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Traveling to Poland: No COVID vaccinations, no tests, no quarantine required.
From March 28, 2022, after more than 2 years, all the COVID restrictions for people traveling from outside of the …
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Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. It wasn’t a local attack but a full-scale invasion targeting most of the biggest …
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Continue readingProperty Inventories. P.5. Where to Find the Inventories
Property inventories from the period of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and then during the Partitions of Poland (until the 1860s) are …
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Author: Piotr Zelny Generally, the property inventories are rated very highly by historians. These are sources that provide a lot …
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Author: Piotr Zelny Generally, property inventories consist of three basic parts. The title, the descriptive part, and the normative part. …
Continue readingProperty Inventories. P.2. What Were The Property Inventories and Why They Were Created.
Author: Piotr Zelny Property inventories were documents of an economic, financial, and legal character. The documents achieved a level of …
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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 …
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Have you ever thought about what your forefathers would tell you if you met them? The question does …
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