> Researching family of Michael (Matej) Slepicka (a/k/a Slepica and Chicken > (translation)) and Anna Hruska (Hruskova) (a/k/a Pear, Peary (translation)), both > born 1856 Bohemia, emigrated (with respective families??) 1868 to Chicago, > Illinois, married in 1879, lost two children at Chicago, moved to Minneapolis, > MN, where they raised a family of nine children, William Slepica (a/k/a Chicken) > (moved to Washington State in early 1900's), Walter Slepica, George Slepica, > Joseph Slepica (a/k/a Chicken), Ed Slepica, Fred Chicken (my father) (moved to > Wisconsin in 1930's), Maude Slepica Schauer (Al), Elizabeth (Bess) Slepica > Hoffman (Ed), and Annie Slepica (unmarried). They appear as early as the 1900 > Minnesota Census at 418 27th Avenue N, the "family home" I knew as a child, then > inhabited by their daughter, Elizabeth (Bess) Hoffman. Anna Hruska Slepicka died > in early 1900's, Michael Slepicka died in 1935. With the exception of William > and Fred, all children lived in and died at Minneapolis, MN. Seek information re > Slepicka and Hruska families in Chicago, and Slepica descendants in Minneapolis, > MN.