Today we left Sucha. It was a bit sad because there is more family to see and more ancestry to trace. Zbigniew will be coming back to the area after he drives us back to …
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Search for Pajek Family and 4600 miles trip to Poland. Part 6. Continuation of the family discovering adventure in Sucha.
Today we met for breakfast at the inn and then the 4 of us headed back to Sucha. We were to meet at Halina’s house at 9 am. We headed to Parish of the Visitation …
Continue readingSearch for Pajek Family and 4600 miles trip to Poland. Part 5. The fun began.
We met Zbigniew and headed to Sucha. He had contacted the relatives in Sucha and we were to meet them at 3:30 pm at their house. We were all a bit anxious and excited not knowing what to expect. The …
Continue readingSearch for Pajek Family and 4600 miles trip to Poland. Part 4. Wieliczka, Jewish history, Polish family and food!
Today we met Zbigniew Stettner. He will be our tour guide to drive us to the Wieliczka Salt Mine. He will also be our genealogy guide to Sucha on Wednesday and Thursday. The Salt mines are amazing. To …
Continue readingSearch for Pajek Family and 4600 miles trip to Poland. Part 3. Exploring Kraków.
Today was our first guided tour of Krakow. Ewa (Eva) was our guide. Our first stop after walking for a bit was Wawel Castle. Very impressive site with the towers, chapels, grounds and the infamous fire breathing …
Continue readingSearch for Pajak Family and 4600 miles trip to Poland. Part 2. Traveling to Poland and our first day in Krakow.
On September 4, 2015 we left the United States and headed for Krakow. When the three of us arrived by train in Krakow, Zenon was waiting on the platform to greet us. We were very tired …
Continue readingSearch for Pajak Family and 4600 miles trip to Poland. Part 1. The planning began.
After a trip to Paris two years ago I started looking into the Pajak family. My husband Walt, his mother Julienne and I, visited his mother’s birthplace of Paris, France. One of the places that …
Continue readingLooking for Great-Grandpa Ludwik. Part 2. We return with mom to discover even more!
This is continuation of the first visit of Abraham in Poland in 2014. You can read it here: http://blog.polishorigins.com/looking-for-great-grandpa-ludwik/. In 2015 Abraham returned and took his mother to show her newly-found family in Poland and …
Continue readingNow I know where I got my hospitality gene from.
I had been working on our family genealogy for years. My grandma got me started on the Rudzinski family tree when she lived with me. It gave us something to work on together and let …
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(This blog post was originally published on the authors blog “no land foreign” http://www.nolandforeign.com/a-very-rigid-search/ . One of our guides (Zenon) was privileged to meet Alex, his mother and the family “at a local cafe in Warsaw” …
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