Photo Gallery

Here are relatives and ancestors of the Lasica, Sporn, Schepper and Delenta families:

: Here’s Katarzyna Delenta’s birth certificate, issued in 1952 in Rzeszow, Poland, showing she was born in 1890.

: Christa with Gabriella

: The kids during our family reunion at the shore, July 2012.

: Stef holds Gabriella and Christa holds Ariana during Dawn’s wedding, July 8, 2007.

: Wojciech George Lasica in an undated photo, from the Ordon site on MyHeritage.

: Katarzyna Sudol Lasica in an updated photo from the Ordon family tree on MyHeritage.

: Postcard sent by Felix Sporn, 30, from Passaic, NJ to Finsterwalde, Germany in November 1909. Original wording in German: Lieber Bruder, Liebe Schwaegerin! Bin hier ansaessig, habe bereits amerikanische Papiere, in 4 Jahren bin ich amerik. Buerger. Ich brauche sehr nowendig einige Photographie Prospekte aus Leipzig-Lindenau, du kannst mir sofort einige der Drucksachen zuschicken. Teile mir bitte auch mit, was meine Else an Euch geschrieben hat. Hoffentlich seid Ihr gesund u. munter. Besten Gruss! Felix In English: Dear Brother, Dear Sister in Law! I am already settled down, already have American papers, in 4 years I will be an American citizen. I urgently need catalogs for photographic items from Leipzig-Lindenau, you can send me some of the printings right away. Please also write me what my Else (name of a woman) wrote to you. Hope you all are well. Best wishes! Felix

: Caroline (Carol) Jadenski and Katherine Delenta Lasica, her sponsor, at Caroline’s confirmation around 1920.

: The full scan of the first page of the Zeeland’s manifest containing Wojciech Lasica’s signature.

: Page 2 of the Zeeland’s manifest.

: Mike Schiro and daughter Dawn walk down the aisle at Dawn’s wedding.

: Christa Schiro prepares to get married, Oct. 29, 2002.

: Katarzyna Sudol Lasica, wife of Jan Lasica, was born in 1873 in Wilcza Wola, Poland, and lived to be 92.

: The Lasica and Schiro families gathered for a family reunion at the Jersey shore in July 2012.

: At our family reunion in Lavallette at the Jersey Shore, July 2012. From left, Rick Lasica, Andrew Lasica, Tory Lasica Stagg, Mary Schrader Lasica, Jessica Morgan, Byron Morgan, Kathy Lasica Schiro, Michael Lasica and Bobby Lasica.

: Emil Lasica, about 16, and Tory Lasica, about 10, at Seaside Heights around 1936.

: Helen and George Rashevich, Lillian Lasica holding daughter Kathleen, Mary Schepper Sporn, Lorraine Puzio and Ernie Sporn, and Midge Sporn. Photo taken in 1948 by Emil Lasica.

: Christmas at the Sporn household in New Britain, Conn.: Felix at left, Gladys, Lillian (front left), Midge (on floor), Helen and Ernest in mother Mary’s lap. Photo taken in December 1927.

: Bobby Lasica, 14 months, and cousin Rick Lasica, 9, in Lavallette, NJ, in June 2000.

: Jessica Stagg, Kathy Lasica and Bobby Lasica at their grandparents’ house, circa 1953.

: A convention of cousins in the spring of 1950. From right to left, Johnny Lasica, Dolores Wojcik holding little brother Walter Jr., Carole Wojcik with Jessica Stagg, Susanne and Robert Krzynowski, Eddie (a neighbor), Kathy Lasica and Bobby Lasica. (Emil Lasica is hidden behind dresser.)

: An amazing photo from around 1929: sisters Patricia Madansky (front left), about 9 years old, Jana, about 11, and Charlotte (back left), 17, with their mother Anna Lasica Madansky, then 48.

: Candy Kilinski on Broad Street in Passaic in the mid-1950s.

: Fritz Schweitzer as a child.

: Jozef Lasica, brother of Wojciech (George) Lasica, in an undated photo from the Ordon family site on MyHeritage.

: Brothers Fred, Rich and Bob Schweitzer around 1940.

: Rae Madansky with sons Bob, Rich and Dick (not Fred?) around 1930.

: Michael and Maria Bordon in Toronto with their daughter Stella in the mid-1960s, not long after they adopted her.

: Maria Lasica Bordon with her daughter Stella and her brother Adam Lasica outside the Bordons’ house in Toronto in the mid-1960s. Adam lived with his sister for a time after his arrival from Poland in 1964.

: Mary Schepper Sporn with daughters Gladys, left, and Helen. Photo taken in early 1920s on School Street in Passaic.

: Maria Lasica Bordon, Katherine Delenta Lasica and Stella Lasica Bordon at Katherine’s home in East Paterson, NJ, around 1970-72.

