Blog by Sharon Schoen. I cannot recommend Polish Origins highly enough. In June 2018, I spent a week touring …
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My Incredible Trip to my Grandparents Ancestral Villages. Part 4.
Day 10 – Friday, May 13th – Gdansk This morning we headed to the Archives in Pelplin to research …
Continue readingTracing the Obiala and Samelko families. Day 9. Kiermusy, Treblinka and last day in Warsaw.
As we spent our last night in Kiermusy, we sat and reflected on the journey and how we felt about …
Continue readingTracing the Obiala and Samelko families. Day 8. Touring in Tykocin and Biebrza National Park.
Another busy day as we played tourist in the morning. Toured the town of Tykocin which is near Kiermusy. This was …
Continue readingTracing the Obiala and Samelko families. Day 7. Samelko Family in Romany.
We returned to Romany and met with the priest. The priest opened the church for us to go inside and …
Continue readingTracing the Obiala and Samelko families. Day 6. Heading to Romany to research the Samełko side
Checking out of the hotel, we bid goodbye to the Obiala side of the family and headed to the Romany …
Continue readingPolishOrigins Adventure. Part 5: Lachowo Parish Catholic church.
Of course our trip included a visit to the Catholic Church in Lachowo that served the villages of Rydzewo-Świątki (birthplace of Rajmund Wierzbicki) and Kumelsk …
Continue readingPolishOrigins Adventure. Part 4: Meeting with Jadwiga.
The following day we returned to Kumelsk to visit Jadwiga. We hit a genealogy jackpot! We begin talking, through Zenon’s rapid …
Continue readingPolishOrigins Adventure. Part 3: Kumelsk.
On our way from Elk to Kumelsk, we came across a sign taking us a slightly different way than the main …
Continue readingPolishOrigins Adventure. Part 2: My grandfather’s homeland.
Before discussing our discoveries, please allow me to digress a little. The national symbol for Poland, like the United States, is …
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