Month: July 2022

This is a picture taken on July 4, 1952. That date was the 11th birthday of my brother Thomas. Missing in the picture are my father, who was taking the picture, my Uncle Eddie and my grandfather, Stanley Lichota. This picture contains along with the missing almost everyone who was and would be important in… Continue reading July 4, 1952

This is a picture taken on July 4, 1952. That date was the 11th birthday of my brother Thomas. Missing in the picture are my father, who was taking the picture, my Uncle Eddie and my grandfather, Stanley Lichota. This picture contains along with the missing almost everyone who was and would be important in… Continue reading July 4, 1952

For the moment, we have nearly exhausted the archival information available for the Lichota family. While we wait for more, I have started looking into the Sadowski component of our family heritage. Katarzyna (Catherine) Sadowska was the mother of our Stanley Lichota and the wife of Joseph Lichota. Her parents were Stanislaw (Stanley) and Franciszka… Continue reading Stanley Lichota Maternal Line

Fortunately, there is non-profit group focusing on indexing records from the province of Podlaskie. It is from that yet uncompleted work that I was able to obtain the information of aunts and uncles of Mikolaj (Nicholas) Puhacz (Pugacz), the husband of Jozefa who emigrated to the USA in the first decade of the 1900’s. At… Continue reading Extending the Line of Mikolag Pugacz

I have fond memories of my grandfather’s kielbasa, He made it for all of the major religious holidays which were so much a part of our life. My favorite was the smoked version. My only experience was being in his backyard on Mt. Elliott and seeing some sausage being smoked. The kielbasa was suspended form… Continue reading Stanley Lichota Kielbasa