The Golinski Line
General History
When I first delved into genealogy, I had a diagram showing my grandmother Antoinette Golinski having both her parents being united in their second marriages. Mrs. Kruczkowski, with three daughters named Frances, Josephine, and a Sister Hippolyte, married a Mr. Golinski with two boys from a previous marriage. I have come a long way since this modest beginning. I have done enough research to write a biography on Antoinette's mother, Agnes Andrykowski Kruczkowski Golinski. See the History section on this website for her biography. Of Agnes' other three daughters, none of them married. So there are no line of descendants here.
As for my grandmother Antoinette's father, I really have enough to write a proper biography, but am holding off until I can locate one final piece of his puzzle, his grave marker in Chicago. But his name was Thomas Golinski. Thomas arrived in the US and Chicago in 1876. His first wife was Dorothea Pappelbaum. They arrived with an infant son named Stanislaus. Later in 1887, they had a second son named Frank. Dorthea and their first daughter both died of childbirth complications six months before Thomas Golinski married my great grandmother Agnes Kruczkowski in 1890. I have located and just recently verified that Stanley Golinski died being single in 1909. He was one of the early Teamsters. I speculate that Stanley's brother Frank was most likely single also. Frank's buried alone, but along side of other Golinski family members. Frank doesn't even have a marker and there are absolutely no cemetery records whatsoever, except showing the plot of burial. So it currently appears that no line of descendants exist through Thomas Golinski's sons.
So my grandmother, Antoinette Golinski appears to be the only one to marry and have descendants. She married John Ryckowski in 1915. See the Ryckowski Photos for more current pictorial family history.
Current Research Projects
My trip to Chicago a couple years back finalized almost all of US documents that I was looking for. It did yield another Golinski son that I did not know about, a Joseph Golinski. But research makes me think that he just vanished off the face of the earth. Only time will tell if I will find an existing Golinski cousin line somewhere in Chicago!
Learning to translate Polish with my Zlotorzynski line did present me with further future research of Golinski in Poland. But this is currently down the road as I am swamped with other direct lines. The St. Stanislaus Kostka marriage Bann to my great grandmother Agnes Andrykowski Kruczkowski in 1890 does show the parish town of Seraku. All other US documents state the Golinski family was from Warsaw. But there is a town 10 miles northwest of Warsaw named Sierakow. When I finish up with my current projects, I will take a look at the local parish there. Perhaps I will find my Golinski family there. (04-24-07)
