Due to my residence in Central Louisiana, I request that some wonderful person assist me in my genealogical hunt. Would like to have the help of camera buffs for a project trying to find my Polish Roots. A distant great-aunt of mine is buried in Holy Trinity Cemetery. I need her name to be able to contact Holy Trinity or St Stanislaus Churches to get information. I know where she is buried so you do not need to hunt or do a lookup. I just need a wonderful person with good eyesight and a paper and pencil. You will not even need to get out of your car!!! The coordinates for the gravestone are as follows: Using the main gate of Holy Trinity Cemetery as a refeence point of "6 o'clock" her stone is at roughly "2 o'clock". Her stone is right near to the outer ring road in that part of the cemetery. It is an very tall stone (2ft? high). It is located next to a very old tree that is between the stone and the road curb. The stone is a husband+wife stone. Her first name (I think) is MICHALENA W _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (I think the first name is Michalenea and the last name starts with a "W"). Her and her husband's stone is to the immediate left of the graves of my grandparents: Stanley and Veronica(Virginia) FILIPOWICZ. Also looking for pictures to put in my Family Tree Maker of all Hilinski/Chylinski gravestones in Holy Trinity especially: Theophilus/Teofil, Franczek/Frank, Marianna/Maria Hojinowska Hilinski, Antonina (Pleczynska) Hilinski. I would like a digital picture if possible, but will gladly accept your verbal statement.

Joe I think I can help you. In the summer of 1999 the Erie Society for Genealogical Research read the gravestones in Trinity Cemetery. I happen to have the database from that reading containing over 16000 names right here on my computer. There is only one Michalena in the whole bunch, so it must be yours. In the St. Stan's section I found: Michalena Winiecki 1860-1943 John Winiecki 1857-1943 Helen Winiecki 1908-1960 Samuel Winiecki 1900-1954 The St. Stan's section is about the area you described, and the other two people you named are also in that section, so I think this must be who you are looking for. You can write to the cemetery to see what more information they might have in their records. Dick Tefft Joe Filipowicz wrote: > Due to my residence in Central Louisiana, I request that some wonderful > person assist me in my genealogical hunt. > > Would like to have the help of camera buffs for a project trying to find > my Polish Roots. > > A distant great-aunt of mine is buried in Holy Trinity Cemetery. I need > her name to be able to contact Holy Trinity or St Stanislaus Churches to > get information. > > I know where she is buried so you do not need to hunt or do a lookup. I > just need a wonderful person with good eyesight and a paper and pencil. > You will not even need to get out of your car!!! > > The coordinates for the gravestone are as follows: > > Using the main gate of Holy Trinity Cemetery as a refeence point of "6 > o'clock" her stone is at roughly "2 o'clock". > > Her stone is right near to the outer ring road in that part of the > cemetery. > > It is an very tall stone (2ft? high). > > It is located next to a very old tree that is between the stone and the > road curb. > > The stone is a husband+wife stone. > > Her first name (I think) is MICHALENA W _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (I think the > first name is Michalenea and the last name starts with a "W"). > > Her and her husband's stone is to the immediate left of the graves of my > grandparents: Stanley and Veronica(Virginia) FILIPOWICZ. > > Also looking for pictures to put in my Family Tree Maker of all > Hilinski/Chylinski gravestones in Holy Trinity especially: > Theophilus/Teofil, > Franczek/Frank, > Marianna/Maria Hojinowska Hilinski, > Antonina (Pleczynska) Hilinski. > > I would like a digital picture if possible, but will gladly accept your > verbal statement. > > ==== PAERIE Mailing List ==== > Welcome to the PA-Erie Mailing List > > ============================== > The only real-time collaboration tool that allows you and other family > members to create a FREE, password-protected family tree. > http://www.ancestry.com/oft/login.asp