In memory of Myron M. Felckowski (October 16, 1947 - September 25, 2015).

This website was started in 2005, and Myron's research has been available online since then. In Myron's legacy, his research will continue to remain available to the public.
This original database of Myron's will remain online to 2018 (three years after his death). Since March 2017, Myron's work in progress updated database is available at www.Bigalke.biz/myronfelckowski .
To contact the webmaster, Susan Chapman, please send an email.

Myron's interest in his ancestry began in 1992 when his mother's family Kawleski was researched by Jeanne Valerie Conrad–Tanghe
and Agnes Kawleski–Golla. The first Kawleski Family reunion was held that year with about 500 people attending the weekend
long event. A book about the history of the Kawleski family was available for all the descendants along with a video which contained
photos of the family since immigration in 1880–1881. The book was updated in 2004 as well as a CD being made which are available
at the Portage County Public Library along with the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point Archives Library.

The Felckowski (a/k/a Feltz – Filtz) family began its residence in the Township of Sharon, Portage County, Wisconsin before 1870
by emigrating from Hamburg, Germany on 01 May 1868 and arriving in Quebec, Canada on 16 Jul 1868. Based on the known ship records each
immigrant had about a 3ft X 3ft space to endure a journey of about 75 days. Since Poland as a nation only existed in the hearts of the
people at the time of the marriage of Simon Felckowski and Marianna Trawicka took place in Tuschkau, Lippusch, Berent, West Prussia now
known as Tuszkowy, Lipusz, Koscierzyna, Pomorskie, Poland.

Another branch of the Felckowski family (Peter Felckowski and Victoria Olszewska) immigrated in 1872 with residence in the Township of
Sharon before moving before 1900 to the Township of Pike Lake now Bevent, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Research is continuing by Brian Feltz,
a descendant of Simon and Marianna for a link between the families. A special thanks to Brian for all research done of the records in Poland
in finding the parents of Simon and Marianna.

Five children of Simon and Marianna with a son–in–law Mathias Literski, two grandchildren survived the ocean passage with all
settling in Portage County, Wisconsin. A daughter, Anna Felckowska married Jan (John) Gillmeister shortly after becoming a resident with the
oldest child being born in 1871. Another daughter of Anna and Jan, Suzanna Gilmeister was born on 06 Jun 1887 and she married Theodore N. Bigalke
on 10 May 1905 in Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Polonia, Sharon, Portage County, Wisconsin

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Family genealogy file is updated as additional data becomes available.

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