Well, it’s official: we are taking 1 or 2 days to go to Poland and try to find the records in the Archdiocesan Archives in Wroclaw. I called the LDS missionaries and arranged for them to be translators for us. I hope that works out, and that we find something! If not, we will have…
Category: Poland
Will I find answers to my Czech question in Poland?
Danny and I will go to the Czech Republic for the first time ever in a little less than a month. I’m very excited, and of course I’m trying to plan my trip in a way that lets me also do genealogical research! Although, I’m starting to think that I might need to return to…
Polish Birth Records in Czech Archives
Today I found some Polish birth records in the Ostrava Land Archives online! See? Basically, this book includes birth records for a lot of teeny tiny towns, including two that are in present day Poland. It looks like these are Silesian villages. Clearly, the borders were very different back then. Here is what I think is…