Research indicates that Katarzyna Dańko is probably my 2nd cousin, twice removed. She was born 10 Mar 1879 in Nienadowa, Galicia (Austria Poland), one of 14 children of Józef Dańko and Marianna Chruścicka.
Today, Saturday, April 12, Jeremy Frankel and I presented a workshop in Eastern European Genealogy at the California Genealogical Society.
This was the first in a series of workshops to be hosted by the California Genealogical Society at their library in Oakland.
The workshops are designed to be small gatherings of not more than ten participants so […]
Matthew Bielawa’s third lecture on Saturday was about Polish repatriation and resettlement after World War II.
As World War Ii drew to an end, the Allies met to redraw the map of Europe. The United States, USSR, and United Kingdom held three historic meetings at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam.
In the end, Poland’s borders moved 200 km west. […]
Matthew Bielawa’s second lecture on Saturday dealt with Gazetteers and Geographic Finding Aids for Poland.
On Saturday, Matthew Bielawa presented a seminar on Researching Polish Ancestry in Ukraine.
Matthew Bielawa and Stephen Danko
SOURCE: Matthew Bielawa and Stephen Danko photograph. Digital photograph taken 29 Sep 2007. Copyright © 2007 by Stephen J. Danko.
Matthew described the rationale and strategies for researching Polish roots in Ukraine. Many genealogists researching Polish ancestry may find that their families […]
The Military Maps of the Austrian Empire provide a great complement to the Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (The Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and Other Slavonic Countries) because the maps and the gazetteer were prepared in the same time period.
Both the maps and the gazetteer were prepared over many […]
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