November 29, 2024 | History
A 15-years-old Hero’s Story
This is 15-year-old Zakhar Melnychuk from Horoshivtsi in Bukovyna. We have found the picture when doing family research for our customer. There’s a story about......
Tag Archive: bukovina
February 5, 2024 | Research
Time Travel to Bukovyna
Let us explore some unique pictures that will take us back in time. They were taken by the French family of photographers, researchers, and historians......
October 19, 2023 | History
19th Century Time Travel Stories
This post has to do with time travel which I think is one of the most exciting parts of genealogy research. If your ancestors come......
April 20, 2021 | History, video
Bukovynian Wedding. 1940 Soviet Propaganda Film. Part 3
I hope you will like seeing a real old Bukovynian wedding too. Now I can imagine what kind of reality is behind a marriage record......
February 24, 2021 | History, video
Bukovyna – Ukrainian Land. 1940 Soviet Propaganda Film. Part 2
The 2nd part of the Soviet propaganda film (read more about it in the previous post) lets us see Bukovyna in the 1940s. However, the......
February 16, 2021 | History, video
Bukovyna – Ukrainian Land. 1940 Soviet Propaganda Film. Part 1
Bukovyna - Ukrainian Land is a film created in 1940-1941, right after the northern part of the region was annexed by the Soviets. It was......
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