HOW MANY OF US KNOW WHERE OUR GRANDPARENTS or GREAT GRANDPARENTS, ETC. CAME FROM ORIGINALLY??????
WHAT WERE THEIR HOLIDAY TRADITIONS WHICH THEY BROUGHT FROM THE "OLD COUNTRY" BE IT NORWAY, SWEDEN, GERMANY, ENGLAND, ETC., ETC., ETC.......TO THE UNITED STATES??
Laurenzana Potenza Basilicata Italy - Bing Images
Paternal grandparents both from Laurenzana Potenza Basilicata Italy as shown in these photos.......mountainous region in southern Italy.
Polany Surowiczne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is where my maternal grandmother was born; however it no longer exists. Her husband to be came from northern Sanok.
Also written as Sianik. Both Ruthenian / Ukrainian / Rusyn / White Russian
Komancza, closest village to where my Ukrainian grandmother was born, is still in existence.
AREA COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS GALICIA / HALYCHYNA
Both, Komancza and Poliany Surowiczne were in Austria Hungary........now Province of Podkarpackie Poland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanock
I've had European photographers, doing the same research, travel to her ethnic village and take pics of the old wooden church, the tombstones, etc.
My husband's grandparents came from Rzeszow and Lviv/Lwow depending on the borders at the time.....and present day Ukraine, then Poland.