Kuzmich Family Roots in Eastern Europe

 Kuzmich Family History Ancestral Roots: Paternal and Maternal

The following maps represent villages in Paternal/Maternal ancestors in Poland, Slovenia and Ukraine where my ancestors came from. Give me time to validate the authenticity of the maps of the two villages in the Czech Republic for the origin of our Dlugi ancestors before 2022. My family is presently compiling information about each village with emphasis on their local history and cultural things to share with you. Villages encircled in red are the where these villages are located. Note: longitude and latitude coordinates are also provided for your convenience to view in Google Maps where they are located within each country in Eastern Europe. When these local histories are completed, they will be posted at:  https://www.kuzmich.com/Family%20Roots/Kuzmich%20Family%20History%20Ancestral%20Roots2.pdf

Click on each map to view with a larger image. Here are the villages included in this file in the following order. I will link all of these 15 Eastern European villages presented below for your convenence.  In the above link, a table of contents will appear first.  For a more traditional table of content setting, go to the table below for viewing all the villages, countries and the surnames of my ancestry.

Juszczyn, Poland: Maternal (Kuscala, Oleksa / Olexa)	Krempachy, Nowy Targ, Małopolska, Poland: Maternal (Galinak, Tomaskovich, Surma)
Krolik Polski, Poland: Maternal (Wolosonovich, Kuchta)	Holic, Slovakia: Maternal (Galinak, Skubova)
Lesnica, Poland:   Maternal (Galinak,  alinak, Stochowska, Waliczek, Grzescak)	Makow Podhalaniki, Poland: Maternal (Kuscala, Oleksa / Olexa)
Marinka, Ukraine: Paternal (Kuzmich, Kuzmicz)	Maximilianovaka, Ukraine or Maksymil'yanivka: Paternal (Kuzmich, Kuzmicz, Petrovich, Pugach, Ivanovich and Fedorovich)
Novo Mesto, Slovenia: Paternal (Turk, Gazvoda, Stangel, Hrovatic, Schurer, Severovlia, Golobic)	Nowa Biala, Nowy Targ, Małopolska, Poland (Kuscala)
Snietnica, Poland: Paternal (Kuzmich, Kuzmicz, Basalya, Pazis, Hoc)	Stara Vesa 1, Czech Republic: Maternal (Dlugi)
Stara Veza 2, Czech Republic: Maternal (Dlugi)	Stawisza. Poland: Paternal (Bochnnovich)
Szaflary, Poland: Maternal (Galinak, Stochowska, Waliczek, Grzescak)	Więciórka, Poland: Maternal (Kuscala, Oleksa / Olexa)
Trzebunia, Poland: Maternal (Kuscala, Oleksa / Olexa)	To view photos with maps and brief comments, go to:  https://www.kuzmich.com/Family%20History/Kuzmich%20Family%20History%20Roots%20with%20Commentary2.pdf

 Ukrainian Genealogy Is Still Possible Today Because. . . !:   Be prepared for the next level of excitement if you do your homework?! (reads better click here)

Who said that doing genealogy was boring?!  Here's a small scenario of my Ukrainian relative’s most recent success story.  Now it is unrealistic travel to visit my relatives because NONE of them are living where their homesteads were before the 2014-Russian-Ukrainian War of today.  Especially is this true with my relatives on the ‘Donetsk side (eastern side) of Ukrainian where the Russia army is so aggressive with massive destructions.  Fortunately, all of my relatives have mobile phones.  An added blessing of helping us was that I sponsored a niece to immigrate to America in that she is very much in touch with her parents living in Western Ukraine today and can easily translate for me. My uncle was dramatically rescued at the very, very last minute when his home was blown up.  If he would have stepped out of his neighbor's basement (bunker) 30 seconds earlier, he would have died instantly.  Here are photos of his home and that of his son in-law’s home in absolute rubble.  His youngest daughter then miraculously hired a private driver after their homestead was blown up to pick up my uncle in the middle of an active war-zone to drive him 11 hours over 550 km away to join their family in western Ukraine in reuniting his wife, daughter and son in-law and grandchildren after almost one year of being separated because of this war.  How do you buy gas for a car in Ukraine must be quite a feat to accomplish?  Now they are all living together in one room, three generations together with only a few hours a day of electricity along with a minimum of heat during a cold Ukrainian winter much like in Colorado.  But if a bomb were to hit their house, we could easily lose three generations.

