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While searching for additional records on the family of Emil Niedzialkowski, I found his World War I Draft Registration Card.

In the course of searching for records on my Niedzialkowski relatives, I found a World War II Draft Registration Card for Emil Niedzialkowski in Waterbury, Connecticut.

In the course of searching for records on Damijan Niedzialkowski, I found his World War I Draft Registration Card.

My grandfather, Michael Danko, registered for the World War II draft in the fourth registration conducted in 1942.
The fourth registration, also known as the old man’s registration, was officially conducted on 27 April 1942. All men born on or between 28 April 1877 and 16 February 1897 (between 45 and 64 years old) were required to register.

WWII Draft Registration […]

On Sunday at the Annual Conference of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Paul Valasek discussed Haller’s Polish Army in France and how the records of Haller’s Army can be of use to family historians.

Paul Valasek
SOURCE: Photograph of Paul Valasek. Photographed by Stephen J. Danko 30 Sep 2007.
The Polish Army in France, also known as […]

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. […]

At the same time I received a color copy of my paternal grandfather’s World War I Draft Registration Card, I received the color digital image of my maternal grandfather’s card:

World War I Draft Registration Card for Konstanty Niedzialkowski (Front)

World War I Draft Registration Card for Konstanty Niedzialkowski (Back)
Click on the link for a PDF copy of […]

I recently obtained color digital images of the World War I Draft Registration Card for my grandfather, Michael Danko.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Michael Danko (Front)

World War I Draft Registration Card for Michael Danko (Back)
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the World War I Draft Registration Card for Michael Danko. 
I had previously […]

My grandmother, Marianna Dziurzyńska, was born in Sielnice, Galicia (parish of Dylągowa), married Michał Dańko, moved to Nienadowa, Galicia with her husband, and finally emigrated to the United States in May 1909. She probably knew little of the fate of the family she left behind in Poland, but undoubtedly worried about them as the area in which […]

I spent all day Saturday working on my class assignments for the National Institute for Genealogical Studies. One of the assignments for the class in US Military Records was to surf the web and report on interesting and useful websites relating to Military Records. Here is my response:
Since all my grandparents immigrated to the United […]