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Any Slabicki's out there?

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Re: Any Slabicki's out there?

Posted: 5 Mar 2007 8:19PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Daniel,

I appreciate your return email - it was quite interesting to learn that this surname exists outside the US. My immediate family is quite small, and unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to delve much into our ancestry until way too late. Both my parents have since passed away, and when I was much younger and asked my father about our heritage, he was not very forthcoming.

What I did discover was that my father's father (Michael) emmigrated to the US aboard a ship from Hamburg Germany and arrived in the port of New York (Ellis Island) in 1914. I believe he had a brother who accompanied him whose name escapes me at this moment. Michael came from an area that is now in the Western Ukraine - at that time was part of the Austrio-Hungrian empire. Again, I'd have to find the records I got from the archives at Ellis Island to get the name of his home town. What my dad did divulge to me ages ago was that his father left Europe after serving in the Austrian army to avoid fighting in WW!. Upon arrival in the US, he became a farmer in Connecticut and later upstate New York.

I haven't a clue what became of his brother other than the fact that he lived in New York City. I know my father spoke Ukrainian and Polish but it was not something that I learned growing up.

Interesting stuff but my dad was not one to offer many details..., when pressed about our heritage, he said he didn't care to know about relatives in Europe, and I shouldn't either. As I mentioned earlier, most of the older relatives on the Slabicki side were quite old even when I was young so no oral history was passed on to me directly.

Oh - I do remember that my grandfather came some a province or area called Glacica or something like that.

I hope to hear from you again.

Regards,

Dave





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