Zofia Szczerba (1879-1953) is the subject of this week's Matrilineal Monday. When my sister and I decided to start looking into our family history back in the 1990s, it was our grandmother Zofia Szczerba and grandfather Jozef Mirota, that I was most interested in researching. At the time we knew very little about their origins … Continue reading Matrilineal Monday – Zofia Szczerba (1879-1953)
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Photos of the Week – Wedding of Sophie Satkiewicz to Jan Rozenek, circa 1914
This beautiful wedding portrait was taken about 1914 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, but it took Genealogy Sisters a few years to unravel the names of the people. We are the lucky recipients of wonderful photos of our Polish - American family, but we used to call this album, Who Are These People? Our Polish grandparents, plus … Continue reading Photos of the Week – Wedding of Sophie Satkiewicz to Jan Rozenek, circa 1914
Photos of the Week – Wondering About the Wasik Family
This undated photograph of two young men, of similar age, wearing almost identical tailored suits, was for many years lumped in the "unknown" pile of pictures that my Polish grandparents had kept. If there had been a photographer's imprint showing a studio that would have helped, but both front and back are unmarked. Earlier, I … Continue reading Photos of the Week – Wondering About the Wasik Family
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