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Zygaj, Wawrzyn (Lawrence John)
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Parents
| Father | Date of Birth | Mother | Date of Birth |
|---|
Partners & Children
| Partners | Date of Birth | Children |
|---|---|---|
 Szafranski, Victoria
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23 July 1888 |
Zygaj, Leonard
Zygaj, Casey (Chester)
Zygaj, Jerome (Heronim)
Zygaj, Richard J.
Zygaj, Irene
Zygaj, Eugene
Zygaj, Jennie
|
Events
| Event Type | Date | Place | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 03 August 1885 | Buffalo, Erie, New York | USA |
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Notes
The 1920 and 1930 censuses list his occupation as railroad car inspector. The 1956 Buffalo Directory lists him as residing at 150 Townsend, Buffalo, New York with his wife and children: Leonard, Chester (Casey), and Irene.
His WW I draft registration describes him as tall and of medium build with gray eyes and dark hair.
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Kinships
| Name | Degree of Kinship | Date of Birth | Place of Birth | Date of Death | Place of Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partners | |||||
| Szafranski, Victoria | Wife | 23 July 1888 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | ||
| Children | |||||
| ?-Zygaj, Rita | Daughter-in-law | ||||
| ?-Zygaj, Gertrude | Daughter-in-law | ||||
| Zygaj, Leonard | Son | 13 August 1910 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | 28 February 2005 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA |
| Zygaj, Casey (Chester) | Son | 21 December 1914 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | 25 August 1998 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA |
| Zygaj, Jerome (Heronim) | Son | 14 January 1917 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | 30 April 2002 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA |
| Zygaj, Richard J. | Son | 1919 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | ||
| Zygaj, Irene | Daughter | ABT 1921 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | ||
| Zygaj, Eugene | Son | ABT 1923 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | ||
| Zygaj, Jennie | Daughter | ABT 1925 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | ||
| Parents | |||||
| Szafranski, Jan | Father-in-law | 25 May 1862 | Mecknacz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland | ||
| Spajer, Maria | Mother-in-law | Mar 1872 | German Poland | BET 1920 AND 1930 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA |
| Brothers & Sisters-in-law | |||||
| Szafranski, Izabela Bronislawa | Sister-in-law | 03 September 1890 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | 04 September 1890 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA |
| Szafranski, Wladyslawa | Sister-in-law | 01 May 1891 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | 01 May 1891 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA |
| Szafranski, Agatha | Sister-in-law | 08 July 1894 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | Bef. 1899 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA |
| Szafranski, Casimir John | Brother-in-law | 27 November 1896 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | 20 July 1991 | Depew, Erie, New York, USA |
| Szafranski, Genowefa (Geneva) | Sister-in-law | 31 December 1898 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | ||
| Szafranski, Stefania | Sister-in-law | 08 January 1901 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | ||
| Szafranski, Gertrude | Sister-in-law | 29 October 1903 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | ||
| Szafranski, Serynna | Sister-in-law | 1905 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | ||
| Szafranski, Irene | Sister-in-law | ABT 1907 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | ||
| Szafranski, Edmund J. | Brother-in-law | 19 June 1909 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA | Mar 1985 | Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA |
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| Date | Age | Event | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/13/1816 - 12/6/1892 | (-68.7) - 7.3 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
| 12/30/1819 - 9/20/1890 | (-65.6) - 5.1 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
| 12/15/1832 - 12/27/1923 | (-52.7) - 38.4 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| 3/17/1834 - 3/6/1900 | (-51.4) - 14.6 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
| 7/8/1838 - 3/8/1917 | (-47.1) - 31.6 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| 12/11/1843 - 5/27/1910 | (-41.7) - 24.8 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| 11/25/1844 - 4/4/1929 | (-40.7) - 43.7 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| 2/11/1847 - 10/18/1931 | (-38.5) - 46.2 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| 3/3/1847 - 8/1/1922 | (-38.4) - 37.0 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| 5/6/1856 - 9/23/1939 | (-29.3) - 54.2 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| 9/23/1861 - 3/12/1942 | (-23.9) - 56.6 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| 7/30/1863 - 4/7/1947 | (-22.0) - 61.7 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| 10/16/1863 - 3/17/1937 | (-21.8) - 51.7 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| 4/22/1870 - 1/21/1924 | (-15.3) - 38.5 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| 1/18/1871 - 3/9/1888 | (-14.6) - 2.6 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
