Author: Piotr Zelny Generally, the property inventories are rated very highly by historians. These are sources that provide a lot of data on such a subject matter as the organization and functioning of individual villages …
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Property Inventories. P.3. What the Property Inventories Contain.
Author: Piotr Zelny Generally, property inventories consist of three basic parts. The title, the descriptive part, and the normative part. This type of documentation may refer to a single settlement or to an entire complex …
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Author: Piotr Zelny Property inventories were documents of an economic, financial, and legal character. The documents achieved a level of standardisation in the 17th century. However, when dealing with such a great amount of documentation …
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Author: Piotr Zelny Sources for genealogical research on peasant and townspeople families in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between 15th and mid-19th centuries (This is the first of a five-part article. This part introduces and describes the …
Continue readingRegistration questionnaires of the First and Second General Censuses of Poland in 1921 and 1931.
The article written by Piotr Zelny – genealogist, historian working in the Historical Museum in Sanok, tourist and genealogy guide in PolishOrigins. Proofreading: Aleksander Zawilski. When World War I had drawn to an end …
Continue readingMy work as a tour guide in the Sanok Skansen. Interview with Maria Grabowska.
This is the second part of the article which was originally published in “Rodziny” – The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, issued in winter 2021. My interlocutor is Maria Grabowska, who …
Continue readingWhat Open-Air Museums Can Teach You about the Life of Your Ancestors?
This article was originally published in “Rodziny” – The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, issued in winter 2021. As a tour and research manager in PolishOrigins, one of my main …
Continue readingWhat would my ancestors do? Your response.
We had an amazing response to our latest message ‘What would my ancestors do?’. I didn’t want your stories and comments to be read only by me and our team. They are so important …
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This question I am asking myself especially when life gets harder. Now we live in an unprecedented time when world society globally faces the same challenge at the same time: “a sub-microscopic infectious agent”, …
Continue readingThanksgiving 2019: I want to thank my ancestors for…
This year, just before Thanksgiving Day, I have asked our guides and tour managers what genealogy means to them and for what they would like to thank their ancestors.
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