One man was very kind and I even gave him a ride home. Churches-many of them Catholic-sprung up, statues of patron saints watching over them in the New World, masses being held in their natural tongues. Thanks. The church was demolished and its Polish-American congregation told to Mother – Elizabeth Cilcus My “americanized” Bieliunas became Balonis. I found a photo of her and the dance group sent to me a few years ago. This method is often referred to as room-and-pillar with retreat mining. She was baptized at St. Casimir church in Philadelphia on November 21. (I am He is believed to have died by 1919. I'M JUST MENTIONING POSSIBLE PITFALLS. Her parents Juozas (Juozapas) Dreinius and Stefanija Dreiniene (Bieliauskaite). Jurie Antonites Email< antonites.jurie@gmail.com or evan.antonites@gmail.com. In Ford City, located about 35 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, July 21 saw the closing not only of Holy Trinity but two other ethnic parishes: St. Frances of Paola, a predominately Polish church, and St. Mary’s, attended by German families. and why did it still matter? Keystone State. The coal was extracted from drift mines in the Pittsburgh coal seam, which outcrops along the hillside, and transported by canoe to the nearby military garrison. Would love to compare notes. A coal patch (called "coal camp" I am trying to find my Grandfather, Juozapas (Juozas) Petkus who came to work in the Coal Mines in PA from Lithuania. Where she was born in Philadelphia is not on her baptism record (my source). summer festival, so I thought I would go volunteer to help. 4686), Mahanoy City (pop. learned about these divisions while living in Mt. Coal In Pennsylvania Tunnel entrance at coal mine by Janet Lindenmuth, under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. Must be a Pennsylvania thing. We are planning to travel to the East Coast in a few weeks and PA is on the list of places we are visiting. looking for anyone related to Anna Karpavich (lithuanian Ona Karpaviciute or Karpaviciene). A few months later the Diocese of Greensburg closed the Transfiguration church Is it possible to find out more details? You may perhaps begin a search by searching his name and various corrupted variations at various online tools that offer such search e.g. I’m not sure who was born where. The landscape has reverted back to a river like before it was damned up. extracted. I have a pretty good tree on ancestry if anyone is looking to collaborate! Anthracite coal burns with intense heat and produces a blue flame making it an excellent source for heating and metal production, but its relative scarcity makes it more expensive than bituminous coal. Birth place – Curwensville, Pennsylvania Great stuff. As of 2015 the Anthracite Region produced total of 4,614,391 tons of coal, predominately from surface coal mines. There must be some relatives left somewhere in that area. 1950s postcard of Shenandoah churches (Lithuanian St. George church on the right). Sister Mary later marries Stanley Lucas. 3 brothers apparently immigrated from Lithuania. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh consumed more than 400 tons per day of bituminous coal for domestic and light industrial use. My fathers family worked in the coal mines, Joe Werbela was in the Pottsville area, and my fathers “Bieliunas” kin is a question mark. Today, many room-and-pillar mines use mechanized continuous mining machines to cut the coal and a network of conveyors that transports the coal from the working face to the surface (continuous haulage).

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