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Polish surnames
The Poles add endings sort of at will to last names….so the root of the name is LASEK….but at some point the peasants wanted to sound more noble, so they added the “ski” like the rich folks, making it now Lasecki. Another ending is indicated with Josephine Garbaczyk’s name spelled as Garbacz on her wedding…
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Big Joe Moraniec
BIG JOE MORANIEC JOSEPH MORANIEC aka “BIG JOE” Jozef was born 20 Nov 1868 to Matheus (Max) Moraniec and Katarzyna Lipa in House#15, in the village of Bobrowa, Galicia, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the eldest of the couples’ four children and the only one to survive into adulthood. Sister Barbara was born…