The story of
~ Jan “John” KIELB ~
(b. 12 May 1880 - d. 195?)
and
~ Helen J PODWYZYNSKA ~
(b. 18 Aug 1895 - d. Jun 1971)
The story of
~ Jan “John” KIELB ~
(b. 12 May 1880 - d. 195?)
and
~ Helen J PODWYZYNSKA ~
(b. 18 Aug 1895 - d. Jun 1971)
Jan KIELB was born in Krzemienica, Gawłuszowice, Mielec, Galicia, Austria when Poland was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on May 12, 1880. He comes from an ethnically Polish region and family. This town is in southeast Poland, 128km, about 80mi northeast of Krakow (east, and a little north).
Jan spoke Polish and English and immigrated in 1901, sailing across the Atlantic from Bremen, Germany, close to the northeast coast on the North Sea, on February 2, 1901. The S.S. Oldenburg arrived at the Port of New York on February 16. He was 21 years of age, heading to visit his older sister, Anna, who was already living in New York, and had gotten married the previous November. Anna was still a blushing bride, wed to Joseph KORASZYNSKI. I'm sure he was very excited during his voyage at the prospects of his new life in the New World.
Helen PODWYZYNSKA was also born in Poland, on 18 August, 1885. She immigrated in 1902 and was naturalized. Also speaking both Polish and English.
Some time after arriving, Jan Anglicized his name to John. I don't know how or when they met.
John and Helen got married April 20, 1906, in Kings County, New York (the borough of Brooklyn). They were Catholic, and surely had a Catholic church wedding. They quickly became pregnant, and Helen gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on February 15, 1907. In 1910 they were renting a house at 1111 Gravesend Avenue, with three-year-old Julius. John became a baker in Brooklyn, King County, New York. I am guessing it was a trade he learned at home from his own father, I do not know for certain. He was specialized in baking cakes. At the time of the Census, Helen would have been very pregnant. She gave birth to their second son Emil, on 25 April, 1910, 3 days after the enumerator came around for the Census.
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Apparently we had reached a great height in the atmosphere, for the sky was a dead black, and the stars had ceased to twinkle. By the same illusion which lifts the horizon of the sea to the level of the spectator on a hillside.
Was thinking one of these 2 sections might look good here
I would be adding an image of a bunch of stuff for his story laid out as kind of a finished product.
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It seems to me that a view of the heavenly bodies through a fine telescope, as well as a tour round the world, should form a part of a liberal education.
~ Example of Research ~
~ Example of Research ~
Hypothetical proposition, asking:
What do you consider your end product? If I was interested in learning more about my maternal grandparents’ hometown of Seneca, KS, I wonder what interesting tidbits you’d find.
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This is what I do:
Depends on what you want specifically. Are you requesting a summary of what the town was like during their lifetime? I'd recommend a research hour cap, and I dig in and see what I can find. Say, we start with a 3hr project, and I focus on a particular decade. Say 1900's. I will get some information from you about these people for a starting point. You may not have more than their names and dates, and that will be fine. I can typically work with that type of general information.
Since this is a little more of an unusual request, I'd want to let you know what I've found after my initial digging. I may find some city directories, and can download one or two for you. I may find a historical book of sketches of folks who lived in the town at the time. I can probably find out what the primary industry was at the time. I may be able to determine the mayor and sheriff. You probably want me to locate them in the Census and let you know who their neighbors were and if they had some family in their immediate vicinity. I may be able to tell you if they own property and something about that. Although, deed research can take a little longer than others.
I should be able to find some newspaper articles on goings-on at the time, and get you some full pages of newspapers. I can probably locate some photos of the town at that time, as well. And hopefully some maps.
I won't charge you for my own rabbit holes I fall into when conducting research. Haha!
So, generally, my end product would be the story. If you want to know about the town, that's a bit different than what I typically do, and you'll get more files of documents (city directories, newspaper sheets, maps, that kind of thing) than story, but I can put this family group in context in Seneca, KS, in the 1900's. If I'm putting this family in context with the neighbors as well, I'd tell you about the neighbors' occupations and where they were from if it is of interest (for example, one may be a clock maker from Germany, or Prussia).
If you wanted additional research about their parents and grandparents, I would include a tree or two depending on who I am starting with (either yourself or the grandmother) and how far back I am going or able to go.
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