That's quite the heritage Doc! My household was the same way... For about 8 years (my mom passed away a day before my 6th b-day, then was adopted by my mother's oldest sister), and from 6 to 14, we spoke a mish-mash of Ukrainian, Russian and French... But mostly Ukrainian, no English. And now, I can't remember NOTHING! It's all gone! I can barely speak English as it is
The other half of the family was German as well, but it was forbidden in our house since my dad was a WW2 vet. He was in the Russian army (against his will)... I have been trying to learn German for a while, but so far, it's pretty sad
The dialect spoken is a Franco-provincal dilution called Faetar, it has no written form. I had contacted a Linguist, Proff. Nagy, who was originally at Penn State University ,concerning textual materials on the dialect. I do remember some, but since the grandparents passed,
I dont hear it any more, they spoke excellent English, and Neopoloitan Italian. However, Faetar was "Encription"
, when they chose to exclude "little pitchers with big ears" .
North American Ukrainian is the same way. Way back in the olden days
, if I were to go the Ukraine, they wouldn't of been able to understand me, and vice-versa, because of the bastardization of the original dialect. But that's the human tribe for ya!
Thanks for sharing Doc, it's great finding out where people come from and their family history. In one way or another, we are part of the same family (the good and sadly...the bad)
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They were put the in the same room at the hospital, where both my parents worked, my Mom in Cardiology, my Dad, as a Pharmacist. It actually made the papers 
"signals real clean"
trying to apply for my passport for next years Dcon... Except for my half brother (whom I haven't seen in over 18 years), it's just me who's left from my family, and I have no information on my parents and family, so it shall be interesting to see if they actually give me a passport or not?
