r/rusyn • u/Sad-Lynx49 • May 31 '25

Genealogy Search for relatives

Hello everyone! Please help. I am from Ukraine and have Rusyns roots and relatives abroad, so I would like to find them. Unfortunately, very little is known. My great-grandfather's last name is Fedorchak(Федорчак). It is probably known that there are relatives - they wrote letters many years ago, but they are lost. Apart from genetic research, what is the search algorithm?

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u/EmbarrassedPizza9797 May 31 '25

I knew some Fedorchaks growing up. I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '25

I grew up in Sharon, Pennsylvania. Check records for Youngstown, Ohio, Farrell and Sharon, Pennsylvania. That’s where most of the Rusyns in northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania settled aside from Pittsburgh or Cleveland. Fedorchaks lived in Sharon and nearby towns.

Another area is Greenfield and Hazelwood neighborhood in Pittsburgh where I lived in grad school.

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u/Desh282 Jun 01 '25

There’s also in Bellingham Washington. But they came in 1990s

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u/666-bbb Jun 01 '25

My father mentioned years ago that we had relatives in Sharon, PA. I wonder if they are still there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '25

Like many Rust Belt towns, most of the younger people have moved towards Cleveland, Pittsburgh, DC, and elsewhere.

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u/666-bbb Jun 01 '25

Most likely. Have you heard the names Berezny or Hulik?