After a trip to Paris two years ago I started looking into the Pajak family. My husband Walt, his mother …
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Looking 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 …
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 …
Continue readingA Very Rigid Search
(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 …
Continue readingA Poland Family Adventure. Day 10. Already we dream of the next trip.
Up early, we were met with a hearty family breakfast. The children each took turns riding a horse in …
Continue readingA Poland Family Adventure. Day 9. Slovakia.
We left Poland this morning enroute to Slovakia. Along the hilly roads we saw women in babushkas, …
Continue readingA Poland Family Adventure. Day 8. Our daughter and grand kids join us!
Slav drove an extended van to the airport and we picked up the rest of the family. Zenon even …
Continue readingA Poland Family Adventure. Day 7. Wrocław, Opole and Kraków.
The previous night, Zenon had scouted out features in the area and told us to plan on seeing the …
Continue readingA Poland Family Adventure. Day 6. AHA! moment.
Attractions near Poznan, like the Sroda Treasure museum and Beekeepers museum were not open the following day so we …
Continue readingA Poland Family Adventure. Day 5. Confession with a translator? No way!
We drove south from Bydgoszcz to reach the Iron Age site of Biskupin. On a very foggy Sunday morning …
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