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Giddings/Roshack family 1927-1979 and 1921-1981

Giddings/Roshack family 1927-1979 and 1921-1981

Posted: 8 Feb 2014 4:46AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Giddings, Roshack, Roshak
Edmund Roshack 1927-1979 and Joan Giddings 1921-1981

I'm looking to expand my family tree. Both of the above mentioned people are my grandparents (maternal) and both died before I was born. My mother isn't much help when it comes to family history. Any help would be greatly appreciated. She was a Jersey girl her whole life and had one daughter named Joan Elyse. He was from Pennsylvania and Joan Elyse was his only daughter. Edmund worked for the GM factory for many years. And Joan was a nurse. Joans mothers name was Mable and her father was William. Edmunds parents were named Sophia and Frank.

Re: Giddings/Roshack family 1927-1979 and 1921-1981

Posted: 3 Jan 2015 1:21AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Alissa,

My name is Paul Coar.
Its a long story how I found your post.
To make it short for now, I was driving through a town in north east pennsylvania today where I saw what used to be an old hospital that had recently been razed.
It got me thinking about a time when I was between 5 and 10 years old, (not really sure how old I was at the time but very young).
I remember sitting in the parking lot behind the hospital while my parents were inside visiting my grandmother who had had a heart attack.
When I got home. something made me type my grandmother's name into google.
Her name was Sophie Roshak and my grandfather's name was Frank.
My mother's name was Bernadell Roshak and she was one of their children.
She had a brother named Edmund.
They lived on Lincoln Street in Dickson City, PA.
The following is a link to the 1940 census page that shows their household.

http://1940census.archives.gov/search/?search.result_type=im...

I do not know much about my uncles or their spouses but right now, I am thinking we are distant cousins!!!

I hope you are still a member here and you get to read this.
Please contact me.
pauco56@gmail.com
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