Would like to know.......

[Jenna_103]

I've just got done reading through all of the topic's here, and now i'm really wondering about my family, is there anything any of you might now about the last name "Olynyk" ? Even the oddest detail would captivate my interest, I hope to find out as much as I can about the Olynyk's!

[Irinka]

First you have to post the date of when your family members immigrated to Canada, their full names and dates of birth, approximate place in Ukraine where they were born..etc..any info you can get is useful.
Hannia, one of the members here is amazing at helping people find very valuable information on their family, but she needs more details
Go ahead ask your grand parents.

Irina

[Hannia]

The OLYNYK surname shows up as the name of one of the early settlers of Manitoba. He was Dmytro Olynyk (from Smoky Lake vicinity) who immigrated in 1903 from a region called Northern Bukovina (Land of Beech Trees)> now part of Ukraine.

http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/sc...lier_index.pdf

A Modern Map of northern Bukovina
http://www.feefhs.org/bukovina/map-ch5.html

<Short History of Bukovina

Bukovina, on the eastern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains, was once the heart of the Romanian Principality of Moldavia, with the city of Suceava being made its capital in 1388. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Painted Monasteries of Arbora, Dragomirna, Humor, Moldovita, Putna, Sucevita, and Voronet were constructed under the patronage of Stefan the Great and his son Petru Rares. With their famous exterior frescoes, these monasteries remain some of the greatest cultural treasures of Romania, today. Along with the rest of Romania, Bukovina fell under the control of the Ottoman Turks. It remained in Turkish control until it was occupied by the Russians, in 1769, then by the Austrians, in 1774. With the Treaty of Constantinople in 1775, control of Bukovina was given to the Austrian Empire. Administered as a district of the province of Galicia between 1786-1849, Bukovina was granted the status of a separate crown land and duchy in 1849. When the Austrian Empire was reorganized into the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, in the Compromise of 1867, Bukovina, like Galicia, remained under Austrian administration, while the neighboring province of Transylvania was placed under Hungarian rule. During World War I, Bukovina became a battlefield between Austrian and Russian troops. Although the Russians were finally driven out in 1917, Austria would lose Bukovina with the war, ceding the province to Romania in the Treaty of St. Germain. On June 28, 1940, northern Bukovina was occupied by troops from the Soviet Union. It would change hands again during the course of World War II, but this half of Bukovina ended back in Soviet hands, and is today the Chernivetska oblast of Ukraine. Southern Bukovina in now part of Suceava county, Romania.>

excerpt
Bukovina Society of the Americas - Mirror of HOMEPAGE
http://www.feefhs.org/bukovina/bukovina.html
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Information about where YOUR FAMILY came from, will be found in documents and sources created after immigrating.

NA - Genealogy Research
http://www.archives.ca/02/020202_e.html

[Jenna_103]

Originally posted by Irinka
First you have to post the date of when your family members immigrated to Canada, their full names and dates of birth, approximate place in Ukraine where they were born..etc..any info you can get is useful.
Hannia, one of the members here is amazing at helping people find very valuable information on their family, but she needs more details
Go ahead ask your grand parents.

Irina

I'm at a hectic point at the moment....trying to finish my essay due:tomorrow!!! but as soon as all this is done, i'm going to find out more from my family.

thanks hannia for the info you have provided me with, it was very interesting to read.

[Jenna_103]

For my Human Geography end of class essay I needed to write about everything and anything about my families, our travles, the times where our languages develeoped into pure english, etc.... I got to interview my family, go threw old history books, and was able to find out a whole lot of stuff! It was awesome, more then likely if you "seek" you shall "Find".

Hope to be getting here more often now that exams are done.