shoorty777
29 Jun 2015
Genealogy / Banaszak - help contacting possible relatives in Poland [11]
Thanks to the "geneology.com" website I was able to locate the area in Poland where my father and all my paternal grandparents were born, sure to miss the interaction with that site. What I am trying to do is to see if I can get someone to make phone calls in Poland for me to see if I have any distant relatives living there. My father came to the US through Ellis Island in December of 1910 with my grandmother. My grandfather, Marceli Banaszak had arrived in the spring of 1910. With the help of familysearch.org I was able to determine that all my paternal grandparents were born and or raised in Piotrowo, Poznan, Poland. Piotrowo is around 128 miles west of Warsaw, 5 miles east southeast of Slupca and around 11 miles west of Konin. It appears on google earth as a street of around 13 or so farms. Because of some previous help I was told that there are no families named Banaszak in Piotrowo but there were 5 or more Banaszak's in Slupca. I don't know about Konin.
I don't speak Polish and really don't have any way of making a phone call to Poland yet be able to carry on a conversation. I'm hoping that because Piotrowo is such a small town that if any Banaszak's living nearby have relatives that grew up in that town that they would have to be related to me somehow. Being able to contact someone via email of course would be the best outcome but even a name and mailing address would work.
From previous inquiries I've been told that the phone number information contain the name and phone number but not the address because of Polish law.
If anyone can help me please let me know. I would be willing to call anyone anywhere in the US in exchange for the help.
Thanks to the "geneology.com" website I was able to locate the area in Poland where my father and all my paternal grandparents were born, sure to miss the interaction with that site. What I am trying to do is to see if I can get someone to make phone calls in Poland for me to see if I have any distant relatives living there. My father came to the US through Ellis Island in December of 1910 with my grandmother. My grandfather, Marceli Banaszak had arrived in the spring of 1910. With the help of familysearch.org I was able to determine that all my paternal grandparents were born and or raised in Piotrowo, Poznan, Poland. Piotrowo is around 128 miles west of Warsaw, 5 miles east southeast of Slupca and around 11 miles west of Konin. It appears on google earth as a street of around 13 or so farms. Because of some previous help I was told that there are no families named Banaszak in Piotrowo but there were 5 or more Banaszak's in Slupca. I don't know about Konin.
I don't speak Polish and really don't have any way of making a phone call to Poland yet be able to carry on a conversation. I'm hoping that because Piotrowo is such a small town that if any Banaszak's living nearby have relatives that grew up in that town that they would have to be related to me somehow. Being able to contact someone via email of course would be the best outcome but even a name and mailing address would work.
From previous inquiries I've been told that the phone number information contain the name and phone number but not the address because of Polish law.
If anyone can help me please let me know. I would be willing to call anyone anywhere in the US in exchange for the help.