Author: Piotr Zelny Generally, property inventories consist of three basic parts. The title, the descriptive part, and the normative part. This type of documentation may refer to a single settlement or to an entire complex …
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Author: Piotr Zelny Property inventories were documents of an economic, financial, and legal character. The documents achieved a level of standardisation in the 17th century. However, when dealing with such a great amount of documentation …
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Author: Piotr Zelny Sources for genealogical research on peasant and townspeople families in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between 15th and mid-19th centuries (This is the first of a five-part article. This part introduces and describes the …
Continue readingRegistration questionnaires of the First and Second General Censuses of Poland in 1921 and 1931.
The article written by Piotr Zelny – genealogist, historian working in the Historical Museum in Sanok, tourist and genealogy guide in PolishOrigins. Proofreading: Aleksander Zawilski. When World War I had drawn to an end …
Continue readingMy work as a tour guide in the Sanok Skansen. Interview with Maria Grabowska.
This is the second part of the article which was originally published in “Rodziny” – The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, issued in winter 2021. My interlocutor is Maria Grabowska, who …
Continue readingWhat Open-Air Museums Can Teach You about the Life of Your Ancestors?
This article was originally published in “Rodziny” – The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, issued in winter 2021. As a tour and research manager in PolishOrigins, one of my main …
Continue readingMake your ancestors proud.
Have you ever thought about what your forefathers would tell you if you met them? The question does not have to do anything with religion. It doesn’t matter at the moment if you …
Continue readingTraditional Polish Christmas Recipes
Christmas is a very special time. In Poland we celebrate especially the Christmas Eve. Well, we celebrate for the next few days as well, but the menu for traditional Polish Christmas Eve is different, …
Continue readingDo you need Polish citizenship to live in Poland?
For many years we have been getting questions about becoming a Polish citizen. The requests for advice were made through our Forum, via emails, or by our tours’ guests. In the last case these …
Continue readingPolish Citizenship Confirmation
Why confirm your Polish citizenship? During the years we spent working on cases of applying for Polish citizenship, we could see two major reasons for trying to get one’s Polish citizenship confirmed. The first reason …
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