Here it is. PO Galicia Tour video. We have tried to fit in the five minutes all those emotions, landscapes, …
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Conclusion The purpose of writing the story of how I found my family in Poland for you is to show …
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Finding an ancestor is quite difficult, especially for those of us whose ancestors came long before the time when the …
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In the course of the following months I learned a few more details about them. My great-grandmother Rozalia Bryjak was …
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I started with family research in 1999, after my uncle’s passing, using the information he had collected on the maternal …
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People are sometimes surprised to hear that I love spending time on family research. Some of them are showing interest …
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>It was in fall of 1989 when I asked my father where his father came from originally. Being as na’ve …
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It was in 1999, after my uncle’s death, when we cleared out his home and tried to organize the mass …
Continue readingThe Greek orthodox church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Hańczowa
Hańczowa is a large village between Uście Gorlickie and Wysowa. As most of the villages in the area, it used …
Continue readingSt. Michael the Archangel Greek orthodox church in Pielgrzymka
Pielgrzymka is a village located in South-East Poland, in Beskid Niski, a few miles near Nowy Żmigród. Till 1946 it …
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