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  • vicsinad
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    • May 2011
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    Naum Simoff, from Resen:

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    • vicsinad
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      • May 2011
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      Peter Spiroff, Resen:



      Gale Naumoff, Tlizcha, Resen:



      Vladomir Mircheff, Resen:



      Naum Neehoff, Resen:



      Victor Nicolas, Resen:

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      • vicsinad
        Senior Member
        • May 2011
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        George Swetcoff, Tsaridvor, Resen:



        George Stefanoff, Florina Macedonia:

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        • vicsinad
          Senior Member
          • May 2011
          • 2337

          Panda Popoff, Eshki-Sou, Florina:

          Last edited by vicsinad; 01-25-2017, 10:00 PM.

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          • vicsinad
            Senior Member
            • May 2011
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            Tom Traekoff, Verbene, Florina:



            Vasilka Soyanoff and John Kostoff, listed as being born in Macedonia in a burial records of 1923 in Toronto:

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            • vicsinad
              Senior Member
              • May 2011
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              James Dimitre, Tetovo:

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              • vicsinad
                Senior Member
                • May 2011
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                Gabriel Christy, Tetovo:

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                • vicsinad
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2011
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                  George Atanos Thomas, Skopje:

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                  • vicsinad
                    Senior Member
                    • May 2011
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                    Christ Pit, Salonika, Macedonia:



                    Blago Lazaff, Zarvn, Salonika:

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                    • vicsinad
                      Senior Member
                      • May 2011
                      • 2337

                      Originally posted by Philosopher View Post
                      What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear...

                      Nice collections of findings Vic.
                      Here's a more detailed account of this from Western Christian Advocate - Volume 77 - Page 22, 1911 :

                      The Man From Macedonia
                      Emma Trescott

                      Three years ago a band of ten Macedonians
                      landed in Philadelphia. They were young
                      men with but little education, and unskilled
                      laborers. With but a small amount of
                      money they left Philadelphia for Berwick, a
                      small manufacturing town in Northeastern
                      Pennsylvania. Work with the American Car
                      and Foundry Company could not be obtained.
                      But they took up their abode in a small room,
                      with nothing but a stove and their steamer
                      blankets for furnishings. With now and then
                      a day’s work they bought food, which was
                      cooked in an old tin can gathered from the
                      refuse near by. They could not speak Eng
                      lish, and no one understood their dialect to
                      interpret.

                      They lost their positions. With
                      nothing to do and no money they went forag
                      ing for apples and potatoes which the farmers
                      near by were throwing from the pits, as they
                      were opening these to supply the markets.
                      It was a case of the survival of the fittest.
                      One could not survive, but died of starvation.
                      A grocer passing the house found the body
                      of the dead young man. This he reported to
                      the Slovak Methodist missionary in the place.
                      He quickly sought them, and found he could
                      speak their dialect. Yes, God moves in a
                      mysterious way.

                      The missionary could not
                      secure employment for them, but sent them
                      to Hazleton, a near-by town, larger and more
                      industrious. He gave them a note of intro
                      duction to the superintendent of the Anthra
                      cite Mission, the Rev. V. J. Louzecky. He
                      welcomed them. found them employment, and
                      brought them into the Sunday services. The
                      services were then held in a class room in
                      the Methodist Church. What Methodist
                      congregation ever saw such a sight? Men
                      from Macedonia, peasant boys. in their blue
                      jeans and plowshoes.

                      The little mission was
                      well supplied the next week by men of the
                      Brotherhood with new and second-hand cloth
                      ing. “Maly" (little) George could wear the
                      pastor’s own suit, and as he was being fitted
                      out with his new suit by the missionary and
                      deaconess. they said, “Who know but ‘Maly’
                      George may be a preacher himself some day?"
                      He was a meek, simple-minded youth. He
                      was placed in a good Methodist Slovak home
                      to board. He was converted, and developed
                      wonderfully.