: Jadwiga and Jozef Lasica with grandchildren Maria, Janina and Stella Lasica on the family farm in Spie, Poland, around 1957.

: Maria Bordon, her niece Bozena Sudol and Bozena’s mother Stephania Sudol at Bozena’s wedding to Slawek Sztuka in 1996. Standing on the porch is Bozena’s sister Janina (Jaska). The wedding was in Toronto and the reception in Mississauga, Ontario.

: Adam Lasica, his nephew John Sudol and John’s mother Stephania Lasica Sudol in the early 1980s in Toronto.

: Edward S. Lawrence Kilinski and Patricia Madansky on their wedding day, Nov. 14, 1942, in Garfield, NJ, with two groomsmen and sister bridesmaids Charlotte, left, and Jana Madansky.

: Gerlinde and Herbert Kraxner with daughter Isabell, 5, and son Christopher, 8.

: Elisabeth Magdits with her nephew Christopher and niece Isabell.

: Laura Genovese on the day of her wedding to Chris Houseworth.

: Heidi and Wolfgang Csekits and family on their wedding day.

: Lil and Emil Lasica in the 1950s.

: Front row: “Pop” George Lasica and Duke Stagg; back row: Bobby Lasica, Carole Wojcik, John (J. Martin) Lasica, Dolores Wojcik (partly obscured), Walter Wojcik Jr. and Greg Maciag, circa 1958 in the Lasica residence at 8 Herman St., East Paterson, NJ.

: A scene from 1936: Sophie Lasica Jadenski (center) flanks daughters Wanda Jadenski Hintenberger, left, and Caroline Jadenski Bielen; in front, Doris Hintenberger (toddler) and Florence Bielen. The photo was taken at a park near Sophie’s house in Passaic, NJ.

: Sophie Lasica Jadenski, center, in May 1954 with her four daughters, from left: Caroline Jadenski Bielen, Matilda Jadenski Wyka, Wanda Jadenski Hintenberger and Stella Jadenski Gajewski.

: A gathering of generations at John and Caroline Bielen’s 60th wedding anniversary celebration in Garfield, NJ, in July 1985: Top row, from left, Brian Bielen, Robert Bielen Jr., John Bielen, Kathleen Reid, Christine Reid Palmer; bottom row, Janet Bielen (seated) and Caroline Jadenski Bielen holding great granddaughter Kathleen Palmer.

: A gathering of relatives on Aug. 15, 1970 in New Jersey: Top row, from left, Howard Screnock, Doris Hintenberger Screnock, John Bielen, Caroline Jadenski Bielen, Matilda Jadenski Wyka, Andrew Wyka. Bottom row, from left, Frank Gajewski, Stella Jadenski Gajewski, Katherine Delenta Lasica and Sophie Lasica Jadenski. The occasion was the wedding of Gregory Gajewski and Mary Frances Ford.

: Maureen Gelston with her godchild Becca in a photo taken around 2003.

: Jeremy Freer with his grandfather, George Rashevich, in 2001.

: Mary Lasica Turalinski with Maria Lasica Bordon outside St. Mary’s Church in Toronto at John Sudol and Karolina Pawlowska’s wedding in 1995.

: A photo from Mary Lasica’s trip to Poland in 1986, taken at the Lasica family farmhouse in Spie. From left, Anna and Wojtek Sudol (Mary’s mother’s sister and brother, related to the Lasicas by marriage — Walter is now deceased), Zofia Sudol Lasica (Mary’s aunt, no relation to the other Sudols) and Mary Lasica. Says Chris Lasica: “This was my grandparents’ home (Jozef and Jadwiga Lasica). We lived in that home until we came to Canada (in 1966), and then the house was left to Zofia, since she was a widow and struggling to raise eight children.”

: Felix Sporn in an undated photo by the Eckroll-Stamsvig photo studio in Bergen County, NJ, probably from around 1909-1911, shortly before or after he immigrated.

: Four siblings: Mike Lasica, Mary Lasica Turalinski, Chris Lasica and Joe Lasica at Chris’s wedding to Ian Ryves on Aug. 22, 1992, at city hall in Mississauga, Ontario.

: A snapshot from Mary Lasica’s first trip back to Poland in 1986. From left: an unidentified man; Jozef Lasica (Mary’s cousin and Zofia’s son), who moved to Canada the following year; Mary Lasica; Mary’s aunt Zofia Sudol Lasica; and Walter and Anna Sudol (brother and sister-in-law of Mary’s mother, Janina Sudol).

: Marian (Mike) Lasica shows off his first communion certificate with parents Adam and Janina at their house in Wilcza Wola, Poland, in 1964, shortly before Adam left for Canada. Mike and Janina followed him two years later.

: Maria Lasica with sons Andrew, left, and Pawel during Christmas 1996 in Toronto.

