Wordless Wednesday: Brook’s Shop Workers

Emmett Leonard Benjamin, Sr., (2nd row, 5th from the left), c. 1920 // Brooks Locomotive Works, Dunkirk, New York

Wordless Wednesday: Emmett Meets the Niedbalski’s

Left to right: Joseph Klawitter, V. Kubasik, John Zagara, Peter Wolnick, Jozef Niedbalski & Emmett Benjamin

Like Something Out of a Movie

If you want to get technical about it, I'm not actually related to the Niedbalski family of Dunkirk, New York. Aunt Rita is my great-grandmother's sister's husband's sister (say that one five times fast!), but she's always been a part of the Kuznicki clan. And because she never had any children of her own, she [...]

A Father’s Day Reunion

I've never been to a family reunion, but a few weeks ago, I found a copy of a newspaper article about a Father's Day family reunion held in 1945. It's a story from the almost-but-not-quite-related side of my family tree; my great-grandmother's sister's husband's sister never had any children, but she helped to raise my [...]

Wordless Wednesday: The Niedbalski’s

Jozef & Michilena (Kubasik) Niedbalski, 1942