Ukrainian Genealogy Group National Capital Region

The Ukrainian Genealogist May 2002 913 Carling Avenue , K1Y 4E3 Home Page: www.geocities.com/uggncr/ eMail: [email protected]

Contacts: Ted Lomatski Myron Momryk (613) 830-1627 (613) 731-1870

Of Interest Meeting Schedule 20 0 2 - 20 0 3 Our meetings take place on the 4th Tuesday of the month, May 29, Wed. UCPBA Ottawa Pub Night. Pub Italia, at 1930h (7:30pm) and are subject to change. 434 1/2 Preston St. 7:30 PM. Good food, great L ocation: conversation! Jazz Quintet "Sugar Sticks". Contact St John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Shrine Oksana Y. 823-5168 or Borys G. 744-8367 952 Green Valley D rive May 31, Fri. Maturalna Zabava (Graduation Dance), Ottawa, Ukrainian School of Lesia Ukrainka. At the Nepean Sailing Club, 6:00 PM. For information, contact K hrystia Meetings on on the 4th Tuesday of the month Habrowych, 731-1870 September 24th, 2002 October 22nd, 2002 June 12, Wed. UCPBA of Ottawa Annual General November 26th, 2002 Meeting. January 28th, 2003 th June 17, Mon. Canadian Friends of Ukraine Annual February 25 , 2003 th General Meeting. Looking for new members interested March 25 , 2003 in helping Ukraine develop democratically, and helping April 22nd, 2003 the underprivileged. New members welcome. 7:30 PM. May 27th, 2003 Catholic hall, 952 Green Valley Cresc. Contact: Oksana P. or Julia W . 733-7000.

June 22, Sat. First day of the John Paskevich Film September 24 th, Meeting Festival co-sponsored by The Canadian Film Institute We already have several ideas for nex t year, although we (CFI) and the UCPBA, under the patronage of the have not finalised anything for the first meeting. Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada: National Library However, we are handing out a survey to find out what Auditorium. Contact: Borys Gengalo 744-8367 you would like to see at our meetings - be it speakers, or format. If you were unable to attend, please do not July 19-21. National SUSK Congress. University of hesitate to eMail us and let us know your ideas. Ottawa. Contact: [email protected] Most of the events that we list are taken from the complementary Ukrainian Events Calendar maintained by L ooking for Speakers - Ideas Irena Bell. If you would like to receive it directly on a If you would like to share your research, ex periences in monthly basis, please subscribe by eMail to: Irena Bell at travelling to Ukraine or to suggest speakers, please contact [email protected] us.

th Ukrainian Independence Day- August 24 L ooking for Members! First Ukrainian Settlers arrive at - Bring along someone new to our September meeting! The th September 7 , 1891 more people we have, the more resources, the better our group! 2 The Ukrainian Genealogist May 2002

Cemetery Project Contact Myron Mom ryk regarding any donations or q uestions. (We can also m ake photocopies of materials t present, we are looking at identifying those you may not wish to part with.) Ukrainians that have been buried in other If anyone would be willing to lend us maps that we can cemeteries in and around the National Capital A copy over the summer, it would greatly be appreciated. R egion, as well as collecting obituaries of all those that Alternately, if you are going to Ukraine and can pick up have passed away in the NCR . Please contact Bud good maps cheaply, we would be happy to reimburse you. Budzinski 833-2438 < [email protected]> or Mike D owhan 521-3449 < mike.dowhan@ sympatico.ca> for further details. Bukovinian Greek Orthodox H oly T rinity Cemetery Kobassa T asting Results and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Cem etery - we have a copy of the OGS transcription of the headstones. th The UCPBA 5 Annual Kobassa Tasting Competition For now, you can eM ail Ted Lomatski to do any lookups. was a great success! First there was a presentation on the The copy will be placed in our resource centre in R eal Estate market in the Ottawa area given by 3 different September. R eal Estate Agents covering the segments of first time buyers, going upscale or ex panding and of course downsizing or getting ready for retirement. It has been Web Sites 16 years since we moved to Orlé ans, and I was surprised how much the market had changed and the old concepts are no longer valid. I would like to say, that if you are UGG-NC R http: //www.geocities.com/uggncr/ looking to buy, sell or helping your children get into a hom e, talk to several agents and get a feel for the market. Our website is a hit! Actually it is thousands of hits weekly and with all the information on the server and the Well, now to the good stuff! Free BEER ! W ell, at least downloads, you will have noticed that the site has been 150ml samples from the Slavutych rep. This is a beer down a lot. We have been told that we are overusing the from Ukraine which is available in LCBO stores now, free service and should upgrade to a paid service. although I would suggest calling around first as I had a However, we will see if we can link into some of the other problem getting it. If the store has it, ask for them to free services available, and make some seamless links. reserve it for you! Getting down to the real m eat - the kobassa. As in previous years, there were entries from M ontré al to New eM ail Address - uggncr@ canada.com , covering 3 categories, Traditional, Ham and Ottawa.com has discontinued its service, so we were Specialty. The winners for Traditional were the Warsaw forced to move to canada.com . Please update your address Polish D eli, Ottawa, Bank Street Sausage and D eli and books. Plonia Sausage House, Vancouver. For Ham, Bank Street Sausage and D eli, Ukrainian Co-operative, R egina and Stawnichy’s Meat Processing, Mundare. For Specialty, Bank Street Sausage and D eli, Z ytynsky’ s D eli, Slownik Geograficzny Index of R osemount, Plononia Sausage House, Vancouver. Translated Entries The evening was capped off with great jazz piano from Natasha Guiller! http://www .polishroots.org/slownik_ index .htm

As previously mentioned this work encompasses towns in Resource Centre Galicia in the 19th century and is a great resource for information on w here and how your relatives lived. This We have a new cabinet for our resource centre which will site has the entries for a number of the towns translated. not only be able to accom modate maps and more books, They will also do a translation for a fee if your town has but which is on w heels, which will enable us to wheel it not been translated yet. out at every meeting. We still need maps of Ukraine from all periods, We are looking for someone to undertake printing these settlement maps of Canada, census information, local entries out from the internet and keep up a binder in our histories, cemetery records, church histories, reference resource centre for those who may not have internet materials, family histories, journals from genealogical access. societies, general genealogical reference and how -to books.