Hopczak family Ulychna village,south of Lviv

[Ivan Olynyk]

Looking for information on family of Tedor Hopczak and Tetania Kutsyk who lived in late 1800's early 1900's. Daughter Catherina married John Pylypiw. The whole Pylypiw family immigrated to Canada in 1902 .Tedor and Tetania were my great grandparents on my mothers side of the family. Catherina is believed to be the only child of Tedor and Tetania to immigrate to Canada and i would like to know especially if she had any brothers or sisters and their ancestors
We travelled to Ukraine last summer and met Maria Kutsyk a spinster grand daughter of Wasyl Kutsyk who was a first cousin to Tetania (Kutsyk)Hopczak. However due to her very old age she could not remember much and seemed quite confused. She however did take us to the address where Catherina was born which is an abandoned property now. I did not realize how important at the time it was to write down the house number.
I also have the name of Tedors parents Andri and Sophia Hopczak and Tetanias parents Andri and Catherina Kusyk
We also visited the cemetary but found nothing as everything before WW2 was in very poor shape with nothing recognizable.
Any help would be great. Thanks Ivan O

[matera]

Ivan,

Ulychne (Ulychna/Ulychno) Greek Catholic metrical records:

Title
Metrical books, 1784-1895

Authors
Greek Catholic Church. Ułyczno (Drohobycz) (Main Author)

Notes
Microreproduction of original manuscripts at the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in L′viv.
Greek Catholic Church records (births, marriages, deaths) for Ułyczno (Drohobycz), Galizien, Austria; later Uliczno (Drohobycz), Lwów, Poland; now Ulychne, Drohobych, L′viv, Ukraine. Text in Latin with some headings in Russian.
Record group 201, series 4A, files 5743-5746, 7291-7292.

Subjects
Austria, Galizien, Ułyczno (Drohobycz) - Church records
Poland, Lwów, Uliczno (Drohobycz) - Church records
Україна, Львів, Дрогобич, Уличне - Метричні книги
Ukraine, L′viv, Drohobych, Ulychne - Church records

Format
Manuscript (On Film)

Language
Latin
Russian

Publication
Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 2003-2004

Physical
on 3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

Film Notes
Note - Location [Film]
Volume 201-4A/5743 (title board is labeled wrong) Births, marriages, deaths 1784-1800 -- Marriages 1836 -- Births, marriages, deaths 1850-1863 -- Marriages 1886 (some years missing) - FHL INTL Film [ 2360394 Item 2 ]
Volume 201-4A/5744 (title board is labeled wrong) Deaths 1786-1866 - FHL INTL Film [ 2360394 Item 3 ]
Volume 201-4A/5745 (title board is labeled wrong) Births 1801-1810 -- Births 1821-1849 -- Marriages, deaths 1847 (some years missing and out of order) - FHL INTL Film [ 2360394 Item 4 ]
Volume 201-4A/5746 (title board is labeled wrong) Marriages, deaths 1801-1830 -- Deaths 1831-1849 -- Marriages 1837 -- Births 1841 -- Marriages 1841-1846 -- Marriages 1848-1849 - FHL INTL Film [ 2360394 Item 5 ]
Volume 201-4A/7291 Deaths 1866-1894 - FHL INTL Film [ 2391584 Item 8 ]
Volume 201-4A/7292 Births 1888-1895 - FHL INTL Film [ 2391585 Item 1 ]

You can order them at the nearest LDS center.
I can also go to the Central State Historical Archives in L′viv to do the research for you.

Regards,
Andriy

[Ivan Olynyk]

As far as i know this part of the family where always Orthodox religion. Does it matter in terms of searching. Ivan O

[Jiggy]

Ivan,

I have found that my Ukrainian family changed from Greek Catholic in the Ukraine to Greek Orthodox in Canada. Depending on when and where your family arrived in North America the Greek Catholic church did not exist here for the Ukrainians so they turned to Russian Orthodox and eventually Ukrainian Greek Orthodox. The history in Alberta even has neighbors and both churches fighting amoungst each other (orthodox and catholic). So although it may not apply to you. . your family may have switched once they came immigrated. Just food for thought.

I know my one family helped to build a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church in Alberta and it is now Ukrainian Greek Orthodox and all my ancestors in that one family are buried there in the Greek Orthodix cemetary. In Ukraine, I found their records in the Greek Catholic church. So one never knows.

Sandra

[matera]

Sandra, you are right, I've also come upon this sort of situation several times.

Ivan, I've checked once again and I do not see any information on other churches but for St. Paraskeva Greek Catholic church existing in Ulychne at that time.
The name is very common. There were about 687-713 GC Churches in Przemysl Diocese in 19th/early 20th century and 70 of them were named after St. Paraskeva.

Regards,
Andriy