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#52Ancestors 2020 Post 10 – Reaching Out to DNA Matches
Posted by Caroll in 52 Ancestors, Genealogy Blog, Polish Genealogy on March 22, 2020
Matches
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There were a couple of DNA matches that could be from either the Borucki or Budny lines. I have a cousin from Uncle Sonny’s first marriage that I have never reached out to connect with before. It was a short email just to introduce myself.
Hoping that the matches to my Polish side could narrow my research, I contacted two matches who I shared over 200 centimorgans either with me or my father’s DNA kit.
This first individual was a second to third cousin match to my father. I was thinking that this person was a daughter to one of my grandfathers’ sister. Yeah, no. I received a response in less than an hour. Woohoo! This person is a match through the Borucki line. They have a non-paternity event (NPE). I responded back with a couple of contenders from my great uncle, Ignacy Francis Borucki (a/k/a Frank Borke) family tree.
A match at MyHeritage shows an individual as a possible second cousin, first cousin once removed, or half first cousin once removed. We either share the same the great grandparents or great-great grandparents. This person lives in Germany. My message to him via MyHeritage was both in English and German, using Goggle Translate. Not enough individuals listed in his tree. One of the surnames he has is Zielinski. I have seen the surname at www.geneteka.genealodzy.pl when searching Borucki and Budny records in the Mazowieckie Province of Poland
‘Disaster’ #52Ancestors 2020 Post 9
Posted by Caroll in 52 Ancestors, Genealogy Blog on March 2, 2020
Fire Causes $4000 Damage
The fire was attributed to a passing locomotive according to the April 10, 1912, news clip. The fire caused roughly $2000 damage to three homes. One of those homes was the residence of Adam Budna, my great-grandfather.
The fire happened on a Tuesday afternoon. Was Adam at work when it happened? Two of the children may have been in school, the other three too young to attend. Mary must have been in a panic. The article states the residents were busy bringing out their furniture and belongings. I don’t know if Adam and Mary lost any possessions, important documents, or photographs. The accounts of this fire weren’t passed down to subsequent generations.
The 1912 Polk’s City Directory for Detroit lists my great-grandparents Adam and Mary (Borucka) Budny address at, 382 Poplar. There is no such address today. Detroit renumbered their streets in the 1920’s if I recall. Using Goggle Maps, I find railroad tracks on the western edge of Poplar street. I suspect the house was a multi-unit building with several apartments.
There are very few buildings now along that street. Homes and businesses long since torn down. Empty tracks of land where once a bustling city was growing. Time has done more damage then the fire of yesteryear.
‘Prosperity’ #52Ancestors 2020 Post 8
Posted by Caroll in 52 Ancestors, Genealogy Blog on March 1, 2020
One of the suggestions for this week is writing about an ancestor with a “prosperous” name like Wealthy or Fortune?
I noticed that there were three individuals with the surname “Rich” in my tree. Isabell Rich is the wife of John Franklin Woodburn, my 1st cousin five times removed. The couple were married in Montgomery, Tennessee. Isabell and her brother, Freling Hisen Rich, share the same wedding date, May 14, 1865. Freling married Sidney Ann Rogers. John Woodburn was the witness to Freling and Sidney’s marriage. Freling was John and Isabell’s witness.
Isabell Rich and John F Woodburn Marriage Record 1865
Isabell, born 1849 in Tennessee, was about 16 years of age at her marriage. It is possible the Isabell died within the first year of their marriage. As, John F. Woodburn remarried in February 1867 to Helena Brady, in Christian County, Kentucky.
A death record has not yet been found for Isabell Rich Woodburn.
Source Citation
John F Woodburn and Isabell Rich, 14 May 1865; Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002 database with images, Ancestry, (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 March 2020)> Montgomery County, 1838-1874 > image 307 of 710.
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