Carpatho-Rusyns

ETHNONYMS: Lemki, Rusnatsi, Rusyny

Kinship

It is not uncommon to find Carpatho-Rusyn villages composed of people who almost all derive from three or four familial lines. Such relationships are most evident in the predominance of only a few family names in many villages. Distant third, fourth, and fifth cousins are often co-opted back into the family social unit by becoming godparents, who quite often are chosen from the same lineage ( fajta ) as the parents.

PAUL ROBERT MAGOCSI