Friday, 9 October 2015, my wife and I were in Białystok to do some genealogy.

First we went to the Archivum of the Archdiocese of Białystok. We met the director and explained our project. I showed him copies of the certificates he had sent, and he showed us the volumes the information had come ...

Witam

I am in Białystok now, for three days. We return to Warszawa October 11. With the kind help if Robert, I hope to meet the mayor of the village where my grandparents were born. This is a very exciting time for me!

I have a Polish mobile phone number, if anyone wants to call (but my Polish is ...

Cześć, Robert,

Thank you! I have not received the email; could you send it again?

My email address is mjward @ hidden-knowledge dot com

Pozdrawiam
Mike

Cześć, Robert,

Thank you for calling her! We are having a wonderful time, seeing the towns, learning Polish history, and eating. We do quite a lot of eating. I'm putting some photos online at http://xfrmk.blogspot.com/ . Yes, I would like to meet her, if it can be done informally -- just as ...

Hello, Jerzy and Nika!
Thank you for the additional information. I think this will answer several questions. Tomorrow I may have a little time off from lectures and touring to put this new data in my charts. Today we started with a lecture on the history of Gdansk, followed by visits to the ...

Pan Jerzy,

It is not clear to me, either, but it is clear that more help is a good thing for this research .

I will continue to learn how to read the files in the waiting room. The ones that are in Russian are beyond my abilities, at least so far.

Of course a person could spend years trying to ...

Witam,

I thank you, P. Kożuchowski! I think you are correct that there are too many people named Horosz in Lipina. This seems to be the correct sister, but the wrong brother? It is very confusing.

I have written directly to explain my worry that Antoni Horosz seems to have been married to two ...

Witam

I have taken the data from the 1876 and 1909 censuses and entered all of it into the tree chart located at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/68762756/family/pedigree There has not been enough time to update tree on MyHeritage or the summary page I have at http://www.mikeandkaren.org/genealogy ...

I am stunned. I am speechless. I do not think anyone here in the US knows that these resources are available.

It will me take me a little bit of time to digest these things. Probably, I will have a question on the handwriting in the metryka.

Dziękuję bardzo!

Mike

Hi, Robert,

Thank you for making the phone calls. I do not know the name Dominik Kaczkieło, or Anthony Kaczkieło, but I believe that Hipolit was the brother of another Adolf Kaczkieło -- not my grandfather, but probably his cousin. This second Adolf Kaczkieło also lived in Worcester, Massachusetts ...

Thank you, everyone, for your wonderful assistance and offers of assistance!

Thank you, to Agnieszka, for the URL of the Facebook page for Lipiny. Searching Facebook here in the US never found it, probably because Facebook never thought "Nowinki z Lipinki" had any connection. Is this modified ...

Thank you very much, Jerzy and Kinga. I have contacted one of the priests at Sokółka, who found the register of births (= metryka?) there, but told me that all marriage records were now only at the Archiwum. (I think this Archiwum is what you mean by AA.) I wrote to the Kierownik there, and paid the ...

My grandfather Adolf Kaczkieła was born in Lipina, near Sokółka, 18 December 1876, according to a birth certificate from the Archiwum I Muzeum Archidiecezjalne, in Białystok. He married Marianna Horosz on 5 November 1906, in Sokółka. She was born in Lipina on 23 January 1887. All this is from ...