Steve’s Genealogy Blog

When I was searching the Internet for connections to my Dziurzyński ancestors, I came across some information posted by Paulette Mackuliak who was searching for her Dziurzyński ancestors in the same part of Poland where my ancestors lived.  I also found a reply from Georgia Dziurzynski whose husband’s Dziurzynski ancestors were also from southern Poland.
Paulette and I exchanged […]

John Dziurzyński was the brother of my paternal grandmother.  I have only two records for him, one of which is his Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Manifest.  John was listed on the passenger manifest as Johann Dzurzynski and he traveled to America with Pawel Goliński.  Pawel would later marry my grandfather Michał Dańko’s sister, Marianna.

Postcard from the S.S. […]

My uncle, Jan Dańko, was born in Nienadowa, Galicia (Austria-Poland) and immigrated to the United States with his mother and older sister, Zofia.  After he arrived in America, Jan adopted the English version of his name, John, but was more commonly known as Jack.
His date of birth varies among the sources I have:

May 2, 1905 […]

I have been searching for years for information on the ancestors of my paternal grandmother, Marianna Dziurzyńska.  When I hired a professional genealogist in Poland to find records of my ancestors in Dubiecko, Poland, he found precious little about my grandmother, but he found enough to keep me hopeful of finding more information about these […]