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Polde (Leopold or Leo) Došen was born 10 May 1895 in Rudopolja, Brunvo, Serb-Croat-Slovakia. His parents were Tome Došen and Marta Dragičević. He immigrated to the United States with his brother Martin in 1907. He settled in Kenaston, Saskatchewan in about 1918. He married Bozica (Anna) Pavelić, daughter of Joseph Pavelić and Katerine Tomlenjović, 12 January 1921. They had one daughter. Anna died in 1922. He married Mary Rose Sulik 7 May 1923. They had seven children. He died in 1958 in Battleford, Sakatchewan. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
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This work concentrates upon families with a strong connection to Virginia and Kentucky, most of which are traced forward from the eighteenth, if not the seventeenth, century. The compiler makes ample use of published sources some extent original records, and the recollections of the oldest living members of a number of the families covered. Finally. The essays reflect a balanced mixture of genealogy and biography, which makes for interesting reading and a substantial number of linkages between as many as six generations of family members.
What Boys Like brings together a motley assemblage of urban misfits and outsiders, and explores their love/hate relationships with their city and one another. Jones’s characters grapple with lust, love and loss with an unsentimental eye, while remaining open to the sharp-edged humour caused by the chaotic and random nature of life, and the absurdity of the world around them.
This encyclopedia for Amish genealogists is certainly the most definitive, comprehensive, and scholarly work on Amish genealogy that has ever been attempted. It is easy to understand why it required years of meticulous record-keeping to cover so many families (144 different surnames up to 1850). Covers all known Amish in the first settlements in America and shows their lineage for several generations. (955pp. index. hardcover. Pequea Bruderschaft Library, revised edition 2007.)