Daniel is already waiting for me in the hotel lobby in Warsaw. He arrived the night before, coming …
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The 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. …
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 …
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blog by Chris Cronk It was a wedding picture taken in Poland with my grandmother sitting next to the …
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 …
Continue readingSuccessful Family Search
My four grandparents were born in Poland in the late 19th century and immigrated to America in the early …
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 …
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 …
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On our way back to Poland, we stopped at the Trakai Castle, a castle on Lake Galve. Construction started in …
Continue readingFollow the oak trees (part 1)
My trip actually started out in Ukraine, where my daughter and I went to see the villages, where my family …
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