Who were the Vlach / Wallachian people?
Since the middle ages (400CE-1400CE) various peoples of Europe have referred to speakers of the Romanian language as being “Vlach”…
Gustave? Costan Cojocari, is that you?
Travel back in time thanks to the United States 1940 Census to the home of Gus and Cleofira Cojocari
Curse of the Rainmaker
Was the troubled spirit of the old man causing the unseasonable rain from his grave?
Romanian Peasants
Were your Romanian ancestors described as ‘peasants’? What did it mean to be a peasant?
Life of Garafira Stratinar
Garafira “Grace” Stratinar was born in what is called Romania today. Exactly which part of the country is not known…
Life of Constantine T. Cojocari
Constantine, born a Romanian peasant in 1890 to Timofti & Elisaveta Cojocari, would follow a path that would lead him…
Varteniuk 25th Anniversary
After 25 years of marriage a group of friends and family came together in Timmins, Ontario to celebrate the wedding…
They Came to Wood Mountain
Originally published in 1967 is a wonderful collection of family histories from the region of Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Mrs. Beier Toffee Cookies (AKA Beier Cookies)
Mrs. Beier discovered a recipe for oatmeal cookies with Skor toffee bits in the 1990’s and began tinkering with it…
Creamed Chicken (Ciulama de pui)
When my new girlfriend (later, wife) was told that my family was serving traditional Romanian ‘Creamed Chicken’ as part of…
So there we were, standing on the side of the road…
It may not have been completely true but the romance of a widow and eight children abandoned on the side of…