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A Poland Family Adventure. Day 7. Wrocław, Opole and Kraków.
The previous night, Zenon had scouted out features in the area and told us to plan on seeing the Wroclaw Panorama exhibit the next morning before we left the city. This was not only an exhibit about...
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A Poland Family Adventure. Day 8. Our daughter and grand kids join us!
Slav drove an extended van to the airport and we picked up the rest of the family. Zenon even woke early and joined us at the airport on his day off. The family returned to Krakow with Slav and spent...
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A Poland Family Adventure. Day 9. Slovakia.
We left Poland this morning enroute to Slovakia. Along the hilly roads we saw women in babushkas, a dog that would not budge from the middle of the road, stork’s nests and a dog corralling cows into a...
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A Poland Family Adventure. Day 10. Already we dream of the next trip.
Up early, we were met with a hearty family breakfast. The children each took turns riding a horse in the enclosed exercise ring at the stable.The highlight of the day (and of our stay) was a wagon...
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Proudly delivered by Polish parents. Our first t-shirts and sweatshirts.
Christmas time is approaching fast. Families will gather to spend time together. You will have Christmas Eve supper with your children and grandchildren. Maybe you will prepare some dishes you remember...
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A Very Rigid Search
(This blog post was originally published on the authors blog “no land foreign” http://www.nolandforeign.com/a-very-rigid-search/ . One of our guides (Zenon) was privileged to meet Alex, his mother and...
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Bobbin Lace Festival in Bobowa
There is a little town named Bobowa in Poland. It is situated in Old Galicia, south-east of Krakow. There is not much more than a few streets, two churches, an old synagogue and a main square. But...
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Now I know where I got my hospitality gene from.
I had been working on our family genealogy for years. My grandma got me started on the Rudzinski family tree when she lived with me. It gave us something to work on together and let her tell me...
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Looking for Great-Grandpa Ludwik. Part 2. We return with mom to discover even...
This is continuation of the first visit of Abraham in Poland in 2014. You can read it here: http://blog.polishorigins.com/2015/04/15/looking-for-great-grandpa-ludwik/.In 2015 Abraham returned and took...
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2015 Poland Trip. Part 1. The itinerary, plane ticket glitch and...
This is blog by Mike Mierzwa who runs genealogy services as Mierzwa Genealogy Services, LLC based in the US: http://mierzwagenealogy.com/. This blog is originally published on Mike’s website:...
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Kingdom of Poland Tour – 2016 upgrade.
2015 was the first season of our Kingdom of Poland Tour. Months of preparations resulted in one “debut” trip. Winter is always a time for improvement, because after each touring season, we analyse our...
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Poland Trip 2015 Part 2 – Toruń, Poland.
Later in the evening around 6 o’clock we met my cousin Piotr Batlyn and his family for dinner at Pierogarnia, Stary Torun in Old Towne. It was great to see them again, and just as wonderful to get to...
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Poland Trip 2015 Part 3 – Skulsk, Warzymowo, Konin & Licheń Stray Sanctuary...
Traveling to Skulsk.(…) The following morning, we drove to visit some landmark locations I had on my check list. It included the cemeteries, churches, and villages where I had located birth, marriage...
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Poland Trip 2015 Part 4 – Travel from Skulsk to the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
follow along with a map of our trip http://bit.ly/1Q0XANO(…) As we started heading towards our destination, Zbigniew made a side trip to a castle and museum. We took a long hike up and had the...
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Poland Trip 2015. Part 5. Kotuszów
(follow along with a map of our trip: http://bit.ly/1U552Gcg)(…)It’s a surreal feeling being in a church that was built in 1661. As we walked inside, the caretaker pointed out certain areas of the...
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Poland Trip 2015. Part 6. Oleśnica and Pacanów, Świętokrzyskie. Poland.
(follow along with a map of our trip: http://bit.ly/1U552Gcg)(…) Suddenly he realized that I was a direct blood relative. He couldn’t believe I had come all that way to find and meet him! He knew there...
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Poland Trip 2015. Part 7. Pysznica, Kopki, Rudnik & Lublin. Poland
(…) If you’re visiting Poland, and know where your ancestors came from, I would highly suggest visiting those locations. I spent a considerable amount of time walking around Pysznica on foot, shopping...
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Poland Trip 2015. Part 8. Sandomierz, Pokrzywnica & Tarnów
(…)We also took a tour of the underground tourist route. It is the old storage for the market square. They couldn’t keep all their wares in the square, they had to store them somewhere. Each tent or...
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Poland Trip 2015. Part 9. Kraków
(…)The square itself is a hustling, bustling place of restaurants, vendors, musicians, break dancers, and various other forms of entertainment. One particular musician was getting a rather large...
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(…) I had been there in 2013 to pay my respects to my family and those that had been murdered there. During my genealogy research I discovered that relatives from all four sides of my family had been...
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