: Stella Lasica Karniej and Janusz Karniej with sons Christopher and David in Toronto, May 2000.

: Kathy Lasica Schiro with Cynthia and Jennifer Lasica at Jennifer’s wedding in 1993.

: Joe and Mary Klucsarics with daughters Diana (infant) and Sybille and Mary’s aunt, Mary Schepper, in 1958.

: The Kawaa family in a Christmas card photo taken on Nov. 26, 1994: from left, Patricia, Earl and Yahna Kawaa, Pat Kilinski and dog Max.

: Lina Britz in an undated photo taken by a portrait studio in Dresden. It was probably taken around 1906 when she was 20.

: Berthold Sporn in an undated photo taken by a portrait studio in Finsterwalde. It was probably taken around 1905 when he was 28.

: Dick Schweitzer with a friend, probably in the 1930s.

: Gina Schiro and Chris Thomas and their wedding party.

: Lucie Finn Sporn and Kurt Sporn in Germany in the 1930s.

: From left, Walter Wojcik, Emil Lasica, his mother (“Babci”), John Lasica, George Maciag and his son Gregory, circa 1951.

: Franz Marakovits, perhaps in the Austrian military in the early 1900s, left, and years later, perhaps after he immigrated to the United States.

: George Maciag and Walter Wojcik, circa 1940.

: Emil, Sophie (Tory) and John Lasica in a photo taken in 1927.

: Felix and Mary Sporn with daughter Gladys in 1920.

: Sophie (Tory) Lasica in the mid-1930s in front of her parents’ house in East Paterson, NJ (a block from Garfield).

: Ken Sporn cradles his sister Gale next to cousin Kathy Lasica at Christmas 1955. Years later Kathy recalled, “I was very much afraid of that doll,” a knockoff of 1950s TV ventriloquist Paul Winchell’s dummy Jerry Mahoney.

: Gale Sporn and Gail Rashevich give George Lasica the old heave-ho in October 1970.

: Felix Sporn and son Ernest on School Street in Passaic in 1939.

: Charlotte Madansky with one of her nephews (probably Richard Schweitzer) around 1928.

: Ernie Sporn with mother Mary Schepper Sporn, circa 1931.

: Mary Schepper Sporn with daughters Gladys, left, and Helen. Photo taken in early 1920s on School Street in Passaic.

: Emil Lasica, about 16, and Tory Lasica, about 10, at Seaside Heights around 1936.

: Mary Schepper Sporn with her three daughters: Lillian (in lap), Helen (left) and Gladys in 1924.

: Emil and Lillian Lasica in Atlantic City in 1941 with Jane “Razzy” Erazmus, left, who was bridesmaid at their wedding. Emil and Lil were engaged for two and a half years.

: Lillian and Emil Lasica on Garrett Mountain around the time of their engagement in 1942.

: The postcard Felix Sporn, 30, sent to his older brother, Berthold Sporn, from Passaic, N.J., to Finsterwalde, Germany, on Nov. 23, 1909 — 11 months before he immigrated to the United States.

: Felix and Mary Sporn with daughter Gladys in 1920.

: Jadwiga and Jozef Lasica with grandchildren Maria, Janina and Stella Lasica on the family farm in Spie, Poland, around 1957.

: Jozef Lasica in an undated photo from perhaps the 1920s.

: George Lasica pauses before making deliveries in front of his Polish bakery, Polska Piekarnia, in Passaic, around 1924.

: George Lasica’s certificate of citizenship, issued in 1935.

: Photo taken in 1935 for George Lasica’s certificate of citizenship.

: Bobby Lasica at rest after a tiring weekend, Aug. 17, 2003

: Bobby in the courtyard of the coffeehouse in downtown Pleasanton on Nov. 18, 2001.

: December 2007, in the Hudspeths’ lovely back yard.

: Debra & Ray Gelok on November 4, 2006.

: Roman Bloch with a friend during a long-distance cycling event in Poland.

: Karolina Migon and a friend or relative.

: During JD Lasica’s speaking engagement in Toronto in 2007, his cousins got together at Stella Karniej’s house with a Polish-American meal.

: Sir Mateusz (Matthew) Migon

: Nicole Farrugia on her wedding day to Marco Marotta.

: Top, from left: Chris Lasica Ryves, Rosa Farrugia Lasica, Mary Lasica Turalinski; bottom: Janina Sudol Lasica, Maria Lasica Bordon and Stephanie Lasica Sudol at Rosa’s baby shower in early 1995.

: Lil Lasica, 5 1/2, and brother Ernest Sporn, 1 1/2, in New Britain, Conn., summer 1927.

: Rae Madansky

: Chris Lasica at a party in April 2000 for 724 Solutions, a wireless banking company in Toronto.

: John Bielen and Caroline Jadenski Bielen in July 1985 at their 60th wedding anniversary celebration in Garfield, NJ.

: Bill and daughter Jenny Kazmar at their Pine Bush, NY, home in June 2000.

: Katarzyna Delenta’s birth certificate, reissued in 1952. It says: REPUBLIC OF POLAND Province RZESZOW District NISKO The Civil Law Office KAMIEN No. 113/1890 EXTRACT FROM BIRTH CERTIFICATE I attest that KATARZYNA DALENTA daughter of ANDRZEJ DALETA and HONORATA nee LACH of parents DALENTA(s) was born in KAMIEN the third of November (3.11) the year of one thousand EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY, 3.11.1890 KAMIEN, 2 APRIL, 1952

: Anna Lasica Gut, center, with her daughters Genowefa Gut Bloch, left, and Stanislawa in Kwidzyn, Poland, in the mid-1980s.

: Maria Lasica with sons Andrew, left, and Pawel during Christmas 1996 in Toronto.

: Elisabeth Thomas and Ariana and Gabriella Barillari.

: Agatha Falba in Ontario in October 2015 (from her public Facebook page).

: Mary Schepper Sporn, possibly in the Catskills in the 1950s.

: Kathy Lasica with baby brother Joe and cousin Walter Wojcick Jr. at Greenwood Lake, spring 1956.

: From left, Inge Zielinski Sporn, Guenther Sporn, Gertrud Sporn Dix, Wolfgang Franke and Ingrid Sporn Franke on Feb. 25, 2008.

: From left, Christa Sporn Richter, Inge Sporn Weinberger and Rudi Weinberger in Germany, April 30, 2010.

: Robert Lasica during the second week of his high school senior year.

: Michael and Maria Bordon in Toronto with their daughter Stella in the mid-1960s, not long after they adopted her.

: Mary Lasica’s first communion on June 5, 1967: Janina with children Mary, 9, Krystyna, 6, and Marian, 12.

: A gathering of generations at John and Caroline Bielen’s 60th wedding anniversary celebration in Garfield, NJ, in July 1985: Top row, from left, Brian Bielen, Robert Bielen Jr., John Bielen, Kathleen Reid, Christine Reid Palmer; bottom row, Janet Bielen (seated) and Caroline Jadenski Bielen holding great granddaughter Kathleen Palmer.

: From left, Christine Reid Palmer, Kathleen Palmer, age 15, and Kathleen Reid aboard a Vision of the Seas cruise from Vancouver, Canada, to Ketchikan, Alaska, in July 2000. During the family trip Christine caught a king salmon.

: Jozef Lasica, wife Maria, daughter Renata, and cousins Mary Lasica Turalinski and Mike Lasica in Toronto in summer 1995 outside St. Mary’s Polish Church at John Sudol and Karolina’s wedding.

: Szymon Sochacki and Ewelina Wilk on their wedding day in October 2006.

: Roman Bloch and wife Ewa at their wedding in 2010.

: On May 26, 2014, her 4th birthday, Makayla posed with 4 generations of Lasicas: great-grandmother Sophie (Tory) Lasica Stagg, grandmother Jessica Stagg Morgan and mother Mary Katherine Morgan Reber.

: Patricia Kilinski Kawaa, Earl Kawaa and Yahna Kawaa in Hawaii, early 2016.

: Janina Lasica in Ontario on her 80th birthday, Jan. 1, 2014.

: Dan Zimmermann with girlfriend Anna Richter.

: Greg and Carol Maciag with daughter Michelle.

: George with the twins.

: From left, Kathy Schiro, Lil, JD and George Lasica in Phoenix around 2007.

: From left, Lil and George Lasica, Kathy Lasica, grandfather Wojiech George Lasica, Emil Lasica, Jessica Stagg and Joe Lasica, in late 1958 or early 1959 at our grandparents’ house at 8 Herman Street, East Paterson (a half block from Garfield), NJ. Lots of memories of Polish Christmas carols, kielbasa and borsht around the holidays.

: JD Lasica along the San Diego waterfront in spring 1982.

: Gerlinde and Herbert Kraxner with daughter Isabell, 5, and son Christopher, 8.

: Charlotte (left) and Patricia Madansky flank their mother Anna Lasica Madansky.

: Adam Lasica III at the grave of his parents, Jozef and Jadwiga Lasica, on his first trip back to Poland in August 1999.

: Mary Schepper Sporn with her three daughters: Lillian (in lap), Helen (left) and Gladys in 1924.

: Maria Lasica Bordon, Katherine Delenta Lasica and Stella Lasica Bordon at Katherine’s home in East Paterson, NJ, around 1970-72.

: Cynthia (left) and Holly Lasica with their great aunt Lillian Sporn Lasica at Jennifer Lasica’s wedding in 1993.

: Lillian Lasica outside George Rashevich’s barracks at Fort Dix during World War II.

: Joe Lasica and Gale Sporn, Christmas 1956.