Pinskaje Paleśsie
The paternal-line core and neighbouring surnames cluster around Pahost-Zaharodzki — about three centuries in one place, a dense peasant and burgher network of Paleśsie.
A living family history: nest map, border chronology, family stories and a DNA summary. In the table below * marks an inferred date — not an archival fact.
The paternal-line core and neighbouring surnames cluster around Pahost-Zaharodzki — about three centuries in one place, a dense peasant and burgher network of Paleśsie.
Sale of land in Kapiejnaje, Ihumeński paviet; move to Laby, Mienski paviet; purchase of land for all the sons of a large family.
This is about great-great-grandmother Hražyna. No archival metrics for her. The search runs through her descendants’ DNA: matches outline a geographic triangle in Lithuania. All parishes in the area are being checked.
I traced grandfather’s brother who left for the US in the early 1900s: passenger lists, census, Latin surname variants — the link restored after 70 years of silence.
After captivity in WWII the trail went cold. Through Swedish archives and displaced-persons lists he turned up as a resettler in Sweden.
Andrej Ryhoravič went missing in World War I; in World War II he was taken captive, returned home and started a family.
Tracing relatives forced to Germany in WWII and those who never returned: Ostarbeiter lists, camps and military losses.
| Name | Year | Place | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jakub Makaviec | 1680 | Dryčyn | inferred · RS 1795, Dryčyn |
| Kandrat Važnik Dryčyn | 1690 | Dryčyn | inferred · Dukora parish inventory, 1744 |
| Darja Važnik | 1695 * | Dryčyn | inferred · Dukora parish inventory, 1744 |
| Michiej Juryjeŭ Mazanik | 1705 | Dryčyn | inferred · Dukora parish inventory, 1744 |
| Jan Hančar | 1715 * | Botava | inferred · Metric books Botava, 1799 |
| Jan Ivaškievič | 1715 | Siomkava | inferred · Metric books, 1777 |
fact = from pedigree / archive · inferred = Heritavia heuristic · after “·” — earliest document for the person or line
Heritavia · sample report · redacted case in the public demo