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 (Frances) Pawelec.
Franciszka is shown to have died on November 30, 1911 at the age of 68 and leaving behind her husband Stanislaw. I do not yet have a death date for him. I have found the record of a brother of Fransiszka. He is Jozef. He marries a Katarzyna Pisak in 1888 at Stopnica which is near Kikow and the parish of Dobrowoda.
Her paternal grandparents were Syzmon (Simon) Pawelec and Dorota (Dorothy) Zieba. Szymon dies at Dobrowoda in 1884.
Katarzyna (b. 1865) was the oldest of nine children. Her siblings are:
Agnieszka (Agnes) b. 1868
Marianna (Marianne) b. 1871
Franciszka (Frances) b. 1875
Stanislaw (Stanley) b. 1878
Jozefa (Josepha) b. 1881
Michael (Michael) b. 1883
Jan (John) b. 1885
Pawel (Paul) b. 1889 marries at Dobrowoda in 1910.
All of these births are recorded at the parish of Dobrowoda, I will continue to follow up on the Sadowski family but as indicated records for this area are spotty once one moves beyond the generations indicated above.
On a brighter note, the administrative district from which our Pugacz line springs from, Podlaskie, has an ongoing indexing program of records. I am just becoming familiar with it but expect to be able to expand our knowledge of these ancestors.