Leslie Duszynski
Honor Code SignatorySigned 26 Feb 2022 | 605 contributions | 26 thank-yous | 231 connections
Signed 26 Feb 2022 | 605 contributions | 26 thank-yous | 231 connections
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cousins and anyone else with an interest in genealogy.
Here is my family tree.
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cousins and anyone else with an interest in genealogy.
Here is my family tree.
Leslie gifted some WikiTree kindness during the 2023 Secret Santa!
I’ve worked on my family history since 2014. I’ve made amazing discoveries and met some wonderful cousins! I’ve even shed some light on a dark corner of my family history. That dark corner is also my most frustrating brick wall. It involves my great-grandfather, Herman Hoffman, who was murdered in 1919. His widow, my great-grandmother, tried to erase him from our family. She sent my grandfather and his siblings to orphanages as young children, where all 3 of them spent their childhoods. I want to learn more about my great-grandfather, but because his name is common, and because he emigrated from Germany to the US only a decade or so before his murder, I have been unable to find any definitive info. I’d love to know if he had siblings and if I have cousins fro
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Leslie A. Duszynski aka Kannus
Born 1960s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of
[private father (1930s - unknown)]
and [private mother (1940s - unknown)]
Sister of
[private sister (1960s - unknown)] and [private brother (1960s - unknown)]
Mother of
[private son (1980s - unknown)] and [private daughter (1990s - unknown)]
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Biography
I was born in Buffalo, New York, and I lived there until graduating from high school. I then moved to Central New York to attend college, and I made it my home. I am married and have a son and a daughter and three grandchildren. I worked in public health for 25 years, retiring almost 10 years ago.
I have been very interested in genealogy for as long as I can remember; I was that kid who wanted to know all about my family tree. It wasn’t until the advent of the internet, though, that I first dabbled in genealogy. My early attempts weren’t at all fruitful, and it wasn’t until I was an empty-nester that I was able to devote the time and attention that I wanted and needed to in order to get somewhere with my genealogical research. I then very quickly became hooked!
My ethnicity is 50% Polish (my paternal branch); 25% Slovenian (my maternal grandmother’s branch); and my maternal grandfather’s branch is split among German, French, and English (which seems to also include Irish, per my DNA test results). Seven of my 8 great-grandparents immigrated to the United States around the turn of the 20th Century. The eighth, my maternal grandfather’s mother, had deep roots in the United States, on her maternal side. I haven’t done the work to pin it down, but I’m almost certain I qualify as a daughter of the American Revolution. I definitely qualify as a daughter of the Civil War… and on both sides! My aforementioned great-grandmother’s paternal grandfather fought for the Union and her maternal grandfather fought for the Confederacy (must have made for some interesting family gatherings…)! I also need to go further back, because it seems that some of my forebears were residents of Scituate, Massachusetts, in the 17th Century. I’m very curious to dig deeper to see who those earliest immigrants were!
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Leslie Duszynski Kannus on 4 January 2023.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:
- Leslie Duszynski: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup K1a4, FTDNA kit #B159553, MitoYDNA ID T18041 [compare]
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Leslie Duszynski:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A088574 [compare], yourDNAportal LES299b5ea8, Ancestry member GoldieGirl65
Featured German connections: Leslie is 27 degrees from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 30 degrees from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 31 degrees from Lucas Cranach, 24 degrees from Stefanie Graf, 28 degrees from Wilhelm Grimm, 29 degrees from Fanny Hensel, 32 degrees from Theodor Heuss, 21 degrees from Alexander Mack, 37 degrees from Carl Miele, 23 degrees from Nathan Rothschild, 29 degrees from Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering and 27 degrees from Ferdinand von Zeppelin on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
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Thanks again, Leslie
You mentioned that the secondary source includes primary sources. Can you not use primary sources from that source regarding birth, marriage, and death records? I realize they might not exist Pre-1700; there are church registries you can use documenting those events
Take care ~ Sheryl
The secondary source (the book) is compiled from primary sources, which the author lists in a generalized way, for the entirety of the book. I.e., the individuals’ birth/death dates/places, etc. are not footnoted to indicate the specific source for the particular fact. It’s done more globally (e.g., the book’s summary page indicates that the genealogical entries in the book are based on 1) parish records for Siersthal, up to the time of the French Revolutions; 2) mayor’s office records for Lambach, for the period from the French Revolution until births in 1933). So while the book’s info is based on solid sources, I can’t glean the specifics for each entry, thus my desire (need?) to cite the book itself as my source. Does this make sense?
Thanks, Leslie
Yes, it makes sense, but the entire book is not the source. Those parish records, the mayor's records, and the other official registers would be.
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Enjoy your weekend ~ Sheryl