On our way from Elk to Kumelsk, we came across a sign taking us a slightly different way than the main …
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PolishOrigins 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 …
Continue readingRay from Minnesota: His Family Search. Part 1.
Finding an ancestor is quite difficult, especially for those of us whose ancestors came long before the time when the …
Continue readingMy Journey to Poland. Day 5.
After breakfast we drove back to Romany to finish searching the cemetery. Took photos of several graves with family names. …
Continue readingMy Journey to Poland. Day 4.
After breakfast we headed to Romany. On the way we needed to pull over for a herd of cows being …
Continue readingMy Big Fat Polish Trip. Part 4.
Back north. Torun and Poznan. Day 7 Left for Warsaw in the morning, stopping only for water and gas. We …
Continue reading3. Sitting Down In My GGGrandfather’s House.
We were off to Opole to check the archives on the Philipsek side of the family. We were going through …
Continue reading2. Sitting Down In My GGGrandfather’s House.
Then the best thing happened! I found out that the home of Valentine Welna had chosen to be an 18th …
Continue reading1. Sitting Down In My GGGrandfather’s House.
The main reason I went to Poland was to meet the descendants of my grandfather John’s brother, August, who stayed …
Continue reading3. Leonore’s Tour. Gniezno and Broniszewice. The last day.
In the last day of our tour we left agritourism house where we stayed for two days for the first …
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