Dennis

(This review was originally published on Google along with some photos: https://g.co/kgs/oQPE2NR )

You may be like myself, having done quite a bit of research already on your ancestors, and wanting to take your first trip to Poland, to discover a bit more. I thought I had located many records already, and had done research on the small villages where my ancestors had lived, so I went into my Polish Origins tour with rather low expectations of simply walking through my ancestral homelands with a Polish-speaking guide. On the contrary, our guide (and genealogist) was able to locate records that we had no idea even existed, to peel back multiple layers of history for us, and to actually change our perception of the origins of our family. Our guide and genealogist was friendly and resourceful, pointing out so many items of interest to us in the villages that we toured, from the landscape, the flora and fauna, the architecture, and the ecclesiastical relationships among parishes. He painted for us a living and far more complete picture of what life may have been like for our ancestors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, before emigration to the United States. While the cost for the genealogy tour is not cheap, it is so well worth it, and I treasure the experience and value the knowledge that we have gained from it, which will benefit our family for many generations henceforth.