still piecing it together

Hello all! After an absence of quite a few months, I finally have a moment to do a little more genealogy. I also am excited to say I'm attending a conference this week that includes several seminars on Galicia, the area where my grandparents are from. I'm learning quite a bit.

Thanks to the help of Matthew Bielawa, who runs the Genealogy of Eastern Galicia site, I was able to look at a Galician gazetteer that contained some stats about Lodyna, grandma's village. It looks like it used to have about 700 people. And then I was also able to use Steve Morse's one step website to search others who came from Lodyna--and it turns out that at least several of them (so far from what I've seen) came to Johnstown.

So in some ways, the mystery grows, and in others, I feel like I'm learning much more about the history and culture of this interesting place. I'm grateful for the help of others, and I look forward to sharing more with you about the Yacynychs (and others) as I find it!