My Grandparents, John and Helen Wolak, shown here in this circa 1921 photo taken in Buffalo, New York, with their five children (L to R), Bill, Stanley, Jenny, Marcel, and Adam(my Father). John and Helen arrived at Ellis Island in 1911 from Poland, lived briefly near Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in western New York, before settling permanently in New Britain, Connecticut in the 1920s. View full size.