I just wanted to update this posting with my LATEST email:
mike @ eliasz . com [remove blanks to form email]
Joseph Eliasz (aka Josef Eliasz) was probably born in Pacanow although prior to the 1850's the ELIASZ family was located in the Biechow parish (old woj Kielce, powiat Stopnica) in Biechow, Piestrzec, Wojcza, Chrzanow, etc.
Josef lived with my grandmother (Valeria Leszczynska) and their first child Alexa(Alice) in the village of Zabiec in 1910. Josef emigrated to the US in 1910 and Valeria and her daughter went to live with her father, Tomasz Leszczynski in Pacanow, before Valeria and Alexa emigrated ot the US in 1913.
PLEASE email if thsi rings a bell.
Also searching for Gronek, Gawlik/Gawlikowski as well as
Ogonski.