Finally finding my paternal grandmother on a ship’s
passenger list got me back to research on that family. Searching again for historical records
brought me an overload of information. I
have lots of shaky leaves on Ancestry.com.
One thing that stands out is the connections between 4 families. Here’s a chart I made to help me visualize
the relationships.
The slanted blue lines indicate marriages. Vertical lines
show the individual and their fathers.
But there are two people that I have not yet connected to these families
even though they have the same surname.
I have no records for Veronica Raczynski born in 1852 who
married Jacob Frost.
A note on Frost: I was surprised to find the name in just
that form in records in Poland. The word
frost is mroz in polish, and there are plenty of people named Mroz. So how did “Frost” become established in Poland??
The Lawrence Lewandowski who married the Veronica Raczynski
born in 1879 may or may not be related to the other Lewandowskis on the
chart. There may be no common ancestor –
the name is not uncommon so it could simply be a coincidence.
What these families do have in common is that they all lived
within about ½ mile of each other, and they all attended the same church: St.
Adalbert in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Familiarity breeds…..
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