Excuse my ignorance...did those who lived in the BT speak Polish or Ukrainian? With the gravestones being in Cyrillic and my ancestors noting they spoke...
Carol, This is a guess. I think folks living in the BT spoke Polish generally. However, it was different in the Greek Catholic churches themselves (during...
... Carol, Poland ruled most of Galicia before Austria-Hungary took it over, thus Polish was the working language of Galicia. Local communities used their ...
Debbie, Thanks for the suggestions. The churches I am writing to are in NJ and PA. I am not at a point where I want to attempt writing overseas yet. Carol...
... Names got transliterated ... always ... That gets confusing too! I should search for the Polish, Ukrainian and Americanized version of my relatives names....
I found the following family names from BT: Kramar/Kramer Taranwczyk Petejka/Petejko Bilas Patalowa (those l's have the line through them) My BT family is from...
Hello Everyone, I've been a bit busy recently, so I've only just caught up with some of the recent discussion. I'm fluent in Polish and will willingly...
... Janek, I very much agree and your point is much more relevant than the one I was making. Names were pretty fuzzy back then. And still are, if you have a...
O.K., this is off topic, but I thought it was an interesting article. It appears that the Polish Consumer Agency is upset with regard to one website. It...
Janek, Thank you for the information about languages in "our" part of Poland. Would you mind telling us the name of the book to which you referred? Thank you ...
Debbie, The book I'm referring to is "Swiat jezykowy Slowian" by Zdzislaw Stieber. It was published by Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe in 1974 but only 1500 ...
... have are ... Poland in ... Thanks so much for looking that up! I ordered this from LDS: "Greek Catholic parish register transcripts (births, marriages,...
For those interested, I noticed that Interlink Bookshop has a sale on the "Polska Atlas Drogowy" only until the end of April! If you don't have a Polish Atlas...
If you didn't use Stephen Morse's "one-step" search page for the Naturalizations in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx and the Burial Societies, you're out of...
Liz, Nice photos. I like the black and whites. I haven't looked at all of them but I noticed that in the photo of Andrzej Hujsak's tombstone if you look above...
You may be interested in the following: What?: "The Voyage - a Forgotten Holocaust" - a new multimedia presentation by Mark Wolski on the deportations of...
I didn't see any big snails, thankfully -- I remember you telling me about them, and was a bit worried! We were driven out by a hailstorm, though (in April)! ...
Here is the exact text of the message I received from Steve on the 9th (Wednesday)... "To users of my recently added One-Step Naturalization and Burial ...
Would anyone on this list know of any Czech traditions having to do with funerals? My best friend's mother passed away Thursday and she was of Czech heritage....
