{"id":321,"date":"2006-06-28T23:40:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T06:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/28\/preparing-for-a-trip-to-the-northeast\/"},"modified":"2006-06-28T23:40:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T06:40:05","slug":"preparing-for-a-trip-to-the-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/321","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for a Trip to the Northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00c2\u00a0entries on this blog may get a little bit shorter and a little less frequent over the next couple of weeks as I prepare for my trip to the northeastern US to visit family and a little genealogy research.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00c2\u00a0plan is to visit family in Massachusetts and New York .\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be celebrating my birthday (about a month late), and taking a few day trips.<\/p>\n<p>The first of the day trips will be to Howe&#8217;s Caverns and Secret Caverns in New York with my nephew, Lukas .\u00a0 I don&#8217;t get to spend time with\u00c2\u00a0Lukas very often, so I&#8217;m looking forward to a whole day of exploring caves with him.<\/p>\n<p>My cousin Chris from Florida\u00c2\u00a0is visiting Albany, New York, and I&#8217;ll meet up with him and my cousin Helen for a trip to Worcester, Massachusetts .\u00a0 We plan to visit some relatives, stop in at a few cemeteries, and visit the Higgins Armory where my grandfather, Kostanty Niedzialkowski, once worked.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of my trip, I&#8217;ll spend a day at the Massachusetts Department of Vital Records and Statistics looking up vital records for my ancestors, and finally I&#8217;ll spend a day at the Massachusetts Archives in an effort to find the birth and death records for the two (unrelated) infants who share a grave with my Aunt Bronis\u0142awa.<\/p>\n<p>So, now, I&#8217;m getting ready for my trip, making lists of relatives buried in cemeteries in New York and Massachusetts and lists of the vital records I already have so I don&#8217;t duplicate my previous efforts .\u00a0 No matter how much time I spend getting ready for these research trips, it seems like I&#8217;m never quite ready!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to makes some entries in the blog from time to time to review what genealogy discoveries I&#8217;ve made on this trip, but I&#8217;m not sure how often I&#8217;ll have access to the internet .\u00a0 In any case, I hope to have some interesting experiences to relate once I return home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00c2\u00a0entries on this blog may get a little bit shorter and a little less frequent over the next couple of weeks as I prepare for my trip to the northeastern US to visit family and a little genealogy research. The\u00c2\u00a0plan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/321\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-5b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}