Got a beautiful Christmas card from my cousin Arlene, reminding me of the holiday. If you celebrate this one as your official day, Kristos Razdayetsya! :)
For those of you who might be curious about all the alternate spellings of a surname, and how those folks can be related, you might like this article. It does a nice job of explaining how close doesn't just count in horseshoes.
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Alternate spellings...
My last name is Yakimicki, but before my greatgrandfather Nick (Mykolaj) came over, it was Jakimicha. Of course the last letter "a" was sometimes "i", depending on the gender of the person that it referred to. How was your spelling in 'the old country'? BTW, we too came from the carpatho-rusyn areas. The village was Stare Siolo, which currently sits a few miles from the Ukrainian border within poland (subcarpathian voivodship near Oleszyce). I've seen variants of your last name over the years and always wondered if we were related. Then N in place of my M was always curious though. email me at jyakimic (at) purdue.edu.
Also, I believe my family was in Pennsylvania in the early 1900s too. They were also in Mass and then ended up in Indiana. We've, generally, remained their since.
Hi Joe--just saw your post as I haven't been here for a little bit. Thanks for the information--very interesting! I'll be sure to email you soon.
P.S. Still not sure how our name was spelled over there. On the Ellis Island site, it is "Jacynycz", but how close that is to the original...anybody's guess!
What part of PA was your family in, do you know? Ours was primarily around Johnstown and the surrounding counties.
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