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I am trying to research my mother's roots from Poland. My mother's maiden name was Antonia Tosca Puchalski from Warsaw, Poland. Her parents were Richard Puchalski and Dr. Irena Puchalska (maiden name was Sarschitzka). My mother was born March 1, 1923 at her family's estate outside of Warsaw, but baptised in Warsaw at St Stanislaw. Her family was from Warsaw.

When I first traveled to Warsaw in the summer of 1971, most official records were destroyed from the war, and I was not able to obtain a birth certificate. Though her immediate family were killed during the war, and some of her Uncles escaped prior to the war and eventually immigrated to Austrialia from what my mother told me. She was arrested prior to the Uprising in 1944 and sent to a German Labor Camp.

Since my mother's death, I have been searching. Any help would be helpful. I didn't have the time nor the understanding of the language in 1971 while in Warsaw to call the listings of the family name of Puchalski in the phone book.

Attached is the marriage certificate of my mother and father that contain the spelling of the family names of her father and mother.

Colonel Edward Carson, U.S. Army Retired