MAP and SURNAMES THAT I AM RESEARCHING

Location of SWIATKOWA WIELKA, sometimes spelled Svjatkova Velyka (the name means “great holy image”):

Map Coordinates are 4932 2126. Vlach migratory peoples (also called Walachians) founded this village before 1564. Its current population is 250 souls. The village has a wooden orthodox church established in 1757, an old cemetery, a chapel dating from 1862 and a few fine Lemko log homes. Please notice that my ancestral villages are located near the towns of Dukla, Sanok (now in southeastern Poland) and Svidnik (in northeastern Slovakia). These villages form a triangle whose corners are about 30 miles apart, yet my grandparents, who emigrated from those areas between 1890 and 1910, met and married in the USA.

Surnames of this village that I am researching are Dran, Chomyk/Chomik/Homik, Gracon/Graczon, Uram, Kolanski, Nestor/Nester. The church records for this village are available at the Przemysl Archive SEZAM the Date Base

Address: Archiwum Panstwowym w Prsemyslu

Ul Lelewela 4

37-700 Przemysl

POLAND

There is a Registry Office in the nearby town of Krempna, which has more recent records. Address :Archive Krempna, Urzad Stanu Cywinego w Krempna,

38-232 Krempna, #112, POLAND

My grandfather Michael Dran (b. 1860) left Swaitkowa Wielka for the USA in 1890 and married Anna Homik/Chomyk (also from this village) in 1892 in St. Mary’s Greek Catholic Church in Hazleton PA. Anna bore six children and died in 1906. Michael married a second time to Julia Yankowicz Graczon, a widow whom he had known as a young man in Swiatkowa. Another spelling of this village name is Swjatkowa Welyka.

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OTHER SURNAMES OF SWIATKOWA WIELKA

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OTHER SURNAMES in the village of Swiatkowa Wielka: Kapatula/Kapitula, Smericanich/Smerekanycz, Sokil,Hotche,Fesh,Bindas,Kodras,Stupack,

Bavalock taken from the messages at the end of my father’s travel journal (see index).

During the period 1892 – 1924, approximately 113 individuals from this village were recorded on the manifests of ships at Ellis Island. Below are surnames collected from www.ellisislandrecords.org See my comments under ”links” in the index about searching the Ellis Island records.

Bagan,Bawolak,Bodak,Boryk,Chomik,Chomyk,Chowiek,Cimbalak,Ciokot,Cyrko, Dusko,Dutko, Dziadek, Dziadyk, Filiak, Fryncko, Frynko,Frynoko, Fryucko, Gluchanitz, Gluchanycz, Graba, Graban, Gracon,Graczin, Graczony,Graza, Gulik, Holda, Homik, Jadik, Jankowicz,Jurczyk, Kaban, Kalasz, Kamula,Kasicz/Kasyaz, Katz, Kawnlier, Kawla, Kawulak, Kilka, Kilko,Koban,Konstankisaicz,Kornik,Ksenycz, Kurlak/Kurylkak, Lipiar/Lypian, Majchfries, Majchryoz,Masley, Merchritz, Misko, Molda, Orbal, Myska, Nagowski,Nesterecka, Pastymak, Pelesz, Pikosz, Porczka, Pucher, Rawula, Reszoter, Rnsynyk, Romanieskim, Rowala, Rudyn, Russin,Russink, Rusyn, Rusynek/Rusynyk, Schips,Sencak/Senczak, Senizak, Sewczak, Skuba, Slota, Sosmak, Sym, Symozyk, Syplak, Szczerba, Szulyk, Talparz, Tehyr, Tomeczek/Tomesezck, Trynecko, Warchol,Warcholak,Zenszak, Ziegler

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OTHERS RESEARCHING SURNAMES/SWIATKOWA WIELKA

Other People researching the village of Swiatkowa Wielka and surroundings

Would you like to post your village surnames and e-mail address here? Email me at carpatho_mts@hotmail.com

Sliwka_k@wp.pl is searching surnames BABIAK, DYTKO, BOWOLAK from the village of Swierzowa Ruska which is 1.2 miles from Swiatkowa W.

cpharrison@mindspring.com is searching surname SLOTA from Swiatkowa and BOGAN from Sweinkova.

costa291@1access.net is searching the surname SLOTA. from the village of Nieznajowa which is 1.8 miles from Swiatkowa, particularly Demetri (b.1867) and siblings John, Nicholas and Rose.

