My maternal ancestry is a small cultural group identified as Lemko, or under the umbrella term of Ruthenian, Galician, Carpatho-Rusyn (26) or “White Russian.” The Lemko people live in the Carpathian Mountains gathered in a few towns that have their own distinct culture. Over the centuries, their towns were taken over by one country and then another. When my ancestors came to the US, they were recorded as coming from Galicia, Austria, they considered themselves Ukrainian, but th...