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Post by Jaga on Nov 14, 2005 17:39:24 GMT -7
For people who would like to do their genealogy search in Poland please check our genealogy websites:
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Post by jimpres on Nov 15, 2005 10:01:43 GMT -7
Another good site for signing up on specific lists etc. www.rootsweb.com/Also a book by Rosemary Chorzempa is very helpfull for beginners
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Post by nancy on Nov 15, 2005 10:15:48 GMT -7
Jim,
I can tell we share an interest in genealogy. Have you traced your family origins?
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Post by jimpres on Nov 15, 2005 10:33:40 GMT -7
Nancy,
I have traced my family origins. My father came from a small village Zatoraowizna, about 150km north west of Warszwa. My mother came from an area close by called Szczutowo. The family farm on my fathers side still is in the family and I have visited it many times. The farthest back I have traced my family is 1832. I have the ship manifests from Bremen and Ellis Island on my parents.
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Post by nancy on Nov 15, 2005 11:46:46 GMT -7
Jim, Is Zatoraowizna in the Kashubian area (I am not looking at a map just now)? Have you visited or requested information from archives or parishes in Poland? I have been very lucky, on my mother's side (from Olszyny, south of Tuchow and Kozlowek, near Jaslo) to have traced back to the late 1700s (~1780-90). So, you have known your family in Poland all this time, and visited them! I think you must be fluent in Polish - oh yes, now I recall yesterday's lesson . I am envious.
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Post by jimpres on Nov 15, 2005 12:16:05 GMT -7
Nancy,
The area is Masuria, the lake district, Mazowiecki We actully have two ponds on the family farm and about 10hectares of forest. The land backs up onto the Government forest and you can walk for miles well kms. I have been to the church in Skrwilno to look at the records. My great grandmother and father were not listed on the LDS site. So I looked at the origional documents from the early 1900s. Found them both. They are buried behind the chruch in Skrwilno. In fact most of the records on my fathes side are from that chruch. My last name is Przedzienkowski, when the Russian controlled that area it was Przewdzienkowski then modified to Przezdzienkowski and now Przedzienkowski, in the US however it is written Presenkowski. And I found a town near my relatives calle Przezdziek Wielki and Przezdziek Maly may be where the name comes from. On my mothers side its Blazejewski with a slash in the l and a dash over the z. I was there in Sept and am going again on 1 Dec. I had no choice but to learn Polish my parents could not speak English. I spoke Polish until I was 4 then to school and English. I get by in Polish.
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Post by forza on Dec 12, 2005 20:31:51 GMT -7
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Post by nancy on Dec 13, 2005 8:08:50 GMT -7
thanks, forza. where would we all be without Google?
I will add this link to the website page, it really is a good one.
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Post by Rabbit on Dec 26, 2005 12:25:02 GMT -7
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Post by franek80 on Dec 26, 2005 12:55:00 GMT -7
Piwo; I posted a recipe under more recipes, for Babka.the only thing that I left out is a teaspoon of sugar with the yeast mixture.. Sugar helps it spoof.. Like your Busia, I do not like mine too sweet.. Be sure to knead well about 15 to 20 minutes.You have to activate the gluten
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Post by Rabbit on Dec 26, 2005 14:14:28 GMT -7
Read a great article, “This Christmas Rediscover Your Heritage”, by Robert Strybel, a Polish American Journal Warsaw Correspondent that appeared as a link in the Polish Genealogical Association of America’s (PGSA) newsletter: www.pgsa.org/XmasRedis.pdf Dee
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Post by nancy on Dec 26, 2005 15:42:23 GMT -7
Hi Dee, I saw that article also - very good.
How is your own search coming? Any luck?
Nancy
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Post by Rabbit on Dec 27, 2005 15:53:25 GMT -7
Nancy...
Since you've seen this PGSA article, are you a member?
As for my own research, it's kind of at a standstill as I haven't had time lately to devote to it while taking some art classes and getting my paintings ready for a local exhibit during the holidays.
However, strangely enough, I had seen another article by Robert Strybel some time ago entitled, "What's in a (Polish) Name?" which had his offer to search out a surname in Poland. I sent an email and his reply was that he could do this but listed a nominal fee per name. My new year resolution is to do this and get back to my search. I am now trying to organize a first Zydanowicz family reunion in August, and I would like to present as much information as possible to my distant cousins there in the hope they might have something which may fit the puzzle and open a door.
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Post by nancy on Dec 27, 2005 16:48:39 GMT -7
Dee,
I don't know if Robert Strybel can offer you any more for a fee than is available to you already online and through Fred Hoffman's books - I think I looked up the name for you?? If not, I will, I have the books.
Also, there is a website where you can learn about the distribution of the name in Poland in 1990. If you have not found this info yet, let me know and I will get it for you. (we are fee-free here!)
PS. Strybel syndicates a lot of his work, so you will see his name on columns and recipes allover the place.
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Post by Rabbit on Dec 27, 2005 23:45:23 GMT -7
Nancy... We did get into my search back in August when I had found an Aunt's last residence on a ship manifest as Growzinowe or Growza, and you, Adam and Zooba were trying to help find this location. (I printed out copies of our discussion, as I like to have a track record of what I've searched, but we had no luck figuring it out.)
Thanks for telling me about Strybel .... he offers a trace of the origin, derivation and meaning of surnames, and I have heard of Hoffman's books on this. So, if you have the books, I'd appreciate a check on the names Zydanowicz and Szarejko.
I have been on the JewishGen site, and over a year ago had some help from the Ancestry Message Board about my family name. Rymut's study on surnames in 2002 showed that there were only 73 people in Poland with the Zydanowicz name (with a dot over the Z), the most (41) were in Elblaski, others in Augustowski, Sejnenski and Warszawski.
Evidently there used to be an online telephone directory which was helpful if you knew the name of the city or village to check a name; it was supposed to be back online last year. Do you know of it?
Dee
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