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
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