My half first cousin once removed, Anastasia Rita Meleski, was married twice.  Her first marriage was to Albert Francis Blackman, who predeceased her.  In the record of her marriage to Bernard J. Izbicki, her name is listed as Rita (Meleski) Blackman. The Marriage Record for Bernard J. Izbicki and Rita (Meleski) Blackman Click on the [...]

The year 2006 is rapidly reaching its end, and with the advent of the New Year it’s a good time to evaluate my genealogical research and prepare a research plan for the next twelve months.  In no particular order, other than the order in which these thoughts come to mind, here are my genealogical resolutions [...]

Jane A. Goodrich was the mother of Albert Francis Blackman and the mother-in-law of my half-cousin once-removed Anastasia Rita Meleski.  Based on information in the marriage records for Albert Blackman and Anastasia Rita Meleski and for Charles I. Goodrich and Jane A. Goodrich, I was able to find Jane’s Birth Record on the website of the New [...]

After finding the Marriage Record for Albert Francis Blackman and Anastasia Rita Meleski, I looked for the Birth Record for Albert.  Apparently Albert was born in 1915, so his birth record was not available at the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics or on the website of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS).  [...]

Last week, while I was on the east coast, I stopped in at the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics and searched for the marriage records for my half-first-cousin-once-removed, Anastasia Rita Meleski.  Anastasia Rita’s father, Joseph, was my grandmother’s half brother. Anastasia Rita was married twice, once to Albert Blackman and once to Bernard Izbicki.  However, I [...]

I just returned from spending Christmas with family on the east coast and thought I’d say a few words before heading to bed for the night. I received a couple of messages from Poland while I was away during Christmas and I wanted to respond to them here, so the title above, translated from the Polish, reads “I [...]