A very special Mother's day journey

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May 28th 2012

Published: May 28th 2012

Today was a very important day. Very fulfilling and I'm sure it was a very special Mother's day for mom. We would be travelling to her grandparent's villages. We had already visited the Archives in Krakow and submitted a search for the Foyt's (fojt) orgin. When we return to Krakow June 4th I will check on the progress of the investigation. After breakfast I went to pick up the car... Read Full Entry

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Matthew Bogdanowicz

Polish Prince

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Ralph Waldo Emerson “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller ... full info

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Local farm house

In the Village or township

Alina

View of Church from Graveyard

View of lake from Graveyard

Cemetary

Zelaskowska

Relative. Remember how small the town would have been. Everyone would have known each other back then; attended weddings, funerals, fesivals, baptisms together and would have known our great-and great grandparents.

St Martin (Marcina)

Used only for Funerals now

Zelaskowski

St. Marcina

You can see the small wall that encircled the church

We stopped for a burger

Wojciechowski

Born in 1878 and certainly would have been related somehow to Balbina- a brother or cousin perhaps? At leas someone paid to have a plaque put back on the cross. There were many wooden crosses without and indication and it was frustrating. This is the smaller cemetary outside of Trutowo.

Kielbasy

And a nice peice of Kielbasy as well.

Friendly locals helping us out

Thank you. Dzienkuje Jen- Cue-yeh

Little car

This was a Corolla of some kind. Couldn't figure out how to get it in reverse for the longest time

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