Potochyska - Woloszczuk

[rwoloschuk]

Hi Irene

(I mistakenly first posted this message on the "Sosnica, Poland" thread.)

I have found two other photos from Potochyska (Potochysche) from our 1978 visit. There are a few other people in these that were not in the earlier photos. I recall none of their names except perhaps Sophia Horichok. The woman in the light blue sweater, who I believe was Sophia Horichok - daughter of my father's half-sister Anna Horichok - was the Matriarch of the family there. Whatever gifts we had brought were given to her, and then she distributed them to the others.

The photo os the four people at the train station shows the man who had arranged to pick us up in Chernivtsi and drive us to the village. It seems that the woman standing beside the matriarch (Sophia Horichok?) resembles her, and may be her daughter.

Meanwhile, by doing a search through Facebook, I did connect with two people names Horichok in Ukraine whose great-grandmother or other relatives included an Anna Horichok. We exchanged photos and some information; however, there doesn't seem to be a family link between us. Their names were Luda and Stanislaw Horichok, and I think they were mother and son to each other.

Richard

[IreneLviv]

Hello Richard
Let us wait a few day - I will call them in the end of the week to ask if they have received my letter - and if that data is not enough for them - we shall produce them these photos.

[fuzzynaval]

Hi Richard. Sorry to drop in like this but I was searching for family information re: Potochyshce, family name Taciuk and say your post. Where did you find the old map? I would like to add it to our information. Since they have not used house numbers any more, how do they address homes?

Bryan

[rwoloschuk]

Hi Bryan

Another link to a Potochysche family. Welcome.

I was just there in May, and my visit was too short and I want to go back. Potochysche is a lovely, classic Ukrainian village. many former residents from there emigrated to Canada, and settled in Sudbury Ontario which is my home town. Several of my oldest friends from Sudbury had parents from the same village.

You asked about the map. My cousin included the map in a DVD which he gave me which included the results of the serious and intensive research that he did on his grandparents several years ago. His grandmother was my dad's sister, and while researching his grandparents, both of which came from the village (Mateyko and Woloszczuk) he came up with the map. I'm not sure where he found it.

I don't recall how they enumerate houses there now. I know that they no longer use that former system of enumerating houses solely by number. I didn't see any street signs when I was there. If I find out any more info, I'll post it here.

Richard

[Woloszczuk]

Bonjour mon père était Woloszczuk Casiemir né1917 a Kobaki près de Ivano Frankivs'k ,peut etre famille avec vous ?

MICHEL (misha)