New Yuhas Stuff

Well this is actually about Grandpa's mom Julia. I have found Grandpa's uncle Charles Panyko in Warren Oh. He has some really good stuff on his 1930 Census and his WWI draft card. They both show his birth place as the same place.

Let me first say, I know this is him because Grandpa used to tell us how he went to his "aunt's" house in Warren Ohio to work for clothes. Julia has on her SSN as her maiden name as Paukovic. Grandpa said the aunt's name was "PANKO". He couldn't remember her name but said the uncle's name was "Charles". Well I figured Charles must be the brother of Julia. It actually ended up being "Panyko".

I found a Charles Panyko in Trumbell Ohio, close to Warren. In the 1930 Census it showed him at 41 years old and they had a little 12 yr old girl with them named Helen Yuhasz, listed on the census as Charles' niece. BINGO!!!

So anyway, he gave me a lot more clearer picture to cross the pond for Julia's side. They kept refering to a town called TEKEHAZA HUNGARY (Tekozo). After some research I come to find out that Tekehaza is not in Hungary, but in the Ukraine (See VINOGRADOV, UKRAINE). Supposedly Tekehaza is 7km outside of Vinogradov.

This still would have been in Hungarian rule up until WWI, thus the Tekehaza Hungary on all of Charles Panyko's papers. Pretty cool history about this region - always changing hands.

If anyone wants to take off with this one, this gives us the jump to Hungary (Ukraine). There is a 1869 Census in Hungary (Ukraine) that might be promising.

I think that John Yuhas is still from a place called "HYABATOR" Hungary, which is not too far off from where Julia's family is from. I will follow this lead and keep you posted.

The Yuhas Journey

So I have been lucky enough in the past few weeks to finally find some stuff out about Grandpa. I know there have been many past missions that have failed and mine may be no different. But I would like to share some of the cool stuff I have found out about him.

In the 1920 Census, he was in East Chicago in a place Hammond, Lake County, Indiana.

Sorry for the poor quality. I will be more than happy to send the original (copy) to anyone. It basically says there was John Yuhas (abt 32), Julia (abt 23), John (4), Helen (2yrs 8m) and Joe (3 months).

They also live right next to a man by the name Louis Yuhas who immigrated in 1912 at the same time that John did. Could be a brother. He is 29 yrs old, so a few years younger. He is listed as a permanent resident, where John and Julia are both illegal aliens.

All of the kids are shown as being born in Pennsylvania. John is a Machinest at "Mack Mfg. Co."

Because of this new finding I looked for other family documents with INDIANA in mind or Chicago. I have a pretty good lead about his dad's whereabouts with a 1917 WWI Draft Card.

I showed both of these to Grandpa and tears came to his eyes. He says "Hammond" now sounds familiar. Notice that the draft card gives a place/date of birth. I personally think that it is "Hyabator, Hungary" but any guesses would help.

He also got pretty excited to see some of this stuff and after a night's sleep he had more information about his childhood.

He said that he would have gone into an orphanage at the age of three, putting that date to 1922. He remembers it to be St. Paul's Orphanage in Pittsburgh. He was there until he was 13, so until 1935 or so. When he got out, he stayed with his mom for just a short time. He then stayed with a Sargeant of Police with the last name of "Weber". He says that's where he would have been in 1940. Then he joined the Air Corps on Oct 23, 1941. I have that document, but it can't be attached.

He says he really can't remember for sure if his mom and dad were married before they came to the US. So looking for Julia can get difficult. She had a 1937 social security card with "Paukovic" as her maiden name, but Grandpa says it was "Pankovic", because the Aunt he use to go see in Warren Ohio used the name of "Panko".

Anyways there has been a lot of info traded to me from Grandpa and I would like to get as much from anybody else as possible.

Here are some pictures that have been sent to me of the St. Paul's Orphanage. I have sent away to the Diacese of Pittsburgh to see if we can get more that are a little more of time of 1922 -1935.

Enjoy!

Soccer MADNESS!!!

Miagen played his first soccer game this weekend and it was all the fun that soccer is meant to be. His first practice was at 2:30 and the game was at 3:00. SO as you can imagine the team was good. They only lost 5-1. Miagen was quick and athletic, but forgot which way the goal was and thought he was playing football (Amercina). I think he pancaked everyone on the other team and half of his own team. He thought it was great to go flying in to the nest of kids and tackle them (Americana). He has been practicing all week and I got him a futbol (Mexicana) this week to practice the next few weeks.

WATCH OUT REAL!!!!

GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Rex Kennedy expirement!

Yes it is football season once again and I have found a home with my old coaches Rex Kennedy and Bob Taylor coaching for the Alta Jr. team.

Dave has been helping me or I think it is supposed to be the other way around. It's fun to get back into coaching even though I thought at first we had the only team of all dyslexic kids. You tell them left they go right. You say 4 hole and they manage to all in unison go left. I was pretty frustrated with them.

Our offense is run in a very "fluid" fashion to say the least. If something isn't right the play just gets an "option" thrown in with it. It was kind of comical last night. Rex had to leave to weigh in a kid, so I ran the offense. I had no clue what his formations were so I left that up to the quarter back and just told them the type of play they should run. We were the most successful I had seen in any scrimmage yet and the kids knew it too. I finally saw some progress. Rex came back and things stalled again. I think he had secretly gone to Andy Ludwig's house for some pointers!

Go Utes!

For all you new comers!

I hope you will all enjoy my blogg, but as you can tell I have not been too faithful because I didn't think anyone else was listening. It was also initially intended for the use of the whole family to share photos and funny stories. If you want access to be a contributor to the blogg I have to give you permission. Jer and Heidi both have it, but others can come online too. Just let me know.

