Tuesday, January 17, 2017

More Gemza Names: Great News and a Little Bad News

As I described in this post, I wrote to the Bridgeport, Connecticut Vital Records Office to request death certificates for Stefan Ramik and Peter Gemza (Stefan's Uncle). Those came today! The reason Peter Gemza's death certificate was important to get is because neither of Stefan's parents came to America so we don't have any records for them, but his mother's brother --Peter-- did come to America. His death certificate contains information about *his* parents, who would be Stefan's grandparents.

New Names:

  • Stefan Ramik's Mother & Father:
    • Joseph Ramik (my great-great-grandfather)
    • Anna Gemza (my great-great-grandmother)
  • Anna Gemza's Father & Mother (via the death certificate of Anna's brother Peter Gemza):
    • Jacob Gemza (my great-great-great-grandfather)
    • "Unobtainable"  (my great-great-great-grandmother)


Death Certificate for Stefan Ramik, my great-Grandfather:



Death Certificate for Peter Gemza, who was Stefan Ramik's Uncle:

Unfortunately it appears that Eva Gemza (Peter's wife) did not know the first or maiden names for her husband's mother. So we don't know Jacob Gemza's wife name, my g-g-g-grandmother. It says "Unobtainable".

The tree looks like this now:

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