The
name Bogomolny (Bogomolni, Bogomilny, Bogomolniy, etc.) means someone
who prays or a religious person. This meaning probably accounts for its
popularity and the numerous families with the name Bogomolny in the Ukraine.
My grandfather anglicized his name to Bogin shortly after he arrived in
the U.S in 1907. He never spoke to his grandchildren about his origins
or his family so we knew very little about our roots. We hired a professional
genealogist to conduct research in the Litin, Vinnitsa area of the Ukraine
but unfortunately a fire in the Kamenets Podolskiy archives on April 10,
2003 destroyed many records and water damaged others. Thus the information
gathered on what we believe to be our Bogomolny ancestors is not very
extensive (see Family Tree of Leib Bogomolny).
However, we also received information on other Bogomolny families and
would like to share it with others searching for the same name. With this
information and data from Yad Vashem and a few Odessa birth records, we
created family trees for Bogomolny families from the Vinnitsa area.
The result is 38 family trees, some of which contain many family members
while others contain only two. Please note the following:
•
the purpose of this website is to provide a place for sharing information
and building Bogomolny family trees. We are responsible only for the
data researched and developed by us and are not responsible for the
accuracy of data submitted by others
• our research was focused in the county (province) of Vinnitsa
and thus is limited to that area
• Russian records contain some peculiarities, e.g. my grandfather
is listed as an inhabitant of Novaya Priluki in 1912 when he was already
in the United States; some birth dates don’t fit with age of parents,
and so forth.
• no assumptions are made—relationships are shown as reported
• Excel was used to create a person list, which is currently sorted
alphabetically by first name and provides the link to the family trees.
This document can be saved and converted to Excel for further sorting.
Click here for instructions.
• Family Tree files are GEDCOM and can be downloaded. Follow the
instructions outlined in your software or in Rootsweb.
Send
us information (either written or in a GEDCOM file) about your Bogomolny
ancestors for inclusion on the website. We are starting with bits and
pieces of families and our hope is to build them into full family trees!
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Tree files and upload them to Rootsweb.
Rootsweb can strip the first name from the file of a living person but
will leave in all other information. “Living” is defined as
anyone in your family tree born in 1930 or later and that does not have
a death or burial year included. You must advise us whether you want to
include names or other information about living people otherwise we will
assume the information is to be removed.
