More Biacovsky Descendents

I am learning more and more about our family in Budimir through Katka. She is really fun to correspond with. It's really fun to learn more about life in Slovakia and about the family. It's really amazing to think that my great-grandfather grew up in the same place where she is living now. 

There is so much history in her town. It's fascinating to see it now, especially after hearing all the stories my grandmother told me about it.Katka sent us some pictures of her grandmother Alzbeta and her grandmother's sister and brother. They are all descendents of the Biacovsky family. Her siblings are Katherine and Andrew.

Of course, my grandmother never saw it, but she learned about it through my great-grandfather's stories of his youth. I can't even imagine what it must have been like for him to leave Budimir and head for the U.S. not really knowing what it would be like or what was going to happen to him. I believe he started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where my grandma was born and then moved to New Jersey when my grandmother was little. They lived in two different houses there, but only briefly in the first house.

There was a little rock in front of the first house where they lived in New Jersey and it apparently marked a place where George Washington passed. As a little girl, my grandmother would show "Here's where Washington passed!" to the few cars that passed by at that time.  It's hard for me to imagine her as a little girl, but stories like that one help to paint a picture of her as a child.

The only connection I had until we were introduced to Katka and her family were the food my grandmother made at the holidays and for special occasions and a couple of stories of when her father went back to Slovakia to visit the family. My

grandmother talked of some very tall cousins, which is apparently why my dad is so tall. She also spoke of us being related to the "Town Crier." 

She told me that my great-grandfather was a very good gardener. I learned later that he took care of the gardens of a castle or some large building. At his house in NJ, he proudly tended to his gorgeous garden. He loved plants and trees.

Each bit of information that we find out brings me closer to better understanding where my family comes from.