To learn about this mircalous escape from the Russian bombings to my uncle's home along with photos, please go to http://www.kuzmich4.com/Facebook/Ukrainian%20Genealogy%20Is%20Still%20Possible%20Today%20Because.pdf

An Incredible Story About our Dlugi Relatives from the Czech Republic in Nowa Biala, Poland

Here's an unpublished history of Nowa Biala, Poland pertaining to our Dlugi ancestors who originally came from the Czech Republic.  It came from Tadeusz Pilat, our very important Polish genealogist.  Click here for this incredible story at http://www.kuzmich4.com/Dlugi/Dlugi.pdf.

Here's a true story that was obtained from an unpublished history of Nowa Biala, Poland pertaining to our Dlugi ancestors who originally came from the Czech Republic.  It came from Tadeusz Pilat, our very important Polish genealogist.

However I do have information about Joannes (Jan) Dlugi (Slovak: Dluhy,

Hungarian: Dlughi).  In fact he is one of the few inhabitants that we have a little bit

of history for.  And I only know about it because when I was in Nowa Biala, I took

some notes on a unpublished history of the town.  And it goes something like this:

In approximately 1765, the church in town burned down and after a little 

delay, the town leaders decided to rebuild it (what is now the church in town).

Much of it was to be brick and so they hired three bricklayers from Silesia; they

were three brothers named Dlugi. They obviously came from a town named 

Stara Ves ("Little Village") in what is today Moravian/Silesian section of the

Czech Republic.  The distance away from Nowa Biala was 150 to 200 miles.

I have no idea why they had to go so far for bricklayers.  They came and did 

their work on the church.  Two of the went home; one stayed.  That one has to

be your direct ancestor, Jan Dlugi.  I believe that he is ancestor of all the people named

Dlugi/Dluhy in the town.  HIs story is well known there and in fact that house his

family lived in is called something like "the house of the bricklayer." (House 55).

Dlugi's have lived there since (perhaps to the present day). 

Now I can't absolutely prove all this but it is the only way of explaining

the facts and stories I have.  That's all I have but it is a lot more about a single

person living in the town than practically anyone else.

Let me know what you think!

Kuzmich Family History Ancestral Roots: Paternal and Maternal

The following maps represent villages in Paternal/Maternal ancestors in Poland, Slovenia and Ukraine where my ancestors came from.  Give me time to validate the authenticity of the maps of the two villages in the Czech Republic for the origin of our Dlugi ancestors before 2022.  My family is presently compiling information about each village with with emphasis on their local history and cultural things to share with you.  Villages encircled are the where these villages are located.  Note:  longitude and latitude coordinates are also provided for your convenience to view in Google Mapes where they are located within each country with Eastern Europe.

Click on each map to view with a larger image.  Here's the master link to view all villages at: http://www.kuzmich4.com/Family Roots/Kuzmich Family History Ancestral Roots2.pdf

Click on each map to view with a larger image.  Here are the villages included in this file in the following order. I will bookmark  all 15 Eastern European village links that are presented below so you don’t have to scroll down for them.  The table of contents will appear first, for a more traditional table of content setting, go to the top of the jumped page for view all the 1) villages, 2) their countries and the 3) surnames of my ancestry in a traditional two-column table format.

New 2021 Family History areas of Poland currently being researched for my Kuscala ancestors all near Krakow, Poland.  Click on the map to view in a larger image format for more convenient insight.

Krempachy, Poland is the birth place of my grandmother, Elizabeth Galinak in 1891.  Roslyn and I have visited Krempachy five time thus far in search of family history of my Slovak ancestors in 1996, 1998, 2001, 2009 and 2012.

Novo Mesto, Slovena is the birth place of Anton Turk, a great step-grandfather of my grandfather, Michael Kuchta both in 1864.  Slovenia is a beautiful country with wonderful landscapes. Rosliyn and I have visited Slovenioa 4 times in 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2012.

Feature Cover Story & Article

Feature cover photo and three-page article in the September 2017 issue of the "Golden Living" magazine, a Denver-area community magazine featuring Roslyn and I.  For the URL for the article and cover photo, click http://www.kuzmich4.com/Golden Living/Golden_Living_Final_Combine.pdf.  To view best, click on the "fit the page" button in the right column.

