Today has been the best day and it’s not even over yet! We traveled to Zakopane this morning to visit …
Continue reading16. Shellie’s Tour to Ancestral Places. Day 6.
On Wednesday, we traveled to Lusławice, where my grandfather was born! Luslawice is about 30 miles east of Krakow, so …
Continue reading15. Shellie’s Tour to Ancestral Places. Day 5.
On day 5 we On our next day, we took a drive west to Zywiec where Żywiec beer is made. …
Continue reading14. Shellie’s Tour to Ancestral Places. Day4.
The next morning we walked up to the church to watch the funeral procession arrive at the church. When the …
Continue reading13. Shellie’s Tour to Ancestral Places. Day3.
Day 3 was Sunday and we attended mass at the local church, St Mary Magdelene. It was quite a different …
Continue reading12. Shellie’s Tour to Ancestral Places. Day2.
Today we went for a drive through neighboring villages of Załuczne, Piekielnik and Jabłonka.
Continue reading11. Shellie’s Tour to Ancestral Places. Day1.
After an overnight stay in Brussels, we finally took off for Krakow. My first glimpse of Poland was from the …
Continue reading10. Shellie’s Family History and Tour to Ancestral Places. Was my Great-Grandfather a gambler?
When the death record microfilm arrived at my local LDS family history center, I searched for my grandfather’s oldest sister …
Continue reading9. Shellie’s Family History and Tour to Ancestral Places. Lusławice, my grandfather’s birthplace.
From ship manifests, I knew that my family was from Odrowąż but they were living in Lusławice when they left …
Continue reading8. Shellie’s Family History and Tour to Ancestral Places. My Grandpa.
For all of my life, I never knew what my grandfather looked like as a young boy, or even as …
Continue reading