Another Family Member Found!

Beata has done it again! She has found another second cousin of Larry's! This time she was able to track down Dr. Ferdinand Hesek at the University of Bratislava. I don't know what his field is, but have asked him. Won't it be interesting if it's a genetics-related field?

In 1963, when Larry's great-uncle Tony made a trip to [then] Czechoslovakia for the ordination of his great nephew Augustine Drska, he did a wonderful job of taking pictures of all of the family groups. Unfortunately, they were only partially identified. We know this is Ferdinand's family and that he is probably the person on the far left. Uncle Tony is the gray-hair gentleman in the middle. I've sent the pic to Ferdinand for help in identification. There are others in the set which I intend to take with me when we go. I'll also really concentrate on taking pics of family members.

Note: I did a wonderful job of that when we went to the Valachovic Family Reunion last summer at Tom & Pat's home in Johnstown. Unfortunately, I haven't seen the pictures since. I have no idea what I did with them. You'd think it would be hard to lose them since they were on a disk and I did bring the disk home. No, I did not erase them--at least I don't think I did.

Now we are in touch with two cousin and are planning to meet both while in Slovakia--as well as Beata, the wonderful detective.