2017 Kuzmich Family History Fireside

Antonius Kuzmicz, my grandfather, was the first direct ancestor of mine to immigrate to the USA in 1898 from Snietnia, Poland.

Here's an image of his ship, the Nederland. that landed in Philadelphia. Click here.

My family held a family history fireside during our annual family reunion on July 4, 2017. The highlight of this event was a family history fireside honoring members of our paternal/maternal family lines for the Kuzmich and Christensen ancestors. Each person in our immediate family took one ancestor and presented a 5 to 10 minute vignette with PowerPoint and/or text presentations. Here is a breakdown of which ancestors were presented. Click on the links below to view either a PowerPoint or a PDF presentation for each ancestor.

• Roslyn: Morris & Dorothy Christensen
• Rhys: Neils Rassmussen
• Dallin: Herman August Thorup
• Quinn: Kuzmich Ukrainian migration from Snietnica, Poland to Ukraine, in 1947
• Solei: Antonius Kuzmicz
• Papa Bear: Michael W. Kovac
• Jared Paget's pirate ancestor Jan Janszoon Van Haarlem from Morocco, Holland and New York City.

To view two videos covering the entire fireside, go to: 

• https://kuzmich.com/2017%20Kuzmich%20Family%20History%20Fireside/Fireside%201.mp4
• http://www.kuzmich.com/2017%20Kuzmich%20Family%20History%20Fireside/Fireside%202.m4v

I'm Happy for all the Blessings in my Life!

Click Here to View a Movie Trailer!!!

Are we related: Paper Trail and/or by DNA Testing?

Paper Trail?

Take the online family questionnaire!

Please click on this next link and you will go the next generation of family history web sites, representing the very latest developments in the John Kuzmich, Jr. Family History: Your Own Interactive Family History Search in my Family History! (Find Out How We Are Really Related). This new web site includes the opportunity to search John's GEDCOM file and instantly display family group sheets and pedigree charts to learn if we are related. At this date, I am related to well over 2,800 descendants from Snietnica and Stawisza, Poland from the 5,700+ who lived there from 1770 to 1870. And with additional original research, this number might increase along with the chances of being related even greater!

DNA Testing?  

To learn if and to better coordinate how we are related with genetic DNA testing and/or with web posted paper trail to any of our ancestors, click here.

How To Successfully Extract Catholic Church Records in Poland!

Below are two outstanding video tutorials that simplifies how to extract (index) all the fields found in Polish Catholic records.

1. http://www.kuzmich4.com/Tadeusz/2012-05-16 08.02 New meeting.wmv  Extraction tutorial - part 1 with Roslyn and Tadeusz
2. http://www.kuzmich4.com/Tadeusz/2012-05-18 12.50 New meeting.wmv  Exraction tutorial - part 2 with Roslyn and Tadeusz

High Web Presence!

What makes this scenario of high web presence on the Internet more interesting is that my family roots can very easily be found in a Google search because when you Google search on any of my Eastern European ancestral villages with a particular surname, my family history web sites come up first and in many cases, multiple times within the top ten Google findings!

Below are examples of how effective Google searches for particular family surnames with the following localities in Poland, Ukraine and Slovenia. Currently the first Google listing result when searching on the text is indicated in Red.

1. Snietnica, Poland and Kuzmich = first web site

2. Stawisza, Poland and Bochnovich = first web site

3. Krempachy, Poland and Galinak or Galiniak = first web site

4. Nowa Biala, Poland and Kucala = first web site

5. Stawisza, Poland and Basalyga = first web site

6. Stawisza, Poland and Hoc = first web site

7. Lesnica, Poland and Galinak = first web site

8. Turk and Novo Mesto, Slovenia = sixth site since the TURK surname is so popular in Slovenia much like SMITH is in the USA and England which says a lot for our web-posting strategy. But today, it did come number 1 to my surprise.

9 Kuzmich and Maximilianovka, Ukraine = first web site

At a future date, I will be to provide verification if any of your ancestors came from any of these above cited villages. And if positively verified, then you should contact the priests of those villages to obtain vital records of your family history research. And as a courtesy, I will also be able to provide the contact information for your convenience.

My primary family history blog and website are located at:  http://kuzmichgenealogy.blogspot.com and  http://www.kuzmich2.com/genealogy/index.php where you can directly search my on-line GEDCOM file to assess if and how you are related to me on the very opening page of this second web site.