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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

KATONAK COUSINS VISIT IN AMHERST, OHIO

 Don and Carol Katonak came from Colorado to Amherst,Ohio and made some surprise visits to relatives and friends. A surprise visit to Lorna Raynak Middendorf happened on Sunday,November 25,2012 in the afternoon. At the time of the visit, Lorna was doing her daily dose of FAMILY HISTORY on her laptop, grinding out the details available online. She explains: FAMILY HISTORY is really never finished. If you are addicted to searching out the mysteries and wonderings of family stories you keep looking and looking. Just ask Marie Katonak Wallace and newer family detective Judy West. Lorna promises to wrap up a semi-complete Katonak Family Story by the end of 2012 (or??) and to make available the famiy tree, selected stories and now about 1000 photos on DVD. Is anyone interested in sharing the known family secrets?
Let me know at lmiddendorf2@gmail.com a newer email address.
It was a good visit, catching up on many happenings and trying to make contact with other nearby relatives. The photo of the cousins was taken at Blue Skye Restaurant in Amherst, Ohio, where Don was having lunch with some former classmates. Carol was there, too.
If you want to visit any part of the Katonak family come by, or drop by online at this blog Finding Katonak Families (just Google it) and post your news. It may get published. Happy Holidays and Good Visiting.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

David Katonak Visits Slovakia

My dad told me he wanted to hear about my trip to Slovakia. Do you have specific questions? We had a great trip. We visited Bratislava, Kosice and of course Gemerska Poloma. We first met Jana Katonakova in Bratislava and got to spend a day or two with her. She met us at the train station, we arrived via Vienna. Then we met Ina Oracova, her Dad was a Katonak (he'd passed a couple years earlier). Ina travelled with us all over the country, from Bratislava to Gemerska Poloma. There we met her brother Vlado, and we stayed with another Katonak, Vlado for a few days. We traveled around the area with Ina translating and her brother driving, to Spissky castle, an ice cave, the Tatras, and to Roznava. We also took a bus with Ina to Kosice and met Lubo's brother, Jan Katonak and wife and son. Really a great experience.






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John Katonak Family

Photos found by Glenn Wallace of his Mother's family
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

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Monday, June 13, 2011

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