ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE PAST HISTORY OF YOUR FAMILY? ARE YOU A DESCENDENT OF THE RUDICH FAMILY TREE? IS YOUR NAME SO SIMILAR THAT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE?
WE ARE PRESENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF ATTEMPTING TO TRACE OUR FAMILY ORIGIN AND TO CREATE A "RUDICH FAMILY TREE". TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE THE "RUDICH" FAMILY HAD ITS ROOTS IN A SECTION OF THE AUSTRIA-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE DATING BACK TO THE EARLY 1800'S.
ACCORDING TO THE VARIOUS RECORDS AND LETTERS THAT WE HAVE SECURED, THE RUDICH FAMILY CAME FROM AN AREA THAT WAS KNOWN AS BUKOVINA, WHICH LATER BECAME INDEPENDENT AND BECAME PART OF ROMANIA AS A PROVINCE. IT IS NOW PART OF THE UKRAINE (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) AND MOLDOVA. BUKOVINA WAS THE COUNTY SEAT FOR THE LOCAL AREA. THE RUDICH'S CAME FROM TOWNS CALLED SHIPNITZ, CZERNOWITZ, KRASNA, LIKOVITZ, CHUDIN, BRAILA, COSTONITZ, RADOUTI, STOROZYNITZ, KOSTESTI, STRAJA AND BAR HOMETH. THE CURRENT DAY SPELLING OF THESE CITIES MAY BE DIFFERENT.
THE RUDICH FAMILIES BEGAN THEIR IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE EARLY 1900'S AND SETTLED IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA, CHICAGO,ILL., CHARLESTON, S.C., BALTIMORE, MD., AND STATES SUCH AS NEW JERSEY, FLORIDA, CALIFORNIA, CONNECTICUT AND PENNSYLVANIA. THE EMIGRATION RECORDS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO RESEARCH AND REVIEW INDICATED THE MAJORITY DID ENTER VIA EAST COAST PORTS.
WE BELIEVE THAT THE PROJECT WE HAVE UNDERTAKEN TO TRACE OUR FAMILY HISTORY FROM BUKOVINA/EUROPE TO THE UNITED STATES IS AN ENOURMOUS TASK. TO BE ABLE TO TRACE THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE IN WHATEVER DOCUMENTATION YOU CAN PROVIDE US SUCH AS COPIES OF BIRTH CERTIFICATES,MARRIAGE AND DEATH CERTIFICATES,NAMES OF ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE SIBLINGS, RELATIVES THAT MAY HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE RUDICH FAMILY, NATURALIZATION PAPERS FILED IN A COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE, STATE CENSUSES RECORDS FROM THE 1800'S TO 1940, ANY OBITUARY NOTICES THAT APPEARED IN A LOCAL NEWSPAPER, IN A JEWISH JOURNAL OR THE NAME OF THE SYNAGOGUE THAT THEY BELONGED.
THE INFORMATION WE NEED MOST DATES BACK TO THE EARLY 1800'S AND THE MID 1900'S. THERE ARE SEVERAL OF US INTERESTED IN KNOWING THEIR FAMILY HISTORY. IF YOU CANNOT PROVIDE US WITH SUCH INFORMATION, PLEASE INDICATE OTHER POSSIBLE MEANS OR SUGGESTIONS WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO FULFILL THE TASK.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
WE HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON.
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