| 11/30/1874 - 1/24/1965 | (-10.7) - 79.5 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| 1/5/1876 - 4/19/1967 | (-9.6) - 81.8 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| 3/14/1879 - 4/18/1955 | (-6.4) - 69.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| 8/6/1881 - 3/11/1955 | (-4.0) - 69.6 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| 1/21/1884 - 12/12/1963 | (-1.5) - 78.4 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| 3/4/1885 - 3/4/1889 | (-0.4) - 3.6 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1886 | 0.4 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
| 1886 | 0.4 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
| 10/28/1886 | 1.2 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 | 1.4 - 3.4 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
| 1887 | 1.4 | Huang He Flood | Disasters |
| 1888 | 2.4 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
| 3/9/1888 - 6/15/1888 | 2.6 - 2.9 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
| 6/15/1888 - 11/9/1918 | 2.9 - 33.3 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| 3/4/1889 - 3/4/1893 | 3.6 - 7.6 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
| 4/20/1889 - 4/30/1945 | 3.7 - 59.8 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| 1890 | 4.4 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
| 1890 | 4.4 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
| 10/14/1890 - 3/28/1969 | 5.2 - 83.7 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| 3/4/1893 - 3/4/1897 | 7.6 - 11.6 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1896 | 10.4 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 | 10.4 - 11.4 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/4/1897 - 9/14/1901 | 11.6 - 16.1 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
| 10/11/1899 - 5/31/1902 | 14.2 - 16.8 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/8/1900 | 15.1 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
| 9/14/1901 - 3/4/1909 | 16.1 - 23.6 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 10/19/1901 | 16.2 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| 12/5/1901 - 12/15/1966 | 16.3 - 81.4 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| 6/16/1903 | 17.9 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
| 12/16/1903 | 18.4 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 | 18.4 - 22.4 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4/18/1906 | 20.7 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
| 1907 | 21.4 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| 9/16/1908 | 23.1 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| 9/27/1908 | 23.2 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| 1909 | 23.4 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| 3/4/1909 - 3/4/1913 | 23.6 - 27.6 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| 5/30/1911 | 25.8 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| 5/30/1911 | 25.8 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| 10/23/1911 | 26.2 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| 3/4/1913 - 3/4/1921 | 27.6 - 35.6 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| 6/14/1914 - 6/15/1914 | 28.9 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| 6/28/1914 - 11/11/1918 | 28.9 - 33.3 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8/6/1914 - 11/25/1918 | 29.0 - 33.3 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/13/1914 - 7/9/1915 | 29.1 - 29.9 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10/14/1914 - 10/24/1914 | 29.2 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1916 | 30.4 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| 4/24/1916 - 4/30/1916 | 30.7 - 30.8 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1917 - 1923 | 31.4 - 37.4 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/8/1917 - 3/12/1917 | 31.6 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| 5/29/1917 - 11/22/1963 | 31.8 - 78.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| 11/7/1917 | 32.3 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| 11/9/1918 | 33.3 | German Revolution | Germany |
| 1919 | 33.4 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| 2/11/1919 - 2/28/1925 | 33.5 - 39.6 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| 2/13/1919 - 6/20/1919 | 33.6 - 33.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| 5/6/1919 - 8/8/1919 | 33.8 - 34.0 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8/11/1919 | 34.0 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| 9/10/1919 | 34.1 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| 3/4/1921 - 8/2/1923 | 35.6 - 38.0 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| 12/6/1921 | 36.4 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| 10/28/1922 | 37.3 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| 8/2/1923 - 3/4/1929 | 38.0 - 43.6 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| 8/13/1923 - 11/23/1923 | 38.0 - 38.