On the 1930 US Census, it states her father immigrated into the USA in 1902. Since she was born in 1899 and her next sibling was born 1907 in the USA this would seem to indicate that the family of three came together (unless there were more children born before the migration that I have not found as yet).
One of the problems of doing genealogy work is locating someone in a country in which the name of the country (or county of a state in the USA) was changed after the birth of a person.
In this case, the 1930 & 1940 US Censuses state that Mary was born in Czechoslovakia. However, Czechoslovakia did not become a united Republic until 1918, therefore all persons who were born before 1918 who say they were born in Czechoslovakia were really either born in one of the Czech lands, Austria (when they were in rule of the Czech land) or Slovak. As of 1993 Czechoslovakia split up back into the Czech lands, known as Cezch Republic, and Slovakia (see History of Czechoslovakia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Czechoslovakia). Today when doing genealogical research and entering in the information of an individual in an online Family Tree (like Ancestry.com's Family Tree) the option list to pick who was born where on some sites does not take into account the different areas at different times of the country's history leaving the choice of only today's naming convention (as it does here in Find-a-Grave), making it hard to choose the correct location of birth, marriage or death.
Since Mary was born in 1899, her birth predates Czechoslovakia and at this time it is unknown where she really was born. I will be doing more research on her to find out the truth of her birth place.
Mary Elizabeth (Pazicni) and husband Andrew Bonk, had 6 children: Agnes, Bertha, Wilma, Catherine, William and John. She has only one child still living as of today, June 10, 2016, William.
Update 9-28-2019 - William Bonk passed away on Friday, September 20, 2019
My memories of her are not very much. She lived with us for a few years when I was a little girl. One of the things I can remember is her fantastic cooking. She made everything from scratch. Yes, everything. Donuts, noodles, spaghetti strings and bread, just to name a few of my favorites. There were two dishes she made I remember well and loved a lot. One was called Halupki. In American words, Stuffed Cabbage. I generally hate cabbage but this stuff was so good that it made cabbage taste wonderful. I have tried to make that recipe on several occasions but could never get it to taste as good as her's did. The other recipe was Hungarian Goulash. Though most Goulash is in soup form, hers was not. It was more like macaroni dish with ground beef, a marinara sauce with corn and black olives. I too have tried to make this taste the same as hers. I am sure I did not have her recipe but my concoction turned out pretty good.
I have many more things to memorialize via her letters. I will add these as I get them translated as she still conversed with some of her family and friends in Slovak or Czech, not sure yet.
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One of the problems of doing genealogy work is locating someone in a country in which the name of the country (or county of a state in the USA) was changed after the birth of a person.
In this case, the 1930 & 1940 US Censuses state that Mary was born in Czechoslovakia. However, Czechoslovakia did not become a united Republic until 1918, therefore all persons who were born before 1918 who say they were born in Czechoslovakia were really either born in one of the Czech lands, Austria (when they were in rule of the Czech land) or Slovak. As of 1993 Czechoslovakia split up back into the Czech lands, known as Cezch Republic, and Slovakia (see History of Czechoslovakia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Czechoslovakia). Today when doing genealogical research and entering in the information of an individual in an online Family Tree (like Ancestry.com's Family Tree) the option list to pick who was born where on some sites does not take into account the different areas at different times of the country's history leaving the choice of only today's naming convention (as it does here in Find-a-Grave), making it hard to choose the correct location of birth, marriage or death.
Since Mary was born in 1899, her birth predates Czechoslovakia and at this time it is unknown where she really was born. I will be doing more research on her to find out the truth of her birth place.
Mary Elizabeth (Pazicni) and husband Andrew Bonk, had 6 children: Agnes, Bertha, Wilma, Catherine, William and John. She has only one child still living as of today, June 10, 2016, William.
Update 9-28-2019 - William Bonk passed away on Friday, September 20, 2019
My memories of her are not very much. She lived with us for a few years when I was a little girl. One of the things I can remember is her fantastic cooking. She made everything from scratch. Yes, everything. Donuts, noodles, spaghetti strings and bread, just to name a few of my favorites. There were two dishes she made I remember well and loved a lot. One was called Halupki. In American words, Stuffed Cabbage. I generally hate cabbage but this stuff was so good that it made cabbage taste wonderful. I have tried to make that recipe on several occasions but could never get it to taste as good as her's did. The other recipe was Hungarian Goulash. Though most Goulash is in soup form, hers was not. It was more like macaroni dish with ground beef, a marinara sauce with corn and black olives. I too have tried to make this taste the same as hers. I am sure I did not have her recipe but my concoction turned out pretty good.
I have many more things to memorialize via her letters. I will add these as I get them translated as she still conversed with some of her family and friends in Slovak or Czech, not sure yet.
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These are my family photos that I have in my possession by bequeathment in will or I photographed them (where applicable). You may NOT re-post them on any other web site without my written permission. You may, however, copy them for your own personal, offline, home use ONLY. The tombstone photos of the originators are also included with these copyrights.
On the 1930 US Census, it states her father immigrated into the USA in 1902. Since she was born in 1899 and her next sibling was born 1907 in the USA this would seem to indicate that the family of three came together (unless there were more children born before the migration that I have not found as yet).
