This is a blog based on the photo presentation by Bonnie Lewis travelling with us in 2017.
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Day 10 – Friday, May 13th – Gdansk This morning we headed to the Archives in Pelplin to research …
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Day 5 – Sunday, May 8th – Poznan We leave Lichen Stary and head to Poznan. There we met …
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Day 2 – Thursday, May 5th – Izbica Kujawska, formerly Zagrodnica, Russia This morning, Dale stayed behind at the …
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We arrived in Warsaw, Poland on May 3rd from Atlanta, Georgia, USA for our 13 day journey which is …
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 …
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(This is another post which was originally published on the Polish Genealogy group on Facebook where it collected more than 300 “likes”, …
Continue readingUseful database for Polish genealogy search: metryki.genealodzy.pl
The web site metryki.genealodzy.pl is one of several databases of records and indexes prepared and maintained by the Polish …
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 …
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