Re: FIALKO BROTHERS IN STREATOR
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FIALKO BROTHERS IN STREATOR
DOROTHYANN FIALKO MALINSKI 3/09/11
HI, RECEIVED YOUR REPLY BACK AND VERY HAPPY. OKAY, HERE WE GO. JOHN AND ANDREW ARE BROTHERS, THERE WAS AN ESTATE IN AUSTRIA THE BROTHERS WERE TO GET BUT THEY WERE TO YOUNG AT THAT TIME. AN UNCLE TOOK CARE OF IT AND SPENT ALL THE MONIES AND SOLD THE ESTATE AND KEPT THAT ALSO. I'M NOT SURE WHICH BROTHER CAME TO AMERICA FIRST, BUT I DO KNOW MY GRANDFATHER ANDREW CAME THRU ELLIS ISLAND AND CHANGED THE LAST NAME FROM FYJALKA TO FIALKO. HE SAID HE IS AN AMERICAN SO WILL BE HIS NAME. ANDREW MARRIED MARY YUSCO IN 1903, HE WAS 24 AND MARY WAS 14. THE ONLY THING WE KNOW ABOUT JOHN IS HE MARRIED A WOMAN NAMED MAGGIE, NO LAST NAME KNOWN. THEY HAD A DAUGHTER NAMED MAGGIE WHO MARRIED A MIKE KMETZ AND STAYED IN STREATOR,IL. GRANDFATHER ANDREW AND GRANDMA MARY HAD 5 CHILDREN, ALL BORN IN STREATOR. JOHN.ANDREW JR,MARY, FRANK AND EVELYN.
THEY ENDED UP MOVING TO CLEVELAND, OHIO. OKAY PART ONE OF OUR FAMILY. SOMEWHERE WE ARE COUSINS. I DO HAVE DATES ON ALOT OF MY SIDE OF THIS FAMILY. TAKE CARE, DOTTIE
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Re: FIALKO BROTHERS IN STREATOR
DOROTHYANN FIALKO MALINSKI 3/13/11