One of the problems of doing genealogy work is locating someone in a country in which the name of the country (or county of a state in the USA) was changed after the birth of a person.
In this case, the 1930 & 1940 US Censuses state that Mary was born in Czechoslovakia. However, Czechoslovakia did not become a united Republic until 1918, therefore all persons who were born before 1918 who say they were born in Czechoslovakia were really either born in one of the Czech lands, Austria (when they were in rule of the Czech land) or Slovak. As of 1993 Czechoslovakia split up back into the Czech lands, known as Cezch Republic, and Slovakia (see History of Czechoslovakia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Czechoslovakia). Today when doing genealogical research and entering in the information of an individual in an online Family Tree (like Ancestry.com's Family Tree) the option list to pick who was born where on some sites does not take into account the different areas at different times of the country's history leaving the choice of only today's naming convention (as it does here in Find-a-Grave), making it hard to choose the correct location of birth, marriage or death.
Since Mary was born in 1899, her birth predates Czechoslovakia and at this time it is unknown where she really was born. I will be doing more research on her to find out the truth of her birth place.
Mary Elizabeth (Pazicni) and husband Andrew Bonk, had 6 children: Agnes, Bertha, Wilma, Catherine, William and John. She has only one child still living as of today, June 10, 2016, William.
Update 9-28-2019 - William Bonk passed away on Friday, September 20, 2019
My memories of her are not very much. She lived with us for a few years when I was a little girl. One of the things I can remember is her fantastic cooking. She made everything from scratch. Yes, everything. Donuts, noodles, spaghetti strings and bread, just to name a few of my favorites. There were two dishes she made I remember well and loved a lot. One was called Halupki. In American words, Stuffed Cabbage. I generally hate cabbage but this stuff was so good that it made cabbage taste wonderful. I have tried to make that recipe on several occasions but could never get it to taste as good as her's did. The other recipe was Hungarian Goulash. Though most Goulash is in soup form, hers was not. It was more like macaroni dish with ground beef, a marinara sauce with corn and black olives. I too have tried to make this taste the same as hers. I am sure I did not have her recipe but my concoction turned out pretty good.
I have many more things to memorialize via her letters. I will add these as I get them translated as she still conversed with some of her family and friends in Slovak or Czech, not sure yet.
******** ©Copyrights *******
These are my family photos that I have in my possession by bequeathment in will or I photographed them (where applicable). You may NOT re-post them on any other web site without my written permission. You may, however, copy them for your own personal, offline, home use ONLY. The tombstone photos of the originators are also included with these copyrights.
One of the problems of doing genealogy work is locating someone in a country in which the name of the country (or county of a state in the USA) was changed after the birth of a person.
In this case, the 1930 & 1940 US Censuses state that Mary was born in Czechoslovakia. However, Czechoslovakia did not become a united Republic until 1918, therefore all persons who were born before 1918 who say they were born in Czechoslovakia were really either born in one of the Czech lands, Austria (when they were in rule of the Czech land) or Slovak. As of 1993 Czechoslovakia split up back into the Czech lands, known as Cezch Republic, and Slovakia (see History of Czechoslovakia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Czechoslovakia). Today when doing genealogical research and entering in the information of an individual in an online Family Tree (like Ancestry.com's Family Tree) the option list to pick who was born where on some sites does not take into account the different areas at different times of the country's history leaving the choice of only today's naming convention (as it does here in Find-a-Grave), making it hard to choose the correct location of birth, marriage or death.
Since Mary was born in 1899, her birth predates Czechoslovakia and at this time it is unknown where she really was born. I will be doing more research on her to find out the truth of her birth place.
Mary Elizabeth (Pazicni) and husband Andrew Bonk, had 6 children: Agnes, Bertha, Wilma, Catherine, William and John. She has only one child still living as of today, June 10, 2016, William.
Update 9-28-2019 - William Bonk passed away on Friday, September 20, 2019
My memories of her are not very much. She lived with us for a few years when I was a little girl. One of the things I can remember is her fantastic cooking. She made everything from scratch. Yes, everything. Donuts, noodles, spaghetti strings and bread, just to name a few of my favorites. There were two dishes she made I remember well and loved a lot. One was called Halupki. In American words, Stuffed Cabbage. I generally hate cabbage but this stuff was so good that it made cabbage taste wonderful. I have tried to make that recipe on several occasions but could never get it to taste as good as her's did. The other recipe was Hungarian Goulash. Though most Goulash is in soup form, hers was not. It was more like macaroni dish with ground beef, a marinara sauce with corn and black olives. I too have tried to make this taste the same as hers. I am sure I did not have her recipe but my concoction turned out pretty good.
I have many more things to memorialize via her letters. I will add these as I get them translated as she still conversed with some of her family and friends in Slovak or Czech, not sure yet.
******** ©Copyrights *******
These are my family photos that I have in my possession by bequeathment in will or I photographed them (where applicable). You may NOT re-post them on any other web site without my written permission. You may, however, copy them for your own personal, offline, home use ONLY. The tombstone photos of the originators are also included with these copyrights.
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