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The Moraniec and Garbaczyk Homeland, day three
Continuing our tour, on Day Two, we arrived at the parish office in Nagoszyn for our appointment with the assistant pastor at 7 PM. There was a slim window when the clergy would be available to answer questions, counsel parishioners and in our case, assist research. Our work would now focus on the Moraniec – Lipa…
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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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MATEUSZ MORANIEC
MATEUSZ aka MAX MORANIEC Max was born 14 Sep 1841 in House #15 Bobrowa, Debica to Adelbert Moraniec and Margaretha Wojtovicz. This was the same house his father was born in, his grandfather lived in, and his children would come to life in as well. The midwife was Agnes Janora. The godparents were Martin Wojtovicz…
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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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Family of Marcin Lipa and Barbara Janora
Family of MARCIN LIPA & BARBARA JANORA (Big Joe’s Grandparents) Marcin, aka Martin Lipa was born on 12 Oct 1817 in House #14 Bobrowa to Jacob Lipa and Agnes Golembiowska aka Golemo. Barbara Janora was baptized on 2 Dec 1821 in House 71 Bobrowa to Szymon Janora and Teresa Gil. Martin and Barbara had…