Today was our first guided tour of Krakow. Ewa (Eva) was our guide. Our first stop after walking for a …
Continue readingSearch for Pajak Family and 4600 miles trip to Poland. Part 2. Traveling to Poland and our first day in Krakow.
On September 4, 2015 we left the United States and headed for Krakow. When the three of us arrived by …
Continue readingSearch for Pajak Family and 4600 miles trip to Poland. Part 1. The planning began.
After a trip to Paris two years ago I started looking into the Pajak family. My husband Walt, his mother …
Continue readingLooking for Great-Grandpa Ludwik. Part 2. We return with mom to discover even more!
This is continuation of the first visit of Abraham in Poland in 2014. You can read it here: http://blog.polishorigins.com/looking-for-great-grandpa-ludwik/. In …
Continue readingNow I know where I got my hospitality gene from.
I had been working on our family genealogy for years. My grandma got me started on the Rudzinski family tree …
Continue readingBobbin Lace Festival in Bobowa
There is a little town named Bobowa in Poland. It is situated in Old Galicia, south-east of Krakow. There is …
Continue readingA Very Rigid Search
(This blog post was originally published on the authors blog “no land foreign” http://www.nolandforeign.com/a-very-rigid-search/ . One of our guides (Zenon) was …
Continue readingA Poland Family Adventure. Day 10. Already we dream of the next trip.
Up early, we were met with a hearty family breakfast. The children each took turns riding a horse in …
Continue readingA Poland Family Adventure. Day 9. Slovakia.
We left Poland this morning enroute to Slovakia. Along the hilly roads we saw women in babushkas, …
Continue readingA Poland Family Adventure. Day 8. Our daughter and grand kids join us!
Slav drove an extended van to the airport and we picked up the rest of the family. Zenon even …
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