Hello, I would like to give a brief update to the genealogy projects that I have going on. I have been jumping back and forth on these projects, so I hope I can focus in on at least one for completion. Here they are: Zlotow Parish Transcriptions – I’m still chipping away at this, currently […]

Hello, The new edition of the Carnival of Eastern European Genealogy, hosted by Steve Danko, is about given or first names within the family tree. I must admit that my family tree is lacking original given names. One thing that I have noticed is that each family is very consistent and generally reuses previous given […]

Hello, Anything that can help a researcher mine valuable data from Polish Parish Records is definitely helpful. This past year I have looked for anything that may help me read and understand the information within these Polish records. Besides the internet, I thought that there had to be something available that would help. Months ago […]

Hello, I would like to give an update on my progress of indexing the Zlotow Parish films. I have started with the baptisms of 1841, which I am almost finished with. I will also index the marriages and deaths before I move to the next year. Hopefully, I will be done with 1841 within the […]

Hello, Within the past few months, I have been extremely lucky with tracing back my Kobs ancestry. With the help of family history I have been able to piece together a family line going back to to the arrival of Pawel Kobs in 1872. My Kobs line looks like this: Eunice-> Louis-> Frank-> Pawel. Besides […]

Hello, The family and I, have just gotten back from vacation in upper Wisconsin/Michigan. The fiancee has family that live there, so we try to visit yearly during the summer. It was a great time and can’t wait until we go up there again! With the weekend winding down and the work week slowly creeping […]