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| 9/13/1923 | 38.1 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| 5/12/1925 - 8/2/1934 | 39.8 - 49.0 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| 1928 | 42.4 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| 6/14/1928 - 10/9/1967 | 42.9 - 82.2 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| 1/15/1929 - 4/4/1968 | 43.5 - 82.7 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| 3/4/1929 - 3/4/1933 | 43.6 - 47.6 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| 10/25/1929 | 44.3 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| 1/22/1930 - 5/1/1931 | 44.5 - 45.8 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| 3/30/1930 - 5/30/1932 | 44.7 - 46.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| 8/5/1930 - Today | 45.0 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| 1931 | 45.4 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| 4/14/1931 | 45.7 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 12/11/1931 | 46.4 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| 6/1/1932 - 11/17/1932 | 46.9 - 47.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| 12/3/1932 - 1/28/1933 | 47.4 - 47.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| 1/30/1933 - 4/30/1945 | 47.5 - 59.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| 2/28/1933 - 3/23/1933 | 47.6 - 47.7 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
| 3/4/1933 - 4/12/1945 | 47.6 - 59.7 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 49.4 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| 12/11/1936 - 2/6/1952 | 51.4 - 66.6 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| 1937 | 51.4 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| 5/6/1937 | 51.8 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 8/27/1939 | 54.1 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
| 9/1/1939 - 1945 | 54.1 - 59.5 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 5/14/1940 | 54.8 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| 12/7/1941 | 56.4 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| 4/12/1945 - 1/20/1953 | 59.7 - 67.5 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| 4/25/1945 | 59.8 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| 5/8/1945 | 59.8 | Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| 8/6/1945 - 8/9/1945 | 60.0 - 60.1 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| 10/14/1946 | 61.2 | Begin of the 4th French Republic | France |
| 10/14/1947 | 62.2 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| 12/21/1948 | 63.4 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| 1949 | 63.5 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| 5/23/1949 | 63.8 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 9/15/1949 - 10/16/1963 | 64.2 - 78.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| 10/7/1949 | 64.2 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
| 10/11/1949 - 9/7/1960 | 64.2 - 75.1 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| 1950 - 1953 | 64.5 - 67.5 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6/17/1950 | 64.9 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1/22/1952 | 66.5 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| 2/6/1952 - Today | 66.6 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| 1/20/1953 - 1/20/1961 | 67.5 - 75.5 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| 6/17/1953 | 67.9 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| 2/24/1955 - Today | 69.6 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| 10/4/1957 | 72.2 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| 10/5/1958 | 73.2 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - 4/30/1975 | 73.5 - 89.8 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 74.5 - 87.5 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| 1/20/1961 - 11/22/1963 | 75.5 - 78.4 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| 4/12/1961 | 75.7 | First human in space | Technology |
| 5/25/1961 - 7/24/1975 | 75.9 - 90.0 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| 8/13/1961 | 76.1 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| 10/11/1962 - 12/8/1965 | 77.2 - 80.4 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| 10/16/1962 - 10/28/1962 | 77.3 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| 10/16/1963 - 12/1/1966 | 78.3 - 81.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969 | 78.4 - 83.5 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 80.5 - 87.5 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| 12/1/1966 - 10/21/1969 | 81.4 - 84.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 81.5 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
| 1/20/1969 - 8/9/1974 | 83.5 - 89.1 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
| 7/20/1969 | 84.0 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
| 10/21/1969 - 5/7/1974 | 84.3 - 88.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
| 10/31/1969 | 84.3 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
| 7/21/1972 | 87.0 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 | 87.5 - 90.5 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| 5/16/1974 - 10/1/1982 | 88.8 - 97.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
| 8/9/1974 - 1/20/1977 | 89.1 - 91.5 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |