A few months have passed since we announced our idea of Genealogy Consultations. After testing the waters, carrying out a …
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Do you know to which parish your ancestor’s village belonged?
A while back we have started sharing our genealogy knowledge throughout a series of Genealogy Pro Tips that are …
Continue readingThrough Patrick’s lenses – a Genealogy Tour to Poland
blog by Patrick McCabe In September 2019 the country of Poland became our family’s latest destination for sharing a …
Continue readingFollow the oak trees (part 3)
The next day we drove to Wesiory, the Polish Stonehenge. The stones mark a Goth burial ground from about the …
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On our way back to Poland, we stopped at the Trakai Castle, a castle on Lake Galve. Construction started in …
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My trip actually started out in Ukraine, where my daughter and I went to see the villages, where my family …
Continue readingA welcomed surprise or… being in the spotlight
Word tends to travel quickly in small towns and villages. Often our guests are not prepared for what they will …
Continue readingFrom Michigan to Poland – a short story about Mom and Son’s Genealogy Tour (part 2)
We began the following day, Thursday, with a visit to a government office at the neighboring city Bielsko-Biała, to …
Continue readingFrom Michigan to Poland – a short story about Mom and Son’s Genealogy Tour (part 1)
This past April, my son and I had the most wonderful experience with our tour planned by PolishOrigins. I …
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