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Monthly Archives: June 2011
The mystery of the missing tombstone
My sister Cathy and I spent Saturday morning visiting a few cemeteries in central New Jersey. We knew, from the Find A Grave website, that several of our ancestors are buried there. We had an immediate success in a cemetery … Continue reading
18th pale descendant
In the song “The Queen Is Dead,” from my favorite Smiths album of the same name, Morrissey sings: And so, I checked all the registered historical facts and I was shocked into shame to discover how I’m the 18th pale … Continue reading
The Lower East Side or the Eastern Front: the Bosakowski family during World War I
In earlier posts, I told the story of how my grandmother Katarzyna Bosakowska came to America. She was one of at least sixteen Bosakowski family members from the town of Zalozce, in the far northeastern corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, … Continue reading
Posted in Family Line - Bosakowski, New York City, Zalozce/Zaliztsi
Tagged Bosakowski, Lower East Side, Zalozce
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