Ukrainian Ancestry

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Comment by Carol Leve on July 4, 2010 at 12:56pm

I have so many questions now. Did it say Poltava in the letter? We were under the impression they came from Kiev. I have no idea what the letters say. No one in the family after my grandparents spoke Ukrainian. The letters were passed down to me. My grandfather, Peter, came here and hoped to bring his brother Alexi (the letter writer) to America. Unfortunately, war came before he was able to. Thank you for your help.

Comment by Kye E. Parsons on July 4, 2010 at 11:22am

Carol, OK, that did the trick. Yes, the letter is in the Ukrainian language. As a side note, I understand you're researching family names in Poltava, Ukraine. It would appear to me that the surnames of the people you're researching are Russian as they're not typical Ukrainian names. Ukrainians are the predominant people there but Poltava (which is in central Ukraine) does have a Russian minority which could account for why Russian surnames are appearing in your family tree.

Comment by Carol Leve on July 4, 2010 at 8:47am

Kye, I have to say that it is much clearer on my computer screen than it is showing on here......... Carol

Comment by Carol Leve on July 4, 2010 at 8:45am

Kye, I have rescanned it at a much higher resolution without the color ... hope this works better..

Comment by Kye E. Parsons on July 4, 2010 at 6:10am

Carol, do you have a sharper resolution image of the letter that you can provide me? Even when I enlarge it I'm still having trouble making out most of the words because they're not clear enough. I definitely can tell you it's using the Cyrillic alphabet, but with the words in the letter not being legible enough, it's hard for me to go much further.

Comment by Carol Leve on July 3, 2010 at 6:57am

Kye, thank you very much.

Comment by Kye E. Parsons on July 3, 2010 at 5:59am

Sure Carol, I should be able to determine that for you.

Comment by Carol Leve on July 2, 2010 at 11:21pm

Hi Kye, thank you for responding. That is wonderful. Could I send you a file with a letter in it so that you could tell me for sure if it is written in Ukrainian?

Comment by Kye E. Parsons on July 2, 2010 at 9:46pm

Hi Carol, yes I can read Ukrainian. My mother is Ukrainian.

Comment by Brandon Troy Wong on April 6, 2010 at 11:28pm

I’m looking for information on my great-great grandparents Juccaiman Feodor Alexandrovich Kovner 1859-1912 and his wife Tatiana Andreevna Rashitankov 1863-1930. I can't find any information about who their parents were. I know that Feodor’s mother’s maiden name was Alexandrovich but that’s all I know. They both lived in Poltava, Ukraine with their three children, the youngest my great grandmother Mary Kovner. The family immigrated to Hawaii in 1909.

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