Hi John.
Glad to make your acquaintance. Your email gave me a lot to think about. I’ve had a helluva time sorting out the Elcik records on Ancestry. Maybe you can help.
I spent many years researching my 1st wife’s family (Wiggin). Her mother and father both traced back to John Alden and Priscilla Mullens of the Mayflower. Fun! Then I took up my Mom’s family (Rioux). They go back to French Canada in the 1670s. Jean Riou married into the oldest families in Quebec, including the first settler family, Louis Hebert and Marie Rollet.
Thru a “gateway to royalty,” we are connected to French royalty (no kidding!)—many kings and Charlemagne, etc. Also, Rollo the Viking and William the Conqueror.
In The Falls, the Riouxs came from the Rimouski area to work in the mills along with my German side, the Baumanns. Four Baumann brothers and a sister (Hechtl) immigrated here. My Father was Slovak but came from Cleveland. The same name as the Chizmars. It is an occupational name meaning bootmaker. Like Cooper or Smith, families with the same name could live in adjoining towns and not be related. In Slovak, a C was written with a squiggle that gave it a ch sound. Immigrants to the US could take their choice of spelling or sound. My father was a marine guard at the Brunswick NAS when my Mom met him. He had been at Guadalcanal.
Currently, I am trying to collect data on all people with a record of involvement with Lisbon. A seemingly endless task.
I will see if what you sent me helps me with the Elciks. Expect questions.