Family history

First mention of a Cossack named Kolomiets — ataman Khvedyna Kolomiets and Andriy Kolomiets in the register of the Zaporozhian Sich

Source: Реестр Запорожского Войска

Petro Kolomyets — Cossack of the Lutenka company of the Poltava regiment. 27 Cossacks named Kolomiets across 13 regiments of the Zaporozhian Host

Source: Реестр Войска Запорожского 1649 г.

Osyp Kolomiets (~1704) — the earliest known ancestor of the line in Bereztoche. All branches descend from him per the revision censuses

Source: FamilySearch, ревізькі сказки 1811-1858

Pereyaslav regiment — the Kolomiets held the post of standard-bearer companion (the Cossack officer elite)

Source: Архів Переяславського полку

Birth of Roman Osypovych Kolomiets (1721–1813), son of Osyp. Lived 92 years. Two sons: Yakiv and Vasyliy

Source: FamilySearch P99G-GD4

Birth of Vasyliy Osypovych (1749–1805), second son of Osyp. From him the branch through Kyrylo and Pavlo Kyrylovych

Source: FamilySearch P99G-RFG

Birth of Yakiv Romanovych (1755–1810) — standard-bearer companion of the Lubny regiment. Possibly the same Yakiv Fedorovych mentioned on Wikipedia

Source: FamilySearch P99G-D7J, uk.wikipedia.org

Last Cossacks named Kolomiets in the registers: Lukyan, Semen, Yatsko

Source: Ревізійні книги XVIII ст.

Fedir Kolomiets — military companion of the Lubny regiment — received the village of Bereztoche. The first documentary link of the line to the village

Source: uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Коломійці_(рід)

Birth of Oleksiy Yakovlevych (1773–1814), grandson of Osyp. Moved to ZHEREBETS (Oleksandrivsk district). The first known migration from Bereztoche

Source: FamilySearch P99G-VGG

Birth of Pavlo Kyrylovych (1813), great-grandson of Osyp through the Vasyliy branch. Lived in ZHEREBETS with his wife Matrona. 8 children

Source: FamilySearch P9KX-WZ3

Revision census: Kyrylo Vasyliev and his son Pavlo recorded in Zherebets (Oleksandrivsk district, Yekaterinoslav province)

Source: Ревізька сказка 1835, Олександрівськ

Revision census: the family of Pavlo Kyrylovych in Zherebets — Danylo, Stepan, Mytrofan, Ivan, Afanasiy and daughters

Source: Ревізька сказка 1850, Жеребець

The last revision census. 158 Kolomiets profiles on FamilySearch. After this — a gap: the next records appear only from the 1900s

Source: FamilySearch, запорізький перепис 1858

The Church of the Intercession built in Bereztoche. Parish registers were kept here until its closure in 1918

Source: Церковні джерела

Birth of Yakiv Davydovych Flaksman in Nizhny Novgorod — Peter's great-grandfather on the maternal line. A Jewish family beyond the Pale of Settlement

Source: GEDCOM, JewishGen

Birth of Demyan Romanovych Kolomiets in Bereztoche — Peter's great-grandfather. A devout pacifist, the future head of the church

Source: Семейный архив

Petro Yefymovych Yakovlev (age 21) mobilised into the First World War. The start of three wars, from which he would return a major

Source: Транскрипты отца

Closure of the Church of the Intercession in Bereztoche — crosses and bells removed. From 1934 used as a granary

Source: Церковні джерела

Birth of Oleksiy Romanovych Kolomiets — brother of Demyan, future father of Volodymyr (director of the mine in Vuhledar)

Source: GEDCOM

Birth of Illya Yakovlevych Flaksman in Gorky — Peter's grandfather on the maternal line. 55 years at a single factory

Source: GEDCOM

Birth of Mykhailo Demyanovych Kolomiets in Bereztoche. His father would soon be arrested — the boy was raised by his grandmother

Source: GEDCOM

Demyan Romanovych arrested for kulak origin. Term 1934–1936 (administrative proceedings)

Source: Транскрипты отца

Demyan arrested on 7 September. Sentenced by the Troika of the Poltava NKVD — article 54-10 part 1, 10 years. Luka Ivanovych Kolomiets (b. 1892, Bereztoche) shot on 29 August in Kharkiv

Source: «Реабілітовані історією», т. 3, стор. 58

German occupation of Bereztoche (14 September 1941 — 19 September 1943). Mykhailo, aged 11–13, survives with his grandmother

Source: Исторические данные

Massacre of ~1,700 Jews of Liozno (Vitebsk region) — the presumed homeland of the Flaksmans

Source: Яд Вашем, мемориал 2016

Birth of Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Kolomiets — future director of the "Pivdennodonbaska No. 3" mine, Honoured Miner of Ukraine

Source: GEDCOM

Mykhailo Demyanovych leaves Ukraine after a conflict (two knives in the back → revenge → the army). The Urals, then Omsk

Source: Транскрипты отца

Birth of Natalya Mykhailivna — eldest daughter of Mykhailo and Larisa Petrovna, Omsk

Source: GEDCOM

Birth of Andrey Mykhailovych Kolomiets in Omsk — Peter's father, a journalist and editor

Source: GEDCOM

Demyan Romanovych rehabilitated by the Poltava Regional Court on 22 April 1965

Source: «Реабілітовані історією», Полтавська обл., т. 3

Birth of Peter Andreyevich Kolomiets in Omsk

Source: GEDCOM

The Church of the Intercession in Bereztoche re-registered on 30 March 1997 — active again after 79 years

Source: Церковні джерела

Emigration of Andrey Mykhailovych to Israel (Haifa)

Source: Семейный архив

Birth of Veniamin — the next generation of the Kolomiets line

Source: Семейный архив

Start of the genealogy project: 315 people in the tree, 54 audio recordings, DNA analysis, archival requests to 7 institutions in 4 countries

Source: clan.kolomiets.group