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Here's an unpublished history of Nowa Biala, Poland pertaining to our Dlugi ancestors who originally came from the Czech Republic.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!