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Re: Elcik Family Tree

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Thursday, August 13, 2020, 10:46 PM

John,

I will keep up with the Ancestry progress and will stay in touch. I noticed a couple of mistakes in your Blood Relatives tree and made the corrections. It was in the Lucas family. You had Rosemary as one of the Lucas children, BUT she is Rodney’s wife. I also added John’s wife’s maiden name. She was a Grondin and is related to Jack through his father. He’s a cousin to John (he goes by Pete) AND to Lorraine.

The kielbasa recipe came from George Elcik, and the homebrew recipe came from Jack’s grandfather, Edmond.

Jack and his dad, George, and Bob, went to Durham to smoke the kielbasa because John Ilcik had a smokehouse. After John died, George asked Jack’s dad to smoke the kielbasa at his house.

Jack remembers his dad making homebrew. We used to make it too, but that was many years ago. We had the recipe, but we don’t know where it is now. Yes, it was strong, and his father loved it!!

So there ‘ya go!! Another mystery solved!!

Good news all around,

Beth

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Re: Updates to Flash Drive

Sat 12/5/2020 10:05 AM

Beth,
 
The attached update fixes a significant error I found.  The flash drive says the New York James Elcik was married twice. I can confirm two of James Elcik’s in New York: James G. and James J., not one. The two folders in the attached Zip file are replacement folders.
 
I am always adding and organizing, but this correction, I felt a need to share.  
 
This begs the question of how I keep you updated.  My thought is that from time to time, I will send you a fresh Flash Drive.  Would that be ok?  If so, your next update will be when the eBook is published (May 3, 2021). ?
 
John, IV 
 
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Re: Updates to Flash Drive

 
Sat 12/5/2020 5:29 PM
 
John, IV,
 
Sending a fresh flash drive would be fine. I’m always finding mistakes and correcting them, thinking that’s the last time I have to do this. THEN something or some other information pops up, and AGAIN, I have to make another correction.  

 
I totally understand. The Elcik family is driving me crazy!!! This is worse than my family because of the lack of records from the “old” country.  
 
It’s a never-ending search for information and knowledge!!!!
 
Beth
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eBook Promotion

Beth,
I used the message below to promote our eBook by posting on Facebook (temporarily restored), MeWe Social Network, and a My Cousins Group on Facebook.
Enjoy!
John, IV
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Beth Gamache and her friend Earl at the Historical Society have located the gravesite of my Great-grandparents.  The search at Saint Cyril Cemetery was initiated because of a document from Sally (Wentworth) Adams that said that they would be found in the Saint Cyril Cemetery in Lisbon Falls. She also provided us with burial dates to complement their dates of death. Earl credits these dates as being important clues.
Earl traveled to Lewiston to find the Church records and then saw to it that a photo of the gravesite and John P. Elcik (Sr.’s) obituary is posted now at FindAGrave.  See:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/220993637/john-p-elcik
The gravestone identifies the correct name and spelling of my Great-grandmothers’s name as Maria Anna Pelcarsky. This is a correction from Mary to Maria Anna and a confirmation of spelling for Pelcarsky.
It is historically interesting in John, Sr.’s Obituary that his parents are identified as Mr. & Mrs. John Elcik. It suggests a research question as to whether he is John Sr. or John Jr. If the latter is true, all generations of John Paul Elcik are off by one generation. This would make me the 5th and my son the 6th generation. It is a moot point but interesting to speculate.
The email correspondence between Beth, Earl, and I will be included in the MyCousins eBook.  Beth and I are still planning on a May 3rd publish date.
John, IV
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Elcik Family Correction

Fri 1/22/2021 6:22 AM
Beth, Earl, and Charlie,
Beth shared everyone’s email with me so I could share the following.
Charlie Hall reached out to me on Ancestry Messenger, reminding me of his association with Beth and Earl. Seeking to be helpful, he offered, “It looks like two Elcik brothers came to Durham, John and Joseph. On the page, you list them as siblings; you have Joseph’s daughters as siblings, also.”
After going back to the source document, I think Charlie is right. The obituary for Joseph P. Elcik [Sr.] upon which we relied DOES say the girls were John and Joseph’s sisters. But in seeking confirmation, the first two men identified as spouses belong to Joseph’s daughters.
Joseph Elcik’s daughters are:
  • Elizabeth A. Elcik, married to Melnot M. Frank
  • Marie E. Elcik, married to Joseph Dereche
And Mrs. George Evanisko, the third reference, while first identified as a sister, is later in the Obituary referenced accurately as his daughter:
  • Anna Elcik (Mrs.) Evanisko
I was so excited by the assertion I forgot to verify.
If you agree, I believe we need to reconsider our conclusion that there were five siblings.  Instead, there are just the two brothers.
Are we all in agreement? Have I overlooked anything?
John, IV
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Re: Correction?

Sat 1/23/2021 10:22 AM
John,

 
Now I don’t know what to think.  According to their birthdates, they’d be his daughters, BUT I found a marriage certificate for Elizabeth Annie Elcik, born in Lisbon Falls married to Joseph Louis Turcotte, born in Skowhegan.  He was 20 in 1921, and she was 16.  That would make her birth year 1905.
If this is Joseph’s daughter, then who is Elizabeth A Elcik Frank, who married Melnot M Frank???  That’s the Elizabeth from the obit Earl sent me.  It lists her sisters as Anna Evanisko of Lisbon Falls and Mrs. Joseph Dereche of Hartford.  She was 42 in 1947, so her birth year would be 1905.
What in the world is going on with the Elcik family???
Beth
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Re: Correction?

Sat 1/23/2021 2:37 PM

I think you have it, John.

Beth and I share a common ancestor thru her Goddard mother. Beth was born Purington. Behind her in the Purington family is the darndest “hornet’s nest” I have ever seen. One Humphrey Purington married a woman named Thankful. They had a kid they named Humphrey. He married a woman named Thankful. And, it happened again, three generations in a row.

Happy Hunting,

Charlie