I am so glad to have found a link to the town of my father and his parents. Was hoping to find any information about them and the large family they came from. Maftey Prejsa &Maria Usalav there children Andrye , Peter,Yeuka,Stephon,Powel,& Parasks, Tyahla,Tahla,Smedovitch. My grandfather was Peter imigarted to Canada. My father was Peter and My Baba is Anne Tyahla born 1910 & her sister Julia Born 1911 married Nicholas Veliky 1930 Any help would be great. I would like to see house if still there

My paternal Grandfather was from this village Szemen Morgucz and moved to the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area in the late 1800's . Has any one come across this name ?

Dear Madam/Sir,

we are looking for the Jewish families in Certizne.
Would you be so kind to help us?

Best wishes,

dr.Gabriel Bar-Shaked
Historian
Yad Vashem
Jerusalem

Great Website. My mother's family is from Elkhorn West •••••••• and old family names are Semonco, Dimun and Safran. Todd Sekela, what is/are the names of your family in Elkhorn WV?

Great site in a WWW of too many pages, this one I can use. Paternal Great Grandparents are (as best as I can tell) from this town, then emigrated to Elkhorn, WV to work the coal mines. I was able to converse with Nick a bit and unfortunately there was not a whole lot of family talk about the old country. This site gives me a jumping off point to find out more. WV has excellent digitized birth/death/marriage records. Now onto the church records at familysearch.org.

Thanks for the site Nick!

I am thrilled to come across this webpage. My great-grandfather Alec Hrywniak married Mary Yurchak (Jurak) in the USA. Mary's mother was Julia Kulik and her husband's name was "Wash" (I think). I am looking for any relatives that may have been related to this blood line. Please do not hesitate to email me. I would love to learn more about my family history. I would love to visit this charming area. It reminds me much of my home in Sweet Valley, Pennsylvania USA

Hello there,greetings from uk

Very nice site and great to see where my family originated from. Smetana and Lasky are the names and my cousin just visited there.
If anyone reading this has any family tree information / links that would be super!

Great legwork on this site. Not sure if my part of the Sekela family came from this village (my grandfather was the last generation from Slovakia and he did not talk a lot about his time there before he died) but it is nice to read about the region my people are from.

Nick, nice job with this website. I was able to show it to my father, who wanted to see where his father lived as a boy before coming to America. The Mendlowitz's have scattered, but thrive.