Origin/Meaning of Surnames

[Hannia]

Set yourself up w/your own thread and our membership will see how they can help you. Please submit your Immigrant Ancestor's full name, appx when they immigrated and where did they settled upon immigration. Do you have any documetation that can be examined?

With a little help from your new friends, it's not as difficult as you think. And yes, currently there are 757 native Ukrainians that carry surname. ГРИГОРИШИН;

[raymy95]

hello , i'm remy HRYHORYSZYN ! i'm french , so sorry for my english .
i find this forum in google ( i tape hryhoryszyn in toolbar) . can you tell me more about hryhoryszyn ?
i leran we are 757 ! and hryhoryszyn meant son of hryhory , exact ?


thanks

[Hannia]

Hryhoryszyn/Hryhoryshyn (la transcription/ressemble à de la variante) est certainement un nom de famille ukrainien. Il est un metronymic/matronymic, à l'origine formé de mere nom de famille. Aujourd'hui là sont les individus 750+ qui portent ce nom de famille en Ukraine.

Quand votre famille a-t-elle immigré en France ?

Oui. H en Ukrainien = G en Francais et Anglais.

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[raymy95]

ok , thanks . i thinks my grand father immigrate in 1930-1940 .

[Hannia]

After or before the war?

Specifically where in France did he settle?
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Après ou avant la guerre ? Spécifiquement où en France a-t-il arrangé ?

[raymy95]

i don't know , i think it's before the war and we settle in " banlieue de paris " , why ?

[Hannia]

There have to be immigration documents, which should provide his exact place of birth.

Once we know that, than you can easily ascertain if you have any surviving Hryhoryshyn family in Ukraine.
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Immigration to France before WW2.

In the twentieth century, France experienced a high rate of immigration from other countries. The immigration rate was particularly high during the 1920s and 1930s. France was the European country which suffered the most from World War I, with respect to the size of its population, losing 1.4 million young men out of a total population of 40 million. France was also at the time the European country with the lowest fertility rate, which meant that the country had a very hard time recovering from the heavy losses of the war. France had to open its doors to immigration, which was the only way to prevent population decline between the two world wars.

At the time France was the only European country to permit mass immigration. The other major European powers, such as the UK or Germany, still had high fertility rates, so immigration was seen as unnecessary while it was also undesirable to the vast majority of their populations. Armenians immigrated to France. The majority of immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s came from southern Europe: Greeks, Italians, Yugoslavs, Portuguese and Spaniards, but also Eastern Europeans: Poles, Russians,
Hungarians and Czechoslovaks; and Belgians (nationality, but composed of both French and Fleming-Dutch elements) and the first wave of colonial French subjects from Africa and Asia. By the end of the Spanish Civil War, some half-million Spanish Republican refugees had crossed the border into France. At this time, Judaism was the second most populous religion in France, as it had been for centuries. However, this would soon change