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My family came from the Brest Litovsk area. Names are: paternal grandfather, Dimitri Demiduk - sent to U.S. in about 1911-12 by his father to learn about U.S. railroads - thanks to WW1 and Russian revolution he never returned (son of Ivan and Serafina Demiduk, a cossack who had something to do with the railroad in the area of Snetova, Ivanova - east of Brest Litovsk and Kobrin and just west of Pinsk); paternal grandmother, Marya Gusick Demiduk Sedorchuk - emigrated to U.S. in about 1927 with my father, Maxim Demiduk; maternal grandmother, Varvara Neschuk - emigrated to U.S. in about 1915 as teen and married Maxim Gurin from Grodno area who had emigrated to U.S. about time of Spanish-American War and served in U.S. cavalry.
Would be interested in finding others with similar surnames and/or cossack ancestry from that area. Demiduk has also been spelled Demidiuk and Demiduke.
Paternal grandmother maintained contact with her brother in Ivanova, Belarus through the 1950s.
Highly recommend the Jan Zaprudnik book, Belarus at the Crossroads of History for general historical background and insite into the Belarusan diaspora.
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