step late…I went in search of online software that could read text within an image and transpose it into a usable document. This is where the online OCR software from abbyy online came into play: (http://finereader.abbyyonline.com/en/Task/Queue). Here I was able to upload the image and receive the option of a word document to use. Though it was not 100% correct with a few unknowns left dangling, this is the translation as it was transposed by the software. But, it was closer than anything I could have deciphered alone and it gave me a good starting point for completing the full translation myself via other online translation software.
OCR text from original image:
С А Б А Д А Ш село, на низменном и топком полуострове, образуемом изгиОом реки Горского Тикича; мелду селами Зеленым Ваш и Вороным, в 4-х верстах от обеих. Жителей обоего пола 638; земли 1438 деопин. О проиоссядении села жители говорят, что лет за 200, мало, занимаемое селом, бьпо покрыто тупым лесом, коего пни еще и теперь иоде видны На этом месте основали свой пригон разбойники, которых отсюда выпили козачий предводитель Сабадаш, сам водворившийся на их месте с своим отрадам и назвавший своим именем образовавшуюся оседлость. Сабадаш вместе с Сорокотягой, Ольшанкой и Марийкой проданы.
Закревским Игнатах Иванскому, а этим Станиславу Иотейко. От Иотейки в 1851 пуху приобрел покупкой нынешний владелец Павел Войщехович Япрембский (лютер. испов.)
Церковь Покровская, деревянная, 7-го класса; земли имеет указную пропорцию; построена в половине прошлого века. В1749 году Сабадашев-Куг еще причислялся к Вузовскому приходу.
English translation…with some additional translation liberties by me:
“Sabadash, a village in the low-lying swampy peninsula formed by the bend of the river Gorsky Tikich; between the villages of Rohom and Voronoi, in 4 miles from both. Residents of both sexes, 638; 1438 acres of land. On the origin of the village residents say that for 200 years, the area occupied by the village was covered with dense forest whose stumps are still visible (today). It is in this place founded by robbers, who drank here with Cossack leader Sabadash, he shall dwell in their place with their joy and called his name formed sedentary.
Sabadash with Sorokotyagoy, Olshanka and Marika sold Zakrevsky Ignatiev) Ivanskomu, and then, Stanislav Loteyko. In 1851 from , from Loteyko it was purchased by the current owner Paul Voyschehovich Yaprembsky (lyuter. ispov.).
Church of the Intercession, wooden, 7th grade, the proportion of land has 'ukaznuyu', built in the last half century. In 1749, Sabadash -Kug still added to higher education of the parish."Perhaps, not the best translation...but, it serves the purpose for one who know nothing of her ancestor's mother tongue. Please contact me...should you see any discrepancies in the translation.
Thanks!
