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Post by leslie on Dec 6, 2005 6:27:54 GMT -7
Hi Pinkola Can I add my welcome to you as the only UK Representative on the forum at the moment. It was very interesting reading your account of the development of Polonia in Australia - you'll have to do some marketing and get some of them to join the forum. I think we're a very happy band of members and we are at the stage - thanks to the support of Nancy and Jaga - where we can say almost anything to each other - and do. At one time it sounded like a battleground - but we were only joking (I think!). Look forward to reading more of your postings from Australia. Pozdrawiam serdecznie Leslie
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Post by rdywenur on Dec 6, 2005 22:23:05 GMT -7
Welcome Pinkola. Here in the US, where I work there is a new lady in the IT Dept who is from Australia. Originally from Poland. Her moves were due to her husbands job.
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Post by gardenmoma on Dec 7, 2005 15:58:27 GMT -7
Ela...
Welcome...it will be very interesting to hear what Polonia is like "Down-under."
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Post by pinkola on Dec 8, 2005 2:04:01 GMT -7
Dear Rdywenur , Gardenmoma , Charles and Leslie,
Thank you all, for the warm welcome.
It is a pleasure to be here.
Ela
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Post by pinkola on Dec 8, 2005 2:08:33 GMT -7
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Post by Jaga on Dec 9, 2005 8:54:34 GMT -7
Hi Ela,
thank you for your extensive information about Australian Polonia. Thank you also for a link. After I asked you about Polonia there I also searched for information. I Could not find any good link in English (like you did, thanks!) but I found some Polish links and they were saying basically the same thing.
Strzelecki was definitively the most famous Pole in Australia. He came to Australia before really any larger group of Polonia settled there.
When I was still a highschool girl, a distant cousin of my family (actually she is related to the husband of my aunt) came to study Polish at Jagiellonian University. She was from Australia and since she was in Krakow (but her real family lived in Silesia) she was a frequent visitor with us, she also took me to meet her friends - other people sho studied Polish language. In that time (late 70-es) I had no really clue about anything related to Polonia, I was just a highschool kid!
Her parents (mother was from Russia and father from Poland) immigrated to Australia just after WW II.
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Post by kaima on Dec 19, 2005 19:27:06 GMT -7
Well, Time to button it up and ehd to the airport. It is too warm and melting in Alaska, so I am headed to Ohio for a white Christmas. I'll have the computer and access there, so you will hear a bit from me.
Merry Christmas, and may my pilot be safer than Rudolph's!
Kai
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Post by gardenmoma on Dec 20, 2005 21:26:23 GMT -7
Kai, At least you will have more daylight hours in OH than in AL...but watch out for that Lake effect if you are going to be near Lake Erie
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Post by elyssakowalinski on Dec 21, 2005 4:06:02 GMT -7
My grandparents were Polish with my father born in a DP camp in West Germany after the war. They came to Australia where he met and married my English-born mother. I don't have any contact with family in Poland, I don't know whether my grandparents chose not to keep contact after moving here for personal reasons or political ones. I'm trying to learn about Polish history, culture and language to make up what I wish I now knew. I've been researching my Polish genealogy for about ten years now but only got serious with microfilm in the last three. Info on my research can be found by Googling my name, and I'm happy to share info. I also do volunteer indexing for PolishRoots.com, which I've found quite good because it gives me something to focus on and makes me feel worthwhile. I look forward to reading and contributing to this message board . Elyssa
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Post by rdywenur on Dec 21, 2005 4:23:25 GMT -7
Elsy...welcome to the board. Your story sounds similar to mine almost. I was born in Wildflecken which was a German DP also. At the age of 3 I moved to the US. I only met and learned of my family in 1998 and have since been trying to learn more Polish culture and history and to hopefully find my cousin that went to UK.
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Post by kaima on Dec 21, 2005 6:02:24 GMT -7
Kai, At least you will have more daylight hours in OH than in AL...but watch out for that Lake effect if you are going to be near Lake Erie Thanks Gardenmomma! I am here in Ohio now, and it is colder than Alaska (AK is Alaska, surprisingly AL is Alabama). Not only am I in the lake effect area where I grew up, but I am staying in Chardon, Ohio, one of the centers of the lake effect and even in the deepest part of the deepest part of the lake effect! (i saw the weather contours showing the dumping effect, and the worst is on this neighborhood). Once I adjust to the cold down here I will be OK. I had some good flights, delayed just a bit to divert around some fellow exercising his reindeer & sled for the big day. Kai
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Post by Jaga on Dec 21, 2005 11:46:48 GMT -7
My grandparents were Polish with my father born in a DP camp in West Germany after the war. They came to Australia where he met and married my English-born mother. I don't have any contact with family in Poland, I don't know whether my grandparents chose not to keep contact after moving here for personal reasons or political ones. I'm trying to learn about Polish history, culture and language to make up what I wish I now knew. I've been researching my Polish genealogy for about ten years now but only got serious with microfilm in the last three. Info on my research can be found by Googling my name, and I'm happy to share info. I also do volunteer indexing for PolishRoots.com, which I've found quite good because it gives me something to focus on and makes me feel worthwhile. I look forward to reading and contributing to this message board . Elyssa Elyssa, thank you so much for becoming a part of our community. It seems that you are doing a lot of very useful but charitable work! Did you see the genealogy board: jagahost.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=ancestrygenealogyhow did you find us? You are a second person from Australia who visits us, I am so glad because I am planning the article on Australia's polonia! Maybe you would be able to add something to it!
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Post by Jaga on Dec 21, 2005 11:49:45 GMT -7
Kai,
sorry that it took me a while to reply - I am glad you will spend the Christmas time somewhere where there is more daylight! The weather in Idaho also changed dramatically. Yesterday when we drove to work it was raining instead of snowing, not very nice frozen rain...
still today is quite nice, snow is still there but a bit more dirty since it is much warmer
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Post by gardenmoma on Dec 22, 2005 11:47:50 GMT -7
Kai, At least you will have more daylight hours in OH than in AL...but watch out for that Lake effect if you are going to be near Lake Erie Thanks Gardenmomma! I am here in Ohio now, and it is colder than Alaska (AK is Alaska, surprisingly AL is Alabama). Not only am I in the lake effect area where I grew up, but I am staying in Chardon, Ohio, one of the centers of the lake effect and even in the deepest part of the deepest part of the lake effect! (i saw the weather contours showing the dumping effect, and the worst is on this neighborhood). Once I adjust to the cold down here I will be OK. I had some good flights, delayed just a bit to divert around some fellow exercising his reindeer & sled for the big day. Kai Oh well..correction gratefully accepted...as far as misspellings of state abbreviations go...I am very bad I had been missing the correct abbreviation of Nebraska for years until I finally looked it up...NB instead of NE! Anyway...you are very near to where I grew up - northeast Cleveland, edge of Euclid - and I worked for what is now Cleveland Metro Parks while in college sometimes at the Chagrin River Trailside Museum, most of the time at Brecksville. So, I know all about the lake effect. Several years back, my family and I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in a school in (I believe) Northeast, PA because of many, many inches of snow dumped all at once on I-90. Serious traffice and health hazard...no one was going any place soon or fast. I sincerely hope you have a great time visiting and a wonderful Christmas - don't get too cold.
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Post by marmota on Dec 29, 2005 16:16:57 GMT -7
Ja chce tylko pozdrowic Pania Jage i wszystkie Panie na tym forum. I wish all of you a happy and prodperous 2006!. George.
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