I’ve been getting quite a few more messages and comments regarding the name so I decided to throw this back on the front page.
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My Dad put together a brief summary of what he has discovered while researching the Slazyk name. Here is what he has sent me:
I have a large amount of information on my grandfather. John Peter Slazyk was born in what was then called the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He was born in “Galiczja” which is near present day Krakow on April 21, 1883. He married in the USA Mary Folwarski from Novy Targ born January 6, 1891. I have both of their Austria-Hungarian passports in my possession. The both migrated to the USA before WW I and were married here. John (my grandfather) died Nov. 15,1956 in Chicago and Mary (my grandmother) died March 18,1971,
They John & Mary had 5 children:
Ann b. April 1913 died 2 days after birth
Stanley b. Sept. 29, 1914 (My father) who died June 18, 1983
Walter b. Oct. 14, 1915 –D. May 15, 1948
Frank b. Nov. 1919 –D. July 11, 1939
Helen b. May 12, 1924 — D approx 2 years ago
I am the only son of Stanley and I have 2 living sisters. I was born 8/29/1941
I have three sons all living. David, Daniel and Damon we all are living in Southern California, while my two sisters live in Illinois and Florida. I do have a picture of “Tony” Anton and my grandfather up to there knees in beer. I have to dig it out of my files to have it copied. Tony’s son Ted lives in Farmers Branch, Texas, but I have not been in touch with him for a couple of years.
More to come,
Please bear with me on this.
John Lawrence Slazyk
I have received my National Geographic Genographic DNA information. The map of DNA path takes me up into Russia, farther North than I imagined it would. As I know my grandparents on my Father’s side came from Austro-Hungarian Empire and SouthEast Poland in 1900′s, it’s obvious that my relatives went North and migrated back South to more moderate climates. In addition, it would seem that my family were farmers, or lived in rural and small town areas, based upon where they lived in Poland.
Good to see you’re ok. I’m still waiting for photo of your grandfather and my father Tony standing in beer.A lot has happened since writing to you last. I did keep in touch with Mary until her letters suddenly stopped. I later found out she had passed. Then your email changed, and yatta, yatta, yatta. kSend me your email address and maybe we can get started up again.
Cousin Ted
Ted I need your current e-mail address. I guess that you are still in Farmers Branch TX.
I am still trying to locate that photo. I loaned it out to one of my sons and as soon as it turns up I will copy you. My aunt Helen has since passed away and I will check with her son Michael to see if he has more of the old photos of the Slazyk Family.
My husbands name is Roy Slazyk. His family is from Galicia also. I wonder if he is related to all of you. His grandfathers name was Martin Slazyk. My maternal grandfather was from Galicia also. From what I was told, his family moved to Galicia when he was 7 years old. My grandfathers name was Antoni Gryzbek. The last name is also spelled Grzybek, and Grebek. He was born in Austria, and was 1 of 15 children.
Do you have a list of the family surnames???
My maiden name is Slazyk. Father Edward, son of John or Jan, was born in 1914 and lived in the Buffalo, NY area.
Austro-Hungarian roots. Edward died in 1974. Had three children, William (Atlanta, GA), Barbara (Buffalo) and Judith (Buffalo). Understand the name is very popular – perhaps like Smith would be in the states. Is this true? Any information welcome.
I am glad to see so much interest in the Slazyk genealogy. I have gotten 4 or 5 rolls of films from the Mormon Church that run from 1600 to present. In those rolls are the birth, deaths, marriages, etc. of the Slazyk family in the area of Starawies and Limanowa, Poland , which is were we have traced the Slazyk family name too. If Mary Ellen and Barbara Slazyk could please respond to me via my e-mail of got2danze4him@cs.com and give me the complete names of all family relatives from Poland, and any birth dates and any family history back as far as you have it, I would appreciated it. The films are in Latin and it is taking me a long long time to read them and then translate what I see. I will share what I find with you, but the information will be slow in coming, just bear with me. I really hope to get as much of a complete family tree as I can.
John, by the way, have you been able to find the picture of Anton and your grandfather standing in the beer ??
Hi John, My email address is, tslazyk@aol.com, and would like your address to take up where we left off. When our son David died in 1999, Lyn and I tried to escape reality by doing a lot of traveling. It didn’t do much good, but a least we are now able to talk about it. I hope this Christmas finds you and yours in good health and spirit. This Christmas we will be visiting our daughter in California. We used to do a lot of decorating and cooking for family and friends, but don’t have our hearts in it any more. Everything now evolves around my daughter and grandson, who is now nine and beats me in chess. Lyn is chipper as a teenager, and I am becoming a bionic man with two hip replacements, colon cancer, and now having plastic implants to get rid of cataracts. The way I figure it, I should have been dead years ago, but I’ve got a doctor who likes the money I spend staying alive. Hope this gets to you and are able to fill me in of what’s been happening the past five or six years.
