One the last day of the genealogy tour, we visit the Gąsewo cemetery. There has been cemetery chapel here for 1000 years. We took photos of gravestones that had the surnames in my family …
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The Polish Brick Wall That Won’t Crumble. Part 3: What’s in your cellar? March 19, 2019.
We started the day off in Kołaki, hoping to find a Budny family residing there. Unfortunately, a local informs us that the last Budny family moved away years ago. However, a descendant of that …
Continue readingThe Polish Brick Wall That Won’t Crumble. Part 2: Mamino, Poland – First day of tour, March 18, 2019
Daniel is already waiting for me in the hotel lobby in Warsaw. He arrived the night before, coming from Białystok to Warsaw. We quickly pack my belongings in his car and head out …
Continue readingThe Polish Brick Wall That Won’t Crumble. Part 1: Preamble to my Polish Genealogy Tour
My greatest aspiration for over 35 years is trying to identify the birth parents of my great-grandfather Adam Budny. Not successful with records in the United States or with the Polish website Geneteka, I …
Continue readingThrough 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 …
Continue readingOur Genealogy Trip to Poland
blog by Chris Cronk It was a wedding picture taken in Poland with my grandmother sitting next to the bride. This was amongst the 50 or so pictures from a fancy photo album that …
Continue readingPolishOrigins and PGSA Galicia Tour, Sept. 22 – Oct. 3 2019
Phyllis Zych Budka, Editor Fifteen people met in Krakow to start on a PolishOrigins / Polish Genealogical Society of America Galicia Tour September 22 – October 3, 2019. Reflecting Galicia’s complex history, some ancestors identified …
Continue readingSuccessful Family Search
My four grandparents were born in Poland in the late 19th century and immigrated to America in the early 20th century. I only knew my maternal grandmother well, because the others died when I …
Continue readingLittle miracles and fortuitous coincidences in Brzózki, 2018.
Blog by Sharon Schoen. I cannot recommend Polish Origins highly enough. In June 2018, I spent a week touring Mazovia, the place from which four of my great-grandparents and three of my grand aunts …
Continue readingFollow the oak trees (part 3)
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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