Zawada Family Tree

I am related to the Zawadas via my father, Gerald Wades. His father's name was Joseph Daniel Zawada, but Joseph changed his last name to Wades in the 1930's so that he could find work downstate after the copper mining industry dried up in Calumet, MI.

Joe married Isabel Beatrice Milne in 1939.

If you have any information on the Zawada family name prior to 1900 residing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, OR if you have any information on this branch of the Zawada family in Germany prior to 1892, please email me.

Update: October 25, 2004 - The GEDCOM file below is now out of date; you may need to look at the list of names and dates below to correct this in the GEDCOM until I can upload a new one. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Update: July 10, 2004 - I have put up a GEDCOM and PAF page - you can find it by clicking here.


1. Frank Zawada  b. Dec. 21, 1872  d. 1936 born Poland, immigrated 1892, miner (copper).
     +Victoria Szatkowski   b. Sep. 14, 1879    d. 1959 born Poland, immigrated 1881.
...   2. Frank Anton Zawada   b. July 11, 1895   d. Aug 4, 1988 (Michigan)
......   + Marie Judnich   b.   m. August 23, 1918   d.  (Arizona)
...   2. Joseph Daniel Zawada (Changed last name to Wades) b. Mar. 14, 1897  d. Sep. 1967
......   +Isabel Beatrice Milne   b. Feb. 16, 1903   m. May 27, 1939   d. Feb. 1987
...   2. Marian (Mary) Zawada (Changed last name to Wade)   b. July 11, 1899   d.
......   +Stan Innis
...   2. Clarice Vivian Zawada (Changed last name to Wade)   b. Sep. 11, 1901   d. 1996
         (never married)
...   2. Jean Agnes Zawada   b. Jan. 25, 1904   d. ?
......   + Frank Wright
...   2. Ann Zawada (Changed last name to Wade)   b. July 8, 1906   d.
......   +Ted Manser
...   2. Kay Zawada (Changed last name to Wade)   b. Mar. 20, 1910   d.
......   +Art Yeagley
...   2. Helen Zawada (Changed last name to Wade)   b. Nov. 17, 1912   m. 
......   +Chuck Carolin
...   2. Ray Zawada (Changed last name to Wade)   b. Dec. 16, 1915   d. 12 Jun 1975 (heart attack)
......   +Marge (remarried after Ray died)  
1. Jacob Zawada  b. Mar 1876  d. born Poland, immigrated 1895, miner (copper).