I'm cross-posting this email, something I very rarely do, in order to reach the widest source of knowledgeable people who may be able to help. I have a mystery which I've been trying to solve for a few years now with no real success. I wonder if anyone who has done research covering the late 1800s in northern NJ, particularly Jersey City, Hudson County, can shed any light on it. A few years ago I found a link to an article (http://rusyn-pop.blogspot.com/2007/01/rusyn-russian-orthodox-church-in.html ) containing the following statement in describing the subject church: “The proud parish, readying for its centennial, prepares to look back on the origins of its own story, which began in 1889 when three Slavs - Wasyl Krynicki, Andrej Cislak and Paul Stupinski - established the ‘Sts. Peter and Paul Kranken Unterstutzung Verein of Jersey City,’ a civic and religious ‘brotherhood’ set up to assist Slavic immigrants. ... But those three Slavs were not just Slavs—they were Carpatho-Rusyns. Lemkos, to be precise." Paul Stupinski was my grandfather, and I had never heard the above information anywhere else, so I wrote to the author of the piece, an architectural preservationist named John Gomez, who was unable to help with the source of the information since it was written in 2007. I then wrote to the pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Church, and just received a reply that "Unfortunately there is no record of your grandfather's activities within the parish." A search for the 'brotherhood' mentioned has come up dry also. If anyone can help direct me to where I can find information on the 'brotherhood' or how it fit into the origins of the church I would be most appreciative. ................Mike Stupinski