As per Ellis Island, Petro and Marya were Wasyl's parents. Wasyl arrived @cousin Fedio's
(who arrived 9/4/1911) in Rochester. Wasyl's younger sister Magda, arrived in 1913. At that time Wasyl was living @95 Josef Street, Rochester.

Rochester is one of the oldest Ruthenian/Ukrainian communities in America. The first Ukrainian immigrant, Evstachiv Makohin, arrived from the Rohatyn district > Ivano-Frankivska Region> Galicia in 1901. Within a few years Rochester had some 20 Ukrainian immigrants from the Rohatyn area, mostly Ukrainian Greek Catholics.

Wasyl, Fedio and Magda were HUTSULS (micro-ethnic Ruthenian group) from WIERZCHNIA. From late 18th century to 1918, Wierzchnia (Polish name) was a very small wies/village > Kalusz was both the administrative and the judicial/tax district. The filial Roman Catholic Church was in Kalusz and the Greek Catholic Church was in Zbora. This was the Ivano-Frankivska Region > Galicia Province, administered by ethnic Poles for the AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE. Another name for this specific region is HUTSULSCHYNA, Land of the Hutsul. 1919-1939 this region came under Reconstituted Poland's domain. Poland had not been a geopolitical entity for 125 yrs. During the Interwar Yrs, Ivano-Frankivsk was called Stanislawow. Post WW2 this region became part of Soviet turf and Stanislawow was renamed back to Ivano-Frankivsk in 1967. In 1991 Ukraine became independent.

Ivano-Frankivsk Region :: Picture Gallery
http://www.sbedif.if.ua/city/src/region_pics.en.htm

Hutsuls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutsul

FOCUS ON PHILATELY: The Hutsul Battalion (06/03/01)
http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2001/220124.shtml


BOOK REVIEW: A photographic survey of the Hutsul region (10/17/99)
http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1999/429934.shtml

Hutsul CD's
http://www.lemko.org/lvpro/hutsulCDs.html

Pysanky Eggs - Geometrics - Hutsul
http://www.todeirdre.com/pages/Pysan...s/GeoMain.html
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TODAY selo/village VERHNYA (fomerly Vezhkhnyaya) still exists, coordinates 49.06-24.18, 6.5 miles WNW of Kalush, the district center town > Kalushskij raion/district > Ivano-Frankivska Oblast/Region > Ukraine (abbr UA), latest zip code is 77324.

To locate village
JewishGen ShtetlSeeker - Town Search
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/LocTown.asp

Looks like LDS has filmed some of the older metrykal records from ZBORA, where the filial Greek Catholic Church was located turn of century???
Zbora - - - - - - - -- 714, 716-719, 1359. Check w/Mark Dusyk re availability. He stays on top of what Ukrainian villages have in fact been filmed. mgdusyk@telus.net

FamilySearch.org - Family History Centers
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp

If not available thru LDS, you may need to make inquiry at Ivano-Frankivska Oblast Archives.
There is no prepayment at Ukrainian Archives. Archives are closed for summer holiday during August.

State Archive of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
[Derzhavnyi arkhiv Ivano-Frankivskoi oblasti]
42a Sahaidachnoho,
76006 Ivano-Frankivsk
Tel/Fax: (03422) 4-90-77; 6-38-16
e-mail: daifo@il.if.ua
Working hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00-17:00

After putting togather your family tree, consider writing Village Administrator re any surviving family still residing in the village. Communicating in Ukrainian
is ideal. In order to expedite response, include an intl postal coupon w/your inquiry. These can be purchased at local post ofc. Make sure address is written in Ukrainian and don't forget to print UKRAINE
on bottom of envelope to facilitate processing at your local post ofc.

Holovi Silskoji Rady
selo Verhnya
Kaluskij raion
Ivano-Frankivska Oblast
Ukraina 77324

If you need help w/translations, I can recommend someone local w/references.