                      This is his testimony:
                      had no father or mother. and no home.
                      “In Macedonia I would play with other boys, and when night
                      would come and they would go home. I had
                      no home to go to, and I would say, ‘O God,
                      why You not make me a stone? why You not
                      make me a tree?‘ And I said, ‘These Turks
                      are so bad; I will go to America and earn
                      money. I will buy the longest and sharpest
                      knife, then I will come home and kill all
                      the Turks!’ One Jew took mortgage on my
                      little farm. He gave me money to come to
                      America. My farm worth more than that
                      Jew gave me, but I no care. I just praise
                      God he had that Jew tell me about America.
                      for I come here, and, praise the Lord! I
                      found Jesus Christ, my Savior. Now I have
                      father, and brothers and sisters, for in Christ
                      all you are my brothers. my sisters. Now I
                      have the longest and sharpest knife in all
                      the world. I go out and stab men in the
                      heart, for I sell the Holy Bible, the sword of
                      the Spirit, to my countrymen. and it takes
                      their hearts and saves them.”

                      The deaconess of the mission asked George.
                      "Do you want to study English? w0lll(i you
                      like to go to school some day?" He said:
                      “Yes, with God's help I want to learn Eng
                      lish, for some day I want to go out tell my
                      people about Jesus. And you have so many
                      good things in English, and I want ro tell
                      everything in just the best way, so I must
                      study English."

                      “Maly” George is the most recent pupil
                      admitted into the English class of Miss
                      Emma Trescott. deaconess of the Anthracite
                      Mission, 344 West First Street. Hazleton,
                      Pa. One good woman says, “When you have
                      Maly George ready for the seminary I will
                      have fifty dollars for him.“

                      Who wants to prove that they are brothers
                      and sisters to this orphan boy from Mace
                      donia, and send more for his education? He
                      is one of many whom the deaconess is trying
                      to educate for missionaries among the foreign
                      immigrants in America.


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                      • Karposh
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                        • Aug 2015
                        • 863

                        The registration cards you priovided Vic are doing my head in. I just don't get it. These were the late 1800's and Macedonia didn't exist as a country. Nor did Tito or Communism. So why did all these confused Bulgarians from such far flung regions as Tetovo to Salonika, all put down that they were citizens of Macedonia? If anything, shouldn't they have put down Bulgaria as their country of origin. Afterall, that's what all the statistics of the time say they were. Oh, wait a minute...Of course! They were really Bulgarians but with a strong sense of regional Macedonian patriotism. Either that or the Commintern invented a time machine, went back in time, and passed a resolution to invent Macedonia and the Macedonians before it even came into existence itself as the sinister ideological political movement it was to become.

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                        • vicsinad
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                          • May 2011
                          • 2337

                          Originally posted by Karposh View Post
                          The registration cards you priovided Vic are doing my head in. I just don't get it. These were the late 1800's and Macedonia didn't exist as a country. Nor did Tito or Communism. So why did all these confused Bulgarians from such far flung regions as Tetovo to Salonika, all put down that they were citizens of Macedonia? If anything, shouldn't they have put down Bulgaria as their country of origin. Afterall, that's what all the statistics of the time say they were. Oh, wait a minute...Of course! They were really Bulgarians but with a strong sense of regional Macedonian patriotism. Either that or the Commintern invented a time machine, went back in time, and passed a resolution to invent Macedonia and the Macedonians before it even came into existence itself as the sinister ideological political movement it was to become.
                          Exactly. Most Macedonians weren't fooled like the rest of the world in thinking that affiliation to a church meant affiliation to an ethno-national group.

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                          • VMRO
                            Senior Member
                            • Sep 2008
                            • 1462

                            Great stuff Vic, awesome stuff.
                            Verata vo Mislite, VMRO vo dushata, Makedonia vo Srceto.

                            Vnatreshna Makedonska Revolucionerna Organizacija.

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                            • Risto the Great
                              Senior Member
                              • Sep 2008
                              • 15658

                              Really great stuff Vic.
                              The surnames are often Anglicised. Not a hint of "ski" though. Interesting.
                              Risto the Great
                              MACEDONIA:ANHEDONIA
                              "Holding my breath for the revolution."

                              Hey, I wrote a bestseller. Check it out: www.ren-shen.com

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                              • vicsinad
                                Senior Member
                                • May 2011
                                • 2337

                                Thanks guys. I have plenty more.

                                Risto: there are some -skis. Very few, but there are some. I'll try to dig them up.

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