FamilySearch Find Of The Day: Naturalization Card of Amelia (Stec) Bogusz

The other day, I was pretty excited to see the addition/update of the FamilySearch database "Ohio, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1977"! I was able to locate the index card for my 2nd-great-grandmother's naturalization papers. I'll be heading to the National Archives sometime next week, after the holidays are over, to retrieve copies of her naturalization papers. I'm kind of excited to see what's listed on them, even though I know everything that they'll state. But you never know!


Date Recorded: 17 November 1953
Office Number: 187417
Name: (Mrs.) Amilia Bogusz
Address: 9003 Leisy Ave.
City: Cleveland
County: Cuyahoga
State: Ohio
Subject of: Poland
Date Naturalized: 21 November 1952
Court: U.S. District
Remarks: Naturalized Herself
Born: 05 June 1887
Age When Naturalized: 66
Age When Recorded: 66
Certificate Number: 7080201
Vol. ~
Number: 114648
Official Attestor: C. B. Watkins, Clerk
Wife's Name: ~
Minor Children: ~
Signature or Holder: Amilia Bogusz (her signature)
In State: 32 years
In County: 32 years
In City: 32 years

Surname Saturday #10: Stec

Amelia Stec is my 2nd-great-grandmother. She immigrated to America via Ellis Island with her daughter, Katarzyna (Catherine) Grządziel on 27 Nov 1908. This is the little I know on her family:

1. Amelia Stec
b. 29 Jun 1887, Barycz, Brzozów, Lwów, Poland
d. 12 Apr 1968, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
m1. Franciszek Grządziel; 23 Nov 1904, Barycz, Brzozów, Lwów, Poland
m2. Franciszek Bogusz; 20 Feb 1922, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
*Catherine Anna Grządziel, b. 05 Nov 1906, Barycz, Brzozów, Lwów, Poland
*Thomas Grządziel, b. abt 1909, Joliet, Will County, Illinois
*Joseph Grządziel, b. 01 Mar 1910, Joliet, Will County, Illinois
*John Grządziel, b. 12 Jun 1912, Joliet, Will County, Illinois
*Mary A. Grządziel, b. 24 Jun 1914, Joliet, Will County, Illinois
*Walter Grządziel, b. abt 1917, Joliet, Will County, Illinois
*Walter Kenneth Grządziel, b. 31 Mar 1919, Joliet, Will County, Illinois

*Frank L. Bogusz, b. 23 Nov 1922, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

*Stanley R. Bogusz, b. 23 Nov 1922, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

*Anna Virginia Bogusz, (information omitted for privacy reasons)

2. Jan Stec

b. unknown

d. unknown

m. Sophie Swiczek? (indexed as Kostancya Snirzek on daughter Mary Stec Karnas death record)

*Amelia Stec, (above)

*Katarzyna Stec, b. 11 Oct 1892, Barycz, Brzozów, Lwów, Poland; m. Franciszek Wojewoda

*Mary Stec, b. 10 Apr 1893, Barycz, Brzozów, Lwów, Poland; m. George Karnas

*Tekla "Tillie" Stec, b. unknown; m. ____ Domaradzki

*Jan Stec, b. unknown

Surname Saturday #5: Grządziel

Grządziel is the surname of my paternal grandfather's mother. I don't know too much about this line considering the Roman Catholic church records aren't readily available on microfilm for their town in Poland. Here is what I know about the family:

1. Catherine Anna Grządziel
b. 05 Nov 1906, Barycz, Brzozów, Lwów, Poland
d. 26 Aug 1970, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
m. Alex Gombash (Gombás Sándor); 1920/1922, Illinois or West Virginia
*Children omitted for privacy.

2. Franciszek Grządziel
b. 1872, Barycz, Brzozów, Lwów, Poland
d. 10 Jun 1927, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
m. Amelia Stec; 23 Nov 1904, Barycz, Brzozów, Lwów, Poland
*Catharine Anna Grządziel (above)
*Thomas Grządziel, 1909-?
*Joseph Grządziel, 1910-1976
*John Grządziel, 1912-1981
*Mary Grządziel, 1914-1960
*Walter Grządziel, 1917-1918
*Walter Kenneth Grządziel, 1919-1991

3. Stanislaus Grządziel
b. unknown
d. unknown
m. Maria Sowa; unknown
*Franciszek Grządziel (above)

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Ancestral Name Roulette

It's that time again! Here are the rules via Randy Seaver's blog:

1)  What year was your paternal grandfather born?  Divide this number by 100 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your "roulette number."


2)  Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name list (some people call it an "ahnentafel"). Who is that person?


3)  Tell us three facts about that person in your ancestral name list with the "roulette number."


4)  Write about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a Facebook status or a Google Stream post, or as a comment on this blog post.


