Today is Zakon day, which means convent in Polish. Today Zenon and I will meet for a few hours to …
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My new name is Janina Kruk. 2014 and I am back! Day 2.
My second day in Poland I awoke to day light around 5 am. The sun rises much earlier in Poland …
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Gen Dobry from Poland. I am so excited to return to Poland to continue my ancestry discovery. When I walked …
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Conclusion The purpose of writing the story of how I found my family in Poland for you is to show …
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Finding an ancestor is quite difficult, especially for those of us whose ancestors came long before the time when the …
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In the course of the following months I learned a few more details about them. My great-grandmother Rozalia Bryjak was …
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I started with family research in 1999, after my uncle’s passing, using the information he had collected on the maternal …
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People are sometimes surprised to hear that I love spending time on family research. Some of them are showing interest …
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>It was in fall of 1989 when I asked my father where his father came from originally. Being as na’ve …
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It was in 1999, after my uncle’s death, when we cleared out his home and tried to organize the mass …
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