Sun 1/31/2021 6:47 AM
Beth,
I believe that I am getting old, senile, or both.
I am sure that this does not come as a surprise to you, and just as sure what I will share with you next is not a surprise to anyone but me.
My last email stated that I had downloaded 95 files for 45 Ilycsik’s and their spouses. All was going well until I decided to add some of this newfound data to FamilySerach.org. I added the information on Pavlov Ilycsk and Maria Pelcarszki and their four children. Sweet. All is going well. Janos Elcsik and Erzsebet Baran and their four children are next. Ouch. Did you catch it? I didn’t. In fact, I have been oblivious to it all along.
Remember how you and I are trying to find the link between what we have referred to as the Elsik and the Ilcik families. I have thought we are close. No, we don’t have DNA evidence, but the surnames have merged into Elycsik. STOP. Did you catch it this time? There has been no merger. We still have two distinct surnames: Ilycsik and Ilcisk. What happened to the “y.” and Why did I miss it?
Does the “y” matter? Both families share the Ilcik connection. Right? I just checked Ancestry.com, and a search of Ilcisk, without the “y,” finds hundreds of names that I have not downloaded yet. Ouch.
It is 6:23, and I am still up but too tired to continue. I’m going to sleep, and this will have been just a nightmare, not real when I wake up. 
I wish.
I wish.John, IV
P.S. I need a sabbatical, a long one.