This is a repeat of a post from another blog I write dedicated solely to my Rusyn heritage. If you are interested in learning more please check out my blog by following this link I am Rusyn or check out my I am Rusyn Facebook page dedicated to my family and Rusyn history.
About 10 years ago, as I was looking at information I had compiled as a kid, it struck me that the quarter of me that was an Adams was just that, a quarter of me. What about the other three-quarters of me? I didn't know much more than that I was Slovak and Ukrainian (and possibly Polish). I knew the stories of AFTER these families came to the United States, but what about before?
At this point I began to search, obviously the first place I turned was the Internet and Ancestry.com. I kept seeing the same words pop up over and over again on various pages: Rusyn, Ruthenian, Lemko. These names were associated all six names that I was researching (Oschip, Turenchalk, Ledney, Bitlyan, Taczak and Kovalyak). "What is Rusyn?" I asked. Finally it began to sink in. That other three-quarters of my blood wasn't from Slovakia, Ukraine or Poland; it was all from one common heritage, the Rusyn Heritage.
I have continued to expand my knowledge of my Rusyn family and my Rusyn heritage and connect with new family members or others that share this common heritage. Here are a few links that go further in the Rusyn culture than I am able to on this brief summary page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusyns
http://www.slovakia.org/society-rusyn.htm
http://www.rusyn.com/
http://www.rusyn.org/
http://www.carpathorusynsociety.org/
http://www.rusynmedia.org/Links/C-RRC/
~Christine
About 10 years ago, as I was looking at information I had compiled as a kid, it struck me that the quarter of me that was an Adams was just that, a quarter of me. What about the other three-quarters of me? I didn't know much more than that I was Slovak and Ukrainian (and possibly Polish). I knew the stories of AFTER these families came to the United States, but what about before?
At this point I began to search, obviously the first place I turned was the Internet and Ancestry.com. I kept seeing the same words pop up over and over again on various pages: Rusyn, Ruthenian, Lemko. These names were associated all six names that I was researching (Oschip, Turenchalk, Ledney, Bitlyan, Taczak and Kovalyak). "What is Rusyn?" I asked. Finally it began to sink in. That other three-quarters of my blood wasn't from Slovakia, Ukraine or Poland; it was all from one common heritage, the Rusyn Heritage.
I have continued to expand my knowledge of my Rusyn family and my Rusyn heritage and connect with new family members or others that share this common heritage. Here are a few links that go further in the Rusyn culture than I am able to on this brief summary page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusyns
http://www.slovakia.org/society-rusyn.htm
http://www.rusyn.com/
http://www.rusyn.org/
http://www.carpathorusynsociety.org/
http://www.rusynmedia.org/Links/C-RRC/
~Christine
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