Arrived safely in Warsaw and preceded to the Residence at St. Andrews for the remainder of the day and evening. …
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Looking for Great-Grandpa Ludwik
This is a fragment of a story published by Abraham Mahshie who we had the privilege to assist on his …
Continue readingPolishOrigins Adventure. Part 8: It is hard to say goodbye.
In Płock we visited the Church diocese archives.
Continue readingPolishOrigins Adventure. Part 7: A visit to Osiek Piaseczny.
I was hoping a trip to Osiek Piaseczny would result in some great discoveries! Maybe evidence of the mill from family stories (and …
Continue readingPolishOrigins Adventure. Part 6: My grandmother’s homeland.
Now we move to my grandmother’s homeland located northwest of Warsaw. Pelagia was born in the parish of Łęg Probostwo but for many years the …
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 …
Continue readingWanderlust: Polska 2014. Part 13: Back home.
May 8, 2014 We left the agro-tourism at 8:30am. It was a 5 drive to Warsaw. We drove through the …
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