Hello Kristen - I searched the Automated Genealogy database and I thick that I found your great great great grandfather Joe/Joseph Yerkoski/Yurkowski b. 1820 and your great great grandparents Stephan Yurkowski/Zershaski and Victoria Borteney as you mentioned in your previous posting.
1911 Census of Canada - Saskatchewan
Enumeration District Summary:
Enumeration District 12: Townships 44, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Enumeration District Description: 45 in ranges 7, 8 west of the 3rd Meridian Dukhabor, Villages Harslafka and Soitshe
1911 / Saskatchewan / Prince Albert / 12 Townships 44 / Page 12 & 13
Transcribed by: Don Manning
1911 Census of Canada - Saskatchewan
Household Number & Location: 44 & 45 Prince Albert, Townships 44, Saskatchewan, Canada
Pg Ln Hshld# Name Sex RTH MS Birth Date Age POB YOI YON ERTO NATY RELN OCCUPATION
12 41 44 Zershaski Stefan/Stefen/Stefon 44: 10-44-8 M Head M Apr 1865 45 Austria 1904 - Austrian Austrian/Gallician None Farmer
12 42 44 Zershaski Victoria F Wife M Mar 1878 35 Austria 1904 - Austrian Austrian/Gallician None -
12 43 44 Zershaski Frank M Son S Apr 1891 19 Austria 1904 - Austrian Can - Canadian None Farmer
12 44 44 Zershaski Joe M Son S Nov 1897 13 Austria 1904 - Austrian Can - Canadian None -
12 45 44 Zershaski Lainka F Daughter S Dec 1895 15 Austria 1904 - Austrian Can - Canadian None -
12 46 44 Zershaski Pete/Peter/Petro M Son S Apr 1896 14 Austria 1904 - Austrian Can - Canadian None -
12 47 44 Zershaski John Son S Nov 1906 5 Sask - - Canadian Can - Canadian None -
12 48 44 Zershaski Manka/Monka/Monika? F Daughter S Dec 1908 3 Sask - - Canadian Can - Canadian None -
12 49 44 Zershaski Fenny/Fanny? F Daughter S May 1910 1 Sask - - Canadian Can - Canadian None -
Ref. URL:
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=...13 1 45 Yerkoski Joe 45: 10-44-8 M Father W Sep 1820 90 Austria 1904 - Austrian Austrian/Gallician None Stays with his Son
Ref. URL:
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=...I also found that someone on Ancestry.com has a Family Tree that includes Phyllis Yurkowski who I think might be Fenny/Fanny? Yurkowski/Zershaski b. May 1910 Saskatchewan as mentioned above.
Phyllis Yurkowski
Name: Phyllis Yurkowski
Birthdate in 1910 in Saskatchewan
Deathdate in 1995 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Relatives:
Stephan Yurkowski Father
Victoria Mother
I also searched the
www.ourroots.ca database for Yurkowski and I found your family mentioned in the following book entitled: "Pioneer ways to modern days : history of the town of Carrot River and the Rural Municipality of Moose Range" on pages 1019-1021 for Joseph "Joe" and Veronica "Verna" Yablonski-Yurkowski and their sons Jack Yurkowski and Dr. Michael Yurkowski.
Ref. URL:
http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=1045994&qryID=d5...My wife's uncle George Gedir married Mary Yourkowski/Yurkowski 1947 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and that is the reason for our interest in searching for Yurkowskis as we are trying to learn more about her parents. To learn more about the Gedir/Didur families please review the information found at the following websites below.
GEDIR, George Gerald
Our Roots - Canada's Local History Online
Book Title: Fields of Prosperity : a history of Englefeld 1903-1987
by Lefebvre, Vi, Pflag, Stella, Englefeld Historical Society
Publication information
Englefeld, Saskatchewan: Englefeld Historical Society, 1988
GEDIR, George Gerald
Pages 189 & 190
Ref. Our Roots URL:
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=934750 ID: I965
Name: George GEDIR
Sex: M
Father: Angus GEDIR b: 31 JAN 1878 in Perimilow,Austria
Mother: Katherine BENZARA b: 10 AUG 1883 in Borschiw,Prussia,(Poland)
Marriage 1 Mary YOURKOWSKI
Married: 1947 in Winnipeg, Man, Canada
Children
1. Living GEDIR
2. Living GEDIR
3. Living GEDIR
Ref. George GEDIR URL:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...Best Regards from Gerald Cronkwright