Below are photos of searching the villages. Walking the ground that my grandparents walked!
Continue readingMy 75th birthday present to Poland. Day 3 – Looking for grandparents’ home.
July 29th Zbignew picked us up again for another day of adventures. We sat in the hotel and went over …
Continue readingMy 75th birthday present to Poland. Day 2 – Newly found cousins in Zaluczne!
On July 28th, Zbigniew picked us up and we headed for the Town Hall in Czarny Dunajec to look for …
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What a trip PolishOrigins put together for us to find distant cousins, learn about where our family used to live, …
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This a very personal story was originally published on our Forum by Staśu. The record of my grandparents immigrating to …
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We just received and email from Phyllis who visited Poland with her daughter Alysse last year. They took with us …
Continue readingLooking for Great-Grandpa Ludwik
This is a fragment of a story published by Abraham Mahshie who we had the privilege to assist on his …
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) …
Continue readingWhy My Ancestors Left?
For Poland, the 19th century was an age of partitions. In 1795, Poland disappeared from the map of the world …
Continue readingChristmas Eve – Wigilia
“What has become a habit let it remain a habit, and this, what was, what we heard from our fathers, …
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