Cousin Ted
hi there:
I have a painting dated 1968 and signed by lyn and t-slazyk. wondering if you could help me find any info.
hang in there bionic man.
Thank you & God bless
Hello! My name is Krzysztof Slazyk, I live in Poland. I discovered this site when I was looking for registered domains with “Slazyk” name.
My father’s name is Tadeusz, his father was Walenty and his grandfather was Andrzej (Andrew). My father was born in Slopnice near Limanowa, it’s about 70 km from Krakow (Cracow). This area was called Galicja (Galicia) and was a part of Austrian-Hungarian Empire. My father remembers that someone from his grandfather’s family went to US but he doesn’t know his name.
There is a church from 17th century in Slopnice and my father says we could do some research in papers there at parish. I think it could be interesting. If someone is interested please let me know, so I will be more motivated.
I should mention that in polish “Slazyk” is written with accent on “S” and the name “Slazyk” is quite popular in the area of Slopnice and Limanowa.
Best wishes to all of you Slazyks!
Hello Krzysztof. Yes. It would be great if you could find out more information and post it here on the website. Thank you for contacting the “US Slazyks”.
Hi, I also found this site by fluke and found it interesting to find others with the last name Slazyk as I have never met or heard of any before. I am also of Polish background and was born in Limanowa. Unfortunately I cant trace back my family tree that far since most of my older relatives have passed away. This is an interesting site and I look forward to see how far back the name can be traced.
Hello. Wow… this is very interesteing. I re-found this web site and saw the additional comments. I will try to write to you Bonnie when I get a moment
Oh I should note in our Buffalo area is another Slazyk family, distant cousins of my father. The head of the family was Rudy and there was a son, Frank, among the children. Rudy, I believe has passed on but there are others in the area.
How exciting to see SO many Slazyks. My father is Edward J. Slazyk, son of Martin (“Marcin”) and Victoria (Lisek) Slazyk – born 2-25-1920. My father had one brother Martin Jr (deceased). Martin had four sons, Robert, Roy, Bruce and Martin. I understand my Dad’s people were from the Austrian border as well. There are relatives in Buffalo, NY — but I believe that was on my paternal grandmother Victoria’ Lisek Slazyk’s side of the family.
Interested in hearing from everyone regarding the family name/history.
Just another quick post to add my email address:
mlc07@sbcglobal.net –
Thanks…
I visited Novy Targ where Mary Folvarski, my Grandmother lived. Novy Targ is beautiful i area n the foothills of the Tatra mountains near the boarder of the Slovak Republic. It’s rural, and mountainous. I would compar Novy Targ to a small town in Colorado. Krakow is a wonderful city, untouched physically by WWII and recovering from the Iron Curtain/Cold War era. People were wonderful, hard working and extremely friendly. Many, Many spoke English. Galicia is like a county or township and one of the primary towns is Oscwiziem. Many small towns dot the Galician area and the heart of each town is the Catholic Church. Oswieziem has factories as well as rural area. It’s a hub for railroads as well. Needless to say, outside of Oswizeim, about 3 miles, is the Auschwitz I, Auschitz-Birkenau and Auschwitz II WWII camps. I have many photos of these areas and would be happy to send them to David Slazyk to post.
hey. its good to know that there are others with the last name slazyk. i thought i was the only one.
Marsha, I have posted above.
Our father’s name is Edward J. Slazyk also born Oct. 8, 1914.
We are in Buffalo, NY area. I am married, 54 and live just outside of Buffalo.
Also Dad had the Rudolph Slazyk relation sand there were some John Slazyks in Lewiston, NY just north of Buffalo near Niagara Falls.
Could we be related?
Where are you from?
Barbara Lipa (Slazyk)
Wow. It’s amazing to see all of the Slazyks out there. Funny to think that when I was growing up in California I thought my immediate family were the only ones in the country.
