Posted by Rita Bianchetto Libraries are good about searching copies of obits, if you know the date of death and the newspaper that published in Grandmother's area. I sent off for my Grandmother's obit to the Hazleton Library ( cost 2.00). Her obit was in the Hazleton, Pa. paper, I believe, Standard speaker. There are also 2 Luzerne County Boards on Yahoo.com, that you might join. Helpful people, beyond words. Good luck in your search. Rita --Previous Message--
on 1/4/2003, 10:01 pm, in reply to "Looking for marriage records and grandmother's photo"
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I would send for her death certificate, you have the date. The cost in Pa. is 3.00. The death certif. should have date of birth (only as good as the informant) and in Pa. I do believe the cause of death is listed (some states do not) and citizenship status is listed.
: I'm looking for any records of my grandmother,
: Josephine Gronski(immigrated from Poland
: possibly thru Ellis Island about 1912)
: marrying my grandfather, John M.
: Dombroski(immigrated from Poland).
: Possibly, the marriage took place
: somewhere near Old Forge "or" in
: Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (after they
: met each other thru a family from
: Swoyersville, Pennsylvania). I need the
: entire date of marriage and where---name
: of church, if any. (I understand from one
: of the living children they possibly
: married about 1914)
: They settled in Luzerne, Pennsylvania after
: having nine children, Alice, Frank, Alex,
: Bertha, John, Edna, Chester, Edward and
: Thomas and two grandchildren.
: (Their first-born, Alice, was born about
: 1915).
: Also, I would need to find out my
: grandmother's month and day of her birth
: (only the year 1895 is listed on her
: tombstone). My grandmother died at home
: on May 31, 1937 after a short illnes at
: the age of 42 when my father, the youngest
: of the nine children, was about 2 year
: old. None of her remaining 5 living
: children know what the illness was!
: Funeral mass was from St. Hedwig's Polish
: Catholic Church in Edwardsville,
: Pennsylvania.
: Also, none of her 5 living children have a
: photo of her........supposedly, she never
: became a citizen here in the USA. She had
: 2 sisters, Mrs. Stella Matusavage and Mrs.
: Mitchell (Francis) Chichey from Hatfield
: and Northampton, Massachusetts.
: I am also looking for a photo of my
: grandmother, Josephine Dombroski from 1912
: on.......and family members tell me they
: doubt that there was a passport photo
: taken on the ship to Ellis Island, but no
: one knows for sure.
: Thank you!
:
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