Eduard Gud
Period 1
Mr. Gonzales
November 18, 2005
Family Migration Project
In Ukraine. they did not keep family records. My father’s grand parents, Petter
and Sofiya they met each other on a farm in a Ukrainian village. After a while they got
married. They had five kids - two boys and three girls. Petter died in 1969 and sophiya
died in 1979. And my other great grand parents Ivan and Mariya they mat each other at a
store when the store was selling cheap products they went out and after about two years
they got married they had six kids three boys and two girls one of them was my
grandfather and his brother Fedor he went to World War 2 they shot him on his shoulder
and when the War was over they gave him a card that he can go anywhere for free and
take anything from stores for free but he didn’t want to use it he is still alive his 66 years
old and his a Doctor. Ivan died in 1927 and Mariya died in 1958. And my grand parents
Ivan and Ivanna they met each other at farm when they were working for Soviet Union
my grandfather ask her if she would marry him and she said yes. After a while they got
married they had nine kids four boys and five girls one of their children my aunt died
around 1965. And Ivanna died in 1993 and Ivan died in 1998. I remember them little bit.
And that was my dad’s side. And my great grand parents on moms side Vasily and Anna
I don’t know anything about them and my grandmother does not remember them I cant
tell you anything about them. And my other great grand parents Yuriy and Anna they met
each other at church. Yuriy is American. That time he came from Unite State to Visit
Ukraine for two month after when his time passed he had to go back to Unite State they
didn’t let him go because that time World War 2 started. And after a while he married my
great grandmother they had eight kids. Four boys and four girls one of them was my
grandmother. Yuriy died in 1982 and Anna died in 1986. And my grand parents Andrey
and Anna Tsibelenko they met each other when my grandmother was going to her land
because they had a grass cut and they didn’t have nobody to take it home so when she
was walking she met my grandfather and ask him if he can take that grass to her house
and say yes he took it to her house and went home. And after a while he start to visit and
like in one year he asked her if she would marry him and she say yes so after a while they
got married they had eight kids five boys and three girls one of them is my mom. And my
grandfather when he was 32 he died it was 1972. My grandmother is still alive. She lives
in the United States now.
My parents’ names are Joseph and Maria. When my father was around twenty
years old, he went into the Ukrainian army for two years. In those times, if you were
Christian, they would put you on the hardest work in the army and beat you up almost
every day. When he came home, he was about twenty-two years old. In a while, he
opened his own business. And after he opened his business, he came home from the other
place where he opened his business to help his mom. His mother was working for Soviet
Union and she couldn’t work any more so my dad had to work for her and run his
business in other city after one year my dad stop to work for Soviet Union instead of my
grandmother. When he was twenty-six he went to the other village close to his and he
saw my mom. He met her at church and asked her in a while if she would marry him and
she say yes after that in one year. When my mom turned twenty, she married my dad. He
was twenty-seven years old. We have six children in our family.
I lived in Ukraine for eleven years. We lived in a village called Rakovets. I have
four brothers and one sister my sister is my twin sister. We never thought that we would
live in America. Our family didn’t have hard times. My father was working as a logger
and my mother worked in agriculture. When my uncle came to the United States, in
April 27. 2000, he called us after about two years and asked us if we wanted to go to the
United States. My father said yes and in while, a packet came and it was papers that said
we could go to the U.S.A. My father was working in Germany at that time doing
construction. He returned to Ukraine and, in 2003, we all came together to Seattle. We
moved into an apartment in Kent. We still live in Kent, but in a different apartment.