Family History Books

My focus in the early stages of my research was not on writing my family history. My focus was on doing the research and identifying the stories that my relatives, documents, and pictures told. I began transcribing the information and stories into summaries for each direct ancestor which I used as a quick reference sheet. I also discovered that these short summaries could easily be read by other family members and they were a great tool in sharing my information,

As my research grew, the summaries expanded and were slowly merged together as I connected with family members and shared groups of summaries with them. Over time the merged groups of summaries were combined and organized into large documents that became the family histories that were published and distributed to the family members. As you can see, the family histories came together almost by accident. This method put very little pressure on me to produce such an important document. There was a lot of work in doing the research and keeping the summaries updated but the final document seemed to emerge and cry out to be published.

I hope the family histories that I have published will be a great treasure to my family and future generations. I also hope that they help us understand our heritage both here in the U.S. and in Europe.

Below I list the family histories that I have published and the family histories that I am still working on. Copies of the family histories are available to family members. Please contact me to get instructions on how to order a copy. I place this limitation on copies due to privacy issues and only make them available to descendants of the people mentioned in the histories.

Published:

1. Ancestors and Descendants of Julia Sirovatka
2. Jacob Petric and Teresa Strugar: their descendants and ancestors
3. Martin Szabados and Josephine Szerna: their ancestors and descendants (available on Amazon)
4. My Polish Ancestors: The Zuchowski and Chmielewski Families
5. Leopold Zuchowski and Anna Dmochowska and their Ancestors (available on Amazon)
6. Steve Dombrowski and Helen Swiatkowski: Their Ancestors and Descendants
7. Ancestors of Frank Dohra and Frances Puchalski
8. Leroy Whittinghill and Lulu Powell: their Ancestors and Descendants
9. Silas Howard and Betsey Carpenter: Their Ancestors and Descendants (available on Amazon)
10. Ancestors of Harold Howard & Latrona Henderlite: Book Two
11. Anthony Hwilka and Josephine Gizewski and their ancestors 2022
12. Ancestors of Clarence Schultz and Mildred Myrtle Tingle 2020
13. Ancestors Vincent Weinberg and Ethel Reinhardt
14. Ancestors Lazlo Nagy and Ilona Szerna Erdelyi (available on Amazon)
15. Ancestors of Robert Dabney and Elaine Floryancic (first draft)
16. Harvey Weclew: His Ancestors and Descendants
17. Henrietta Daubert and her Ancestors
18. Carl Kalbhen, Ena Clemmensen, and their Ancestors

In Process

Ancestors of Xander and Leo in American History – Written for two grandsons and pulls together details from six family histories of their ancestors into one book that highlights those ancestors affected by events in American History.