Tag: Galicia

  • 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…

  • 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…