kulaszne Cemetery

[bobby]

Thankyou Kuba,

I have an article from September 2006, where a Greek Catholic (orthodox?) church burnt down in Komancza - is there more than one greek catholic church in the area?

Do you recommend i write to both priests? - its best i leave no stone unturned, but its good to get locals advice. Do you know what type of information the church keeps? (birth, marriage, death information?) Provided they have some information about my ancestors, is it likely that they give out this to the public?

Also, the lemko link you gave lists my Kuper ancestors on it... living in Kulaszne.

Many thanks,
Bobby.

[jacob.p.pantz]

I have an article from September 2006, where a Greek Catholic (orthodox?) church burnt down in Komancza - is there more than one greek catholic church in the area?

Originally built as a greek catholic,
several years after world war II taken over by orthodox church
(as the greek catholic church was illegal in Poland ruled by communists)
now not far to be reconstructed:
http://forum.bieszczady.info.pl/show...1978#post61978
(greek catholics in Komancza have own new church now - but built also with elements of an old one from another *****ge)

There is still a number of east rite churches (tserkvas/tserkovs) in south east Poland,
both: orthodox and greek catholic.
(as well as former tserkvas used now by roman catholics
...and even by all 3 mentioned communities commonly)
I've given you these contacts, as in Kulaszne there is a greek catholic parish.

Do you recommend i write to both priests? [...]type of information the church keeps? (birth, marriage, death information?)

Normally they keep this range of information, however I realy don't know,
whether parish books survived.
(this area has really interesting history; maybe a bit to interesting)
I am not sure, if the priest speak english, either
- but I think, you should try to explore these sources.

And first of all - please study lemko.org carefully
and consider contact Lemko's organizations in Poland mentioned there.

Good luck - kindest regards,

Kuba

[bobby]

And first of all - please study lemko.org carefully
and consider contact Lemko's organizations in Poland mentioned there.

Will do so...

I am not sure, if the priest speak english, either
- but I think, you should try to explore these sources.

I'll send letters in Polish..

Many thanks,
Bobby.

[vm2301]

Hi Bobby,

I spent Sunday afternoon driving along the valley of the River Osława showing some churches to the elderly part of my guests.
I asked the driver to have a short stopover at Kulaszne and stretched my legs walking in high grass and weeds covering the most part of the graveyard.

I only had a fleeting glimpse of the area when I saw the grave of your
(great)grandfather:



He rests in a place apart of the main group of graves (they seem to be new) a bit down the slope going to the bottom of the valley.
When travelling by car you drive from Sanok to Zagórz and then you head for Komańcza. Driving through the *****ge of Kulaszne you get to a serpentine road going down the valley and you can see the church from the Wikipedia link. You can park the car just a few metres from it.
The cemetery is located near the church as the link I've given you says:




Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to explore the whole graveyard carefully, so I focused on the oldest gravestones sticking out the grass usually in seclusion. I found this:



The gravestone plate reads that there rests Paraska Kuper (1877 - 1930) - maybe a member of your family as well?




I hope to have been helpful.

If any more help needed just post your request.

Good luck in your search.

Best regards:)

vm2301