One the last day of the genealogy tour, we visit the Gąsewo cemetery. There has been cemetery chapel here …
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The Polish Brick Wall That Won’t Crumble. Part 3: What’s in your cellar? March 19, 2019.
We started the day off in Kołaki, hoping to find a Budny family residing there. Unfortunately, a local informs …
Continue readingThe Polish Brick Wall That Won’t Crumble. Part 2: Mamino, Poland – First day of tour, March 18, 2019
Daniel is already waiting for me in the hotel lobby in Warsaw. He arrived the night before, coming …
Continue readingThe Polish Brick Wall That Won’t Crumble. Part 1: Preamble to my Polish Genealogy Tour
My greatest aspiration for over 35 years is trying to identify the birth parents of my great-grandfather Adam Budny. …
Continue readingLittle miracles and fortuitous coincidences in Brzózki, 2018.
Blog by Sharon Schoen. I cannot recommend Polish Origins highly enough. In June 2018, I spent a week touring …
Continue readingMy family’s Polish wedding: vodka shots and midnight cake cutting
This is the continuation of the previous visits of Abraham in Poland in 2014 and 2015. You can read …
Continue readingPoland on a whim. Genealogy Tour with Denise in 2016.
Three years ago on a whim, I booked myself a ticket to Poland. I then booked a tour with PolishOrigins. …
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Forever more I will have the fondest affinity for red geraniums and white lace curtains…they are the welcoming symbols …
Continue readingPoland Ancestry Tour in September 2017. Part 3.
This is part 3 of a blog based on the photo presentation by Bonnie Lewis travelling with us in 2017. …
Continue readingPoland Ancestry Tour in September 2017. Part 2.
This is part 2 of a blog based on the photo presentation by Bonnie Lewis travelling with us in 2017. …
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