antoniuk, manchulenko, medwyduk

[sjoyce]

I am beginning my search for the Ukrainian side of our family. Most of the family said very little about their lives before they emmigrated. The most common names I am searching for are: Antoniuk, Manchulenko, Medvyduk. These people emmigrated to Canada after WWI to the best of our knowledge. I also believe they were from around the Chernivtsi area. I hope someone will be able to help. My husband and I hope to travel to Ukraine in August or September of this year. Thank you Hannia for the idea of taking home a bit of the soil!! We could sprinkle it on the graves of Mom & Dad.

[IreneLviv]

Hello
You must know at least the years of their birth to write to Chernivtsi State Archives, or LDS libary where you can order a microfilm of Church Books
Another way is to look throgh Chernivtsi Phone book to find out if any such families live there today.

[sjoyce]

Thank you IreneLviv. I can't check the phone books as I don't read cyrillic And I think I am too old to learn. I will check with other family members to see if they can give me a hint of approx. ages, and then go to LDS. One Manchulenko served in the Romanian army so not sure if that will help. I have also heard (all heresay) that an Antoniuk ancestor was a well known herbalist and healer, but that is another day

[Hannia]

As per Irene's suggestion that many peasants have migrated to the city
for work, these are Manchulenko's in Chernivtsi:

МАНЧУЛЕНКО В.Є. 516483 ЧЕРВОНОАРМІЙСЬКА 77б2 43
МАНЧУЛЕНКО В.І. 75384 ПІВДЕННО-КІЛЬЦЕВА 21 4
МАНЧУЛЕНКО В.Г. 40429 СТЕФЮКА 3а 59
МАНЧУЛЕНКО Г.В. 512636 РУСЬКА 255а 68
МАНЧУЛЕНКО М.Л. 76331 КОМАРОВА 31аб 175
МАНЧУЛЕНКО М.М. 513369 БУЛ. ГЕРОЇВ СТАЛІНГРАДУ 4 40
МАНЧУЛЕНКО М.М. 71130 БУЛ. ГЕРОЇВ СТАЛІНГРАДУ 13 117
МАНЧУЛЕНКО О.В. 61773 МОЛОДІЇВСЬКА 13 0
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There are 59 Antoniuk's. I have just copied the first ten.

АНТОНЮК Є.Є. 36651 ПР. НЕЗАЛЕЖНОСТІ 90в 27
АНТОНЮК Є.В. 515245 ПІВДЕННО-КІЛЬЦЕВА 29 273
АНТОНЮК Є.В. 550211 КОТЛЯРЕВСЬКОГО 18 6
АНТОНЮК Є.С. 20237 ОРШІВСЬКА 21 0
АНТОНЮК І.Д. 510424 ВЕСНЯНА 47 0
АНТОНЮК І.П. 512914 УНІВЕРСИТЕТСЬКА 38 1
АНТОНЮК І.П. 41582 ПІВДЕННО-КІЛЬЦЕВА 25 110
АНТОНЮК Б.І. 510079 КАРМЕЛЮКА 41 0
АНТОНЮК Б.С. 78837 ПІВДЕННО-КІЛЬЦЕВА 5в 124
АНТОНЮК В.Є. 515743 ПРОВ АШХАБАДСЬКИЙ 20 0
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There are only 10 Medvediuk's listed in Chernivtsi.

МЕДВЕДЮК І.В. 516038 ЧЕРВОНОАРМІЙСЬКА 69 152
МЕДВЕДЮК А.В. 40026 БУЛ. ГЕРОЇВ СТАЛІНГРАДУ 5 60
МЕДВЕДЮК В.М. 544116 ХОТИНСЬКА 45в 105
МЕДВЕДЮК Г.О. 543923 ЕНТУЗІАСТІВ 9а 283
МЕДВЕДЮК Л.Д. 551966 ШКІЛЯ 3 1
МЕДВЕДЮК Л.К. 516344 АЛМА-АТИНСЬКА 13 1
МЕДВЕДЮК М.В. 513410 ВОРОБКЕВИЧА 11 85
МЕДВЕДЮК О.В. 21333 Б.ХМЕЛЬНИЦЬКОГО 5 7
МЕДВЕДЮК О.Я. 33536 ПР. НЕЗАЛЕЖНОСТІ 92д 8
МЕДВЕДЮК Т.В. 74764 КОМАРОВА 7 35

[sjoyce]

Thank yo so much Hannia. I am just wondering, do the numbers, following the name, indicate a postal code?

