Stefanía Fernández
Birth Name: Stefanía Fernández Krupij
Place of Birth: Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela
Date of Birth: September 4, 1990
Ethnicity:
*father – Galician Spanish
*mother – Russian, Ukrainian, Polish
Stefanía Fernández is a Venezuelan journalist, television host, model, and beauty queen. She was Miss Venezuela 2008 and Miss Universe 2009.
Stefanía is the daughter of Nadia Vira Krupij Holojad and José Luis Fernández Acuña. Her father is of Galician Spanish descent. Her paternal grandparents moved from Nigrán, Galicia, to Venezuela, to escape the Francisco Franco dictatorship. Her mother has Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish ancestry. A picture of Stefanía’s maternal grandparents can be seen here. Stefanía has two children with her partner, professional baseball player Ender Inciarte.
Stefanía’s paternal grandfather was named Emilio Fernández.
Stefanía’s paternal grandmother was named Celia Acuña Costas.
Stefanía’s maternal grandfather was named Yevhen Krupij (or Eugenio Krupij Dictiac in Spanish). Yevhen was Ukrainian, and fled the Soviet Union, to escape the Communist rule.
Stefanía’s maternal grandmother was named Zenowia Holojad. Zenowia is Polish.
Source: http://www.abc.es
Obituary of Stefanía’s paternal grandmother, Celia Acuña Costas – http://esquelas.de-galicia.com
Baptismal record of Stefanía’s mother – https://www.familysearch.org
but not everyone in Galicia, btw i am living in old Galicia ;p
yes, they can have another heritage
see this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlachta – read about Polish szlachta, many people in Galicia have ‘blue blood’, and this is very possible that she came from Szlachta because many went to the South America before war like owners of my city, the Tarnowscy family live in South America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorals – read about Polish górals, they have very characteristic surnames
btw zuzanna, do you know how different are galician ppl (from poland) from regular polish ppl ???
oh funny, because it’s also a state in Spain !!! that could explain her surname which sounds spanish !!
Galicia is a state in Poland.
But , this Galicia is in Spain not Poland