I was browsing the message boards and noticed this message board. With a surname of Iwanow, I was wondering if maybe it's another version of Iwaniw. Be interested to know more info about the Iwanow family.
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that's a very interesting version of spelling your last name. My last name, Iwanow, is the English spelling derivative of the Russian, Ivanova. I am the last surviving (As far as I know) member of the Iwanows in America, and I am searching for any relatives on my father's side. His name is Wassili Iwanow, and he passed away in 1962. The reason it has taken me so long to begin this search is that I finally acquired and learned how to use a computer. If you are still interested, please feel free to ask me any questions. I doubt that we are related, but one never knows. Thanks for your interest! Victoria Iwanow
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I was just going through surnames that are in my family when I came across your msg. My grandfather's name is Nikolaj Iwanow,(I thought this was a German name) he passed away in 1995. E-mail me if you have any questions.
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wow, i haven't visited the ancestry site in almost a month. i always thought that the origin of my surname was russian. i am not familiar with any nikolais', but that's why i'm searching. how old was your grandfather when he died? Do you know anything else about him specifically? Thanks for any info. Vicky
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Sorry, it's taken so long to write back. My grandfather died in 1996.He was 78 years old on record, however my mother told me that when he arrived in the USA from Germany he indicated that he was much younger so that he could work longer. I'm still waiting to find out wether or not 78 is actually his real age. He is actually my step grandfather. I know that he had a daughter in Germany, I think her name was Ingrid. I met her when I was very young. I believe she still lives in Germany and is now married. I'm trying to locate her as well.
I'm working on getting more info. My grandmother isn't in the best of health so it may take some time.
Carla
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hello i have been searching for info on iwanova as my husbands mother was alexandra iwanova fryndej. i have been looking for such a long time and havn't come up with any thing till now. we are looking for info on this family i hope maybe you may have a link! alexandra and michaljo came to the usa in 1954-55 they had their passage paid for them and their family as much as we knew alexandra thought there were only cousins left in russia but she and michaljo were imprisioned in germany it is confusing. but they made there was here. both alexandra's father and brother were doctors before and during the war. please respond.
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looking for links to alexandra response
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looking for links to alexandra response
hello I have also been searching for links to my Iwanow (father's) ancestors for a long time and haven't really found anything. As far as I know, there were no Alexandras in my family. My father was born in Russia in 1898.His name was Wassili Iwanow. His parents names were Evcemia and Wassili. He was a soldier in the Russian Revolution of 1917. He "escaped" from Russia shortly thereafter to Paris, France, where he became a taxi driver. He then lived in Germany, and then Austria, where he met and married my mother, and then we all came to the USA through New York Harbor in 1950, during the year that I was born. I have no siblings. My father passed away in 1962. He had an older sister named Olga, who I never knew. The only other thing that I have learned is that the Iwanow, Ivanova, Ivanov, and similar variations, is a very common Russian last name. Don't give up. I won't. One more bit of information I have about my father is that he was never married before my mother, at least that is what she had told me (she passed in 1983), but that he lived with a woman by the name of Marta, in Germany, for some years. She was older than him. They did not have any children together supposedly, and it is unclear as to whether she had any children before living with my father.
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thank you so much for a reply! there may be some sort of a relation some where back. i am going to let my husband and his sister also read this there are some similarities there as i can see as far as the army and germany as well as a relationship but first let me discuss this with my husband. please keep in touch. also new york.
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hello, did your father ever talk about family or the war. my husband seems to think his mothers brothers name was nicholas or nicolji because this is why the family named the first son nicholas. please keep in touch. they were from russia, but ended in germany. now the brother may have ended there also. it was very difficult to get info from my mother in law as she never had contact with family in russia after the war she may have assumed the family was dead.
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