5)  If you do not have a person's name for your "roulette number" then spin the wheel again - pick a grandmother, or yourself, a parent, a favorite aunt or cousin, or even your children!



1)  My paternal grandfather, John E. Gombash, Sr.,  was born in 1935.  Divided by 100, that makes 19.35, rounded to 19.

2)  Number 19 on my ancestral name list is Amelia Stec (1887-1968), daughter of Jan Stec and Sophie Swiczek, who married Franciszek Grządziel in 1904.

3)  Three facts about Amelia Stec:

*  She was born in Barycz, Brzozów, Lwów, Poland and had four siblings: Katarzyna (married Franciszek Wojewoda), Mary (married George Karnas), Tekla "Tillie" (married a man surnamed Domaradzki) and Jan.

*  She immigrated on 27 Nov 1908 through Ellis Island, with her daughter Katarzyna (Catherine) Grządziel. They were going to Franciszek Grządziel in Joliet, Illinois. One of my grandfather's brother told me that Franciszek actually didn't know of their oncoming arrival, and Amelia received a horrible beating for it. What a horrible man.

*  Amelia left her husband Franciszek Grządziel sometime after 1919 and was married to a man named Franciszek Bogusz, in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1922. Amelia never divorced her first husband, Frank Grządziel. Frank what I've been told of this man, I don't blame her for getting away.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - List Your Matrilineal Line(s)

Here are the rules, as posted on Randy Seaver's blog, for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun!!:

1) List your matrilineal line - your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother. Note: this line is how your mitochondrial DNA was passed to you!

2) Tell us if you have had your mitochondrial DNA tested, and if so, which Haplogroup you are in.

3) Post your responses on your own blog post, in Comments to this blog post, or in a Status line on Facebook or in your Stream at Google Plus.

4)  If you have done this before, please do your father's matrilineal line, or your grandfather's matrilineal line, or your spouse's matriliuneal line.

5)  Does this list spur you to find distant cousins that might share one of your matrilineal lines?  

Here's mine:

My matrilineal line is:

a) Nick M. Gombash
b) Réne Rodgers
c) Elaine Florella Stuempges (1926, Polar, WI -1987, Chicago, IL) married Thomas Thurman Rodgers
d) Sylvia Maria Bertha Hedwig Martin (1909, Polar, WI - 2008, Antigo, WI) married Walter John Stuempges
e) Maria Summ (1883, Antigo, WI - 1972, Antigo, WI) married Herman Wilhelm Gustav "Gust" Martin
f) Maria Blum (1860, Gutach, Germany - 1951, Norwood, WI) married Johann Georg Summ
g) Barbara Schneider (1824, Gutach, Germany - 1864, Gutach, Germany) married Georg Blum
h) Barbara Brohammer (1788, Gutach, Germany - 1856, Gutach, Germany) married Jacob Friedrich Schneider
i) Catharina Beilharz (1761, Hohenweg, Germany - 1818, Gutach, Germany) married Christian Brohammer
j) Barbara Winkler (? - ?) married Johann Jacob Beilharz
Similar to Randy, I also had my DNA tested and I came up as mtDNA Haplogroup K. We're cousins, Randy! :)

On my Gombash side, the matrilineal line of my father is:

a) John E. Gombash, Jr.
b) Mary Louise Adas (1940, Chicago, IL - 1986, Chicago, IL) married John E. Gombash, Sr.
c) Martha Violet Czarny (1911, Chicago, IL - 1989, Chicago, IL) married Edward Robert Adas, Sr.
d) Rozalia Sophia Wozniak (1887, Osobnica, Poland - 1959, Chicago, IL) married Wojciech Czarny
e) Agatha Turek (? - ?) married Wawrzyniec Wozniak

My Rodgers grandfather's matrilineal line is:

a)  Thomas Thurman Rodgers (1928, Duck Hill, MS - 1983, Paducah, KY) married Elaine Florella Stuempges
b)  Ellen Inez Martin (1902, Carrollton, MS - 1991, Jackson, MS) married Fred Lamar Rodgers
c)  Samatha Aylene Costilow (1869, Holmes Co, MS - 1908, Carroll Co, MS) married Samuel Christopher Columbus Martin
d)  Martha A. Miller (1836, AL? - 1877, Holmes/Yazoo Co, MS) married James Andrew J. Costilow

My Gombash grandfather's matrilineal line is:

a)  John E. Gombash, Sr. (1935, Caretta, WV - 2005, Joliet, IL)
b)  Catherine Anna Grządziel (1906, Barycz, Poland - 1970, Chicago, IL) married Alex Gombash
c)  Amelia Stec (1887/1888, Barycz, Poland - 1968, Cleveland, OH) married Frank Grządziel
d)  Sophia Zwiszek/Swiszek (? - ?) married Jan Stec