My grandfather, Jacob SALABA, came to Chicago around 1889. He was born in 1971, in Bohemia, about five miles (so he said) from Prague, yet within walking distance from the Black Forest that separated Bohemia from Germany. He walked into Germany daily to work. He left there with his cousin, Joseph KAMBA, aboard a ship (as a stowaway, says my aunt). He was 18 and his cousin was a few years younger. They left to avoid being conscripted into the German army. He had skills as a shoe maker, maybe farming and made his living in Chicago as a worker in the stockyards. He was Catholic. The town he was from had four letters (as I remember), this was only a recollection. Thank you. Elizabeth (Betty) Mayian bmayian@rcnchicago.com