One frustrating brick wall in our research continues to be the difficulty in locating records for our ancestral village of Iza. I would welcome any contact from others interested in this village or region. If I have made any errors, any corrections would be appreciated. As always, this is a work in progress. We would be interested in collaborating.
Anna Voitenko has taken some striking photographs of Iza.
Vasil SABO (also known as Bill) and his wife Maria SABO came to Ontario from Iza in 1930.
They were born in Iza in the 1890s. They married around 1919 in Iza, and had three children there. In Canada, they had an additional six children.
Other surnames include:
VUCHKAN / VUCKAN,
SABOV / SABOE,
MIKLUS / MYKLUSCH / McLUSH
For a long time, Iza was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Vasil and Maria Sabo could claim to be born in Hungary.
Iza in the Maramaros district in 1912
A closer look: Iza is 3 miles north of Huszt (Hungarian) / Khust (Ukrainian)
By the time Vasil Sabo migrated to the United States to work in the early 1920s, Iza was considered part of the Sub-Carpathian Rus region of Czechoslovakia.
Iza is now part of the Zakarpattia oblast in the Ukraine. It is located roughly in the bottom middle of the oblast, which is the red section below.
There is a geocache in the nearby city of Khust: UKRDOUG Castle Tours - Khust Fortress. The Khust Fortress was build in the 11th Century by the Hungarian King Ladislaus I. Unfortunately, the castle was destroyed by Mongolian warriors led by a son of Genghis Khan in 1243.
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