My Lukowski Family

My Lukowski Family

Before I start I would like to let everyone know that I owe a great deal of thanks to some very special "strangers" who are no longer strangers but wonderful long lost relatives who have shared their wealth of knowledge with me. Words can not express how thankful I am to them. Thank you Tadeusz Izbicki, Jay Lamy and Herb Olgren.

Many of my family have asked if and when I was going to put what information I have on the family history online. Well here it is. I am not very computer savvy but I will try my best. If you notice anything no matter how minor you think it is please let me know and I will change it. I would like to have all the information as accurate as I possibly can. Please don't think it will offend me...I welcome it.

The Lukowski clan is from the areas of Nowa Wies and Suwalki, Poland. Nowa Wies in Polish is pronounced Nova Vee-esh and Suwalki is Soovalkee. The early ancestors settled in two main areas one was Webster, Mass., and Auburn, N.Y.

Their religious beliefs were based on the Roman Catholic church. My main family line is from Auburn, Cayuga County, New York. My mother told me that when she was in school the nuns would pronounce the last name as Loo-kofski. Tadeusz told me that in Poland the name is spelled Wookowsky.

Little bit about me

I am the great granddaughter of Dominik Francis Lukowski and Stefania Buchowiecka. I got into the family genealogy in 1999 when I started dating my husband to be, Jason. His great great grandfather had started working on his decendants and to me it seemed pretty interesting. I had thought about doing something like this when I was 18 years old but kept putting it off year after year with the thoughts when I decided to sit down and do it, it would only be a matter of talking to my grandparents and would have it done in a couple of days. I was wrong!! I lost my grandfather in 1992 and then just before I got married I lost my grandmother in 2002. At that point it struck me...wow I have lost my source of information. At that point I was still very new to the whole family history thing and thought that I was the only one interested in finding my past. That time I was REALLY WRONG!!! I have found more people in my family that are interested in the same thing. I finally had the break through that the world did not involved just me...how sad to wait so long to figure that out. I don't mean that I in anyway was self-centered...far from it. It was just that most people either already know where they came from or there were those who did not care about that past only what the future held and I never even thought of asking for help cause I did not want to pester others with my lists of question after question day in and day out.

Since then I have been told that everyday I find another person who is interested in helping me I get more like a kid in a candy store. I tend to get very giddy and over excitable.

Due to time and the loss of the family elders I have gotten in the whole family history aspect with a fevered sense of priority. I know that I will never learn everything about my family past but what I do know I want to be able to share for many years to come so that some day what I know won't be forgotten.

Created February 25, 2008