Author: Piotr Zelny Generally, the property inventories are rated very highly by historians. These are sources that provide a lot of data on such a subject matter as the organization and functioning of individual villages …
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Property Inventories. P.3. What the Property Inventories Contain.
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 …
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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 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 …
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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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We had an amazing response to our latest message ‘What would my ancestors do?’. I didn’t want your stories and comments to be read only by me and our team. They are so important …
Continue readingPolishOrigins’ field reports.
We have been pondering for some time now about the best way of sharing the adventures and emotions our guests experience on their genealogy tours. Many of them write short testimonials or longer stories …
Continue readingTad Strójwąs – Rożnowski In Memoriam
Below there is the beginning of autobiography of Tad Strójwąs – Rożnowski ‘I am Australian. Of Polish Descent.’ who passed away a few weeks ago. “I was living in Starachowice Poland when World War 2 broke out. …
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