Konstantyn Cornelius Lochowicz is my great-great-grandfather. He lived with my grandfather's family in Brooklyn after his wife, my great-great grandmother passed, until he died himself in 1929. My great grandmother (i.e., my mother's grandmother) was another of his daughters, named Julia. (Antoinette's younger sister.) I always thought it was neat that Konstantyn, in addition to having a sweet name, was a shoemaker with his own store in Brooklyn. He was naturalized in 1864 as a US citizen, born in Posen, Prussia to a mixed polish/german family. Good stuff.
Very cool, the Bender side of the family. Some of the information I used in the videos came from your Olsen cousins. www.geni.com/people/Julia-Bender/6000000117161965931
He had a stroke! It said nothing of the spanish flu (which was not from spain)! The death certificate said Apoplexy! (Stroke ) Also cars up to late 1907 had right side steering if anyones wondering
Lime22 that was her own doing. In the interview she says “I just didn’t contact him I guess “. Knowing she was born out of wedlock and her mother not disclosing the truth she most likely felt it was best. People are like that sometimes.
@@johnnysunrocket8618 Why is it her responsibility to look for him? He most likely knew he had a kid out of wedlock, and that she was only offspring of the whole Lochowicz family since he had no legitimate heir of his own. He knew where she lived since they lived so close to each other. He could have had a brief meeting to tell her about the family she came from but choose not to. He also could have left her everything from the family i.e. pictures, mementos, heirlooms, etc.
Johnny Sunrocket Lol it shouldn’t be her responsibility to stay in contact with her father. Her father decided he was ready to have a child and never even met the child. That’s just being a bad father.
Lime22 that's my thoughts..Her Father went to church with her,lived next street over,watched her grow up,but Never let her know who she really was! This happens alot in this day & time,but I'd never thought a man in those days would be like that! That had to hurt her when she found out in her 20's.. As i see it..Why would she want to contact a man who knew her,but didn't care enough to want her in his life?!
@@melindakimball6181 She lived a long good life...little truth like that wouldn't hurt her anymore than the journey of her life itself without knowing her father. I didn't know until recently that my half great grandmother murdered her own sister (my full blooded great grandmother) just to marry her sister's husband. So basically nobody on the other bad half of our 'family' wants to talk about it...ever.
You definitely can! The main thing that can be noticed are the bags under his eyes. Then there is the dents in his skin under his cheekbones along with his nose, chin, and ears
I would probably fit in pretty good where you live. Growing up in New Orleans, there are sections that have a similar accent like mine. That's the way I pronounce "cawnah, sista,," etc..
To have a silent short film of people you're related to, from a time when many people didn't have the capability to record videos like we do today, must be very special for the Lochowicz family.
Just want to inform you because you addressed it; the sound is MUCH much better in this one. Thank you for listening to constructive comments and improving.
My dad had a falling out with his mother when I was a baby, so I never knew her. When I was a teen I found out she lived two blocks away and I would pass her house for yrs to go to the swimming pool. It was stunning to me, and I never did get to know her. It was like we were dead on both sides of the family. It’s amazing the dynamics in a family what can happen.
I'm so fascinated by this video and all the research that the narrator has done, and all the facts that he has uncovered. I'm thinking about the fact that "a mere barber" like Florian Lochowicz could become so well-to-do in New York in the early 1900s. And then I think about the family's misfortunes, the fact that the head of the family, Florian, died so young and was outlived by his own father. And his wife was a widow for some 38 years. And of their six children, only one, the youngest, lived to be 80, whereas the others died at the approximate ages of 35, 2, 62, 56 and 52, even though their mother lived past the age of 80. And of the six children, only one left behind any issue. Fascinating. You have to wonder what their lives were like.
Here in Australia we commemorate the 11 hour of the 11th day of the 11month,every year as rememberance day and all work stops for a few minutes at 11 AM. So many Australian and New Zealand boys were killed in a war between cousins in the royal families.
Seeing how slow they are driving in this film reminded me of a newspaper I have from 1919. There's an article where the author is describing his first experience as a passenger in a motorcar. He talks about how "terrifying" it was when the driver was going a full 30 MPH!
Sure it It was dangerous to drive at any speed in 1919 without no signals lights , side or rear view mirrors,no calaspable glass or steering wheels and no seat belt.You had to be very alert of your surroundings when driving.
I'm blown away by the fact that Paula lived so near to her biological father and never knew. Also the fact that the father was never in her life. That's heartbreaking to me.
You should contact the Today Show. It’s your story. Plus you did all the work. What a great way to have an interview. Let them spend there money. Tell your story, your passion, and why you did this.
