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.
Author: Piotr Zelny Generally, the property inventories are rated very highly by historians. These are sources that provide a lot …
Continue readingProperty 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. …
Continue readingProperty Inventories. P.2. What Were The Property Inventories and Why They Were Created.
Author: Piotr Zelny Property inventories were documents of an economic, financial, and legal character. The documents achieved a level of …
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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 …
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The article written by Piotr Zelny – genealogist, historian working in the Historical Museum in Sanok, tourist and genealogy guide …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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This question I am asking myself especially when life gets harder. Now we live in an unprecedented time when …
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