Genealogy / surname Krawiec [38]

Greetings,

My name is Patricia Ann Piermatti and I am the daughter of Lillian Collins (formerly Kalinowski) Piermatti. Anna Krawiec was my maternal grandmother. Yesterday, I came across these Krawiec family posts and they provide valuable detail for stories my mother told to me as I was growing up.

I am an only child. My mother died 26 December 2000 and my father, Louis Matthew Piermatti died March 14, 1992. My parents and I moved to Clifton in May 1955 and I am still living in the family home. From 1952 to early May 1955 we lived in Grandma Anna (Krawiec) Collins house at 135 Paterson Avenue, Wallington, NJ. Benjamin Bossick and my mother were close cousins and played together often while growing up.

My mother's family name of Kalinowski was legally changed to Collins in the 1940s...I will post details in near future.

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Genealogy / surname Krawiec [38]

I wouldn't know. I speak neither Italian nor Polish. Being raised American in an ethnically "blended" family, I really don't identify with either culture. I am an American of Italian and Polish/Austrian/Galician/Russian heritage. My mother's siblings made Italian jokes and my father's sister did not like the fact that mother wasn't Italian. So, with two dysfunctional families my parents and I lived our lives fairly separated from both clans. With age, I have become interested in my genealogical origins and wish to fill in some details to the oral histories both my parents passed along.