Genealogy / Rostki - Rostkach [4]


Yes it does.

I imagine you want (or need) to write to “Urząd Stanu Cywilnego w £omży”. If so, it should be like this:

Urząd Stanu Cywilnego w £omży
xx-xxx £omża
Województwo białostockie
Poland

where xx-xxx stands for postal code (have no idea what it is though)

Ok, found it. The full address is:

Urząd Stanu Cywilnego w £omży
Stary Rynek 14
18-400 £omża
Województwo białostockie
Poland

Language / Can anyone help with spelling of Grandmother [53]

Babcia, Babunia and Babusia are commonly used in Poland
It is common in North America to make names shorter. So Busia is simply a shorter version of Babusia

Life / Arriving Gniew - Few Questions [5]

Gniew is a small town. The history of it you can find on Wikipedia.
The website for Gniew is:
gniew.pl
I did check it out and unfortunately its in Polish only. There is 15 restaurants, so you should have plenty of opportunities to eat out. I am sure that there are supermarkets and medical facilities as well.

There is a number of bigger cities around Gniew, like Pelplin, Starogard Gdanski, Tczew and (approx. 1-1.5 hour by train) TriCity (Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia)

Food / Polish Spirytus Recipes [14]

1 kg cherries (3/4 kg pitted and ¼kg not)
½kg - 1 kg sugar
1L spirytus

Place cherries in a jar and add spirytus. Close the jar and leave it for 2-3 months.
Transfer the liquid (A) to another jar and close it. The remaining cherries cover with sugar and leave for 2-3 months. After this time separate the juice (B) from cherries.

Combine liquids A and B, preferably in one jar. Taste it. If too strong add water (boiled and cooled down to room temp). To make the liquor clear you may want to filter it. Transfer to bottles and you are done.

You can replace cherries with black currant (I highly recommend).

UK, Ireland / British Airways cancels Heathrow to Warsaw flights ! [23]


Michal, all your statements about Poland are based on the past. Please make yourself a favour, stop living in 1980's! Things can change in over 20 years....

UK, Ireland / British Airways cancels Heathrow to Warsaw flights ! [23]

And that’s why you did not recommend using LOT?
If you have done your research you would know that Russian aircrafts are not used by LOT for awhile now, and that overall safety record of Polish Airlines is very good.

Besides, most people interested in Poland ask questions about present situation in the country and not how it was in 1980's, so your answers are at least misleading.

If you must respond, at least have the decency to start you sentences with: When I visited Poland in 1986....

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]


Its easy to explain why. No dentist will ever use a pain killer when they figure out that they have an a**hole for a patient.

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]



Stick with JustysiaS's answer....

UK, Ireland / If I was to move to Poland from Ireland... [92]


That explains everything.

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]


Still, she knows more about Poland than you do. JustysiaS may not remember well, or at all, how it was in Poland during the 70-80’s, but unfortunately for you I do.

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]


Indeed

Life / Polish Crosses? [7]

Will that work for you?

liturgiczny.pl/index.php?cat_id=2
or
arkadiafhp.pl/index.php?category=6
under "Kategorie" click on anything with the word "krzyże"

krzyż = cross
krzyże = crosses

News / A Pole to start the HIV AIDS epidemic? [52]

"However, studies have failed to find evidence of AIDS in millions of other people who received these vaccines. Samples of the vaccine have tested negative for HIV. The HIV strain identified in those early African cases is now classified as belonging to group M; the strain that came from Haiti to the United States during the late 1960's, and later became the most common strain in the world, is known as subtype B. The two are not closely related. Scientists also say that the virus carried by chimpanzees in trial sites does not resemble HIV. (For more on the non-linked facts, I recommend reading "The Hunt for the Origin of AIDS," published in The Atlantic in October 2000.)"

October 30,2007
blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/10/aids-didnt-come.html
and
Polio vaccine-AIDS theory dead
News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040421-02
the-scientist.com/article/display/22125

Feedback / how can i log out??? [19]

Log out is under Profile

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]


There is a very good dental office in Sopot
artoral.pl/index_pl.html

Click on "kontakt" for contact info.
Ask for Dr. Zbigniew Piankowski or Dr. Adam Ziemlewski (implants are his speciality)

Dr. Ziemlewski also has another office (Gdansk-Kowale)
ziemlewski.pl
again click on "kontakt" for contact info

UK, Ireland / If I was to move to Poland from Ireland... [92]

Talking from experience again, eh?

Language / 'w' - difference between accusative+locative [18]


"w" is pronounced more like "v" in Violet or Victor

Language / Your Funniest / Strangest / Sadest Moments with the Polish Language [63]


That's very similar to polish word "tynkuję" (tynkowac = to plaster, tynkuję = I am plastering).
If [tin kuje] is pronounced like [tynkuję] most likely you would get a strange look as well.

Language / Polish Sentence With The Letter S Lots Of Times [13]


pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/%C5%81ama%C5%84ce_j%C4%99zykowe

USA, Canada / How many Polish-Canadians in elected office? [9]

Alberta MLA's with polish heritage:
Kowalski Ken
Lukaszczuk Thomas (speaks polish very well)
Stelmach Ed
Zwozdesky Gene

Genealogy / Sito Family in Sadowne [11]

Here is an address for the office in Sadowne that might be able to help you.

Kierownik Urzędu Stanu Cywilnego
Urząd Gminy Sadowne
ul. Kościuszki 3
07-140 Sadowne
tel.(+48 25) 67-53-310

Genealogy / Lesko and surrounding areas [8]

Lesko has its own website (unfortunately in polish only), click on "Turystyka" - some pics there.

lesko.pl/pl/dokumenty
Also, there is a lot of info on Lesko in english on google. There is at least one Zając living in Lesko (I have his address, if you are interested).

Genealogy / Sito Family in Sadowne [11]

Here is the link for the map
maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=Sadowne+Polska

Study / Polish Universities - are there any entrance exams? [6]

Here is the link for Medical University of Gdansk (in english)
ed.amg.gda.pl/main.html

Genealogy / Sito Family in Sadowne [11]


Yes it is, population ~6k

Life / Is drinking water in Poland good? [96]

Have you been drinking water from the tap, Stefan?

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Genealogy / Sito Family in Sadowne [11]

Another posible source of info for you might be the church in Sadowne .
The address is:

PARAFIA ŚW. JANA CHRZCICIELA - SADOWNE
ul. Kościelna 1
07-140 Sadowne
Poland

tel.(+48 25)675 31 75
or
tel.(+48 25)675 31 96

Genealogy / Lesko and surrounding areas [8]


Go here
twojebieszczady.pl/IMGallery/galeria.php

Type in Lesko (on top) and click "Szukaj"

Life / Please help me find this Polish song (moja droga ja Cie kocham)! [15]

Here you go Bobby Vinton's hit

Food / Polish glazed cherries [13]

Are you talking about cherries in chocolate (wiśnie w czekoladzie)?