mel_dawn63, I hope you are well.
Cousin Brian has been helping to identify people in old photos. He will show more photos to Auntie Val when he visits sometime this year. Brian did send a couple of photos to either his brother Bob or maybe Bill and said he wished I was there because the pictures brought up memories and then Val had stories to tell.
I found an envelope of old photography negatives, and made an apparatus to digitize them. I have been posting them to a photo album on my Facebook page.
I have found almost nothing about either grandma Porath or Pankiewicz (wich). Auntie Val said her name was Angela. I know that thick accents can turn the hard "G" in Angela to a "Y" as in Aniela, and not far off from Nellie. Mom/Clementine's middle name was Angeline but she used Angela on some documents.
If my searching has taught me anything it is people don't always like their given names and use nicknames or middle names or in some cases like aunt Yadwiga, the name the Priest decided she should be called..."Mary"
Looking forward to more correspondence.
Cousin Miles P.
p.s. check out the photo album "The Past" on my Facebook page.