By: Charles Ciechanowski-Chinoski-Chase and Evelyn Osentoski-Clor The following tells some of the history of the great-great grandfather of Evelyn Clor …
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One of Michigan’s Polish Pioneers—Ambrose Ciechanowski
By his gr-grandson: Charles Ciechanowski-Chinoski-Chase Ambrose was born December 8, 1833 in Sliwice (Gross Schliewitz in German)–Tuchola, Bydgoszcz, Poland …
Continue readingTad Strójwąs – Rożnowski In Memoriam
Below there is the beginning of autobiography of Tad Strójwąs – Rożnowski ‘I am Australian. Of Polish Descent.’ who passed away a …
Continue readingHow Surnames Came Into Being in Poland
During the First Rzeczpospolita (Republic of Both Nations), from the mid-1500 to 1795, (Poland’s borders included then the majority …
Continue readingRecollections of Julius Bier. Part 3.
Why did you want to go to Vienna? Because I was thinking right away to go to Hamburg, to …
Continue readingRecollections of Julius Bier. Part 2.
Well, let me just straighten one thing out. Everyone was supposed to go in the Army then? Every boy …
Continue readingRecollections of Julius Bier. Part 1.
This is story published a few years ago on the old version of our website. Together with Mary Bier …
Continue readingCountry Party in old good style!
Since 2013 our guests participating in Galicia Tour are hosted by the Cultural Center in Strzyżów and “Kłosowianie” folk …
Continue readingPolish through and through
This a very personal story was originally published on our Forum by Staśu. The record of my grandparents immigrating to …
Continue readingWhat My Ancestors Ate and Drank in the Middle Ages?
If you ask a contemporary Pole what are traditional Polish dishes, certainly, among others, he will mention ‘schabowy’ (pork chops) …
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