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The Moraniec and Garbacik homeland, Day Two
This day would prove to be my most exciting day in Poland, though I didn’t figure that when we began since we’d decided to focus on our thorniest problem, the Garbaczyks. I still did not know the village of origin and did not believe we’d be able to figure it out in such a short period…
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The Moraniec and Garbacik Homeland
This tour, culminating our three week Poland escapade, rocked my previous genealogical knowledge straight out of the family history boat! Iwona Dakiniewicz, genealogist and tour guide extraordinaire, led Rebecca and me through the hills and dales of our matrilineal homeland. As a woman, my genetic load tilts more heavily on the mitochondrial line, the lineage…
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Josephine “Jozefa” Garbaczyk
JOSEPHINE GARBACZYK Jozefa was born 1876 in Glinik Polski, (near Jaslo). Galicia to Marcin Garbacik and Theresa Grochowska. But we have not found her birth record yet. 2016 NOTE: When Rebecca and I visited in 2012, we enjoyed a lovely time with our Kapala cousins, who now live on the farm where Josephine was born…
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Big Joe Moraniec
BIG JOE MORANIEC JOSEPH MORANIEC aka “BIG JOE” Jozef was born 20 Nov 1868 to Matheus (Max) Moraniec and Katarzyna Lipa in House#15, in the village of Bobrowa, Galicia, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the eldest of the couples’ four children and the only one to survive into adulthood. Sister Barbara was born…
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Origin of Moraniec family
Though we don’t exactly know the etymology of the Moraniec name ((pronounced Mor-an-yitz and spelled in the Latin records Moranice), Sue’s Polish language teacher, Beata, has told us that the name means “one from the border,” perhaps implying that the Moraniecs originated from Russia, Czech, or Slovakia? Iwona agreed that it most likely did not…