July, 2006
Website Update 2006
This update is basically 99% involving the finding and documenting of the PASKAL family that I have managed to locate in the Ukraine. I have been very lucky to locate two individuals in the Ukraine who; without their help this documentation would not have been possible. One, Ihor Kohut who is not any relation to the family whatsoever and Zhanna Dvoryannikova whose grandfather did marry a PASKAL lady (not our blood line) many years ago. There is another unpaid lady Yulia Ilkivna DROZDOVYCH who filled in the information about the DROZDOVYCH family that is tied to our family by her great great grandfather marrying a PASKAL lady. Yulia herself is our second cousin twice removed if anyone is curious. She is currently going to Chernivtsi University studying Biology and this is why we were able to communicate in English. It is the DROZDOVYCH family that Ihor first talked to in Chornivka when we started this research project back in 2001 after the village of our Father’s birth was found.
We have found a second PASKAL family in Chornivka in September 2005 that is directly related to the PASKALL family in Canada. Her name is Veronica Lazarivna PASKAL (nee Paskal) born February 2, 1933 and she is our second cousin. Her husband Hryhoriy Ivanovych PASKAL passed away February 5, 1998. Her four children Maria, Ivan, Zinaida, Mykola are all still alive and raising families of their own except for Mykola who is a bachelor. This is where the tree gets very interesting. You will notice that Veronica's maiden surname is PASKAL too. This is where the two (or more) distinct blood lines in the same village of the PASKAL name meet. The two (or more) blood lines have met before but not where we could prove the different blood lines. This is the reason I was trying to look back further in time trying to find the possible connection between the blood lines. Unfortunately the available records only go back to 1840 which is not far enough to possibly connect all the blood lines to a common ancestor.
There have been over 160 names added to the Family Tree since finding the families in the Ukraine. This includes the DROZDOVYCH, HUMENKO and PASKAL families from England, Italy and Ukraine. Being that I have only found two living families of the PASKAL (L) family in the Ukraine so far; I am still actively looking for other living members of the line. I have found some marriages in the 1960’s and 1970’s so I am hopeful that I will locate other living members before too long.
In the 2006 update there is a new section called Family Reunions that hopefully will be operating when this update is published. It may not be complete but at least it is started. Hopefully there will be more information to share within this section as time goes on.
This website is not a closed forum.
Any member of the combined Family Tree can contribute articles that might be of interest to other members just by sending their articles in to the Web Master by email, snail mail or even hand delivered if you prefer and they will be published to this web site. The only stipulation to this would be that the items would pertain to the BROCKMAN / PASKALL / WILSON families as shown in the Family Tree. Photographs can be added to the Photo Gallery as long as they explain who or what is in the photograph.
The Family Tree itself has many glaring errors in it. It has amazed me why no one has ever attempted to try and make the proper corrections for the erroneous entries that were originally submitted. To make corrections or modifications to existing information just forward the correct information to the Web Master. Contact information is on the Contacts page.
Ooops, I almost forgot the young girl who called to tell me that we had her mother 2 days older than she should be. Heaven forbid this should happen; the girl was only 6 years old but she at least made the correction.
So what is wrong with the older Family Tree members?
Written by Lloyd Paskall
July 2006
The tree will grow when new branches or members are found and documented.