Днепропетровская обл. и Днепр́ (бывш. Днепропетровск)

Добрый день!
Есть ли у кого возможность посетить научную библиотеку? Нужно парочку копий сделать.

Hi, I know some of you were helping me out with my grandmother's parents John (Ivan) and Mary (Maria) Haidamaka.

I was doing some research on land titles. Ivan got 2 land grants in Saskatchewan - on 1 his last name was spelled Hjdamaka and the other Hydamaka! I still have to follow up on tips on church records (it's one of my more difficult tasks so I've been putting it off, lol) I got from a very helpful poster here!

But I did review some land titles for Andrew Zaitz/Zayats..etc. I know where he lived, because that's one of the reasons why he's my main suspect. On one title, his name is "Andrew Babichuk" (of Saskatoon, "Butcher" - interesting, right?). Then, a few months later, the title was cancelled and a new one issued to "Andryj Zayancz" - is that a Ukrainian name? I did have DNA tested and came back to have 9% Eastern European and Russian (which they describe as - "Primarily located in: Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, also found in: Albania, Estonia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), and 8% Baltics - which they list as "Primarily located in: Latvia, Lithuania, also found in: Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan".

Is he most likely Ukrainian? Or would that spelling in English mean anything, as far as belonging to other countries? If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!

Aleksandr_Aleksandr все библиотеки закрыты на карантин.

Nikola написал:

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Here is a copy from the book "Dictionary of ancient Russian personal proper names." One of them is the Hare.

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Thank you for this!

Can someone help me understand the difference between being Ukrainian or Russian, historically? We have an independent Ukraine today, so that's easy to tell based in where people live (more or less), but when modern day Ukraine was part of Russia... ie. My relatives (Gaydamak) were from Bakhmut, Ekaterinoslav, Russia and emigrated in 1913 to Canada. Today that's Ukraine, so were they culturally Ukrainian? My great grandmother called herself Russian on a couple of documents, but she was from Russia at that time. Or was there a mix a Russian and Ukrainian people in the district? Is there a large difference between the 2, or is it like Canadians and Americans - same language, similar culture, but different in some ways? I keep asking myself whether I'm Russian or Ukrainian 😊.

Mostly_NorwegianNicole
I add that the concept of "Ukrainian" appeared in the modern sense in the 19th century, and in fact the Russians and Ukrainians are a single people. Do not break your head over this issue and consider yourself Russian.