Comments on: 1. Shellie’s Family History and Tour to Ancestral Places.

By: doreen

doreen — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:03:54 +0000

Hello, My family came from Pekelnik around 1901. My grandfather’s name was Josef Rychlik. If anyone has any information on the Rychlik’s from Pekelnik, I would be very happy to hear from you! Thanks, Doreen

By: Shellie

Shellie — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:10:01 +0000

Hi Jeff! Thanks for the message. Are you a member of Polish Origins? I reposted this conversation over to the Piekielnik thread at: http://forum.polishorigins.com/viewtopic.php?p=3546

The reason I want to move your comment is that it is so interesting and our conversation might help some others with ancestors from Piekielnik. Also, I’m not sure whether I can give you an answer yet – I’d have to look into this, or ask some other members to coments.

Comments posted here on my trip blog are great, but the messages on the forum, like the one’s here get a much bigger audience: http://forum.polishorigins.com/viewtopic.php?p=3546. I look forward to hearing back from you!
Shellie

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:49:23 +0000

Hello Shellie,
Loved seeing the pictures from Pekelnik.
My grandmother, Maria Krafcik Vaganek came from Pekelnik in 1909. Other family names are Rychlik and S’tafira. What is confusing me is that my grandmother and all family and friends that came here from Pekelnik, all spoke Slovak and called themselves Slovaks. I am assuming that Pekelnik was given to Poland after WWI. Yet I see old gravestones from Pekelnik written in Polish.
Can you help me solve this?
Thank you Jeff

By: Shellie

Shellie — Sat, 07 May 2011 15:39:21 +0000

Hi Joseph!
Thank you so much for the message. I am very very interested in talking with you and will contact you to talk further. Would love to meet you some day. Shellie

By: joseph grela

joseph grela — Sat, 07 May 2011 08:07:40 +0000

Hey shellie its interesting to explore this site and I’m so addicted to it now. I live in Chicago but parents are from Zaluczne basically they came here very young and just wanted to say that my mom is very good friends with kulawiak and zachemska couple. They are also here in Chicago but are from odrowaz original.
Their last name is kulawiak but her friends maiden name Was kulawiak. So I talk and meet with them a lot.and an interesting thing here in Chicago we do are get together dinners and picnics with all people from odrowaz or surrounding.villages. I know.think u are from atl but If your interested with anything I said please feel free to leave a message or something like a.reply.

Hope to hear from you soon,
Joe Grela , Zaluczne.odrowaz town member of our club in chicago.

By: Shellie

Shellie — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:47:47 +0000

Hi Carolyn,
I’m so glad that you enjoyed my blog and photos and I’d love to help you if I can. This section where we are now communicating is not the best place to exchange information because it was designed for comments and not long conversations (which I think we will be having). Are you a member of PolishOrigins (it’s free) – if so, you can easily find me there and send me a message. I’ll also check with Zenon, this site administrator and creator of PolishOrigins to help me find you so we can continue to talk. I look forward to talking with you! Shellie

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:34:05 +0000

Hi Shellie,
Love your site and the photographs. Just what is the derivation and history of the name “Hellion?” I know that the translation of Pekelnik means hellish or devilish.

What are the chances of viewing the actual church records? I am at a complete standstill with my family history without knowing what is in those records.

I have had my complete mitochondrial DNA tested (Family Tree DNA). It is not so good for recent family connections, but still very interesting. Other DNA is at 23 and me, and there they search with somatic DNA. So far, 3rd to 7th cousins have been reported. I really urge everyone to get into the DNA testing. Of course, Y-DNA is really great for recent family connections.
(My dad’s has been tested – but he’s Slovak/Ukrainian.)

Thanks again for the delightful photos and commentary.
Carolyn

By: Darleen Zanon

Darleen Zanon — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:53:12 +0000

Dear John Great I was hopeing that I would hear from you again I usually have a hard time geting into this site I kept looking for a John Kalec on Google forgot to get your email address when I first saw your message on this site I would llike to just E mail you or calll to talk to you I did not know that my great grandfather had any other brothers. Willliam and jacob were in Wyoming and Colorado a t various times .
Thought that Their sister was in Chigago Illinois at one time It would be great if We could exchange some information looking foreward to hearing from you again Receive E mail on my husbands site rjzanon@bresnan.net

By: John Kalec

John Kalec — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:16:23 +0000

Darleen,…. William and Jacob Kalec were brothers of my grandfather Mathew. I would love to hear more about their parents Andrew Kalec and Regina Lopata. Tomasz Kalec and Rozalia Komperda were Andrew’s parents and Jan Lopata and Roozalia Jasien were Regina’s parents. They all lived in Zaluczne and came to the US at various times. My grandfather settled in Braidwood, Illinois where I am from and my parents still live today. William and Jacob both moved to Utah I believe. Martha was their sister and she settled in Oregon. There were 4 other brothers and sisters.

I have visited Zatuczne 2 times and the mayor of the village found these church records in Odrowaz.

I look forward to hearing from you.

John Kalec jkalec@aol.com

By: Zenon

Zenon — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:19:19 +0000

Dear Ewa, Darleen and John,

I invite you all to our PolishOrigins.com Forum http://forum.polishorigins.com/ to the thread created by Shellie about Odrowąż – ‘Odrowaz near Czarny Dunajec in Malopolskie‘ – here : http://polishorigins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=381 .

Shellie (and maybe other Forum members) may have some answers to your questions.