[PaulGorecki49]

My grandmother Stanislawa Tarnogórska was born in 1897 at Koziatyn (Kozjatin); her father Marjan was probably employed then at the Koziatyn railway station. She was Polish and a catholic. Other spellings for Tarnogórski probably include Tarnogurskiy; Тарногурский; Тарногурський. Before 1919 she married Jakob Czyżski (probable spelling variants include Chizhsky; Cyzhskij; Чижский; Чіжскій). He was Ukrainian and an orthodox. It is said that she forced him to become a catholic (note that in her second marriage, Stanislawa again married an orthodox but this time she was happy to become one as well). It is said that Jakob's father was important in the orthodox church and that Jakob had a few brothers and sisters, all good musicians. In about 1924, Jakob vanishes without a trace while the family was living in Warszawa. My mother, her sister, and all their descendants have no ideas who was this Jakob, where he came from, and what happened to him. This is why I am searching him today, my own grandfather.

Since joining this forum, we have made tremendous progress in understanding the Tarnogórski side of our family.But it is only over the last few days that we have, perhaps, found some references on our Czyżski side. Indeed, we know there is a Jakob Melentevich Chizhsky who was born in 1896 at Rubinovki who was deported to Kazakhstan [оПНЯЛНРП РЕЛШ - яОХЯНЙ ПЕОПЕЯЯХПНБЮММШУ ХГ сЙПЮХМШ Б йЮГЮУЯРЮМ :: тНПСЛ ЯЮИРЮ poiskpeople.ru "хысыхи дю напъыер" (see No 522). Is he my long lost grandfather? We have also found that in 1914 in Kiev there were no less than 3 Chizhsky in the orthodox church (дСУНБЕМЯРБН йХЕБЮ МЮ 1914 ЦНД
1) Feud., a deacon at the Church Good Nicholas (Pokrovsky, 6)
2) Mel., a deacon at the church Besprihodnye, charitable institutions, the school and homes, Ascension Baikove-Graveyard
3) Nicholas, a graduate student at the Kiev Theological Seminary
There was a Chizhsky family in 1850 at the village of Seleznivka (Selezeniowka) where in 1861 the deacon was Antoni Chizhsky. see рПНХЖЙХИ УПЮЛ Б ЯЕКЕ яЕКЕГЕМНБЙЕ - лНМЮЯРШПХ Х уПЮЛШ - яРЮРЭХ - AngelA.org.ua
Finally, another member of our family was Maria Kamila Tarnogórska who was born at Pohrebyszcze (Pogrebisce) in 1862. She was a Polish catholic and married a Stepaniuk who was an orthodox Ukrainian. To marry him she became orthodox.
As indicated in the map below, all these localities are very close to each other. So, I feel that perhaps since 1924 we may now find who was our Czyżski family. Especially with the help of this forum.