We didn’t know what to expect at the beginning of 2022. Covid restrictions were still around, a war in Ukraine …
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“Such a pity you didn’t come a few months earlier…”
The majority of our tour guests and other genealogy services clients are from the US. There are also people traveling …
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(The story is copied by permission from an email sent to us by our recent Genealogy Tour’s guest Steve) I’m …
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First genealogy tours this year are behind us, two are happening right now, and there are many more ahead of …
Continue readingTraveling 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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One American’s Experience of Living in Poland as an Ex-pat by James Massey Lately, Zenon from PolishOrigins asked me to …
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 …
Continue readingProperty Inventories. P.4. Assessment of the Source.
Author: Piotr Zelny Generally, the property inventories are rated very highly by historians. These are sources that provide a lot …
Continue readingProperty 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. …
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