As it comes to the research based on the records not older than 100 years the story gets a bit more complicated. Polish law protects personal data and i.e. birth records issued after 1917 are not available to the public. The main goal of the research was to find any...
The request contained a very valuable information – the name of the place of origin of the family that emigrated to the US in early 1900’s. However, our client hit a brick wall – he could not locate that place on a map. That’s a very common challenge because of...
Following the information and some old documents provided by our client we were able to figure out the place of origin of his family. The americanized versions of their first names were very different from the original Jewish spelling....
Having done the preliminary research we had a solid background to visit the Diocesan Archive in Gniezno where we continued our mission. We went through the vital records (births, marriages, deaths) from 1780’s to 1900 and came across over 50 relevant records! We...
Jason wanted to find traces of his family before his trip to Poland and Ukraine. His father and uncle were born in a small village located in Volyn Region, now a part of Ukraine. We found the village on an old map of Ukraine, unfortunatelly it did not exist on...
During the local research we usually try to focus on three activities: researching the vital records kept in a local parish, interviewing some older inhabitants of the village, checking the local cemetery in order to find grave of your ancestors. Visiting Lipinki we...
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