TerryKaren@aol.com is searching the villages of Swiatkowa, Krempna and Nieznajowa for the surnames HOMYK, PROKOPCHAK, WASKO, BAJUS, MISKO, NAJDUCKH, FRYNSKO, SENCHAK

emadis@juno.com is searching the surname GRACON/GRACZON from Swiatkowa, brothers, Wasyl who first settled in Wilkes Barre PA and Paul who settled in Ohio.

rjnj@alaska.net is searching Swiatkowa Wielka: HOMIK / HOMYK / CHOMIAK, BAJUS

Swierzowa Ruska: RESSETAR / RESHETAR / RESZETAR, SMEREKANICZ

Krempna (Kramona): RESSETAR My grandmother Fenya/Euphemia/Fannie RESSETAR was born in Krempna. Her father was from Swierzowa and her mother from Swiatkowa. Fannie came to the US in 1902 via New York City to Mount Carmel, PA where she married Elias (Alex) DZIADYK in 1907. They eventually moved to Beacon, New York where she died in 1929. rjnj@alaska,net was recently discovered by a distant cousin in Slovakia who did a Google search and found this Website. "Katarzyna Soltysik who emailed rjnj@alaska.net in Jan. 2005. Please write again!. NN has recently obtained some 1947 letters from the Reszetar family in Krempna that show that her Reszetar family appears to be Katarzyna's Reszetar family."

cmhawks@reninet.com Following is the list of names from my family tree that originated in either Swiatkowa or Zydowskie. [Zydowskie is 5.1 miles south of Swiatkowa] I am hunting for any ancestors who may have immigrated to America or who know where their Lemko ancestors were sent in 1946/47.

Stephan KATES aka Stefan KIEC, Helena HOLDA aka HOLDEN, Theodorus HOLDA, Anastasia HOLDA, Joannes KIEC, Anna KIEC, Maria PIHOCZ, Pelagia BARYK, Joanne BORYK, Gabriele GUZY, Alexius HOLDA, Pranide GRACON, Nicolas GRACON, Anne NESTER, Theodoro PIHOCZ, FRYNCKO

Jchulick@aol.com is researching Swiatkowa Wielka and Swierzowa Ruska. His ancestors were the CZULYK/ CHULICK family who lived on the outskirts of Swierzowa Ruska. His great-grandfather, Andrew CZULYK married Therese SOSANKO/SOSENKO. The Sosenkos were originally from neighboring Jaworze and Desznica. Andrew was the 3^rd of six children born in the village. Others were Joseph, John, Samuel, Elias and Anna. In the US, the main locations for the family were Mayfield, PA, Benld, IL and St. Louis, MO

jdraus@insightbb.com is researching the surname FILIAK. Paraska (Priscilla) FILIAK, born Jan 1 1895 in Swiatkowa Wielka, was the daughter of Iwan FILIAK and Anna GLUEHANICK. Iwan was a furniture maker.

Kmonagha@aol.com is researching Andreas MAJCHRYCZ, born May 17, 1864 in Swiatkowa Wielka. His father was Theodore and his mother Eva PROCHKO. His father’s second wife was Anastasia RESETAR. His siblings were Anna, Harry, Michael, and Theresa. Andreas migrated to Mayfield PA and married Macrina LESCZAK in Wilkes Barre PA. They moved to Jermyn, PA where Andreas died in 1951.

vnc@libcom.com is researching villages of Swiatkowa Wielka and Swierzowa for the following surnames: DZIADYK, ZAPERACH, BABIAK, CAPP, KONCHUGA, SCHERBA, KILKO

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