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Teresa Biedron Moraniec
TERESA BIEDRON MORANIEC Born in 1883 to Bartholomew Biedron and Teresa Grochowski (1862-7 Aug 1919 38 St Hedwig Detroit, buried 9 Aug 1919 Holy Cross Cemetery) in Glinik, Podkarpackie, Poland. Teresa’s grandparents were Stanislau and Mary Grochowski. She had a brother, named John Biedron (b. 1889 Austria) who married a Tekla Pajak (b. 1896…
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Lasecki Land, day three
On day three of our adventure, we toured the Wagrowiec church and town before heading to the civil archives in Gniezno. Stop #1 Church of the Assumption– Our first stop was down the street from the hotel! Beginning in 1830 when the…
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Lasecki Land, day two
The second day we headed straight to the Pila ( north of Grylewo) civil archives.We lunched at a beautiful resort on Lake Chodzieskie, then visited Czsezewo (the main Lasecki town), and returned to Grylewo before heading back to the hotel. Please check out the map on Lasecki Land, day one if you are wondering exactly where we were. And if…
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Lasecki Land, day one
With the help of our wild, fearless driver and founder of the Poznan Project, Lukasz (pronounce that Wu kash), Rebecca, and I were able to track down and visit the relevant villages of the ancestors of Walter Lasecki (pronounce Wah set ski) during three days in June 2012. I wrote a small piece describing a…
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The Family of Szymon Biscup and Zofia Zamorska
What I have found about my Great-Great-Great Grandparents is that Szymon BISKUP was born about 1811, had possible siblings Peter (Francisca Mariaszek) and Julianna, and was a Famulus or servant. He’s also listed as a cameranius, which was a groom, valet, or chamberlain. Szymon died on 4 Oct.1867 in Hub.Laskownica. Zofia was born in 1814 (I’ve…
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The short life of Catharina BISCUP DYCH
Catharina BISCUP DYCH ~ GreatGreat Grandmother Catharina was born 10 April 1846 in Łęgowo, Wagrowiec, area of then, West Prussia to Szymon Biscup and Zophia Zamorska. We don’t know much about her early life, but we know that she married Jan Dych from a neighboring village of Danaborz, abt. 1867 when she was abt. 21. She and Jan…
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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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Antoni Lasecki
ANTHONY “Anton” LASECKI Antoni was born 11 May 1866 in Grylewo Parish (near Wagrowiec and Poznan) Poland. Baptized at St. Catherine’s in Grylewo on the 14th, his godparents were Jan Lemanski and Teofilia Gertych. He was most likely the last of the 7 children born to Andrej Lasecki (pronounced Wasetski), a farmer, and Francisca Rozmarynowska…
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Hello cousins–this is our site!
The header photo was chosen from the travel collection of Rebecca and Carolyn when they visited Sue in Poland in 2007. It was taken from the window of a train – somewhere – in Poland. The trees have been coppiced, which is a practice that extends back at least into the Medieval times when folks…