Hello, Barbara Lipa ! I´m looking for Lipa´s family, from Ukraine. Could you help me ? I´m from Brazil. Thanks, Zuleika
Hello Zuleika. I am sorry but maybe someone else could give more info on Ukrainian roots. I know my dad had the Austrian/ Hungarian roots but not sure of the area or how to go about finding it. Interested in
Jane Lockett’s National Geographic Genographic DNA information. How did you do this? Also wouldn’t it be neat for us to hold a Slazyk get together perhaps? I know, I know… the work and pretty much a challenge and it may never happen. Still I find if quite fasinating to explore my past never realizing there were so many of us. Found out I was not related to Marsha (Hi, Marsha!) Also there are so many similar first names besides the surname. Thank you, David for building this site.
There are more Slazyk’s in Canada. Great site!
Matt
Hello, Zuleika again. Checked with spouse and he is not sure about Lipa’s from Ukraine though that Lipa name also is interesting (lipa can refer to the linden tree and has some association with Blessed Virgin among other items of interest) We have also e-mailed some Lipas in Poland. Anyway interested in Matt’s Slazyk’s in Canada.That is new information
As I mentioned in a recent post, I am running Google apps for the domain slazyk.com. Those of you interested in a yourname@slazyk.com email address please let me know. The mail account and contents are stored with Google just like their Gmail accounts.
hello, I don’t speak english, but polish and french. My name is Jolanta Folwarska, I live in France. My grandfather – Jan Folwarski – is died in april 1973, in Rokiciny Podhalanskie, he was born abaut 20 km from Nowy Targ. Perhaps we are from the same family FOLWARSKI? It is possible that they came from the same family, my grandfather and your big – mother!
I was born in 1975 in Rabka (Poland)
Thank you very much, Barbara ! I´d lost this page and only today I sau it !!!!!
I´mgoing on searching. My mother´s aunt was Anastasia Slobodian, married Franciscus Lipa, son of Casimirus and Eudoxia Frankow. Franciscus was born on March 15 1910. They had a son, Demetrius, born on April1936. They lived in Medwedowce ( near Buczacz, today Buchach, Ukraine ) and probably was reallocated to Poland during the operation Wistula.
Excuse my English. All the best,
Zuleika
yes, i knew frank slazyk of buffalo new york. My name
is greg brasher, one of his closest friends. I lost touch
with him when i joined the navy.
Hi i saw the slazyks on the net my name is stanislaw slazyk
I live in Australia my father died his name was Ludwik.
We migrated to Australia in 1950.His brother which we lost contact with his name is Jo`zef we think he lives near Wroclaw
a small place called Oles`nica/ Wabienice.
I have to boys Matthew and Daniel.
My wife and i are going to Poland June 2008
Hello Stanislaw, thank you for stopping by. Feel free to update us on your trip later this year.
I am the son of Frank C. Slazyk who lives in Buffalo his mother is Rose and her mother was “Rudy” I know they came from Poland, Warsaw or Krakow? I have a brother who has a son and I also have a son and we are all named Frank. I also know my Fathers brothers name was Chester and I think he had more. Would love to help trace in any way I can. ” Polish Forever”
Hello Frank. Thank you for stopping by.
My wife, Patricia, is one of three daughters of Rudy Slazyk of Buffalo NY. Rudy did not have any sons (no Frank) but had a brother and half-sister. His mother died in the flu epidemic of 1918 near Holland, NY and he was raised by another family there before moving into Buffalo, where he married Helen Serwacki. His father later remarried and reconnected with him. Rudy Slazyk was well known and respected in Buffalo as he owned and managed a large plumbing company (Rudy Slazyk Plumbing and Heating) and was on the boards of several philanthropic and educational institutions,
I am sure my wife could add more details about his mother and father if contacted at plake[at]twcny.rr.com
Thanks.
Thanks for stopping by Dan. I’m sure someone will get in touch to find out more information.
Hey watz up slazyks my email is andjeter2@yahoo.com
ANdrew Dude talk if your real slazyk blood
Hello, my name is Agata. My surmane is Kowalska, but my grandfather was Slazyk. Me and my familly live in Poland. I’m writing here, because my sister found on this website infomations about our familly, who live in Austalia. We read Mr Stanislaw Slazyk message. My grandfather’s name was Józef. After II world war he lived in Jemielna near Wabienice/Oleśnica near Wroclaw. Later the familly – granfather Józef, grandmother Stanisława, my mum – Genowefa, uncles – Stefan and Kazimierz lived in Miłowice, also near Oleśnica. Granfather had brother who emigrated to Australia. They had contact until about 70′s. I remember I saw the Christmas foto from Australia with grandfather’s brother and his son. I’m so sorry that we read Mr Stanisław message so late. Is any possibilities for contact with Mr Stanisław Slazyk from Viktoria, Australia??? I’m writing as familly delegate
Sorry for my English.
