One Little Boy’s Mother December 31, 2020 - 2:21 pm January 2, 2021Discoveries, McHugh Line, Polish Ancestry, Research Cemetery, Koscielec, Leszczyce, Maciejczak, Poland, Polish, Poznan, Prussia Digging through archives from the early 1800s in rural Poland reveals a sad tale. Continue reading
Finding a Way to Ludzisko, or Where is That? October 24, 2020 - 3:15 pm October 26, 2020Discoveries, McHugh Line, News, Polish Ancestry, Research Catholic, Maciejczak, Maps, Maternal line, Mieszynka, Poland, Poznan, Prussia, Tomaszewski It took a Polish researcher and lots of studying the ever-changing borders of Polish and Prussian geography, to locate the tiny farmlands of my great-grandfather’s early days. Continue reading
Breaking the Polish Barrier September 12, 2020 - 3:44 pm October 25, 2020Discoveries, McHugh Line, News, Polish Ancestry, Research 1700s, Archives, GreatGrandparents, marriage, Poland, Poznan, Prussia, Wisniewski After years of stagnated research, one site has opened up a whole new path to generations past. Continue reading