FOUR CHURCHES, TWO ARCHIVES, ONE FAMILY

I just recently returned from my third trip to Poland.  My first trip to Poland was a Church sponsored trip in 2012 which was a tourist trip.  In 2014, I made my second trip to Poland when I, along with Jonathan Shea, organized the trip.  We brought 44 American genealogists to Poland in search of their roots, sending some of them (including me) to their ancestral villages.  On my village trip I was lucky enough to find my second cousin, Henryk, living in the ancestral village and waiting for an American to make the reverse trip back to Poland. (more…)