The crazy thing is that I watched the 1911 video prior to your initial piece on the family and I swear to you THE ONE thing that had my imagination reeling WAS that whole family. Of the entire video.....that was of interest to me, lol. After watching the 1911 video your vid popped up in the algorithms and I was amazed to find out you'd dug into THAT family. Great work, brother.
The family car, an EMF, was built by a company that (by 1911) had freshly been purchased by Studebaker so that they were better able to transition away from building horse-drawn wagons and buggies to gasoline powered cars without greater investing in engineering and facility improvements. The car was higher end, not a Packard or Cadillac, but very much equal to a Buick in social status. It was a car for those “moving up” socioeconomically but who had “not quit arrived” yet. It was very likely the first car that the family ever owned, and as such, the driver was likely hired after it’s purchase. In those days, gasoline powered cars were difficult to start, stop, and to drive so many automobile owners would hire a driver whose job it was to not only drive the family around but to perform mechanical repairs, change flat or blown tires (which were very common at that time) and keep the car clean. It would be interesting to know how long the family kept the car and (probably impossible to ever track down) if the car still exists today. The information presented that “left side steering” had been standardized in America in 1908 isn’t really true. The standard left driver’s side really more evolved over time. Likely, the Ford Model T having a left side wheel and being the largest selling car gave most Americans their first taste of driving and set the expectation of left side driving. Once that expectation set a preference, the industry fell in line. I agree, the man next to the driver looks age appropriate to be in his late 30s in 1911. The clothing style, hat, and mustache popular then, as well as the culture of the time, dictated that men look “mature”. By the nature of his growing business, he would have been interested in appearance. Looking younger was not a fashionable or accepted practice for men of the day; looking mature and gaining the respect of successful elders were more valued than youth and individualism. This was a much different time.
I love this update 👏🏽I’m the kind of person who loves old pictures movies and videos and always wonder who they are what they look like now and what happened to them so watching this made me smile. ❤️🙋🏽♀️
I agree with the idea that Florian could have been the man in the front seat. A 46-year-old man (approximately) back then often looked older, than a man of the same age today.
If you have a sense of cultural history, this is easy to deduce: The father, Konstantine, is the one in the passenger seat because Florian would have still appeared to be a relatively young man in 1911. It seems like Antoinette was an independent woman for her day which is indicated by the fact that she took over the husband's business upon his death. The car is even registered in her name, which is interesting as well and probably not typical for the time period. However, her European-born father would have undoubtedly been more conservative, and in general that era (1911) was still permeated by a sense of propriety and good society. Florian was an entrepreneur and was a member of well-known civic groups, so it's quite likely that any given day (even a weekend family drive) he had many obligations. Therefore, what you are seeing in the film is Antoinette and her children out on a family drive with her father and HIS chauffeur/servant sitting in the front seat despite the fact that it is not Konstantine's car. A "proper" woman would be a back seat passenger while the men operated the vehicle, and in this case her father was the de-facto head of the household for this jaunt. Check Konstantine's census records and see if he had a young Afrian-American servant. If it is not him, my guess would be an older brother, an uncle, or a close family friend. Bottom line, the men drove when driving through town in a proper way, even if it was Antoinette's car.
12:55 I'm a bloke... Why did I start welling up when Paula began speaking?! Really odd. What a wonderful sounding woman. Thank you for the upload. M. London/UK.
Great work. I find it amazing it took this long for someone to find this information and interview a distant relative, wow! Think about that. It’s sad you couldn’t get information about the driver. They didn’t keep good records back then of African Americans. But he’s out there because he was driving for them. It would cost thousands of dollars trust me. His name is somewhere for sure. The only why to find his name is. It would have to be put on the news and a story about the family with the focus on the driver. If this story was on let’s say the Today Show, and ran a story behind it. Trust me. The drivers name would pop up. Good work.
Seeing the driver feeling comfortable smiling and pointing at them being filmed and talking to his passengers lets me know he was happy working for the family and the Father looked happy too.
@@user-mj4us6su8o if he was being treated nicely and being paid for the job he did, then why wouldn’t he be? He wasn’t a slave who was being shackled and beaten…that wasn’t the case for all black people FYI. Especially in the northern states.
I love these stories! Great project, Jarrett. I wonder if others have researched old videos ... sorry ... films to the extent you have this one. I think all information is important, fleshing out the lives we see only on sparse records. Thanks!!
All of this is so fascinating. You could see that they must've been a very distinguished family in that Model T, because their heads never turned to look at the towns people at all while riding. What you've come up with here by contacting a descendant of the family is quite remarkable. It's like layer after layer is being peeled off the more you dig. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I'm interested in the driver, too, but I'm sure the kind of records you were able to secure on the Lochowicz family probably won't be as east for the African American driver. If you decide to research him, I would be very interested to learn more about him.
I have watched the 1911 video multiple times and am so intrigued by it! Thank you so much for digging into this family's story! Like you said, they wouldn't have dreamed in a million years that we would all be watching it, and you would be commemorating them so wonderfully! Thank you for your diligent and respectful work! Rock on!!! Great work!!!
This is so cool. As good a job as you did researching this family, you could do quite well devoting your channel to this type old film be research. Plus, you made this lady very happy. Thank you for your hard work and research.
While I won't be devoting the channel to this type of research I am planning to have a continuous series identifying people in old film. Newest project, first episode released last week, is 1903 Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island - ruclips.net/video/bO4QSKysBXQ/видео.html
That Paula is a sweetheart. How awesome that a film like that in 1911 was instrumental in tying up some special history for a special lady 100 years later. Thank you for your work and sharing it. I have always loved research and know it is something that can really consume you until all the pieces fit into place. Great job!
Hi ! Really enjoyed your amazing film/video research. It took a lot of research to put it all together. It's sad that the children died at relatively young ages just leaving one grand-child living just around the corner, but never getting to meet her father. The house on Eight St. certainly looks impressive, thanks to Google Earth. Great work. I'll certainly keep checking out your videos. These old photos and clips are fascinating.
Amazing work brother, I could understand this lady's feeling of finding out their ancestors later in her life. I got to meet my biological father when I came to the US in the early 90s, with zero information other than his name, no Google or Facebook, I was able to find him in San Francisco, through the white pages and after months of meeting friends of friends who led me to his whereabouts.I just wanted to meet him, with no other expectations. I finally met the guy, told him who I was, and then came to NY the day after. Never saw him again! Keep up the great work you're doing, my friend. Cheers!
So interesting and well done. I remember chancing upon this footage of the family in the car on another RUclips channel ages ago. Again, well researched and presented. R.
So very interesting! Left me with a happy heart today. Thanks for your perseverance in researching this family. I’m sure Paula is super excited. Gloria from Mississippi
I've been hoping to find some youtube videos with more substance. This channel fills the bill. This is easily a half million subscriber channel. Thank you very much.
Interesting video!! You found out so much information on the people in this vintage photo!! When I was doing genealogy research (trying to find other descendants of my ancestors), I also found that many of the other lines had died out without descendants.
Great set of videos. When I saw the first one, I wondered who all the people in the video were, but until your second video never thought that it would have been possible to Identify any of them. Good work.
Very interesting. Bringing it all to life is wonderful. I am fascinated by how those before us lived and struggled and family lines either went on or ended. It is rather haunting.
Excellent work. Paula was enthusiastic to talk, and you cut her off too short. She seemed disappointed when you had to leave. I'm sure that she wanted to talk to you longer, and I feel sorry for her that she didn't have the chance to talk longer. Thanks, Aarre Peltomaa
I initially thought he cut the interview short as well but when I watched it again I noticed that there was a cut so he actually just edited a much longer conversation.
Imagine that. Paula lived right around the corner from her father living in the ancestral home, and attended the same church. Her father died in 1999 when Paula would have been in her late 50's. Yet in all that time, more than half a century, she never knew this man. But I bet he knew her, or at least knew of her, and prob watched her grow up from afar, in church and in that neighborhood, knowing she was his daughter. Interesting how life plays out. Thank you for this follow up to your original vid. Btw, I think back around the turn of the last century people aged faster and wore their age seeming older even though young by today's standards. Somebody back then who was 40 might act, dress, and carry himself like mid-fifties or older by today's norms. So I think the man in the front seat of the car prob was Florian, and he was holding his youngest daughter.
This is so wonderful, you are bringing us (in our imaginations) into this families world. I can’t stop thinking about how such a large family, so many children yet there were no children born to them to inherit the home etc. meanwhile the whole time there was a child right around the corner who was never acknowledged.
This video is awesome and I applaud your tenacity in pursuing this story and the amount of information you managed to glean from just a few frames of a very old video/film. Have you ever thought about becoming a private detective?
This is so fascinating to me and couldn't have arrived at a better time. I'm a junior in highschool and I am currently taking US history. And alot of the history is just fascinating to me.
What a wonderful work! I admire your commitment to that. Also I'm from Poland and it's great to know story of my compatriots in the US. Greetings form Poland :)
I agree it could be Florian! Sounds like he passed away from a stroke? Also, agree it looks like Frances, too. Agree that it’s tough with the girls to tell which one was Emily. Lucky Paula to find out more about her family! Bittersweet, too.
Sir you exactly did what i had in my mind everytime i am looking at the old photos or videos ,i dont know but i really liked watching old videos or photos and at the same time in my thought where are they , who are they. I am really waiting for a new videos like this,
Amazing research. You should start a company that tracks down relatives of those that die without a Will. It happened to me. I thought it was a scam when I was contacted. I had a 2nd cousin die without a Will but owned a house worth a $200K. The money goes to the government if there are no relatives. So there are companies that track down relative and make a claim for you and keep a fee for doing it. You'd be great at tracking down people
I had plans to go into that line of work but took a little detour and now am Lead Forensic Genealogist at DNA Labs International, solving cold case crimes using genetic genealogy.
@@GeneaVlogger - Oh wow! Well, that's incredibly important work. I've seen cases pop up in the press and forensic documentaries. I believe the Golden State Killer was found through a DNA relative match. Not sure why I assumed you were not already working in this field full time. I guess because this looked like a lot of work and I didn't think you'd do it as a hobby as well. My apologies. In that case, keep notes and write a screenplay about someone that finds a genetic link in a murder case that leads to er...the president or Royalty. One of those old-style thrillers race against the clock movies where powerful people are after the hero (that's you) before he can prove to the world what he knows. A bit like "Marathon Man" if I remember correctly. I'd watch that.
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It's insane how much information is hidden behind a single vehicle registration plate. Fantastic project. Well done!
And just imagine what Google, Facebook, your electronic medical records all have on you today.
@@alf.2929 and yours too and mine
It’s amazing how quickly a family line can die out.
Konstantyn Cornelius Lochowicz is my great-great-grandfather. He lived with my grandfather's family in Brooklyn after his wife, my great-great grandmother passed, until he died himself in 1929. My great grandmother (i.e., my mother's grandmother) was another of his daughters, named Julia. (Antoinette's younger sister.) I always thought it was neat that Konstantyn, in addition to having a sweet name, was a shoemaker with his own store in Brooklyn. He was naturalized in 1864 as a US citizen, born in Posen, Prussia to a mixed polish/german family. Good stuff.
Very cool, the Bender side of the family. Some of the information I used in the videos came from your Olsen cousins. www.geni.com/people/Julia-Bender/6000000117161965931
That’s really freaking cool you should get in touch with the woman on the phone… that would be your….. second cousin???
Thank you for posting, Kevin! We are following this story with great interest.
Did you ever talk to Paula yet?
He had a stroke! It said nothing of the spanish flu (which was not from spain)! The death certificate said Apoplexy! (Stroke )
Also cars up to late 1907 had right side steering if
anyones wondering
Ms. Paula Lochowicz's biological father (literally) lived around the corner and attended the same church yet had no contact. Wow...just wow...
Lime22 that was her own doing. In the interview she says “I just didn’t contact him I guess “. Knowing she was born out of wedlock and her mother not disclosing the truth she most likely felt it was best. People are like that sometimes.
@@johnnysunrocket8618 Why is it her responsibility to look for him? He most likely knew he had a kid out of wedlock, and that she was only offspring of the whole Lochowicz family since he had no legitimate heir of his own. He knew where she lived since they lived so close to each other. He could have had a brief meeting to tell her about the family she came from but choose not to. He also could have left her everything from the family i.e. pictures, mementos, heirlooms, etc.
Johnny Sunrocket Lol it shouldn’t be her responsibility to stay in contact with her father. Her father decided he was ready to have a child and never even met the child. That’s just being a bad father.
Lime22 that's my thoughts..Her Father went to church with her,lived next street over,watched her grow up,but Never let her know who she really was! This happens alot in this day & time,but I'd never thought a man in those days would be like that! That had to hurt her when she found out in her 20's.. As i see it..Why would she want to contact a man who knew her,but didn't care enough to want her in his life?!
@@melindakimball6181 She lived a long good life...little truth like that wouldn't hurt her anymore than the journey of her life itself without knowing her father. I didn't know until recently that my half great grandmother murdered her own sister (my full blooded great grandmother) just to marry her sister's husband. So basically nobody on the other bad half of our 'family' wants to talk about it...ever.
Yea, the picture looks like the boy in the film. That was beautiful, makes me happy that she could see her family.
Yes
You definitely can! The main thing that can be noticed are the bags under his eyes. Then there is the dents in his skin under his cheekbones along with his nose, chin, and ears
I'm from North New Jersey and it's wonderful to hear Paula's voice reminding me that just like her everything was happening "right around the cawnah"
I would probably fit in pretty good where you live. Growing up in New Orleans, there are sections that have a similar accent like mine. That's the way I pronounce "cawnah, sista,," etc..
My Irish cousins in Massachusetts sound the same way!
Loved that Brooklyn accent...reminded me of characters in old black n white movies🔥😃
😂
To have a silent short film of people you're related to, from a time when many people didn't have the capability to record videos like we do today, must be very special for the Lochowicz family.
There’s only one member of the lochowitz family left, and she never met them
Just want to inform you because you addressed it; the sound is MUCH much better in this one. Thank you for listening to constructive comments and improving.
What a sweet heart that Lady is at the end.
I REALLY want to know more about that driver!
The driver was her dad...
Bruh 😂
That driver looks fun and it's apparent he's treated like part of the family, which is heartwarming.
Yea, in 1911 I wouldn't imagine he would have truly been treated "like a part of the family"
@@wesbecool You'd be surprised, there were a lot of really progressive people back then in terms of race. I've heard plenty of stories akin to that
I live just a few blocks away from Holy Cross Cemetery, where Francis Lochowicz is buried. I'll have to go look for his grave. Great vlog btw!
Give US an update how it looks like now
Ya mean Hola Craws
St. Savior is my Parish church in Park Slope.
My dad had a falling out with his mother when I was a baby, so I never knew her. When I was a teen I found out she lived two blocks away and I would pass her house for yrs to go to the swimming pool. It was stunning to me, and I never did get to know her. It was like we were dead on both sides of the family. It’s amazing the dynamics in a family what can happen.
Did they know about you?
Did she not want anything to do with you or what is the story on her not being in your life? if you don't mind me asking.
Came for the ancestory update, stayed for the 1900's sign drama 😂
I'm so fascinated by this video and all the research that the narrator has done, and all the facts that he has uncovered. I'm thinking about the fact that "a mere barber" like Florian Lochowicz could become so well-to-do in New York in the early 1900s. And then I think about the family's misfortunes, the fact that the head of the family, Florian, died so young and was outlived by his own father. And his wife was a widow for some 38 years. And of their six children, only one, the youngest, lived to be 80, whereas the others died at the approximate ages of 35, 2, 62, 56 and 52, even though their mother lived past the age of 80. And of the six children, only one left behind any issue. Fascinating. You have to wonder what their lives were like.
Wow this is literally one of the coolest and most fascinating channels i've stumbled upon on RUclips. You've got yourself a new subscriber mate.
I am a new subscriber too.
Me too
I think the reason Francis only served in the Army from 10-03-1918 to 11-11-18 was because WWI ended on 11-11-1918. Great research !
I was about to add the same comment!
Here in Australia we commemorate the 11 hour of the 11th day of the 11month,every year as rememberance day and all work stops for a few minutes at 11 AM. So many Australian and New Zealand boys were killed in a war between cousins in the royal families.
Seeing how slow they are driving in this film reminded me of a newspaper I have from 1919. There's an article where the author is describing his first experience as a passenger in a motorcar. He talks about how "terrifying" it was when the driver was going a full 30 MPH!
A terrifying 30 mph!!! That is hilarious!
Sure it It was dangerous to drive at any speed in 1919 without no signals lights , side or rear view mirrors,no calaspable glass or steering wheels and no seat belt.You had to be very alert of your surroundings when driving.
I'm blown away by the fact that Paula lived so near to her biological father and never knew. Also the fact that the father was never in her life. That's heartbreaking to me.
@@edselguru because she was born out of wedlock and it was probably a shame back then to recognize the children born out of wedlock.
You should contact the Today Show. It’s your story. Plus you did all the work. What a great way to have an interview. Let them spend there money. Tell your story, your passion, and why you did this.
The crazy thing is that I watched the 1911 video prior to your initial piece on the family and I swear to you THE ONE thing that had my imagination reeling WAS that whole family. Of the entire video.....that was of interest to me, lol. After watching the 1911 video your vid popped up in the algorithms and I was amazed to find out you'd dug into THAT family. Great work, brother.
The family car, an EMF, was built by a company that (by 1911) had freshly been purchased by Studebaker so that they were better able to transition away from building horse-drawn wagons and buggies to gasoline powered cars without greater investing in engineering and facility improvements. The car was higher end, not a Packard or Cadillac, but very much equal to a Buick in social status. It was a car for those “moving up” socioeconomically but who had “not quit arrived” yet. It was very likely the first car that the family ever owned, and as such, the driver was likely hired after it’s purchase. In those days, gasoline powered cars were difficult to start, stop, and to drive so many automobile owners would hire a driver whose job it was to not only drive the family around but to perform mechanical repairs, change flat or blown tires (which were very common at that time) and keep the car clean. It would be interesting to know how long the family kept the car and (probably impossible to ever track down) if the car still exists today. The information presented that “left side steering” had been standardized in America in 1908 isn’t really true. The standard left driver’s side really more evolved over time. Likely, the Ford Model T having a left side wheel and being the largest selling car gave most Americans their first taste of driving and set the expectation of left side driving. Once that expectation set a preference, the industry fell in line.
I agree, the man next to the driver looks age appropriate to be in his late 30s in 1911. The clothing style, hat, and mustache popular then, as well as the culture of the time, dictated that men look “mature”. By the nature of his growing business, he would have been interested in appearance. Looking younger was not a fashionable or accepted practice for men of the day; looking mature and gaining the respect of successful elders were more valued than youth and individualism. This was a much different time.
Thanks for your interesting post.
The ”Seizure” sounds more like a stroke, considering he has partial paralysis before passing away.
"Apoplexy" is the old word for stroke as I understand it. Sounds right to me.
I was thinking the same thing
Wow, wonderful project! Kudos to you! Saw the 1911 NYC video, and then your video was suggested! Great work tbh!
I love this update 👏🏽I’m the kind of person who loves old pictures movies and videos and always wonder who they are what they look like now and what happened to them so watching this made me smile. ❤️🙋🏽♀️
Obituaries used to be really descriptive about cause of death.
"I'm still learning, I'm only human" was my favourite part of the video
“Right around the CORN-uh!”
I was giggling by the 3rd or 4th time the old lady said that. I love urban New Yorkers & New Jerseyites!
the lochowicz family history deserves a movie adaptation ngl
For suuueee
I totally agree!!!
Most families have movie worthy stories. Just have to dig a bit! Usually not that far back either!
I agree with the idea that Florian could have been the man in the front seat. A 46-year-old man (approximately) back then often looked older, than a man of the same age today.
If you have a sense of cultural history, this is easy to deduce: The father, Konstantine, is the one in the passenger seat because Florian would have still appeared to be a relatively young man in 1911. It seems like Antoinette was an independent woman for her day which is indicated by the fact that she took over the husband's business upon his death. The car is even registered in her name, which is interesting as well and probably not typical for the time period. However, her European-born father would have undoubtedly been more conservative, and in general that era (1911) was still permeated by a sense of propriety and good society. Florian was an entrepreneur and was a member of well-known civic groups, so it's quite likely that any given day (even a weekend family drive) he had many obligations. Therefore, what you are seeing in the film is Antoinette and her children out on a family drive with her father and HIS chauffeur/servant sitting in the front seat despite the fact that it is not Konstantine's car. A "proper" woman would be a back seat passenger while the men operated the vehicle, and in this case her father was the de-facto head of the household for this jaunt. Check Konstantine's census records and see if he had a young Afrian-American servant. If it is not him, my guess would be an older brother, an uncle, or a close family friend. Bottom line, the men drove when driving through town in a proper way, even if it was Antoinette's car.
This is so cool. I bought a 1920 N.Y. license plate at an antique store years ago. I love the investigative research you did. Awesome!
AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING RESEARCH MAN!!!
I am late to the show. But these are amazing and wonderful. Thank you for what you do!
12:55 I'm a bloke... Why did I start welling up when Paula began speaking?! Really odd.
What a wonderful sounding woman. Thank you for the upload. M. London/UK.
Great work. I find it amazing it took this long for someone to find this information and interview a distant relative, wow! Think about that. It’s sad you couldn’t get information about the driver. They didn’t keep good records back then of African Americans. But he’s out there because he was driving for them. It would cost thousands of dollars trust me. His name is somewhere for sure. The only why to find his name is. It would have to be put on the news and a story about the family with the focus on the driver. If this story was on let’s say the Today Show, and ran a story behind it. Trust me. The drivers name would pop up. Good work.
Seeing the driver feeling comfortable smiling and pointing at them being filmed and talking to his passengers lets me know he was happy working for the family and the Father looked happy too.
Be for real. Do you really think this black men was happy working for this white family
@@user-mj4us6su8o if he was being treated nicely and being paid for the job he did, then why wouldn’t he be? He wasn’t a slave who was being shackled and beaten…that wasn’t the case for all black people FYI. Especially in the northern states.
@@user-mj4us6su8o be real, if he wasn't happy, would he be smiling, laughing, conversing, and generally jovial and social?
Great work, truly amazing you got to talk to the granddaughter.
Both segments were fascinating. Thank you very much.
That is real life isn't it?!!! Nice, huggable lady, and an embracing interview. How fortunate was all of this for all of us! Joyful!
I love these stories! Great project, Jarrett. I wonder if others have researched old videos ... sorry ... films to the extent you have this one. I think all information is important, fleshing out the lives we see only on sparse records. Thanks!!
All of this is so fascinating. You could see that they must've been a very distinguished family in that Model T, because their heads never turned to look at the towns people at all while riding. What you've come up with here by contacting a descendant of the family is quite remarkable. It's like layer after layer is being peeled off the more you dig. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I'm interested in the driver, too, but I'm sure the kind of records you were able to secure on the Lochowicz family probably won't be as east for the African American driver. If you decide to research him, I would be very interested to learn more about him.
I have watched the 1911 video multiple times and am so intrigued by it! Thank you so much for digging into this family's story! Like you said, they wouldn't have dreamed in a million years that we would all be watching it, and you would be commemorating them so wonderfully! Thank you for your diligent and respectful work!
Rock on!!! Great work!!!
This is so cool. As good a job as you did researching this family, you could do quite well devoting your channel to this type old film be research. Plus, you made this lady very happy. Thank you for your hard work and research.
While I won't be devoting the channel to this type of research I am planning to have a continuous series identifying people in old film. Newest project, first episode released last week, is 1903 Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island - ruclips.net/video/bO4QSKysBXQ/видео.html
She’s so cute! I love her accent!
Your work is amazing!
Crazy that my grandma lived around the corner . Perretti
Wow, fascinating piece! You're amazing.
That Paula is a sweetheart. How awesome that a film like that in 1911 was instrumental in tying up some special history for a special lady 100 years later. Thank you for your work and sharing it. I have always loved research and know it is something that can really consume you until all the pieces fit into place. Great job!
Hi ! Really enjoyed your amazing film/video research. It took a lot of research to put it all together. It's sad that the children died at relatively young ages just leaving one grand-child living just around the corner, but never getting to meet her father. The house on Eight St. certainly looks impressive, thanks to Google Earth. Great work. I'll certainly keep checking out your videos. These old photos and clips are fascinating.
Amazing work brother, I could understand this lady's feeling of finding out their ancestors later in her life. I got to meet my biological father when I came to the US in the early 90s, with zero information other than his name, no Google or Facebook, I was able to find him in San Francisco, through the white pages and after months of meeting friends of friends who led me to his whereabouts.I just wanted to meet him, with no other expectations. I finally met the guy, told him who I was, and then came to NY the day after. Never saw him again!
Keep up the great work you're doing, my friend. Cheers!
Thanks for sharing a unique life experience. It's hard to read your story. Did it bother you to not see your father again?
Fantastic video!
Just priceless!...Bravo, bravissimo bello!
It’s amazing how fast time flies enjoy the little time we have
I love this, it's so interesting to me!
I'm addicted to history like this but at times realize I'm not living life to the fullest for searching for the dead. Strange but true ..
Geezus!!! You are crazy!!! You're great!!!
You are doing some really cool work. I’m so intrigued by these videos!
So interesting and well done. I remember chancing upon this footage of the family in the car on another RUclips channel ages ago. Again, well researched and presented. R.
So very interesting! Left me with a happy heart today. Thanks for your perseverance in researching this family. I’m sure Paula is super excited. Gloria from Mississippi
So totally cool! I enjoyed all 3 videos!
Really amazing! Congratulations for your research!
I've been hoping to find some youtube videos with more substance. This channel fills the bill. This is easily a half million subscriber channel. Thank you very much.
Awww .... what a nice gift you have given to that lady. Love this.
How many people only criticize and pick on little stupid things instead of enjoying this piece of info. Great job!
I'm astounded by how you were able to track down all this info. Amazing stuff.
Good morning, excellent work and thanks for the update! Hope all is good, stay healthy!
Ignore the comments. Your “Videos” are Awesome.
Interesting video!! You found out so much information on the people in this vintage photo!!
When I was doing genealogy research (trying to find other descendants of my ancestors), I also found that many of the other lines had died out without descendants.
Great set of videos. When I saw the first one, I wondered who all the people in the video were, but until your second video never thought that it would have been possible to Identify any of them. Good work.
Who the heck thumbs down a video like this? 🤨🤔😒 ugh some ppl
Great research! I love these old films. It's as close as we will ever get to time travel.
Gosh, this is a fantastic channel!
This is so fascinating. Thank you so much for making these videos. I wonder if I’m related to Edward
Very interesting. Bringing it all to life is wonderful. I am fascinated by how those before us lived and struggled and family lines either went on or ended. It is rather haunting.
This is great!!! Thanks so much for investigating this family.
Excellent work. Paula was enthusiastic to talk, and you cut her off too short. She seemed disappointed when you had to leave. I'm sure that she wanted to talk to you longer, and I feel sorry for her that she didn't have the chance to talk longer. Thanks, Aarre Peltomaa
I initially thought he cut the interview short as well but when I watched it again I noticed that there was a cut so he actually just edited a much longer conversation.
Thank you for all your hard work! Really happy I stumbled upon your Chanel hope all is well
Imagine that. Paula lived right around the corner from her father living in the ancestral home, and attended the same church. Her father died in 1999 when Paula would have been in her late 50's. Yet in all that time, more than half a century, she never knew this man. But I bet he knew her, or at least knew of her, and prob watched her grow up from afar, in church and in that neighborhood, knowing she was his daughter. Interesting how life plays out. Thank you for this follow up to your original vid. Btw, I think back around the turn of the last century people aged faster and wore their age seeming older even though young by today's standards. Somebody back then who was 40 might act, dress, and carry himself like mid-fifties or older by today's norms. So I think the man in the front seat of the car prob was Florian, and he was holding his youngest daughter.
You are doing a wonderful job and we are grateful that you are even doing this thank you we love your videos
Just found your blog and videos. Love it. Sound is good now.
This is so wonderful, you are bringing us (in our imaginations) into this families world. I can’t stop thinking about how such a large family, so many children yet there were no children born to them to inherit the home etc. meanwhile the whole time there was a child right around the corner who was never acknowledged.
This is a fantastic project! You should definitely do more of the same, great work!
This video is awesome and I applaud your tenacity in pursuing this story and the amount of information you managed to glean from just a few frames of a very old video/film. Have you ever thought about becoming a private detective?
Thank you! I am actually a Genetic Detective and I help identify unidentified remains as well as help solving cold case crimes.
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This is so fascinating to me and couldn't have arrived at a better time. I'm a junior in highschool and I am currently taking US history. And alot of the history is just fascinating to me.
This is really excellent. Well done.
What a wonderful work! I admire your commitment to that. Also I'm from Poland and it's great to know story of my compatriots in the US. Greetings form Poland :)
Man u are a true genius, this is my type of content right here...PLEASE do more of these...
I agree it could be Florian! Sounds like he passed away from a stroke? Also, agree it looks like Frances, too. Agree that it’s tough with the girls to tell which one was Emily. Lucky Paula to find out more about her family! Bittersweet, too.
You need to do more of these
It's great that you were able to connect with their granddaughter!
Beautiful. The power of genealogy 👍👍
Sir you exactly did what i had in my mind everytime i am looking at the old photos or videos ,i dont know but i really liked watching old videos or photos and at the same time in my thought where are they , who are they. I am really waiting for a new videos like this,
same here!
Your deserve more subscribers bro
Absolutely fascinating!
i like the old lady's accent :D great video, respect for the effort put in
Amazing work
Amazing research.
You should start a company that tracks down relatives of those that die without a Will.
It happened to me. I thought it was a scam when I was contacted. I had a 2nd cousin die without a Will but owned a house worth a $200K.
The money goes to the government if there are no relatives. So there are companies that track down relative and make a claim for you and keep a fee for doing it. You'd be great at tracking down people
I had plans to go into that line of work but took a little detour and now am Lead Forensic Genealogist at DNA Labs International, solving cold case crimes using genetic genealogy.
@@GeneaVlogger - Oh wow! Well, that's incredibly important work. I've seen cases pop up in the press and forensic documentaries. I believe the Golden State Killer was found through a DNA relative match. Not sure why I assumed you were not already working in this field full time. I guess because this looked like a lot of work and I didn't think you'd do it as a hobby as well. My apologies.
In that case, keep notes and write a screenplay about someone that finds a genetic link in a murder case that leads to er...the president or Royalty. One of those old-style thrillers race against the clock movies where powerful people are after the hero (that's you) before he can prove to the world what he knows. A bit like "Marathon Man" if I remember correctly.
I'd watch that.
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Wtf you inherited a house out of nowhere? What became of it?
Amazing! We need more of this.. awesome job 👍🏻.
Niesamowite ! jestem pod wrażeniem, że udało się dowiedzieć i porozmawiać z dalszą rodziną i spoko,że korzenie tej rodziny sięgają akurat mojego kraju ;)
Your enthusiasm is totally infectious - I really loved the story. It really strengthens our connection to the past. Thanks for sharing!