There is only one catch...I possess a limited ability to translate Cyrillic spelled names and then figure out what the handwritten version might be to determine from the records which names from the tree correlate to the actual records. The one thing that i can say is that because our grandfather Prokopiy (Peter) and his brother Vasily (Bill) immigrated to the United States they are not shown on the left side of the branch coming off their father Todosiy (Todos).
What has already proved interesting is that my family tree based upon actual metrical records differs a bit from that which I have received that appears to be one based upon memory.
Below is both an image of the original framed family tree (taken at a slight angle...hence, some of the photo is out of focus).
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| Lysanyuk Family Tree : Sabadash, Ukraine 2012 |
And here is the one with an overall of numbers for names to be deciphered. It shows each of the three main branches indicated with a letter of the alphabet. Branch A is my main line which is incorrectly shown coming from the person below in the middle as Petro/Peter who is the person above was the known father of Branch A (Todos). While Branches B and C also indicate coming from the previous line and I believe that may be correct until it is determined otherwise.
And much to my delight...here is the tree with names translated for my by distant forum friend E. Snezhkin (03.19.2013) who was kind enough to translate them all from the Cyrillic alphabet to Roman one for me.
Now just to update my various branches and then, figure out their names in cursive to find matches with the metric records.
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| translation courtesy of E. Snezhkin |
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| Branch A : my side |
Fortunately, parts of Branch A are understandable to me as this has been part of the family tree directly related to my research of our grandfather's family.
What is interesting to note is the number of branches coming from A (Todos) does not indicate all of his children. This family tree only shows 5 branches coming from him. What it does not show are the 11 of the 14 children who survived into adulthood of which 2 immigrated to Canada and eventually, to the United States.
LEGEND
Incorrect / Unknown names indicated with a question mark (?)
Branch A : Todos
(great-grandfather / father of grandfather Prokopiy) with his children in bold
- Olga (his daughter / sister to Prokopiy) and her husband Grigoriy
- Andriy (son of Olga and Grigoriy)
- Aleksandr (son of Olga and Grigoriy)
- Petro (son of Olga and Grigoriy)
- Yuriy (son of Olga and Grigoriy)
- Ivan (son of Olga and Grigoriy)
- Lidia? (daughter of Todos /sister to Olga + Prokopiy and not daughter of Olga -should be new branch)
- Galka ? ...is this a diminutive for Galina?
- Ivan (his son / brother of Prokopiy) and his wife Khima
- Pavlo (son of Ivan and Khima)
- n/a
- Ganna/Hanna and Mikola
- Yelena (his daughter / sister of Prokopiy) - unmarried
- Lidia (his daughter / sister to Prokopiy) and her husband Mikita/Nikita
- Maria
- Galka?...is this a diminutive for Galina?
- Varvara (Vera)
- Aleksandr
- Mikola (his son / brother to Prokopiy) and his wife Ganna/Hanna
- Anton
- Lidia
- Mikola
- Nina
- Kost' (Kostya)
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| Branch A - partially out of focus |
Branch B
This branch I believe belongs to the generation before our great-grandfather Todos (Branch A) as his siblings were named Yosyp, Vasiliy and Yelena...that I have been able to confirm with metrical records for Sabadash...and as far as I can tell they are not shown here. Those branches may very well be indicated by the straight line coming from Petro and going off the top off the family tree.
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| Branch B |
Unknown names indicated with a question mark (?)
Branch B : Vartelemiy
(brother to Petro and uncle to Todos)
1 Seman and Antonina
2 Olena and Mikola
3 Mikailo and Klavdia / Claudia
4 Ivan and Khrasina
5 Mikhaylo (son of Ivan and Khrasina)
6 Anton (son of Ivan and Khrasina)
7 Anatoliy and Mariya
8 Kilina and Andriy
9 Ludmila (daugher of Anatoliy and Mariya)
10 Taisa (daugher of Anatoliy and Mariya)
11 Mikola (son of Anatoliy and Mariya)
12 Raisa (daugher of Kilina and Andriy)
13 Volodimir (son of Kilina and Andriy)
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| Branch B : Enlarged showing names in Cyrillic - out of focus |
This branch I also believe belongs to the generation before our great-grandfather Todos (Branch A).
