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From: "David O'Sada" <>
Subject: Re: Trip
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 21:53:48 -0400
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Irene and others searching,

Been there done that!! I just got back from Hazleton, and had mostly very
good luck, and a few disappointments. I had some very good luck at the
Transfiguration Church. Here is the email address for "Father Bob",
. He is the Priest at Transfiguration Church. We
wrote him and told him we were coming to Hazleton and looking for my GF who
died in 1913, and I got ZERO RESULTS from Newcastle when I wrote to them for
death record info. Father Bob told us he had some info on an "Osada" in
1913!! We called him before we went there, and he asked us (my brother and
me) to come over. He is a Young Priest, who is probably 30, but looks 20-25.
He was a great help. He got his 1910 through 1913 church books, and we found
Baptism records for several of my Aunts and Second Cousins. And best of all,
we found my GF. We have been looking for him for 7-8 years, and according to
what everyone told us, including my father,
his name was Joseph S. Osada and he died in 1913. For those 7-8 years we
have drawn a blank. This week in Hazleton, Father Bob solved our mystery!
He was shown between 1910-1912 as the Father of an Aunt and an Uncle. He was
also shown to be the godfather to two of my second cousins. I saw his actual
signature, STANISLAUS OSADA! He was going by his middle name!!! I had never
thought of that. But there it was, he died Jan. 28, 1913 and was buried on
Jan. 30, 1913. We gave Father Bob a nice donation and thanked him profusely!
During the same week, we went to Wilkes-Barre searching the courthouse for
records of our other GF (and his brothers), we were looking for "Letters of
Intent". Using the same information we obtained on my other GF, we started
looking through the Courthouse records, using his middle name and last name.
Well, we did find him, but not with his middle name, just a variation of his
whole name. His name at birth was Vincent Janowski. In the past several
years, we have found the Janowski clan using different variations of this
name. The "J" in Polish is pronounced "Y". So we looked for him under :
Janowski - Janoski - Yanowski - Yanoski! He was sometimes called William,
who said it was HIS middle hame. So I looked there, under the "W's". Guess
what!? No, it wasn't under his middle name, but they spelled his name
Wincenty Yanoski . In Polish and German and several other European
languages, the "W" is pronounced a "V".
So the lesson here is this, use ALL variations of the Name of the person you
are looking for, and also try the middle name, and most important...........
stick with it!

Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Irene J. Landenberger" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 4:02 PM
Subject: Trip


> Considering a trip to Hazleton, end of Sept. Need suugestions for
> inexpensive place to stay, eat etc. Also, best places to research. Would
> like to find obit for uncle ~1943. Marriage of grandparents~1904. Where
is
> Transfiguration cemetary? Is it close to the church? Irene
>
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