Marriage Records Found: Family History 2

I started doing family research a number of years before the big Internet boom when every organization starting putting up web sites and "dot-com" was not commonly seen on the sides of trucks or on billboards. Looking back over these years, it amazes me at how much the Internet has impacted the work of genealogists. I have a few personal stories. Here is the latest:

2 pairs of my great-grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). They got married in the New World near the beginning of the 20th Century. I've known the cities where they were married for quite some time, but for some reason, never contacted those municipalities about getting copies of their marriage records, which never had. It turns out that both areas have searchable indexes of older marriages online (Rochester, NY : Manitoba, Canada). Quite easily I was able to find references for both marriages. I printed out the online forms, wrote checks, and sent away for copies of both records. Just the other day I was delighted to receive a marriage record in the mail from Rochester, NY! What a nice feeling to add a few missing pieces to the family history puzzle.
Here's the document that I received:

Family History 1

I'm really into researching my family history. I'll start documenting some of the research I've done on my Ukrainian side.

My great Anna Yanyk, who was a 1913 teenaged immigrant from Ukraine to Canada (and then the US), wrote letters back and forth to her sister Donya and a friend in her home village. My family is thankful to have about 10 of the letters she received, mostly from the 1960s. No one knows when she started writing letters or even that she was staying in touch with relatives in Ukraine. Anna died in 1969. Letters were in a trunk among other articles like her green card, her school report card and baptism paper, and my great-grandpa's straight razor and eyeglasses.

This photo was sent from Ukraine in 1965 to Anna Sokoliuk (nee Yanyk) in Detroit. Nastya Korolik, standing on the left, was the letter writer. "Big Marina" is on the right. Both were neighbors from Anna's home village.

Ukrainian American Archives & Museum of Detroit

I was doing some research on Chornobyl recently and ended up with a link to the freshly updated web site of the Ukrainian American Archives & Museum of Detroit. Wow, nicely designed web site from an institution in my own backyard. Living in the area, I have always known about UAAMD and have visited there, but it seemed like there was not much happening at that time (over 10 years ago). Now, things are happening (classes, exhibits, oral histories collected, demostrations, etc.) and the Museum/Archive is outgrowing its HQ. Hoping I could help with the mission, "to educate and inform the general public about the culture, art, and history of Ukrainians, their immigration to the United States and the contributions of Americans of Ukrainian descent to America..." I decided to join. I hope to assist with digitizing historic photos and getting them online for others to view and learn from.