This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wlodarek, Drajus, Jankowski, Owczarzak. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ei.2ADI/1238.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have the marriage of Jan Wlodarek & Victoria Jankowski from St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Chicago film # 1578070, item 1, page 113. It shows that John's father is Michael Wlodarek & mother is Maryanna Drajus. At time of marriage 4 Jul 1899 he is living at 696 Dickson St., Chicago. & he is age 24 in America for 8 years & living in Chicago for 2. Victoria is the daughter of Franciszek Jankowski & Franciszka Owczarzak, she is age 17 & living at 702 Dickson St., Chicago. Illinois license # 294379 I do not know when John died but I have Victoria's obit. She died in 1954. Victoria Wlodarek, nee Jankowski, beloved mother of Helen, Marie, Rose, Eleanor Gorski, Harriet, Joseph, Louis, and Gregory, mother-in-law of Charles Hoffman, Theodore Krywonos, John Dorsch, Casimir Stone, Emily, Loretta, and Dorothy, sister of Lottie Glonke, Rose Gburek, Pearl Lebowski, Sister Mary Felix, Helen Waszczeniuk, John and Vincent Jankowski, sister-in-law of Bernard Glonke, Albert Gburek, Frank Lebowski, Albin Waszczeniuk, Josephine, and Mary Jankowski, grandmother and great-grandmother. Resting at funeral home, 3656 Belmont avenue. Funeral Saturday, 10:30 a.m., from chapel, to St. Wenceslaus' church. Interment St. Adalbert's cemetery. KEystone 9-0502. I know you have Helen's baptismal in South Bend but if his family is there it isn't all that unusual to have the child baptised there. I also have them in chicago on the 1900, 1910 & 1920 census.