Since the Hrapchak History Book was published, many family members have been inspired to continue writing their own personal
stories as well as expanding on their own immediate family history.
On this page I'll describe how I went about researching the Hrabchak family history in the hope that it will
inspire others to give it a try. First of all we used the Family Tree Maker computer program to organize all the family names
which helped us to keep track of who is who and who belongs to who. This was a necessity especially with our large family.
Then we pulled together all the important personal papers such as birth, marriage & death certificates, naturalization
papers, homestead applications and morgage, insurance papers.
These documents were immensly helpful to record important information about the family, learn about their life timeline
and helped to locate where in Ukraine our family came from which made it easier to find the homeland's history.
Here
are a few links to interesting genealogy web sites I came across in the course of doing my research, such as:
