HI TO YOU BOTH AND WHAT A SURPRISE TO FINALLY SEE SOMEONE LOOKING FOR THE NAME BELAK. I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR 2 YEARS NOW. MY MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME WAS BELAK AND MY GRANDPARENTS CAME FROM CHECKOSLOVIA.MY MOTHER ALWAYS SAID WE WERE MOSTLY SLOV. THEY MOVED TO THIS COUNTRY IN THE EARLY 1900'S TO PA. I THOUGHT THAT WAS QUITE A COINCIDENSE.ARE YOU CLOSE TO WILKES-BARRE? THE OTHER PART OF THE FAMILY THAT CAME OVER FROM CHECK.WERE THE HUDOCKS.ORIGINALLY BELAK WAS SPELT BELLACK.MY GRANDFATHER SAID IT WAS SHORTENED BECAUSE OF BEING MADE FUN OF AS A
FORIGNER.THERE WAS ONE FAMILY MEMBER WHO LEFT HOME I BELIEVE AT 16 AND WENT TO NEW YORK. HE WAS NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN. I THINK I HAVE FOUND HIS SS DEATH RECORD FROM PA.ANY CHANCE YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN RELATED TO AN ANDREW FROM PA.? MARIE