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The Elcik Family Tree

July 24, 2020,

Beth,

This Summary is proof that the more I do, the further behind I get. This project won’t be done until every person on the planet is connected. Lol.

  • People – 1,582 (I should have stopped a long time ago)
  • Photos – 697 (About half are mine)
  • Stories – 79 (Much more than Obituaries in this)
  • Records -2,010
  • All people with hints – 758
  • All hints – 6,120 (This number scares me)
  • Record hints – 5,675
  • Member tree hints – 445 (Ouch)

Ancestry has the perfect business model. They will never run out of things for us to do. Lol, John

A little girl asked her father, “How did the human race appear?” The father answered, “God made Adam and Eve, and they had children, and that’s how all mankind was made.” Two days later, the girl asked her mother the same question. The mother answered, “Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved.” The confused girl returned to her father and said, ” Dad, how is it possible that you told me God created the human race, and Mom said they developed from monkeys?” The Father answered, “Well, dear, it is elementary. I told you about my side of the family, and your mother told you about hers.”

John, IV

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Re: The Elcik Family Tree

July 24, 2020, 09:00 PM

John, IV

I haven’t had enough time to look at your Elcik tree yet but will do more in the next few days. I do agree that John P. Elciks and Andrew J. Elciks are a problem for me too. I noticed that you had our daughter Loni Beth Gamache Knoedler’s name spelled wrong, and you have her as Nancy’s daughter. Her husband died in 2013. All that info is on my Gamache/Elcik tree. I’m pleased to share that with you; however, I don’t know how to do it here. Can you help me with that?? I’ve shared my trees with friends on Ancestry but not here. I love all the pictures you have attached to people in your tree.

I received all the docs. Thanks. I have seen these and believe I have them saved on Ancestry. I did notice Eleanor’s name is spelled, Elinor. It’s spelled Eleanor on her gravestone. I’ve been to cemeteries in Lisbon, Lisbon Falls, and Lisbon Center and taken many pictures, so I have the dates correct. You can’t always depend on Ancestry for that.

Beth

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Re: The Elcik Family Tree

July 24, 2020, 09:44 PM

Beth,

I re-read Terry’s notes, which I have not seen for years. He answers some of my questions. In particular, he gives us the maiden name for Annie’s mom [Pelcarsky – Editor], which I would not have understood the significance back then. I’ll go with his answer. The other documents I have are most likely misspelled.

John, IV

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Re: The Elcik Family Tree

July 24, 2020, 10:47 PM

Beth,

Before I retired, I had a career that included working a lot with computers. The result is I exercise every tool and feature the software vendor provides us. I also have a list of features that I will be asking Ancestry to add. I’ve taught myself web design and created a Family website 12 years before investing time into Ancestry.com. I’m still in the process of migrating data from the older site to Ancestry. I also own two other Ancestry programs: Family Tree Maker 2019 and Roots Magic 7. I have just recently been able to synchronize data between the various programs, which gives me some fancy editing tools. I can let the computer find duplicate records, more readily correct style problems like capitalization and spelling. I can also fix place descriptions, so they adhere site-wide to a consistent format: city, county, state, country.

The tools are only as good as the operator using them, and I am still learning. For me, technology is part of the fun. I suspect that not all of Ancestry’s features were available when you started as I use the Ancestry.com site differently. In particular, I use HINTs, Citations, Web Links, and the Gallery more aggressively. This can be good, but not necessarily. I can work faster, but not necessarily with more accuracy. I’m still cleaning up from earlier efforts. Fortunately, as you said, mistakes are easy to fix. But that is true only if you recognize a mistake is made. Your help is invaluable to me. THANK YOU!

Enjoy! John

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My Cousins

 

Sat, Jul 25, 2020, at 9:12 AM

Beth & Janet,

In 2008 I wrote with the help of Pam, an electronic document called My Cousins. I just stumbled on a copy and am attaching it for you to have. Naturally, it is not as up-to-date as the Family Tree research that we can do today. But it has information in it that goes beyond a Family Tree.

I hope you find this entertaining.

Love,

The Elcik’s

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Updates for the Gamache Surname


Sat 7/25/2020 11:54 PM

John,

Jack’s grandfather, Edmond 1889-1956, had five siblings-James 1880-1950, Alma 1883-1908, Alphonse 1886-1970, Laura 1892-??, Alfred 1898-1952.

James had a son, Sylvio 1908-1996, Sylvio had a son Paul 1939-1948.

There are four generations of Nicolas Gamache. The first was born in 1601, died in France in 1680. He had a son Nicolas, born 1639, died 1699 in Canada, and He had a son Nicolas born 1680, died 1734 in Canada. He had a son Nicolas, born 1707, died in South Africa. No record of the year he died.

Alphonse had a son, Elmo J.1916-1980, and a daughter, Lucienne, 1911-1972. She is Lucienne Gamache, and she married Leo T. Moore. Saying that she may not be the Lucienne, you’re looking for but is the only one I can find.

Alfred had a son, Romeo B. 1926-2009

Sylvio, Elmo, Lucienne (if she’s the right one), and Romeo were all 1st cousins of Jack’s dad. Paul is a 1st cousin once removed.

I hope this helps you in your search for who they are.

Beth