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Welcome to a Kevin Duerinck Genealogy Page--Joachim Family--Indiana
Scope: To increase the knowledge of my wife's maternal Joachim and Byrus families, emigrating from Poland. Anyone know what towns in Poland???
Created: July 19, 2003, last revised 20 January 2009
Albert George Joachim (I have also been told it is George Albert Joachim. His World War II 1942 draft registration card had Albert Geo Joachim), born in Poland 6 March 1888, died April 1979 South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. At the age of 26, which would be in 1914, he married Sophia Byrus ("Sophie"), age 19, born in Poland 1894. I have been told that she died the same year that her son Matthew Andrew Joachim got married to Elsie, so approximately 1939. At some point Albert George Joachim (aka George Albert Joachim) remarried to Mary ____, but no kids. 8 children of the first marriage, all born in Indiana:
Thomas Joachim of this family is an accomplished screenwriter with more than 20 years of experience. His credits include the classic television shows "WKRP In Cincinnati," "Charlie's Angels," and Paramount Pictures' "Fraternity Row".
1930 U.S. Federal Census > Indiana > St Joseph > South Bend > District 19, sheet 22B shows: Albert Joachim's family living at 206 Kentucky Street, South Bend, Indiana. Albert was 42, wife Sophia was 36, both from Poland. Albert immigrated to the United States in 1908, being naturalized, while Sophia immigrated in 1912. Albert was a moulder at a sewing machine factory. Joseph, age 17, was a butcher at a meat market.
1. "Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings" by William F. Hoffman ("Fred")
2. "Slownik nazwisk wspól~czes~nie w Polsce uz|ywanych" ["Directory of Surnames in Current Use in Poland"], a 10-volume set edited by Kazimierz Rymut and published in 1992 by the Polish Language Institute in Krakow (ISBN 83-85579-25-7). Based on a 1990 Polish government database of 94% of the population's surnames and where they lived by province. This 10 volume set is now online at: Online Slownik nazwisk , and how to use it: How to use the Online Slownik nazwisk
3. "German Surname Dictionary" by Hans Bahlow
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