I try to keep most of my post's at PG-13, but sometimes the FCC cracks down because I use too many "F" bombs! (They only allow 6) :)

So, go ahead and listen, contribute or just enjoy.

I will start you out with a video clip that we just found of (SPIDER JOSEPH & UNDERWEAR BOY).

Old but REAL FUNNY!!!

Just a few photos of the kids and some deer that we saw this weekend. Also one video of a decent buck but not the biggest at all. Miagen and Joseph with their new bikes!

I just love this picture. It looks as though Kristen is saying, "Okay guys, this is how we are going to get more candy from Mom!"

The most recent family photo. It is really hard to find a picture that Ethel will give her blessing to post.

Few and Far Between

Yeah, Yeah, it has been awhile. Nobody listens to me anyway.

Since the last entry we have had some good moments. We went on our summer vacation and it was very similar to the movie with the same title other than "Grandma" didn't die on us. If she did you better bet I was strapping her to the top of the car and she would have been dropped off in MONTROSE South Dakota (it was her favorite place anyway).

It really was a lot of fun. On the way up we drove through Wyoming, Montana, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. We went to Martins Cove, The Little Bighorn and little "museums" along the way. It seems if your town is less than 400 people in Montana you have to have a museum in comparison to Utah where if it's less than that amount then you have to marry a cousin.

They were all good places and interesting to see. We saw plenty of antelope in Wyoming and I really enjoyed the Buffalo area.

In Cross Lake we did the same old stuff, listening to everyone bitch about the other and how they will all come down in the fall - Yeah right! I just let them say their say. Oh and I won BINGO! Eat dabbers all you old ladies!

On the way back we went through North Dakota, South Dakota and yes, beautiful Wyoming. I was actually shocked by the Dakotas. In a way they were really beautiful in a pancake type way. North Dakota seemed to be booming and had it's beautiful spots. South Dakota was a lot of fun. The very first mile we were sucked into the novels they have for interstate signs. There were advertising signs every mile for the "GREAT CORN PALACE", "1880 Town" and "Wall Drug". We had no idea what these places were and like I said we were sucked in. We stopped at all of them.

First was the "Corn Palace" which was in Mitchell South Dakota. This palace of literal corn is made into a new designed palace every year with a different theme. It was cool to think corn is still used for what it was put on earth for (art) not just ethanol.

Second was "1880 Town". For what seemed 880 miles we were tempted into meeting "Cisco" the horse from "Dances with Wolves". Miagen was so excited to get his picture taken with it as was I. But to our disappointment Cisco met his demise a year early in a logging accident. He was 107 years old. Your my boy "CISCO"!!! ANYWAY...

This whole town was just like walking through a town in 1880. Complete with skinny dancing girl (who professed she had only two lessons) and BIG JIM at the bar. I will try to post pictures if I can get them scanned.

Third was Wall Drug. If all the other interstate signs were novels, then Wall Drug was the "Iliad". We had no idea what this place was. This place used every broken down tractor, farm house and shot up freezer in the field to advertise. Much to our surprise it was a neat little set of stores where you could eat under a log where Butch Cassidy had once taken a poop and Sundance had buried it. It was a lot of fun and the kids had a blast

We went to Mt. Rushmore for 5 minutes and then off to The Crazy Horse Memorial where Ethel had the infamous "FLAG CEREMONY". We got to meet the daughter of the man who thought up the mountain carving. Her name was Anne. They had all these great big flags of all these tribes from around North America. I bet she was pleased to see Ethel's little flag, knowing she wouldn't need a ladder to hang it up. It was fun.

LAST...

The best thing about South Dakota was MONTROSE!!!! This is where Grandma Jeanne had to use the bathroom. She had been doing the Pee Pee Dance for awhile and said for me to take the next exit. She said it looked like a good place to stop. I started getting that feeling as we went further and further into town, that this place was like one of those towns that you see in the movies where people are never heard of again. We never did get to the restroom and when the guy with the chainsaw came out from the river bottoms I just got the hell outta there.

All and all it was a long trip! But it is one that I will never forget...

Knocking little men down!

So last night I was able to do 40 minutes on a bike and 20 minutes on the stair climber (ouch)! I also played ward basketball at 9:00 last night. What a joke. It is nice to know that some things never change. This is the second time playing with this ward up here in Draper. So far I have kept my cool. It is a sport that I don't get too excited about, but you always have these little shits that think they are in the NBA finals.

I first want to say how bad I suck at basketball, but I go to just run up and down the court. Anyway, this little puke (who was an all star) kept getting into it with everyone.

The first game he was on my team and I made a bad pass to him and we lost. He said something under his breath and went and moped in the corner until we played again. It all finally came to a head when I went up for a rebound and he bounced of me like a ricocheting bullet. He got up and said, "You have got to be serious?" I just kept running down the court and said, "I am dead serious!"

The next series down the court I could tell he was looking to get back at me. It's just a look in peoples eyes. He came running at me full steam, I just laid him out. It was kinda funny. He got up all pissed and was in my face. I just said that I was leaving. I let him stand up to the big man so he could message his ego.

Before I left I walked right up to him, pretty much to scare the living shit out of him. I just shook his hand and apologized.

It was church ball after all!

It's Been awhile

Sorry everyone,

Even though I know that nobody reads this, it has been awhile since my last post. I haven't been losing too much weight and I had pneumonia which made it hard. But I am back on it.

I have decided that I want to be able to hike 3 miles consistently without getting too winded.

I am going to try and start posting pictures soon.

That's it for now.

Jesse