[Hannia]

Surname, followed by initials (first initial given name, second patronymic).
Number following full name is telephone number. Next is street name and
then building and apartment #.

Chernivtsi zip codes contained in 58000-499.
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One Manchulenko served in the Romanian army??? Interwar Period 1918-1940

Chernetska oblast/region is frequently referred to as Northern Bukovina.

Chernivtsi oblast in the current composition was created in the wake of the Soviet occupation of
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina on June 28, 1940. In the middle ages, the entire region was part
of the Principality of Moldavia. Northern Bukovina was annexed from Moldavia by the Habsburg Monarchy/
Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1775, and latter united with Romania in 1918. Northern portion (over half of Hotin County)
of Bessarabia was annexed from Moldavia by the Russian Empire in 1812. Hertza region remained in Moldavia until
its union with Wallachia in 1859 formed Romania. The Soviet take-over of Northern Bukovina was motivated as
compensation of the belongings of Bessarabia to Romania from 1918 to 1940. Hertza region was not included
in the ultimatum notes that the Soviet Union addressed Romania, but was occupied at the same time.

On August 2, 1940, out of some of the territories annexed on June 28, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
was formed, the 15th Soviet republic. The remainder of the territories were included in the Ukrainian Soviet
Socialist Republic — the northern part formed the Chernivtsi Oblast, the southern part — Izmail Oblast, which
later was included in the Odessa Oblast.

The protests of the Romanian population of Bukovina that found themselves under the Soviet rule brought about
serious Soviet reprisals. In the winter and spring of 1941, the Soviet troops (NKVD) opened fire on many groups
of locals trying to cross the border into Romania.

Between September 17 and November 17, 1940, by a mutual agreement between USSR and Germany, 43,641
"ethnic Germans" from the Chernivtsi region were moved to Germany. As the total ethnic German population
was however only 34,500, and as even of these, some 3,500 did not go to Germany, the obvious numerical
discrepancy is accounted for by the inclusion of Romanians, Ukrainians and Poles within the numbers that the
local German organisers had classed among the ethnic "Germans". (Possibly, many of these were partners in
ethnically-mixed marriages in which one partner or parent was truly an ethnic German and the other was not.)
Upon their arrival, the Nazi government sent over half of those surplus to the correct number of ethnic Germans
to concentration camps. Only some were freed after the protests of the Romanian government.

Throughout 1940-1941 several tens of thousands of Bukovinians were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan, of which
some 13,000 alone on June 13, 1941. This and later deportations were based on social class difference, it targeted
intellectuals, people employed previously by the state, businessmen. The majority of those targeted were Romanians,
but there were many representatives of other ethnicities, as well. Under the Romanian during the war (1941-1944),
the Jewish community of the area was largely destroyed by the deportations to ghettos and concentration camps,
where about 60% died. In 1944, when the Soviet troops returned to Bukovina, many inhabitants fled to Romania,
with the result that the region was seriously depopulated. In demographic terms, these war-time factors changed
the region's ethnic composition. In 1940, there was roughly a ratio of 476:282:110:58:52:27 between Ukrainians:Romanians:Jews:Russians:Germans:Poles. Today the number of Jews, Germans and Poles is
statistically insignificant, while the number of Romanians has decreased substantially.

Since 1498, there has been a small Slavic population in Bukovina. In 1775, Ukrainians (Ruthenians), and Poles
taken together numbered some 8,000 (out of a total population of 75,000). In 1918, as a result of (peaceful)
migration from Galicia and Podolia, there were over 200,000 Ukrainians, out of a total of 730,000 (again, including
the southern Bukovina, where there were fewer Ukrainians). Most of Ukrainians settled in the northern parts of
Bukovina, especially between the Dniester and Prut rivers, where they became a majority.

The ethnic Ukrainians in the south-western mountain area of the Chernivtsi region belong to the Hutsul ethnic group,
and inhabit an area in the Carpathian Mountains from the Bukovinian town of Putila, extending across the Ceremus River
into southern Pokuttia (the southern part of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast), and further into Northern Maramuresh
(geographic region) (the eastern part of the Zakarpattya (Transcarpathian) region), until the town of Bychkiv.

[sjoyce]

Hannia: Thank you so much. Now it is all getting exciting, at least for our family. I will now study the history to see what links I can find. And also thanks for the explanation of the phone numbers. I think I might have a link there