Lucht to Fons, A Weak Attempt at Analasis

There was a lot of data in my last post, and that much data begs to be analyzed. Unfortunately, I really don't have the knowledge or skills to do it properly. Some of the questions to which I would like to have answers are as follows:

1. To what extent are these many interconnections between family members “unusual”? In other words, there are about 7,000 individuals on the Milwaukee Polonia Project Tree, so far. As shown by my last post, there are at least 38 known loops in that tree. That seems like a lot to me, but is it? If we took an “average” American tree from a different time or area, how many loops would it have? I suspect that it would have less, but I have facts to support this.
2. To what extent does the position of Darlene Lucht and Louis Fons on the tree affect the number of connections that were found? I have at least a partial answer for this one, but the answer has two aspects that contradict one another. First, I think the fact that the two end points, Darlene Lucht and Louis Fons, were so far apart increased the number of loops between them. The reason for this was that because those two points were so far apart it enabled me to use every loop that I knew of in the tree. If the two end point had been closer together, then there may have been loops in the tree that could not have fit between the two end points. Conversely, although Louis Fons is very much in the center of the tree, Darlene Lucht is very much on the “edge”. The MPP Tree deals mainly with individuals who were Polish or of Polish descent and who lived in Milwaukee between 1850 and 1945. Louis Fons is in the “center of the tree” because both his parents and his spouse were Polish, he lived his entire life in Milwaukee, and his siblings and some of his children also married Milwaukee Poles. In contrast, Darlene Lucht was on the edge of the tree because only her mother was of Polish descent, she was an only child, her son falls outside of the appropriate time period. Had Darlene Lucht been more in the center of the tree, then it is possible that even more connections could have been found.
3. Is there anything “special” about the families involved in these connections that made them more conducive to connections being made? For example, did they all come from the same area of Poland? Or, while in Milwaukee, did they all belong to the same parish? It is really too early to say at this point because the research is far from being done. However, to the extent I know where the families come from or where they lived in Milwaukee, I don't see any discernible pattern that really jumps out.
4. To what extent did the families know of these connections? Or, to what extent were the new connections caused by the pre-existing connections? For example, let's look at Paths 2,3 and 4 and their relationship to one individual who can be connected to all those paths: Frank Ruszkiewicz (I).

Paths 2 and 4, go through his niece, Elizabeth (Marciniak) Sromalla.

Path 4 results because Elizabeth (Marciniak) Sromalla married Joseph Sromalla, the first cousin, once removed of Darlene Lucht's step great-grandfather, John Jagodzinski (1).

Path 2 goes through Henry Michalek, the son-in-law of Elizabeth (Marciniak) Sromalla. His aunt, Frances (Sikora) Pluta was the sister-in-law of the sister-in-law of Darlene Lucht's great-grandmother, Frances (Domachowski) [Grosz] Jagodzinski.

Path 3 goes through the youngest son of Frank Ruszkiewicz (I), Frank [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick (II). He married a Rose (Jagodzinski) [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick, the daughter of John Jagodzinski (1) and Frances (Domachowski) [Grosz] Jagodzinski. Thus, Rose was a first cousin, once removed of Darlene. Also notice, the couple from Paths 2 and 4 (Elizabeth (Marciniak) Sromalla and Joseph Sromalla) with the couple from Path 3 (Frank [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick (II) and Rose (Jagodzinski) [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick), we see that it is a case of cousins marrying cousins. Frank [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick (II) is the first cousin of Elizabeth (Marciniak) Sromalla and Rose (Jagodzinski) [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick is the second cousin of Joseph Sromalla.  Elizabeth (Marciniak) Sromalla and Joseph Sromalla married in 1897.  Frank [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick (II) and Rose (Jagodzinski) [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick did not marry until 1921. Was the marriage of Frank and Rose somehow brought about by the existing marriage of their cousins? Did they even know that their cousins were married? Unfortunately, I don't know the answers to these questions.

I strongly suspect that in the the many connections shown in my previous post, there is likely to instances of: 1) where the second marriage was brought about by the first marriage, 2) where the couple of the second marriage knew of the pre-existing connection, but was not influenced by it, and 3) where the second couple was not even aware of the previous connection.

So much for my lame attempt at analysis.

In Memorium:  Śp. Eugene Kitzke.

Finally, (and sadly) I need to mention a death in our community. My cousin Gene Kitzke passed away on Christmas Eve. I probably owe my existence to Gene since he is the person who introduced my father to my mother. The story is that when my father was home on furlough during WWII, he went to visit Gene who was a friend of his from St. Stanislaus H.S. While there, he noticed the photograph of Gene's cousin (my mother) on Gene's piano. Gene then arranged a date for the two. As they say, the rest is history. However, as important as that act was to me, it was insignificant to the rest of Gene's accomplishments. He earned a doctorate in botany from Marquette. After a short time as a college professor, he went to work for S.C. Johnson & Son where he eventually rose to become a the V.P. In charge of research and development. However, even that was only one of his many accomplishments. He was a man of many talents and will surely be missed.

Lucht to Fons, A Study of Connections Within the MPP Tree

Previously, when I had written a new Featured Profile, I had shown the genealogical path from the last Featured Profile.  Up until the Featured Profile for Louis Fons, this had been easy because the individuals who had been the subjects of the Featured Profiles had all been closely related.  However, the path from Darlene (Lucht) Brimmer (Featured Profile # 6) to Louis A. Fons (Featured Profile #7) was not so clear cut because they are not related at all.  However, they are both on the Milwaukee Polonia Project "Tree."  Therefore, there had to be at least one path of connections that would lead from one to the other.  In fact, at the time, I knew of two, and I strongly suspected that there may be a couple more.  I decided to research all the possible different routes from one to other.  This would serve two purposes.  First, it would give some indication of the interconnections between us (which is the ultimate goal of the Milwaukee Polonia Project).  Second, it would memorialize some of these "loops."  (Neither of the genealogical programs that I use keep can track of these loops in a searchable form, so I have been relying on my memory to know where they occur.)

The research is nowhere near complete, but what I have discovered so far has astounded even me.  Each of the numbered paragraphs below is a separate path between Darlene (Lucht) Brimmer and Louis A. Fons.  I don't expect anyone to try to follow all the paths.  (That would make incredibly dry reading.)  However, what I hope you take away from this is how interconnected we all are.  (Please see the notes at the end of the list for some of my conventions in reading the list.)

The Paths from Darlene (Lucht) Brimmer to Louis A. Fons:

1. Darlene Lucht > mother, Leona (Grosz) Lucht > father, Anton Grosz > mother, Frances (Domachowsk) [Grosz] Jagodzinski > daughter, Martha (Grosz) Kobza > husband, Sylvester Kobza > father, John Kobza > brother, Anton Kobza > wife, Antionette (Jagodzinski) Kobza > sister, Justina (Jagodzinski) Krysiak > husband, Frank Krysiak > sister, Antonina (Krysiak) Fons > husband, Stephan Fons > brother, Frank Fons > his son, Louis A. Fons
   
   
2. …. Frances (Domachowsk) [Grosz] Jagodzinski > brother, Joseph Domachowski > wife, Agnes (Pluta) Domachowski > brother, Anton J. Pluta > wife, Frances (Sikora) Pluta > sister, Mary (Sikora) Michalek > son, Henry Michalek > wife, Jeanette (Sromalla) Michalek > mother, Elizabeth (Marciniak) Sromalla > mother, Katherine (Ruszkiewicz) Marciniak, > brother, Frank Ruszkiewicz (I) > son, Wallace Ruszkiewicz > wife, Sally (Stachowiak) Ruszkiewicz > sister, Monica (Stachowiak) Marcinski > daughter, Felicia (Marcinski) Fons > husband, John Fons (1) > brother, Louis A. Fons

3. .... Frances (Domachowsk) [Grosz] Jagodzinski > daughter, Rose (Jagodzinski) [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick > husband, Frank [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick (II) > brother, Wallace Ruszkiewicz….
   
   
4. ….Frances (Domachowsk) [Grosz] Jagodzinski > second husband, John Jagodzinski (1) > mother, Rosalia (Sromala) Jagodzinski > brother, Adalbert Sromala > son, August Sromala > son, Joseph Sromalla > wife, Elizabeth (Marciniak) Sromalla.....
   
   
5. ….Martha (Grosz) Kobza > son, Arthur Kobza > wife, Esther (Kitzki) Kobza > father, Stanley Kitzki > brother, Frank Kitzke > son, Stanley Kitzke > wife, Josephine (Jetke) Kitzke > brother, August Anton Jetke > wife, Pauline (Fons) Jetke > father, Anton Fons > half-brother, Frank Fons....
   
   
6. ...Josephine (Jetke) Kitzke > sister, Marie (Jetke) Fons > husband, Joseph Fons > father, Anton Fons....
   
   
7. …. Frank [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick (II) > son, Frank [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick (III) > wife, PRIVATE (Perlaczynski) Ruswick > mother, Bertha (Kitzke) Perlaczynski > father, August Kitzke > brother, Frank Kitzke....
   
   
8. ….. PRIVATE (Perlaczynski) Ruswick > sister, Florence (Perlaczynski) Jarorsz > husband, Ambrose [Jerry] Jarosz > sister, Eleanor (Jarosz) Tutaj > husband, Stanley Tutaj > father, Paul Tutaj > wife, Maryana (Michalski) Tutaj > sister, Bennedick Michalski > daughter, Wanda (Michalski) Fons > husband, Ervin Fons > father, Albert Fons > John Fons (2)
   
   
9. ….Paul Tutaj > brother, Antoni Tutaj > wife, Frances (Talaska) Tutaj > sister, Mary (Talaska) Kitzke > husband, Walter Kitzke > brother, Frank Kitzke....
   
   
10. ….Antoni Tutaj > son, Steven Tutaj > wife, Marie (Jagodzinski) Tutaj > sister, Irene (Jagodzinski) Kitzke > husband, Bernard Kitzke > father, Walter Kitzke....
    
    
11. …..Antoni Tutaj > brother, Joannes Tutaj > son, Edward Tutaj > wife, Rose (Karczewski) Tutaj > mother, Rozalia (Dettlaff) Karczewski > mother, Mary Ann (Jedka) Dettlaff > brother, August Jedke > son, August Anton Jetke.....
    
    
12. ….August Jedke > daughter, Marie (Jetke) Fons....
    
    
13. ....Adalbert Sromala > daughter, Joanna (Sromala) Maciejewski > son, August Maciejewski > wife, Tekla (Brodaczynski) Maciejewski > brother, Joseph Brodaczynski (I) > son, Joseph Brodaczynski (II) > wife, Anna (Urbanksi) Brodaczynski > sister, Stella (Urbanski) Tutaj > husband, Henry Tutaj > father, Antoni Tutaj....
    
    
14. ….Frank Ruszkiewicz (I) > son, Lawrence Ruszkiewicz > daughter, Irene (Ruszkiewicz) Latus > husband, Edmund Latus > brother, Joseph Latus > daughter, Marion (Latus) Tutaj > husband PRIVATE Tutaj > father, Alois Tutaj > Paul Tutaj.....
    
    
15. ….Frank Ruszkiewicz (I) > son, Walter Ruszkiewicz > wife, Veronica (Michalski) Ruszkiewicz > father, Stephen Michalski > sister, Maryana (Michalski) Tutaj....

16. ….Joseph Latus > daughter, Lorraine (Latus) Wielebski > husband, Daniel Wielebski > mother, Pearl [Pelagia] (Tutaj) Wielebski > father Paul Tutaj....
    
    
17. …. Sylvester Kobza > sister, Anna (Kobza) Kwiatkowski > daughter, Anna (Kwiatkowski) Rakowski > husband, Clement Rakowski > mother, Josepha (Komassa) Rakowski > brother, Michal Komassa, > daughter Emilia (Komassa) Radaj > son, Gilbert Radaj > wife, PRIVATE (Radaj) Boucher > brother, Louis Boucher > wife, Marian (Michalek) Boucher > mother, Mary (Sikora) Michalek….
    
    
18. ….Sylvester Kobza > brother, Ignatz Kobza > son, Eugene Kobza > wife, Virginia (Peszczynski) Kobza > father, Andrew Peszczynski > brother, Joseph Peszczynski > wife, Frances (Tutaj) Peszczynski > brother, Edward Tutaj....
    
    
19. ….Ignatz Kobza > son, Aloysius Kobza > wife, Harriet (Kitzki) Kobza > father, Stanley Kitzki....
    
    
20. ….Bertha (Kitzke) Perlaczynski > brother, Leo Kitzke > wife, Regina (Tomczyk) Kitzke > her brother, Edward Tomczyk > wife, Rozalia Jetke > brother, August Anton Jetke....
    
    
21. ….Rozalie Jetke > sister, Marie (Jetke) Fons....
    
    
22. .... Bertha (Kitzke) Perlaczynski > brother, Edward Kitzke > son, Ralph Kitzke > wife, PRIVATE (Pichotte) [Kitzke] Jusiel > second husband, Norbert Jusiel > father, Felix Jusiel > brother, UNKNOWN Jusiel > wife, Helen (Karpinski) [Jusiel] [Matula] McDonnell > daughter, Margaret (Matula) Kulwicki > husband, Gerald Kulwicki > father, John Kulwicki > mother, Anna (Brozda) [Kulwicki] Kitzke > husband, Frank Kitzke....
    
    
23. .... Bertha (Kitzke) Perlaczynski > sister, Wanda (Kitzke) Orlikowski > husband, John Orlikowski > father, Ludwik Orlikowski > brother, Boleslaw Orlikowski > daughter, Irene (Orlikowski) Czajkowski > husband, Joseph Walter Czajkowski > mother, Walentyna (Waszak) Czajkowski > father, John Waszak > brother, Lorenz Waszak > son, Andrew Waszak > wife, Helen (Kuzba) Waszak > father, Blase Kuzba > brother, Bartholomew Kuzba > son, Casimir Kuzba > son, Irvin Kuzba > wife Olive (Fons) Kuzba > father, Stephen Fons > brother, Louis A. Fons
    
    
24. ….Michal Komassa > son, Albin Komassa > son, Ervin Komassa .> wife, Dolores (Fons) Komassa > father, Albert Fons > father, John Fons (2) > half-brother, Frank Fons....
    
    
25. …. Clement Rakowksi > father, Frank Rakowski > brother, John Rakowski > wife, Mary Ann (Komassa) Rakowski > brother, Michal Komassa ….
    
    
26. …. Frances (Domachowsk) [Grosz] Jagodzinski > son, Bernard Gross > son, Norbert Grosz > son, PRIVATE Grosz > wife, PRIVATE (Mazurkiewicz) Grosz > father, Henry [Harry] Mazurkiewicz > sister, Angeline (Mazurkiewicz) Gigowski > husband, Edward Gigowski > brother, John Gigowski > wife, Clara (Napientek) Gigowski > mother, Angeline (Rosploch) Napientek > sister, Victoria (Rosploch) Kitzke > husband, August Kitzke....
    
    
27. ….Angeline (Rosploch) Napientek > brother, Frank Rosploch > wife, Frances (Kitzke) Rosploch > brother, Frank Kitzke....
    
    
28. ….Angeline (Rosploch) Napientek > brother, Andrew Rosploch > daughter, Susan (Rosploch) [Piszczek] Primakow > ex-husband, Joseph Warren Piszczek > brother, Frank Piszczek > son, Robert Piszczek > wife, Delores (Eskowski) Piszczek > father, Walter Eskowski > mother, Maryanna (Waszak) Eskowski > brother, Andrew Waszak....
    
    
29. .... Maryanna (Waszak) Eskowski > sister, Elizabeth (Waszak) Mirkowski > husband, Jan Mirkowski > brother, Wawrzyniec Mirkowski > daughter, Eleanore (Mirkowski) Maternowski > husband, Emil Maternowski > mother, Frances (Markowski) Maternowski > sister, Elizabeth (Maternowsk) Kitzki > husband, Stanley Kitzki...
    
    
30. ....John Jagodzinski (1) > brother, Frank Jagodzinski > son, John Jagodzinski (2) > wife, Eleanore (Ratajski) Jagodzinski > brother, Anton Ratajski > son, Delphyn Ratajski > wife, Ann (Maternowsk) [Urban] Ratajski > mother, Frances (Markowski) Maternowski....

31. ….Frances (Domachowsk) [Grosz] Jagodzinski > daughter, Sophie (Jagodzinski) [Wielebski] Kapczynski > husband, Andrew Kapczynski > brother, Joseph Kapczynski > daughter Argypine (Kapczynski) > husband Chester Mazurkiewicz > sister, Angeline (Mazurkiewicz) Gigowski....
    
    
32. ….Andrew Kapczynski > brother, John Kapczynski > Grace (Kapczynski) Lukaszewski > son, PRIVATE Lukaszewski > wife, PRIVATE (Budzisz) Lukaszewski > brother, PRIVATE Budzisz > wife, PRIVATE (Ruswick) Budzisz > mother, PRIVATE (Perlaczynski) Ruswick....
    
    
33. ….Andrew Kapczynski > sister, Mary Cecilia (Kapczynski) Andraszczyk > son, Harry [Andraszczyk] Andrae > Eugenia (Dembinski) Andrae > Jean Phyllis (Dembinski) Waszak > mother, Helen (Kuzba) Waszak....
    
    
34. ….Michal Komassa > son, Julius Harry Komassa > wife, Clarice Eve (Baranowski) Komassa > sister, Pearl [Bulagia, possibly Pelagia] Dluszkowski > husband, Peter Dluszkowski > sister, Mayme [Mary] (Dluszkowski) Konkol > husband, John Konkol > mother, Teresia Rosilia (Budzisz) Konkol > father, Vincent Konkel > mother, Christina (Budzisz) Konkel > father, Joseph Budzisz > brother, Johann Budzisz > son, Jozef Budzisz > son, Michael Budzisz > son, Ralph Budzisz, > son, PRIVATE Budzisz > wife, PRIVATE (Ruswick) Budzisz....
    
    
35. ....Frances (Domachowsk) [Grosz] Jagodzinski > father, Jacob Marcus Domachowski > father, Albert Domachowski > brother, John Domachowski > daughter, Anna Paulina (Domachowski) Myszkowski > daughter, Julianna (Myszkowski) Lewandowski > daughter, Emily (Lewandowski) Zuber > son, Dennis David Zuber > wife, Adrienne Sandra (Waszak) Zuber > mother, Jean Phyllis (Dembinski) Waszak....
    
    
36. ....Sylvester Kobza > sister, Anna (Kobza) Kwiatkowski > son, Jerome Kwiatkowski > wife Virginia (Gigowski) Kwiatkowski > father, Edward Gigowski > brother, John Gigowski....
    
    
37. .... Anna (Kobza) Kwiatkowski > husband, [Andrew] Charles Kwiatkowski > son by first wife, Harry Edward Kwiatkowski > wife, Sophie (Jankowski) Kwiatkowski > sister, Mary (Jankowski) Ruszkiewicz > husband, Albert Ruszkiewicz > father, Frank Ruszkiewicz (I)....
    
    
38. ....Antionette (Jagodzinski) Kobza > brother, John Jagodzinski (3) > son, Leonard Jagodzinski > wife, Agnes (Tomczyk) Jagodzinski > sister, Eva (Tomczyk) Kitzke > husband, Joseph Kitzke > father, August Kitzke....
    
    
39. ....Frances (Domachowsk) [Grosz] Jagodzinski > son, Joseph Grosz > son, Ralph Grosz > son, PRIVATE Grosz > ex-wife, PRIVATE Andress > mother, Dolores (Wozniak) Andress > mother, Rose (Kowalkowski) Wozniak > half-brother, Valentine Perlaczynski > wife, Bertha (Kitzke) Perlaczynski....

Notes:

....[Name] - means that a previous paragraph shows at least one route from Dalene (Lucht) Brimmer to the named individual
[Name].... - means that a previous paragraph shows at least one route from that named individual to Louis A. Fons
[Name] > [relation], [Name] - shows the relation of the second individual named to the first individual named

[Name]  (numeral) - is used when there are two or more individuals in the paragraphs with the same name.  If a Roman numeral is used, then the individuals are different generations in the same line.  If an Arabic numeral is used, then the individuals share the same name, but they may or may not be related in some other way.

Names in "(  )" are maiden names.

Names in "[  ]" are alternate names.  For men, that could be an alternate first name, or a last name before it was changed.  For women, it could also be last names used during another marriage.

A link shown in italics means that I am pretty certain of its accuracy, but I have not "nailed it down" yet.

Example:
This paragraph:
.... Frances (Domachowski) [Grosz] Jagodzinski > daughter, Rose (Jagodzinski) [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick > husband, Frank [Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick (II) > brother, Wallace Ruszkiewicz…

Should be read:
"A previous paragraph shows the path from Darlene (Lucht) Brimmer to Frances (maiden name: Domachowski) [name used in previous marriage: Grosz] Jagodzinski, then to her daughter, Rose (maiden name: Jagodzinski) [name used previous to it being changed: Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick, then to her husband, Frank [name used previous to it being changed: Ruszkiewicz] Ruswick (whose father has the same name and also appears in this list), then to his brother, Wallace Ruszkiewicz, and the path from Wallace Ruszkiewicz to Louis A. Fons is previously shown in one of the above paragraphs."