There's a "call for papers" for a conference at Sandhurst dealing with the year 1944. Might be an opportunity for somebody with something new to say about...
I want to buy a copy of the new book by our fellow lister Frank Pleszak of Manchester, England. Two Years in a Gulag: The True Wartime Story of a Polish...
Hi, group. If someone know Russian - please see http://www.rusarchives.ru/publication/polone140.shtml#s1 My English is bad, but I will diligent respond to...
Members may be interested to read about/see some of the current activites of Poles here in Wellington, New Zealand. http://www.polishcommunity.org.nz/ Roger...
591 Polish Soldiers came to Australia on the SS Asturias, over four separate voyages. This list has all of the names alphabetically. Some names are illegible...
Dear group Please give a warm welcome to new member Kasia who is very interested in finding out about her grandmother's family. Kasia's grandmother was born...
We just heard on the internet grapevine that Tadeusz Krzystek - the Sibirak air force veteran who maintained the Polish air force list has passed on At the...
Well today I received my dziadek's "Virtuti Militari" from the office of the President of Poland. Together with some documents, I now know why he received the...
Hi everyone, Does anyone have information about historical documentation from the Wolyn area, such as civil records from the 20th century and earlier? The...
Hi I wonder if anyone could help me with info about my grandma Maria Bamburak( she was born in Tszaniec?) family please ? Her dad and mum was called Dymitr...
Dear group One of our members, author Malina Stahre-Godycka ("Nigdy hie rodzi sie kto" [Nobody is born nobody]) from Sweden, has asked me to pass on to the...
I have managed to finally translate the whole "ankieta" written by my dziadek, Stanislaw Sys which he wrote in about 1943. It was on a thin sheet of paper...
Hi group, lots of research material about Poland, with a book worth a read - Jerzy Jan Lerski, A Polish Chapter in Jacksonian America, Madison, Wisc., 1958. ...
Dear group, We have an urgent deadline of this Friday for a grant proposal from MSZ in Poland. One of the projects that we are looking at submitting is on the...
I have changed my blog and its web address to better reflect how I want to use it in future, giving more space and attention now to my mother’s Scottish (and...
After years of preparation the book I wrote about my father's journey after being exiled to Siberia from a remote village in Poland and eventually settling in...
Dear UK members, Please click on the Who Do You Think You Are image below for complimentary tickets to the show. Opening times are: Friday 22 February -...
Undetected meteor hit earth last night, while known comet flies past the earth safely. My Grandfather Mikolaj Chmielewski is buried somewhere in the Urals, ...
I thought I'd share a couple of discoveries I have just made. I've been searching mainly my family name of SYS because it is just so odd for England, never...
Quote:- "We did what we had to do," said Halina Szaszkiewicz, 89. "There was nothing heroic about it." But the Jewish officials honoring them see it...
Polish Priest recues Torah and gives it to American Jew after WWII Quote - Richmond, 79, a bearded Boston native who also served in Germany, Austria, Laos, and...
Dear fellow K-S members – we are excited to announce that at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. last Thursday, the Association of American Publishers...
