Bekeschko / Бекешко

annblanc написал:

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Greetings.
Antonina and Anastasia are two different names as I know.

You should try to remember second name of your Great grandmother...
Do you know name of the city where she was living ?

Did you address US Security and Immigration?

Dear Judy,

Please, look at the following information at myheritage.com. . It seems ti me that you also can found it at ancestry.com

Anyway. This is US 1940 Census list. Here is listed Anton Bekeshka and his wife Antoinette Bekeshka and their kids: Anton Jr. and William.

There are a couple of additional records regarding this family.

In addition, there is a data from US 1930 Census where this family is also listed. .

Here Anton wife's name is Anna and they have three kids (Sophi, John and Anton).

Most probably, you already know this information. However, by all this I want to show that Russian names, especially, sophisticated names, like Anastasia or Antoinette are hard to write and easy to misspell.

Moreover, as far as I understand text from US 1930 Census, Anton and Anna (Antoinette) Bekeshka were born in Minsk (current capital of Belarus Republic). Antoinette is not a traditional Russian name. This name is mostly related to polish roots. Since Belarus and Poland are close to each other and there were a lot of polish people in Belarus before 1917, I would suggest to keep in mind that your great grandmother was polish (I mean nationality and ethnicity , not citizenship).

I search additional sources and find the US Military Registration Card for Anton Bekeshko. . From this, you know the DoB and that he was born in Minks, as I have suggested before.

In addition, Bekeshka is a misspell of Bekeshko, but not necessarily.

Please, take a look at myheritage.com, ancestry.com databases and family trees. It seems to me that there are many records about your relatives as well as their family trees.

To find you roots in Russia, now, you have only one control point, which is DoB and place of birth (and living before immigration to US). You need to look at Russian Church Book (may not be saved) in National Historical Archive of Belarus. Most probably, Anton and Anna's marriage was registered in Minsk also.

I also found Bekeshko (from Belarus) family web-site at myheritage.com. I emailed him and let's see what he will say, if will.

Andrey Maslennikov написал:

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Вероятно это document.write('<a href="http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0-%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0" rel="nofollow" target=_blank>link</a>';link д. Слобода-Кучинка (Копыльский район, Минская область)

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Да, я немного переписывался с ней, а второй н.п. - Бадежи