Comments on: Genealogy and Social Media — #Genealogy, #Facebook http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/genealogy-and-social-media-genealogy-facebook/ A Muse-ing Tue, 21 May 2013 23:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kimberly Kowalski http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/genealogy-and-social-media-genealogy-facebook/#comment-1214 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 05:06:00 +0000 http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/?p=2773#comment-1214 Oh Cousin Mike,

Thanks for the mention in your blog post. I will always have in my Gawlikowski / Wlecialowski research binder, as the first page, a print out of my introductory email to you upon finding you online dated 7 July, 2006 which began: “Hello Mike, I saw your post on Rootsweb.com mentioning that you are related to the Adam / Antoni Gawlikowski family. I am daughter of Edward S. Gawlik(owski), son of Adam and Rose Gawlikowski, who lived on Fairchild Rd. in Chesterfield Twp. MI…..”

And the rest is history.

Agreed, it was a Bonanza. It was an amazing rush to find you online and the feeling only intensified as we exchanged family knowledge, documents, and pictures — ultimately through our collaboration we debunked the family story from our parents that the Gawlik and the Eliasz families were “just good friends.”

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Cousin Kim! Thanks for visiting my blog (1st time?) and commenting. The “pair-genealogical” research we did collaboratively was an amazing example that enriched both of our family trees.

–Stanczyk

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