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Category: Interesting stories whilst puzzling the family tree

  • How to order and interpret records from Polish repositories for the illiterate in Polish

    Polish Alphabet-gray letters are historical characters (source: Wikimedia Commons, User: Faxe)

    Usually when I send an e-mail to the Polish archives or other authorities in English, they will reply to it and include payment instructions and/or the results of their research. In other cases they will just reply that they do not understand the English language and require another e-mail written in the Polish language. These replies from the Polish archives or authorities will sometimes be in English and sometimes in Polish.

    On 6 December 2011 I received an interesting reply from the Registry Office in Tarnow (UrzÄ™du Stanu Cywilnego w Tarnowie) in which they stated that by law the Polish language is the (more…)

  • Cupboards, photos, phone calls and coincidences

    Yesterday (9 October 2011) I experienced something very interesting which just shows how surprised you can often get when puzzling with the family tree:

    I was (and am still) looking for the family connections between Mr. Zvi/Hershel Beer, who was born in UStrzyki-Dolne (Galicia) and has lived in Dresden (Germany), and my great-grandfather, who was known to be cousins with Zvi Hershel Beer.

    I thus contacted Mrs. Susan Edel who I have had contact with for already about more than a decade. She is, among a few different projects, also working for the Magen David Adom tracing service which helps people find (more…)