Blog by Sharon Schoen. I cannot recommend Polish Origins highly enough. In June 2018, I spent a week touring …
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We have been pondering for some time now about the best way of sharing the adventures and emotions our …
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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 …
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My trip actually started out in Ukraine, where my daughter and I went to see the villages, where my family …
Continue readingMy family’s Polish wedding: vodka shots and midnight cake cutting
This is the continuation of the previous visits of Abraham in Poland in 2014 and 2015. You can read …
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Word tends to travel quickly in small towns and villages. Often our guests are not prepared for what they will …
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by Cynthia Bielec McDonald In September of 2018, my husband and I engaged PolishOrigins for a 3 week customized genealogy …
Continue readingPoland on a whim. Genealogy Tour with Denise in 2016.
Three years ago on a whim, I booked myself a ticket to Poland. I then booked a tour with PolishOrigins. …
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In the correspondence with our future guests, a few questions and doubts repeat frequently. Let me answer to some …
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