Hi Lou Disability is not a good excuse. I too am disabled and have been for about 9 years now. Just as I was released from the hospital, my Aunt Betty died and I was unable to attend her wake or funeral. Aunt Betty was the person in our family who best knew our family tree and maintained the links to our relatives in Poland. Upon her death, all that information was lost. Relatives and family history are precious commodities so I took on the responsibility of rediscovering our family information and restoring communications. It wasn't easy. It took time. It took work. It took inventiveness. But I got the job done. And I put it all online to share with everyone and so that it would not be lost again. The most personally fulfilling part on my endeavor was re-establishing contact with my family in Poland. By about 6 years ago, most of my family history work was done and contact fully restored. (Well, except for a few cousins in Grabiny who, I suspect, think I want to claim their old ancestral family farm.) Today, I exchange greetings, photos, packages, laughs and tears with my Polish cousins just like with my American cousins. Here is Cousin Darek's daughter's First Communion at All Saints Church in Straszecin: http://spuscizna.org/bieniasz/communion.html Now, are you trying to tell me that I am somehow better or more talented than you? Think again. God never gives us a cross heavier than we can bear. Whenever I need help, I simply ask the Holy Spirit for some enlightenment. You'd be surprised how much we are blessed every single day. You still have talents, use them. By the way, the greatest blessing with being disabled is not having to mow the lawn. Yes, there are perks. Cheers! Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: "LOUIS MICHAEL BARSI" <4701connecticut@gmail.com> To: <galicia@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [GALICIA] REMAK SURNAME > I'm sorry, Dennis. I would be delighted to do as you suggest. However, two > strokes have left me disabled, so I have to depend on the help of others. > This is a task complicated by the fact that this family did not want to be > discovered and were probably illiterate. > > My neurologist suggested that genealogy was good mental exercise; she was > right. > > Lou Barsi > > > On 6/18/09, Dennis Benarz <benarz@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Lou >> >> I am troubled by this. It would appear that our list member Mary Snow >> provided you with the information found on the 1900 and 1910 US Census >> entries for the Remoch/Remock/Remak of Woodbridge Township NJ on 28 >> December >> 2008. This very same information was provided to you by Kathy Stevenson >> of >> the Rootsweb New York List on 20 December 2008. Which one of them didn't >> you >> believe? I've known and collaborated with Mary Snow for a long, long time >> and I will certainly vouch for her. >> >> No matter how many times nor on how many lists you ask the question, the >> answer is likely to always be same. Your great grandparents came from >> somewhere in the Kingdom of Hungary, not the Kingdom of Austria. Galicia >> (SE >> Poland and W Ukraine) was for a time a crownland of the Kingdom of >> Austria. >> Your search should focus on Slovakia and Hungary. >> >> There are no magical Polish elves eagerly waiting to jump out from behind >> your display screen and do your work for you. Sorry, but you need to roll >> up >> your sleeves and start to do some research yourself. >> >> Dennis Benarz >> http://spuscizna.org/ >> >> p.s. Thanks for the tip, Lavrentiy! >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dennis Benarz" <benarz@hotmail.com> >> To: <galicia@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:16 PM >> Subject: Re: [GALICIA] REMAK SURNAME >> >> >> > Hi Lou >> > >> > No, but you will find REMAX signs in front yards and in business >> > windows >> > in >> > SE Poland. REMAX is now a global real estate firm with offices in >> > Krakow, >> > Bielsko-Biala, and Zakopane in the former Austrian Crownland of >> > Galicia. >> > >> > I think the surname REMAK has been Americanized. The best way to >> determine >> > its original form would be to visit or contact the rectory of the >> > parish >> > in >> > which he married in North America and obtain a copy of his marriage >> > record. >> > That marriage record will contain a whole bunch of interesting >> information >> > including his parents' names, his home village and home diocese plus >> > the >> > same information regarding his bride. It is certainly worth the price >> > of >> > the >> > donation that you'll make to the parish in exchange for it. (If he >> > didn't >> > marry in North America, then obtain copies of their children's >> > baptismal >> > records or >> > a marriage record copy of your earliest ancestor who did marry in North >> > America. Keep in mind that you want a copy of the actual entry, not a >> > certificate of any kind.) >> > >> > We could speculate on what the surname was, but that really wouldn't >> > get >> > you >> > any closer to the real truth. It could have been any one of a number of >> > surnames, including REMDZIAK (in 1990, 3 resided around Tarnobrzeg), >> > REMIEC >> > (in 1990, there were 8 around Krosno) and REMSAK (in 1990, 60 around >> > Bielsko-Bialy and 2 around Rzeszow). >> > >> > Now, if you decide not to follow my suggestion about securing that >> > parish >> > marriage record, then you might begin your search around Bielsko-Biala >> > where >> > there's both a REMAX office and 60 folks named REMSAK. You just might >> > get >> > lucky. But, then again, maybe not. >> > >> > Cheers and good luck in your endeavor! >> > >> > Dennis Benarz >> > http://spuscizna.org/ >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "LOUIS MICHAEL BARSI" <4701connecticut@gmail.com> >> > To: <GALICIA@rootsweb.com> >> > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:47 PM >> > Subject: [GALICIA] REMAK SURNAME >> > >> > >> >> Good Afternoon, List Members, >> >> >> >> Has anyone heard of the REMAK surname anywhere in Galicia? My Great >> >> Grandfather was born somewhere in Galicia about 1870, but I have no >> >> idea >> >> where. >> >> >> >> I would appreciate any clues or suggestions. >> >> >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> >> Lou Barsi >> >> ********************************* >> > >> > ********************************* >> > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at >> > GALICIA-admin@rootsweb.com >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > GALICIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> ********************************* >> Need to contact the list manager? 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