First off all Eliasz/Elias/Elijasz/Elyasz/Heliasz/Eljasz from Pacanow are indeed related to me. There are also Siwiec related to me to. Pacanow is a small enough place that many families inter-marry with some regularity.

Nancy, I am a genealogist and as such I have more info in Eliasz/Siwiec in my family tree. It is a public tree on Ancestry.com:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/898037/person/-2031136272 ( A link to Theresa Siwiec). There is also a Mary Siwiec.

On ancestry you can find a Julian Eliasz (Elijasz) from Pacanow crossing from Canada to NY a time or two. These Niagara Eliasz and the Buffalo Eliasz I believe are related to me, but I am missing the connecting link to hook them definitively into my tree.

My grandfather’s brother (Jan Eliasz/Elijasz) went to Niagara Falls before comign to Detroit, MI to be with my grandfather and a grand-aunt of mine named Mary Elijasz Gronek. So we have Jozef (my grandfather), Mary and Jan Eliasz in Detroit, MI area. There was also a Stanislaw Elijasz(aka Elyasz) in Detroit, that I believe was a first cousin to my grandfather. There was another Elijasz family in Toledo, OH area that again must have been cousins to my grandfather: Wiktoria, Wincenty and Pawel (also temporarily there was another Jan who went back to Pacanow). These Eliasz are descended from the Jozef Eliasz (aka Heliasz) that married Theresa Siwiec. These Toledo Elijasz however were from another wife of Jozef’s (Petronella Zwolski).

I have traded emails with a very kind Polish woman who is great-granddaughter of Theresa Siwiec Elijasz (aka Heliasz). She still lives in Poland and is from Biechow (near Pacanow). Her maiden name was Heliasz and her married name is Kapusta. I wrote about her early on in my blog. She got me my grandparents’ marriage record from Biechow church!

I know very little about the Niagara/Buffalo Eliasz. Do you have a family tree with these Eliasz in them by any chance?