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Originally Posted by Stegura
Your Grandmother's name sounds Ukrainian. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries alot of Ukrainian, Ruthenian, and Slovakians immigrated into Western Pennsylvania for jobs in the Steel Mills.
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Thanks for that info. I think you are right. We live in the Pittsburgh area. My wife's grandmother went to a Byzantine Catholic church. I recall my wife's Mom wasn't too keen on that because her side of the family were all Roman Catholics.
My father-in-law said that back during the Cold War many people from Russia or Ukraine didn't want to be suspected of being unpatriotic or a spy so they would often give vague descriptions of their nationality. He said that's why if asked his mother would say her family were from the Carpathian mountain area instead of naming an actual country. Most people here in the America would not know where that was unless they looked at a map. This is probably the main source of the confusion.