Comments on: If At First You Don’t Succeed…Keep Searching! http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/ Adventures in genealogy Wed, 08 May 2013 20:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: djpoint http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-454 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:30:31 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-454 Paul,

If your grandfather came from the city of Warsaw, they could be cousins. I don’t know much about my Jan Piontkowski yet, so I don’t know the names of his parents, siblings, or cousins. But stay tuned! Perhaps I will find out more later this year. Thanks for stopping by! If you have any info on where your family was from in Poland, please let me know.

Donna

]]> By: Paul T Piontkowski http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-453 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:54:58 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-453 My grandfather was Jan Piatkowski. Any relation?
I have his Date of Birth as Dec 15, 1879. He changed his name years later to John Piontkowski.

Name: Jan Piatkowski
[Jan Poitkowcki]
Age in 1910: 30
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1880
Birthplace: Russia
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father’s Birth Place: Russia
Mother’s Birth Place: Russia
Spouse’s Name: Blanche
Home in 1910: Elwood Ward 3, Madison, Indiana
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Year of Immigration: 1894
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Jan Piatkowski 30
Blanche Piatkowski 27
Chester Piatkowski 4
Eddie Piatkowski 5
Carl Piatkowski 2
Jan Smith 27

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]]> By: djpoint http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-33 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:10:04 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-33 Bronwyn, thanks for writing. Some lines are harder than others! I have found people to be friendly when I visited Poland, too. I’ve even had strangers in both countries that have not only helped me find information, but they treated me as family even though we weren’t.

]]> By: Bronwyn Klimach http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-28 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:17:36 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-28 Thank you for sharing your Polish discoveries – I look forward to many more.
I’m not quite sure why my ethnic German ancestry has maternal lines the easiest to follow… It seems to be almost the opposite with my husband’s family up around Suwalki, with illegible or missing maiden names.
Your visit to Bavaria sounded fantastic. I do not think I have any family (however distant) remaining around Babimost but when I visited there in August some local contacts did everything possible to assist finding information and making us feel very welcome.
Kind regards,
Bronwyn.

]]> By: djpoint http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-22 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:41:57 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-22 Hi, Cheryl,

What’s your Polish surname that’s causing you trouble? Sometime two heads are better than one – maybe I’ll find a different angle for you.

]]> By: Cheryl http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-21 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:17:42 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed%e2%80%a6keep-searching/#comment-21 You are so right about the variances in Polish research. 3/4 of my ancestry is German and I have been much more successful with that. My mother’s paternal side is Polish and I just struggle still (after 20 years also) in finding much of anything on the two surnames. I have them in Bay City, MI in 1891 when my great-grandparents were married but passenger lists, homeland information, etc is scanty.

Congratulations on your find. That is always exciting and a boost to go looking for more.

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