Discovering My Roots

16 December 2008 - More on 2009 Tour
To hear various renditions of this carol, including in the original Ukrainian, scroll to the bottom of this article and turn your volume up.
“Carol of the Bells” (also known as the “Ukrainian Bell Carol”) is a choral miniature work originally composed by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych [...]

7 December 2008 - More on 2009 Tour
[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]
Trypilian culture. A Neolithic–Bronze Age culture that existed in Right-Bank Ukraine ca 4500 to 2000 BC. It is named after a site near Trypilia in the Kyiv region uncovered by Vikentii Khvoika in 1898. The Trypilians were [...]

7 November 2008
According to the National Archival Law adopted in December 2001, foreigners have the same rights to access and use of the national archival records and the same obligations as Ukrainian citizens.
The archival records are available to the public from the time of their acquisition; however, if the documents contain personal information, then access [...]

14 October 2008
The First Immigration (1891-1914)
Although eighty percent of the Ukraine’s land was part of the Russian empire, [...]