Wednesday's Child -- Anne Vidunas

The Levittown Times (Levittown, Pennsylvania
24 August 1965, page 3
Downloaded 10 March 2017
from Newspapers.com

I don't know anything about this little girl, Anne Vidunas, except she would be about 5 years old in 1965. This puts her birth date about 1960, and she would be 57 years old in 2017.

Do you know who this might be?  If so, contact me using the form on the right.

If my premise is correct, this would be a cousin of some sort.

Wonderful Resources

I found a few wonderful resources in my research.  I will list them here for two reasons.  First is a selfish one -- I want to be able to quickly find them to use them again.  Second is to share with you, my fellow family historian.  I will add more as I find them.

1. Historic Map Works -- the subtitle is residential genealogy.  I have only searched two surnames and one residence and I like what I see.
2. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps -- I used this when researching my Vidunas clan in Pennsylvania.  I could really see how close they lived to the mines, the new school built of bricks and that they were within walking distance of their church.
3. Gjenvick Passenger Lists of Ellis Island -- I found my Vidunas immigrants using this site
4. The Map search of land ownership from the Library of Congress.  It can be a bit tricky to use, but you can search by state then by county.  Once you get the "slideshow" up, typically you have to click on the words on the slide from which you can find and search for your desired county.
5. A place to purchase maps.  You can download a small resolution map for 5$, or a printable version for 20$.  I don't know about you, but that seems very expensive.  Especially when your purchased item comes with their watermark all over it.  What I did was I found the map here on their searchable engine, then I went to the Library of Congress site (above) to pinpoint the map I wanted.
6. Some other websites I've not been able to fully explore but plan to include
1. Farm Ownership guide from Archives.gov
2. The Plat Plotter app which is supposed to work as an overlay with Google maps.  Should be useful when searching for present day locations for historical places
3. Students of Descent either have their own app or they list other ways of finding genealogically significant locations
4. Google Earth Hacks sounds cool, doesn't it?
5. Searching for Townships.  Need to try this one out
6. Heaven for Genealogists.  Well, I could use a little Heaven about now
7. A YouTube video I thought was important enough to include here
8. Another YouTube video I thought was important

Andrew Yorski obituary October 1946

Wilkes Barre Times Leader. (1946, October 8). 

Newspapers.com. Retrieved February 8, 2017, from 

Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News 

(Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania).

Andrew Yorski was stepfather to Stella and Anna Vidunas, Louis and John Vidunas, and my grandfather Joseph Vidunas.  The obituary reads as follows:  "Andrew Yorski, 20 Penn street, Kingston, a veteran of World War I, died yesterday in Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, following illness of three days.
The funeral will be held from the home … with a high mass of requiem at 10:30 in St. Hedwig’s Church.  Burial will be in St. Mary’s cemetery, Pringle.Mr. Yorski was a resident of the West Side 50 years.  He came to this country from Poland when a young man.  Deceased had worked around the mines until a week ago.  He was a member of St. Hedwig’s Church, Kingston, Woodward Local of the United Mine Workers of America, and American Legion Post 395
Surviving are the following stepchildren:  Mrs. Stella Lohman, Louis and John Vidunas, and Miss Anna Vidunas, all of Kingston; Also 11 grandchildren."

Apparently his liver became very bad the last few days of his life.  He may have consumed alcohol, although one can get cirrhosis from other diseases.