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Family Bonds between Bukovina and Alberta: And together we are creating a Family History Book

This presentation by Elaine Kalynchuk was about her family members in Alberta and Western Ukraine who gave her information to start a family history book and what she had received from inquires to the archives in Ukraine. She has made four trips to Ukraine so far from 1998, 2002, 2017 and 2019.  She mentioned how she started to do family research.  And because she has two cassette tapes of interviews, one written transcript from an interview, old pictures, and a large volume of handwritten notes from relatives who have all now passed away, she is very grateful for the strong family bonds. Her relatives in Ukraine plan on helping her to finish the family research in Ukraine and neighboring countries when it is safe to travel there again.   

Elaine is the facilitator of the Ukraine Special Interest Group (SIG) which is part of the Edmonton Branch, Alberta Genealogical Society.  It is called Ukraine SIG or Ukrainian SIG. The members mainly have interests that include the geographic areas of East Galicia (Ukraine), West Galicia (Poland), Bukovina (Ukraine and Romania), Volhynia, and the West Russian Empire (Ukraine and Poland), and all of Ukraine.  Ukraine SIG invites people from all of the Eastern European countries to participate in our meetings.  Meetings are held on the 1st Wednesday in January, March, May, September and November. Meetings start at 7:00 p.m.  https://www.edmontongenealogy.ca/special-interest-groups-sigs

A recording of this Webinar presentation can be found here.   Note: In addition, Elaine also provided written answers to some of the questions raised during the webinar (see here).

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