Origins
There are two different branches of the Elias Family, the main branch of the family is from the Czech Banat colonies in Romania. Namely in the village of Svata Helena, but the family has connections to also to the seven other Czech villages of the region. The maternal side of the family is Polish, with two distant branches, the Guzman’s were heavly Germanized Poles from Gniew region. The Janicki family was much lest Germanized because they were from Jarocin area of Poland.
John Elias (1938-)
John was born in 1938 the mining town of Hibbing in the Mesabi Iron Ridge in Northern Minnesota. He went to Minneapolis School of Art, and while there he met his wife Colleen Condon and married her in 1961. From this he became a toy maker for Lakeside. In 1975 he followed his wife to Florida where he would raise his family and run a myriad of companies. His last job was owning Sanybel’s Finest a shell store that was destroyed in Hurricane Ian in 2022.
Pedigree
| Gen 3 | Gen 4 | Gen 5 | Gen 6 | Gen 7 |
John Elias | John Elias | Joannes Elias | Joannes Eliasch | Joannes Eliasch |
| Barbara Bascha | ||||
| Maria Malvina Filipova | Josephus Filip | |||
| Anna Kuna | ||||
| Anna Boháčekova | Josephus Boháček | Josephus Boháček | ||
| Maria Petrácsekova | ||||
| Maria Osvaldova | Filip Oswald | |||
| Maria Stehlik | ||||
| Marcella Catherine Gussman | Joseph Martin Gussman | Franciscus Guzman | Martinus Guzman | |
| Helena Kresmer | ||||
| Justina Drozdowska | Martinus Drozdowski | |||
| Marianna Sadowska | ||||
| Katherine Janesky | Michael Janicki | Antonius Janicki | ||
| Catharina Kasprzak | ||||
| Marion Szymoniak | Jan Szymoniak | |||
| Teresa Slangret |
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