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Category: Life of Our Ancestors

Property Inventories. P.5. Where to Find the Inventories

On 28 June 2021 By Zenon In Polish Genealogy Research, Life of Our Ancestors

Property inventories from the period of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and then during the Partitions of Poland (until the 1860s) are …

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Property Inventories. P.4. Assessment of the Source.

On 21 June 2021 By Zenon In Polish Genealogy Research, Life of Our Ancestors

Author: Piotr Zelny Generally, the property inventories are rated very highly by historians. These are sources that provide a lot …

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Property Inventories. P.3. What the Property Inventories Contain.

On 14 June 2021 By Zenon In Polish Genealogy Research, Life of Our Ancestors

Author: Piotr Zelny Generally, property inventories consist of three basic parts. The title, the descriptive part, and the normative part. …

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Property Inventories. P.2. What Were The Property Inventories and Why They Were Created.

On 7 June 2021 By Zenon In Polish Genealogy Research, Life of Our Ancestors

Author: Piotr Zelny Property inventories were documents of an economic, financial, and legal character. The documents achieved a level of …

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Property Inventories.

On 24 May 2021 By Zenon In Polish Genealogy Research, Life of Our Ancestors

Author: Piotr Zelny Sources for genealogical research on peasant and townspeople families in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between 15th and mid-19th …

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Registration questionnaires of the First and Second General Censuses of Poland in 1921 and 1931.

On 17 February 2021 By Agnieszka Pawlus In Polish Genealogy Research, Life of Our Ancestors

The article written by Piotr Zelny – genealogist, historian working in the Historical Museum in Sanok, tourist and genealogy guide …

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My work as a tour guide in the Sanok Skansen. Interview with Maria Grabowska.

On 12 February 2021 By Agnieszka Pawlus In Life of Our Ancestors, Polish Culture & Traditions

This is the second part of the article which was originally published in “Rodziny” – The Journal of the Polish …

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What Open-Air Museums Can Teach You about the Life of Your Ancestors?

On 11 February 2021 By Agnieszka Pawlus In Life of Our Ancestors, Polish Culture & Traditions

  This article was originally published in “Rodziny” – The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, issued in …

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What would my ancestors do? Your response.

On 9 April 2020 By Zenon In Announcements & Thoughts, Life of Our Ancestors

  We had an amazing response to our latest message ‘What would my ancestors do?’. I didn’t want your stories …

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What would my ancestors do?

On 1 April 2020 By kasia In Announcements & Thoughts, Life of Our Ancestors

  This question I‌ am asking myself especially when life gets harder. Now we live in an unprecedented time when …

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