A while back we have started sharing our genealogy knowledge throughout a series of Genealogy Pro Tips that are published on our Facebook page. You can find short and practical advice there, for example …
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Through 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 vacation together. The majority of our trip was indeed sightseeing, however, the genealogy aspect of …
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The next day we drove to Wesiory, the Polish Stonehenge. The stones mark a Goth burial ground from about the first to the third century. We touched the stones and Daniel read us some history …
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On our way back to Poland, we stopped at the Trakai Castle, a castle on Lake Galve. Construction started in the 14th century and Trakai was one of the main centers of the Grand Duchy …
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My trip actually started out in Ukraine, where my daughter and I went to see the villages, where my family were born and lived in Volhynia. At that time the villages were part of Russia. …
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 experience during their Genealogy Tour when all their previous plans and roadmaps get altered by …
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 look at military records. A remarkable thing that happened was in the process of requesting …
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 wanted to share some of the highlights of our trip since it was so much …
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