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| Branch C |
Unknown names indicated with a question mark (?)
Branch C : Kapitolina and Yulian
(sibling to Petro...which one unknown)
1 Kalenik and Motrya
2 Matrona (daughter of Kalenik and Motrya)
3 Maxim (son of Kalenik and Motrya)
4 Anton (son of Kalenik and Motrya)
5 Volodimir (son of Kalenik and Motrya)
6 Liontiy and Nastya
7 Valentina
8 Vasil
9 Ganna/Hanna
10 Ivan
11 Mikola
12 Mikola and Galka
13 Nadiya
14 Ganna/Hanna
15 Ivan
16 Mikola
17 Ivan and Mariya
18 Anton
19 Yakiv
20 Feodora
21 Galka
22 Mariya
23 Volodimir
24 Lidia
25 Natalia
26 Ivan
27 Korniy and Martokha
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| Branch C : Enlarged showing names in Cyrillic - out of focus |
It was not just the family names that were of special interest to me. Also, shown were the two medallion crests. The one to the left appears to be showing a family one while the other one on the right appears to be depicting an icon.
Shown below is the 'family / village crest':
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| Close-up of 'family crest' |
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| Detail of family / village crest |
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| Close-up of icon |
"They are obviously not saints because...1/ they are depicted without halos behind their heads, which in iconography denotes that someone has been recognized for his or her holiness and 2/ the clothing in which they are depicted, together with their moustaches and haircuts, is quite typical of Zaporozhie Cossacks allied with the Crimean Tatars led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytzky -- he led them in an uprising that began in 1648 that led to the Ukrainian war of independence from Poland. My hunch is that the depiction with the Mother of God signifies that, as a result of this war, the Latin Roman Church's hold over Ukraine as part of Poland ended, and the Orthodox Church revived -- signified by Cossacks presenting an Orthodox Church to the Mother of God.
Other points that support this...
1. The "tree" begins bottom center with a picture of an unnamed individual on a horse -- perhaps Khmelnytzky himself -- with an inscription commemorating the arrival of Cossacks in the region of Lysyanyuk/Lesney ["les" means "forest"], the closest large city being Chernovtsy, in 1649 -- one year after the Khmelnytzky uprising began.
2. The next individual depicted -- bottom center, second medallion from the bottom -- is inscribed "Batko Joseph 1770" -- "batko" meaning "little father" in reference to a leader or the "patriarch/father" of a group or tribe -- who obviously descended from the unnamed individual below him. Above this fiture is the image of another "Joseph 1804" and, above him, a "Gregory 1842." From this Gregory everyone else on the tree came about.
3. The insignia also mentioned the village of Sabadash, in that particular region. I found a connection between your surname and these places at http://genforum.genealogy.com/ukraine/messages/10793.html, which may provide additional information in your search." [This last point he unknowingly makes refers to my posts on that message board.]
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| Icon with overlay of numbers |
1. Virgin Mary
2. ? unknown Saint ?
3. ? unknown Saint ?
4. ? 5. ? 6. ? 7. ?
8. ? 9. ? 10. ?
11. ? 12. ? 13. ? 14. ?
Received from my second cousin Andriy Saranyuk (son of my grandfather's younger sister Olga) was the following explanation:
"This icon of (Virgin Mary), guardian of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Ukrainian Cossacks National day is celebrated every year on October 14, the feast day [celebrates their role for...] Protection of the Virgin Mary."
Once the unknown names from the three branches are translated...aka deciphered, I'll be able to move on and see if I can track their metrical records down and pin-point their the true dates associated with these other distant family members.
