Testimonials

June 2016

Zenon instantly made us feel at ease, he was very helpful and polite. He was very considerate of our requests and happy to give us suggestions to offer us the best experience possible. Zenon was very flexible with the activities planned. We feel like he blended in well with us and is now one of the family!

We have achieved a lot of our goals with this tour, although with our family spread throughout Poland there is still more work to be done. Zenon’s professionalism and easy-going nature (winning over the priest!) meant that we were able to search parish records and discover further generations of our family, which would not have been possible without him. The organisation of meeting living family members, some of whom had no knowledge that we existed, was also very well undertaken.

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June 2016

My sister and I could not have been any happier with our guide, Zbigniew! We think he is an incredible young man, and he made our family search better than we ever imagined it could have been! Actually, it was sad for us to leave him! Thank you for employing such a wonderful guide and person! Your company is lucky to have him!

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June 2016

I would totally recommend PolishOrigins to everyone. I was totally happy with our trip.

Kasia was wonderful. So enthusiastic, helpful and a total delight.
She knew here was around wonderfully without ever being in the area so I knew she did her homework.

It was truly a day I will never forget. Everyone I tell about my vacation gets me even more excited about the time I had. Thank you so much for doing your research ahead of time. It all meant so much to me.

Everything was wonderfully communicated.

No suggestions for improvement. I was very happy.

May 2016

Your choice of guides for our trip was excellent. They were passionate about their subjects and very knowledgeable. Your choice of Zbigniew was particularly good. Being around someone for most of the day for 15 days could be trying or a nightmare, but Zbigniew made our trip particularly enjoyable.

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May 2016

I just wanted to send this note to you to say how much Shannon and I enjoyed our trip to Poland and the time we spent with you, Zenon. Before our trip began, we both had guarded optimism whether you would be able to find much information about my Grandmother and her family. Once you began scouring all of the record books I knew if the records were there, you would find them. We were totally impressed how you were able to get the priest at St. Bartholomew’s to change his demeanor. One minute he didn’t want to help us at all and then the next minute, after your subtle persistence, he became very receptive and helpful. Plus, we were so impressed with your perseverance. Stopping at those different houses, asking them if they could possibly be related to my Grandmother. That was amazing!

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May 2016

I just wanted to say how pleased we were with our tour.  To begin with, I was coordinating our tour group of 3 coming from three different countries.  We were to start our tour in Wroclaw but meet the day before in Warsaw.  None of us speak Polish and we were meeting at a relative’s house who didn’t speak English.  Anna was fantastic and went above and beyond to help us sort out our logistical and communication troubles for our Pre tour day.  In the planning of the tour I found the communication to be great, and I’m sure I was possibly one of the most difficult clients because I kept getting bits and pieces of family history given to me that I would pass on for possible inclusion.  But at no time did I feel my ‘strange questions’ were a bother or asking too much.

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October 2015

One of the best things about our trip to Poland was it far exceeded all of our expectations thanks to Zen Znamirowski. We spent two days trying to reconnect with family and did we ever. When I left CoMo I knew I was going to meet two cousins. Instead we met 27 cousins including my grandmother’s first cousin on her father’s side.

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October 2015

Zenon met us at Krakow airport loaded up our luggage in his auto and we were on our way to find my ancestors.  He’d found a very nice upstairs small apartment to stay that was near the church where we were going to look for records.
The roads in Poland are fine, but someone who is familiar with S Poland is a necessity.  We zipped around to the various churches and if the records were not what he (we) were looking for, we didn’t waste any time looking at the wrong place.

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September 2015

As I entered my 50s, I became much more interested in family genealogy. Both my parents had died with little or no information forthcoming from my father particularly about past generations and potential relations back in Poland.

Searching our Polish family routes was going to be a difficult task for my sister and me. Although our father’s parents had both emigrated from Poland in the early 20th century, we had almost nothing on which to base our search.  My father’s last living sibling, Sophie, is 92 and had little additional information to share other than when her parents were born and when they died. We do not speak the language and had never been to Eastern Europe . All we had was a couple of letters written in Polish to our grandmother shortly before her death in 1956 and a single envelope with a return address on it.  The name on the return address was Konstanty – our grandmother’s brother.

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September 2015

Lucjan was amazing. He was on time, personable, fun and tenacious finding and talking to people to find out as much as he could for my search. It was of the best experiences of my life.

He was very attentive to anything I wanted to see and made sure I got to the bus station on time but I never felt rushed. Lucjan was a comfortable careful driver.

Couldn’t have had a better guide. Couldn’t have had a better experience. Really!

Preparation for the tour: Very satisfied and actually surprised by all the attention. Thanks for arranging the return bus.

One of the best and moving experiences of my life. So much fun!

Thank you!