tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6150428962095188008.post2036663239107367488..comments2024-02-28T13:17:58.454-06:00Comments on ROOTED IN EASTERN EUROPE: Explaining Ukrainian Surnames Part Twoeerootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01869806595964435873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6150428962095188008.post-54729043284268773852022-03-11T19:17:58.794-06:002022-03-11T19:17:58.794-06:00Zuerich, Unterwalden,, South Russia; Lat: 51.8982N...Zuerich, Unterwalden,, South Russia; Lat: 51.8982N, Long: 47.1820E ........................................... currently Zorkino / Sorkino, Saràtov, Russia might be what you are looking for. Many of the immigrants who live/lived in North Dakota are from what was S. Russia now mostly Ukraine. Moldova is also part of that area and farther west was Bessarabia now Romainia and/or Moldova. This is the same general region where Russia has invaded Ukraine. You should check into Germans from Russia Heritage Society in Bismarck ND which might provide more information. There's a website for the group. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16184988691578147452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6150428962095188008.post-23691718789086114792021-09-03T10:44:44.602-05:002021-09-03T10:44:44.602-05:00I've been trying to figure out what my grandfa...I've been trying to figure out what my grandfather's family name was. In America, it was Krausch, but they came from Ukraine, they had Russian given names, and their native language was Russian. They were not German or Jewish as far as I can tell. They could not read or write, so when my great-grandfather spoke his family name aloud for the ship's manifest in Hamburg in 1903, it was written down as "Karausch," and so it remained until they dropped the first "a" sometime in the 1930s. I've considered many possibilities, including Khrushch. Oh, one more thing, when they arrived in Canada a clerk wrote "Bukovinan" beside their names. I don't know what city or oblast they came from. It has been recorded in various documents as Odessa, Kherson, Marion, and "Serekoko." Others who apparently came from the same area and then settled in the same part of North Dakota show their city of origin spelled variously as Sorocko, Djarkovka, Zorkova and similar sound-alikes. Many of these same people also wrote Marion or Mariana as their city.Leslie S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15921511396307048816noreply@blogger.com