MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER WAS ANDRES LUKAN....BORN IN SLOVAKIA WHICH WAS THEN ASTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE....LOTS OF SLOVAKS THEN THINK THEY ARE AUSTRIAN...IT'S COMPLICATED...WE
ie: ALL 4 GRANDPARENTS AND MY FATHER WERE BORN WITHIN 20KM OF KOCISE AREA...BECAME CZECHSLOVAKIA AND NOW AFTER VELVET REVOLUTION..ITS OUR OWN COUNTRY ..SLOVAKIA...ALL BYZANTINE CATHOLICS...SETTLED 30 MILES EAST OF PITTSBURG PA WORKED THE COALMINES,AND ARE BURIED THERE....I DO NOT EVER REMEMBER MEETING ANY BROTHERS OF MY GFATHER....BUT HE DID HAVE A SISTER I SAW MANY TIMES AS A CHILD, EVELYN LUKAN KASICH..SHE MARRIED AND LIVED CLOSER TO PITTSBURG..HE WAS CROATIAN...THEIR GRANDSOM, MY SECOND COUSIN, JOHN KASICH IS NOW GOV. OF OHIO, AFTER BEING OHIO CONGRESSMAN FOR 15/20 YRS...WILL TRY TO GET MORE INFO FROM OLDER AUNTS, ON MY FATHERS SIDE...LIVED ON SAME STREET MOST OF LIFE...I LEFT 1958, LIVE IN S CALIF LAST 40 YRS...STILL TRYING TO GET CHURCH INFO ON SLOVAKIA....MORMON CHURCH HAS MOST OF THESE
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