New Information is now available after receiving information from our genealogy research in Ukraine. We now
have some new accurate birthday & marriage dates for Antonius (Anton) and Parascevia (Parinka) and their family.
The biggest news is that we found distant relatives in the same small village of Lanivtsi in Ukraine. There
was a Tymko Hrabchak who lived in Lanivtsi who had 7 children while his brother
Oleksa had 1 daughter. Today, there are a total of five families
who are all Grandchildren of Tymko's. Three families in Lanivtsi, one in Hlubichouk and one in Ternopil who
are all Grandchildren of Tymko's.
With new birth records from the village of Lanivtsi, we have been able to confirm
that their "Tymko" and our "Tymko" are not the same person. As of the summer of 2007, we have the families in Lanivtsi
searching to see if they can find out our connection to their great grandfather Tymko Hrabchak. Most likely he
is a son of one of Anton's brother's and we only hope that their are records available to help us find the answer. Unfortunately,
many of the records for the years we are looking for have been destroyed due to the political unrest and wars that took
place in Ukraine.
I feel more strongly now... more than ever, that finding as many answers as we can from
Ukraine is important. Important because while there are Hrabchak families left there is no-one left with the Hrabchak
name. Only three elderly women are left who had the Hrabchak maiden name which of course means that before
long the Hrabchak family name will be long forgotten in the land of our ancestors.
Anton's update:
Anton's birth records show that he was born
and baptized on January 29th 1857 (not June 10, 1857 as in book) in the village of Lanivtsi in house #61. His father
was Basilius/Wasyl Hrabczak (a laboriusus/Labourer) and his mother's name was Marta Lypka/Lapka who was the daughter of a
Stephani Lypka/Lapka and though I need some help with translating it looks like Marta's mother was Arrenis Zadeneyko
and Grandparents were a Joannes and Anna Zary - Labourers.
Parinka's update:
Parasceva/Parinka Hrabczak was born and baptized in October 1862 (not November 18, 1859)
which also means that she never lived to 99 years old, she lived to be 96 years old. Parasceva's father was Andriy/Andrea
Dutka and Parasceva's mother was Yvdokiya/Eudokeya Kostuik. Andriy's parents (Parasceva's grandparents) where Panteleymonia
Dutka (father) and Marti Shabash (mother)]
Anton
& Parinka's Wedding information:
On Anton and Parinka's wedding record it looks like they were married February 25,
1883. Anton was 26 years old and Parasceva was 20.
Information
of Anton and Parinka's children found in the archives.
Wasyl's update:
We have a new birthday for Wasyl/Basilius (Latin name) from his birth records in
the archives. Records show Wasyl was born on April 3 1892 (not March 18, 1892). Now that we know Anton's father's
name was also Basilius it's safe to say that Wasyl was named after his grandfather.
Anna
Hrabczak's update:
Their records show Anna's birthday as August 5, 1894 which is the same birthday that we
have.
