Although I've sent a private note to Marilyn... I thought I should share this with all Polish researchers. There's a wonderful lady who volunteers at the Bloomfield Hills History Center by the name of Ceil Jensen. (Actually she's one of several wonderful volunteers.) Here's Ceil website: http://mipolonia.net/ Hope this is of some assistance... flora Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 08:02:55 -0300 From: Richard Noble <nobler@accesswave.ca> Subject: Re: [MI-GENEALOGY] Looking for Jan (John) Welsand To: mi-genealogy@rootsweb.com If you go to http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html?datestamp=120689 7516187#p=0 And once there, click on the map of North America, it will give you a list of resources. Scroll down this list until you get to the Michigan entries. There are some births, deaths and marriages. Click on any of them, and put the name Welsand in. There is the death you mention, but also a Clara, and a John B. They may be leads. ----- Original Message ----- From: <SCIGSC@aol.com> To: <mi-genealogy@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 2:53 AM Subject: Re: [MI-GENEALOGY] Looking for Jan (John) Welsand > Marilyn: > > Do you know what his wife's name was ? > > Did they have other children, other than Edmund? > > What was Edmund's date of birth and place of birth? > > > > In a message dated 5/12/2009 11:50:02 P.M., marilynlamping@att.net writes: > > My grandfather -- Jan (John) Welsand -- was born in Poland in 1852. > He came to Detroit (or possibly Chicago where he may have stayed > briefly) > after 1878, I think. I have found a record of his son Edmund Welsand > who died in 1985 in Detroit. > I cannot find any other information about him even though I have > "heard" that he was one of the founders of St. Albertus catholic > church > and a founder of the Dziennik Polski -- a Detroit Polish language > newspaper begun in 1904. > > > Can anyone give me some clues about where to look for information > about > him? > > > Thanks, > > Marilyn > > marilynlamping@att.net > > >