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The Garbacik- Moraniec – Biedron Connection
Here’s the connection as we know it today: Tomasz Grochowski marrries Marianna Garbacik b. abt. 1830- 1840. They have a daughter, Theresa Grochowski b. abt. 1857 -1862 (different records list different birth dates). in Glinik Polski. Teresa marries Marcin Garbacik son of Antoni and Sophia Faber. We have no ther information about Marcin. Teresa marries…
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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…