October is National Family History Month, and one of the ways to search for your family is through census records. If you watch any of the TV genealogy shows, you will notice that the census records are almost always checked very early on in the search. It used to be in the USA that you … Continue reading Searching Federal Census Records – Mirota Surname
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Surname Saturday – Wasik Family
Surname Saturday looks at the history behind our family names. "Wasik Name Meaning. Polish (Wasik): descriptive nickname from a diminutive of was ‘moustache’ (see Was).Polish and Ukrainian: from a pet form of the personal name Wasyl, Polish form of Greek Basileios (see Basil). Eastern German: nickname from Sorbian wasik ‘crawler’" [Source: ancestry.com]. There are two … Continue reading Surname Saturday – Wasik Family
Who Are These People?
Who are these people? That is often the starting point for doing research with my sister, when we look at family photographs. Here we have Mary Mirota sitting on the banks of a lake. She has her hands clasped together. The woman next to her looked very familiar. The women in the swim-cap is a … Continue reading Who Are These People?
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