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46 people
Amedeo Belli
b. 19 February 1896
Iris’s father; came of age as Italy entered the First World War.
Anastasia Artemovych
Wasyl’s mother (family memory)
A name carried west out of the borderlands.
Angela Donati
Palmira’s mother (family memory)
Remembered as Palmira’s mother, a Donati of Rome.
Angela Paolessi
b. 6 January 1905
Eldest of Giovina’s Paolessi children.
Angelo Belli
b. c. 1875 · d. 19 August 1901
Died at 26, three months after his civil marriage — likely a deathbed legitimization.
Anna Scheremet
b. c. 1949
Born in Germany in the last of the DP years; later Walker.
Anne Gondorchin
b. c. 1917
Peter’s sister; married surname Sabol.
Bazil & Andras Gondorcsin
Kin · Boston & Philadelphia
Two more of the rare surname, arriving in the early 1900s.
Dan Erickson
Married into the family
Lynn’s husband; the Erickson line is reserved for a future chapter.
Dante Paolessi
b. 11 January 1909
A Paolessi half‑brother of the Belli boys.
Domenico Belli
Angelo’s father
Named at last in his son Angelo’s 1901 Roman death act.
Eva Scheremet
b. 20 February 1923 · d. 1983
Seized at nineteen for forced labor; sought for years by the sister she left.
Faustina Salvalaglio
Angelo’s mother
Confirmed by her son Angelo’s 1901 death act in Rome.
Fedur Gondorcsin
b. 1887
His 1910 manifest wrote “Havaskoz” — the pin that fixes the family to one place.
Frank Gondorcsin
b. 1886 · d. 1955
Very likely George’s brother; followed the coal to Pennsylvania.
Gaetano Giarrocchi
Palmira’s father (family memory)
Remembered as Palmira’s father, of the Roman Giarrocchi.
George Gondorchin
b. 29 May 1882 · d. 7 January 1959
The Carpatho‑Rusyn immigrant who founded the American Gondorchin family.
George Gondorchin Jr.
b. 1925 · d. 1983
Peter’s brother; a veteran at Fort Snelling.
George Gondorcsin
b. 1922 · d. 1946
One of the wider family who put to sea and did not come home.
Giovina Gargari
b. 11 December 1874
Widowed at 27, she remarried in Rome and raised a second family.
Giuseppe Belli
b. 6 January 1895
Amedeo’s elder brother; also of the WWI conscription generation.
Hryhoryj Scheremet
Wasyl’s father (family memory)
Recorded from Ukrainian sources; not yet independently confirmed.
Ignat Scheremet
Eva’s father
Stayed behind in Soviet Kovali.
Iris Belli
b. 1 December 1923 · d. 9 February 1989
Lynn’s grandmother; a daughter of Rome who became one of the first Italian war brides.
James Lee Gondorchin
Lynn’s father
Son of Peter Gondorchin & Iris Belli; carried both the Rusyn and Italian lines.
Janice Lynn Gondorchin
Lynn’s aunt
Daughter of Peter & Iris; later Rosemeyer.
Kathryn Frances Gondorchin
Lynn’s aunt
Daughter of Peter & Iris; later Koenigsmark.
László Gondorcsin
Family patriarch (inferred)
The inferred patriarch of the Gondorcsin family of Lyuta.
Lee James Gondorchin
Lynn’s brother
Lynn’s brother; a programmer. Named for his father, James Lee — the order reversed.
Loreto Gargari
Giovina’s father (unverified)
Carried by family memory; awaiting Giovina’s birth act.
Louis Gondorcsin
b. 1881 · d. 1962
Very likely another of George’s brothers.
Lynn (Gondorchin) Erickson
The living link of three lines
Where the Gondorchin, Belli and Scheremet lines meet today.
Mary Cheranick
b. 1890 · d. 1 January 1961
George’s wife; anchor of the Minneapolis household.
Mary Gondorchin
b. 1920 · d. 2003
Peter’s sister; a beautician who married Alfred Carlson.
Mary Gondorcsin
b. 1890 · d. 1985
A daughter of the wider family who lived a long life across the ocean.
Mary Scheremet
b. c. 1950s
Lynn’s mother; among the first Scheremets born American.
Nadezhda Ignatievna Scheremet
Eva’s sister · stayed in the USSR
Searched for Eva across the Iron Curtain in 1962.
Olga Scheremet
b. 27 September 1956
American‑born; later Mosner.
Palmira Giarrocchi
b. c. 1898
Married Amedeo Belli in Rome c. 1919; mother of Iris.
Peter Gondorchin
b. 1 June 1915 · d. 9 October 2002
Lynn’s grandfather; the soldier who brought home an Italian war bride.
Peter Scheremet
b. 7 October 1962
The baby of the family, American‑born.
Serafino Paolessi
Giovina’s second husband
Married the widowed Giovina; father of the Paolessi half‑siblings.
Umberto Domenico Tommaso Paolessi
b. 28 January 1907
Likely died young — his name returns on a brother born in 1912.
Umberto Paolessi
b. 11 April 1912
Youngest found; carries an elder brother’s name.
Wasyl Scheremet
b. 1 March 1907 · d. 1976
Greek‑Catholic western Ukrainian whose origin gave Eva her shield.
William Scheremet
b. 26 March 1948
Born in the DP years, before the family’s crossing.