I am brazilian and seek my grandfather's family

[vladmir]

About names:
1) your gradfather immigrated when his region was under German jurisdiction and I am sure that his documents was in German language;
2) so, the names that you have, was not traduced from cyrillic characters in Brazil and theese name conserved the German manner of writing;
3) you have the correct documental German writing of the names;
4) Evim is not a Russian name but pronounced in German is EFIM and this is a Russian name;
5) the same for Imovei, pronounced Imofei (T)Imofei?;
6) Wasylisa is Vasilissa;
7) Bostkow sounds me unfamiliar, but pronounced is possible for the Russians forms BOSHKOV and BOZHKOV, which are not easies names to a German sound transliteration, but warranted as slavonics names (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian, Yougoslavian and Bulgarian). By th region, I guess that BOZHKOV is more possible. but I am not the best person to affirme this;
8) I don't know anything about the surname Kanmatcha;
9) if this reasoning is right, I can conclude that your granfather's name was in Russian language: EFIM TIMOFEEVYCH BOZHKOV or BOSHKOV (by theese manner of writing the surname is easier to search in Latin chararacters);
10) 62 years of immigration is not a so, so long time, I believe that you could rescue a lot of data about your grandfather in Brazil to make a secure search about your family, as persons we have had knew, which is the ship and the harbour of his arrival and passenger list of his ship, documentation copies in the labour local,etc.

There are a great probability of Hannia hypothesis about your grandfather have had immigrated with Germans Mennonites are right, specialy if you live in Southern or Southeastern Brazil region. That is a small community which keep your registers. Is it impossible that anyone who made the trip with him is still alive?

[Serhii]

As for my Ukrainian eye Efim Bostkov is a traditional Jewish name ( they look like Slavic ones , but are slightly twisted, etc ). But as Hania mentioned before it was completely impossible to emigrate in 1943 ( for both Jewish and othets ). Something strange is in it. And I am not sure any mennonits could survive in that area since 1939. Maybe they had come somewhere earlier ( = before the WW2) and then moved to Brazil.

That region ( Brest , Baranovichi, etc ) has a lot of Ukr population ( originally is a Ukrainian one ). Efim in Ukr is Juhym , Imofei for sure is Tymofiy ( as Vladmir wrote ).
And that strange Kanmatcha looks like - Kamchatna (female form ) , Kamchatnyj ( male ) - you can meet such surname in Ukraine now.
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Vladmir,
Are you the same Brazilian guy who has asked here some questions a short while ago ? It is such a joy to read your knowledgeable answers on Ukrainian questions from far Brazil !
Sincerely
Serhiy.

[Sorochan Walter]

I am searching for persons by the last name Sorochan who now live in South America. Do you happen to know of any Sorochans?


Ivan Sorochan was born in 1862 in the Village of Knyazi,County of Snyatyn, Province of Halychyna, Ukraine. His parents were Onufry and Anetza Sorochan. He had four brothers --- Tanasko, Ilia, Wasyl and Stefan - and three younger sisters. When Ivan was eight years old; his father, stepmother, three sisters and one brother died in a typhoid epidemic.
His oldest brother, Tanasko, raised the survivng brothers. Two Sorochan brothers, Wasyl who migrated to Canada in 1897 and Ivan who migrated to Canada about 1900.

There are unsubstantiated stories that a Sorochan of the Onufry Sorochan family, possibly Tanasko or his children, other than brothers Ivan and Wasyl, boarded a ship, by mistake, bound for South America instead of Canada. If this mishap occurred, then we may have relatives living in Argentina and/or Brazil.

Do you happen to know of any Sorochans?
We are trying to validate this rumor and need help.

Walter Sorochan
E-mail: wsorochan@san.rr.com