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Image by rawpixel.   This week's post will be brief. I am busy preparing for a research trip later this week.  My paternal grandmother's ancestors are my focus. Mary Josephine Baker (1911-1981) had Belgian, Irish, German, and Scottish roots with families that first settled in the Buffalo/Sheldon/St. Catharines, Ontario areas. I've spent a good part of the past two years researching their stories and am anxious to set my feet on the ground where they lived: Buffalo, Erie, New York - Cassidy, Sheridan, and Coats families N. Evans, Erie, New York - Sheridan family Grantham/St. Catharines/Port Dalhousie, Ontario - Becker/Baker, Schiltz, Cassidy, Darragh, Dyer, Manley families Sheldon, Wyoming, New York - Schiltz, Becker/Baker, Cailteux lines  Each of these locales is within easy driving distance from Buffalo, so that will be my hub with day trips out to the various locations. I've set an ambitious schedule and am gathering visit info, making arrangements with my contacts, s...
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FAMILY PHOTO FRIDAY


A smiling Grandpa Kozlina holds Tommy, with Grandma and Mom, about 1941. Photo colorized at MyHeritage.

 

By Nancy Gilbride Casey


It's time to share more of the great photos I received from Cousin Marlene (with annotations by Cousin Joe), from Pennsylvania.1


These photos feature our grandparents Thomas and Margaret Kozlina in the early days of their marriage, with my Mom, Anna Margaret Kozlina and her brother Tommy Kozlina, with one image with my Aunt Marian as a baby.

Uncle Tommy and Grandma, on the stairs of the Kozlina home in Lemont Furnace, Fayette, Pennsylvania. 



Uncle Tommy is probably about a year or so old, so likely taken about 1941.

Below, Grandma is celebrated on Mother's Day, May 14, 1944, with Grandpa Kozlina, my Mom, and Uncle Tommy.

 
Grandma, Grandpa in rear, Tommy and Mom in front.
Beautiful Grandma!

Grandma and Grandpa.


Grandma and Mom.

Lastly, here is one with Aunt Marian as a baby. Cousin Joe wrote, "Picture taken in Lemont. Home place. This is what yards looked like. Building on right is outside toilet. I tore those down in 1972." Lemont Furnace in Fayette, Pennsylvania, was the home of Grandpa Kozlina's parents, Frank and Louise Kozlina, who emigrated from Croatia in the early 1900s.

Baby Marian, on right, held by Grandpa, about 1946.

Hope you enjoyed these photos. More to come next Family Photo Friday! Special thanks to Cousins Marlene and Joe for sharing and for remembrances.

Until next time...


NOTES

1 Kozlina family photos, circa 1940-1946, various locations, unidentified photographer; private collection of N. Casey [address for private use], Tioga, TX, 2022.

 


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