Ancestors and Relatives of Elaine Evans

Updated July 12, 2008

Basically, I am just trying to find out as much as I can about my ancestors and relatives.

Surnames I am researching (with a variety of spellings) include Kosut, Stefko, Ivanco, Sepelya, Haraszim, Vatatsin and others with origins in the Carpatho-Rusyn town of Világ, Hungary, now Svetlice, Slovakia. Also Saibanti, Amistadi, Negri, Vecchietti, Bortolotti and others, from communities such as Bolognano, Massone, Drena and San Giorgio near Arco, Trento, Italy. See also my Surname List, below, for a complete list.

Items I am working on now or intend to work on in the future include:

1) Finding out when & where my great-grandfather Feodor Kosut died. Previously I was only able to narrow this down to a 22-year period between 1897 and 1919. But thanks to recent work by a genealogist I hired, we believe we can narrow it down to a 5-year period between 1899, when he bought some land, and 1904, when this land was inherited by his sons. He had relatives in Pennsylvania, in the Berwick area and also in the Pittsburgh area, and also in New York, in Binghamton.

2) I would like to find some "lost" family connections:
- Some relatives believe we are related to a Malfer family with roots in the Arco area of northern Italy. Amazingly, the Malfers have found me, thanks to this website. However, we don't know HOW we are related, or if we are indeed really related.
- I have been told by 2 sources that there are Kosut descendants in America who now go by the name of Kossert, but I have been unable to find any.
- We have lost track of the descendants of Michael and Mary Basher of Berwick, PA. We believe someone moved to North Carolina. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

Think we might be related? Just want to compare note on doing family trees involving northern Italian or Rusyn/Slovak roots? E-mail me!

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Cemetery, & St. Dmitriy's, in Svetlice (132 KB) Cemetery where my ancestors are buried, with St. Dmitriy Greek Catholic church in the background. John Koshut Evans, approx. 1923 (12 KB) from Binghamton, NY photo View of Svetlice, 1992 (136 KB) View looking down on Svetlice from St. Dmitry the Great Martyr Greek Catholic Church. Photo taken by John Zgibor on a trip in 1992; used with his permission. I think the hills don't look all that different from western Pennsylvania! St. Dmitri, 1992 (112 KB) View looking up at St. Dmitri the Great Martyr Greek Catholic Church in Svetlice. Photo taken by John Zgibor in 1992; used with his permission. Inside St. Dmitri's (128 KB) Photograph taken inside St. Dmitri the Great Martyr Greek Catholic Church in Svetlice. I'm told that is or was the priest. Photo taken by John Zgibor, used with his permission. Emigration route from Slovakia (264 KB) This is the route taken by Helen Stefko Kosutova as she traveled across Europe on her journey to America in 1921, as determined by stamps on her passport. Traveling with her were her 3-year-old son John, and her mother-in-law Susanna Kosutova. Church dance! (171 KB) "Church Dance with Gypsy Orchestra", by Andrew Syka (copyrighted), from his book, used with his permission. Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants enjoying a csárdás in the St. Alexander nevsky Church School building in Woods Run, PA in the 1920s - 1930s. Note the Russian lesson on the blackboard. Arco, Trento, Italy, approx. 1950? (141 KB) An old postcard of Arco, showing the castle on the hill. Saibanti family, Bolognano, Italy, early 1920s? (85 KB) Angelo Saibanti and his wife Anastasia Vecchietti Saibanti. Their children Giuseppe, Luigi, Gioacchino, Elisabetta, and Domenica(?). Missing from the photo are Angelina Bianca Saibanati Amistadi (USA), and Teresina Saibanti Matteotti (Canada). Who are these people? (85 KB) I suspect this is Giovanni Saibanti (the brother of Angelo Saibanti), and his family? My only reason for believing that is that the setting appears to be identical to the setting in the photo that is known to be Angelo Saibanti and family. However, I have since heard from one of my relatives that back then traveling photographers would come to town and set up their camera at some central place, such as near a school or post office, and everyone in town who wanted their picture taken would go to that spot. If that is the case, these people might not be Saibantis at all. In fact, I'm starting to think they look more like Amistadis. If anyone can REALLY identify these people, I would really appreciate it! Certainly this picture was taken somewhere near Arco, Trento, Italy. It possibly was taken in the early 1920s.

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