I’ll be very grateful for any information how to find contact with Mr Stanisław Slazyk.
Agata Kowalska
Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: dobrila[at]wp[dot]pl
Hello Agata, I don’t know of any connection to Viktoria, Australia. It appears that our relatives are from the Krakow area, and they migrated directly to US. Jane Slazyk Lockett
Wow, what an interesting site. My mom was Helen Slazyk, the daughter of Mary Folwarski and John Slazyk. To update a previous post she died on May 11, 2001. The only tidbit I can add is that her mother (Mary Folwarski) came to America because her mother had remarried and, as I’ve been told, her step-father thought it would be better if she were not around. My mom often talked about relatives in Minnesota and also in Sawyer, Michigan. My maiden name is Majkrzak, daughter of Helen Slazyk and John Majkrzak. Someday I hope to visit Poland and see where my family came from! I have boxes stored after mom died and I will go through them this summer to see if I can add anything to the information already gathered.
@Dan Lake (husband of Patricia Slazyk)
I remember we had a family member,/cousin/something, named “Father Ray”live in Buffalo. My parents, Marie Slazyk and Stanley Slazyk from Chicago flew ( on a turbo prop plane from Midway airport) to his funeral. In addition, we had additional cousins in Wisconsin, named “Garbacz” (spelling unsure) and somehow I think they maybe were linked. Take a look at my LinkedIn and Facebook sites as well. Jane Slazyk Lockett or or email me a jane.ann.lockett@gmail.com
I’ve been told by some credible sources, (Benny the bookie, of Rikers Island, New York) That any one born with the name “Slazyk”, spelled the same way, we all share the same genes: (Those little rascals floating around our Polish bodies, and not the pants made by Levi’s) That means if any one needs a Kidney, all they have to do is do a post here. Right David? I was born in Chicago in 1934 (yeah, that’s right it won’t be long now. Don’t try to count, I’m 77) My father was Anton, or Tony, Slazyk and was the brother of John Slazyk who is the great grandfather of David who sponsors this post. That makes David my… Well never mind. A kidney doner if I need one. I had two brothers, Raymond and Stanley, and a sister Virginia. My Sister married John Michalski and lived a long while in Michigan. She had kids that I’d never seen or talked to, old timers by now. My brother Stanley, married a beautiful gal by the name Marcella, and also had a bunch of kids that should be drawing Social Security by now. My brother Ray became my legal guardian after my mother, Blanche, and Tony my dad, cashed in their chips early in the fourties. Ray married a girl from a little town in north central Kansas named, Downs, while stationed there guardian German POW’s. Poor little orphan-me, had no place to go, so Ray grabbed me and pulled me into that little Hell Hole named Downs. Can you imagine a street kid from Chicago suddenly brought down into a wheat growing community full of kids wearing bib overhauls? I hated it, so at 16, I ran away from home, taking a bus back to Chicago. From Chicago, I took my first plane ride to New York and got a job at the Waldorf-Astoria as a page. As soon as I was 18, I joined the U.S. Marines and was sent to Korea. Now some guys, especially draftees will bad mouth the Army or Marine Corps. Not me. The Corps became my home. Geeez. They fed me, clothed me, gave me a sense of purpose, and the roof didn’t leak over my bunk. And they didn’t charge me a dime.
The only problem was, you had to agree to shoot the enemy, whoever they were, or get shot by them. Hey, no problem. sounds like the streets of Chicago. Just point me in the right direction. After Korea and a couple of years in Japan, I was sent back stateside and eventually met the most wonderful woman in the world: Lyn Bartholomew, on a blind date to the bull fights in Tijuana, Mexico. This was a match of a guy who said “aint” to an educated woman who would correct me. What in the hell did she see in me? I did look pretty good in my uniform emblazened with my decorations, but now I know that was not it. After 53 years of marriage we morphed into one. She can tell what I’m thinking well before I think it. We recently moved from Texas to Costa mesa, California, where we will plant the flowers that will grow well after we’re gone. Keep a lookout in the Obituaries – I do. To see if we’re listed. Chio!
Great post Ted. After my stint in the Navy, I’m not sure you’d want one of my kidneys.
Would like to get in touch with children of Stanley Slazyk wife Marcella living somewhere in Michigan, Wisconsin or wherever. Stanley was my brother although I haven”t seen him since I was a little kid, around six, when my mother died. All I know is that he is buried in Resurrection cemetery next to his mother and father, Anton and Blanche Slazyk. Thank you kindly.