From left to right:
Elizabeth Capek (wife), Andrew John Namik (husband), Ann Namik (daughter)
Update I at the end
Update II near the end
In the previous post (see here) covering the Capek branch of my family, I ended the post with teaser regarding the “Namik” branch of the family. This post will answer that tease.
Note: all images can be clicked on to see the full size version
Update at end
This is an update to an original post from Feb 2015 (see here for original). In that prior post I had been able, for the first time ever, to bridge the Atlantic and discover where my grandmother’s mother was from in Europe (she is pictured on the far left above). She was from a very small village in Slovakia now called Nový Ruskov, which in 2005 still only had under 700 inhabitants (reference this translated Slovakian website for the various names of this village throughout history). This post expands on the prior post with the discovery of more generations and more family. For reference, this was the depth of my knowledge for this branch of the tree two years ago:
