not sure if you have ancestry.com or not but I have tons of birth, death, marriage records from St Philomena Church, also Hungarian birth death marriage records from Stadtschlaning (Preinsberger, my mother's family) and also Neumarkt.If your interested and do not have any of these records, I would be happy to try to locate them for you. This is my hobby....like 10 hours per day and no rest (even d
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Morning, just back from 3 weeks family visit in Burgenland. My cousin just started dating Helmut Kulovics from Neuberg. Would you be able to send me photos or anything you may have to my email ? corey52@msn.com Bill Arthofer ( 53rd Carpenter ) thanks
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if you get a chance check out St John the God on West 52nd Street they moved the Church to Lake County Illinois .... https://www.flickr.com/photos/k9jdk/sets/72157627114661800/ not the same but the spirit is in the lives on the souls that built it Bill
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thanks, that is correct this is another St George. again thanks a lot for looking Bill Arthofer
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thanks so very much, I am crossing my fingers !!! Yes St George was on 39th Street and St Martin was on 59th Street...this area was called "Klein-Burgenland", then St Augustine on 51st Laflin became Austrian also, but never as much as St George. My parents married married St.A's but when my uncle/aunt came to Chicago in 1909 rented an apartment in St George's parish but by 1918 lived in
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Afternoon, Bill here. Yes on the north side there were 2 Catholic Churches one was St Aloysius and the other St Philomena. On the south side was St George, St Martin and St Augustine. Most on the north side were from Hannersdorf, Wopppendorf , Badersdorf and Burg....south side Grosspetersdorf, Mischendorf, Kleinpetersdorf. Of course tons of smaller villages, and many Lutheran people also. I have
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wow Eric your the first that has a hit of "anything" photos of St George. I live in Tampa (from south-side Chicago), this book out of print.....paperback around $100, would you be able to send me copy of this pic of the interior ? my email corey52@msn.com I know it is a lot to ask, thanks so very much Bill Arthofer
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PK thanks was not expecting a demo pic , still hope that one turns up. thanks Bill
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thanks so much, the archietect Adolphus Druiding is very well known but of the 4 built in Chicago only 1 has photos, sad to say... Illinois St. Hyacinth Church Chicago, IL (first church constructed in 1895 and replaced by much larger church by Worthmann and Steinbach) St. George Church, Chicago, IL St. John Cantius Church, Chicago, IL has PHOTOS St. Hedwig Church, Chicago, IL thanks
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yes there was a grammar school but I do not think a high school.
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thanks so very much
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Yes this is the Church, all this info and no photos bummer. thanks
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not sure why so hard to find photos of "old" Catholic Churches that have been torn down....anyone know of site to view them...I am looking for photos of St George located on South Wentworth Ave and 39th (3924 South Wentworth) thanks Bill Arthofer
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the Dumpling House moved to corner Joilet Rd and Harlem (around 33rd Str)..now Mexican. There were 2 Czech restuarants on the norht side of 22nd Street, in 7000 and or 7100 blocks, you referrring to these 2, the names?
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thanks Walter, I am still looking also. Can still feel the heat from all those "bright" "blinding" lights sitting in the southbound Western Ave bus. Bill
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waltk13, thanks......looks like we (you) may (I hope) a winner with your cousins, thanks Bill
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the address of Walsh Const. is 3710 S. Western (today), near NW corner of Western and Archer Ave., their parking lot is where my 'unknown" theater was located. It would have been south of the RR viaducts and west of the boulevard median. Contacted Walsh (marketing), but zero help, it is now big time and very big company never returned my calls! thanks for all ur messages, Bill
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thanks for all your help, driving me crazy trying to think of the name. The theater was on the west side of Western Ave, between the corner newsstand(Archer Ave) and the RR viaduct. next door to a typewriter store (white building), it is now a parking lot. here is a "great" site to view history of Chicago theaters: http://movie-theatre.org/usa/il/chicago/chicago but it did not hel
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