What a day!!!!!!! It will live with us forever. After breakfast at the Hotel Herman, we departed for Wloclawek. And …
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Tracing the Obiala and Samelko families. First Days – Arrival in Warsaw and visit in Płock.
Arrived safely in Warsaw and preceded to the Residence at St. Andrews for the remainder of the day and evening. …
Continue readingMy 75th birthday present to Poland. Last day – Three generations visiting grandparents.
Below are photos of searching the villages. Walking the ground that my grandparents walked!
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July 29th Zbignew picked us up again for another day of adventures. We sat in the hotel and went over …
Continue readingMy 75th birthday present to Poland. Day 2 – Newly found cousins in Zaluczne!
On July 28th, Zbigniew picked us up and we headed for the Town Hall in Czarny Dunajec to look for …
Continue readingMy 75th birthday present to Poland. The beginnings and Day 1.
What a trip PolishOrigins put together for us to find distant cousins, learn about where our family used to live, …
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This a very personal story was originally published on our Forum by Staśu. The record of my grandparents immigrating to …
Continue readingPoland: Discoveries in the Motherland. VIDEO.
We just received and email from Phyllis who visited Poland with her daughter Alysse last year. They took with us …
Continue readingLooking for Great-Grandpa Ludwik
This is a fragment of a story published by Abraham Mahshie who we had the privilege to assist on his …
Continue readingPolishOrigins Adventure. Part 8: It is hard to say goodbye.
In Płock we visited the Church diocese archives.
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