Genealogy / What certificate is this?; birth certificate from the greek catholic church [63]

Hee... light blue touch paper... stand back...

It's been an interesting discussion, though...

Genealogy / What certificate is this?; birth certificate from the greek catholic church [63]

That's interesting, so thanks for that. Several posts above, McCoy says:


And...


I like Constantine from an off-the-cuff comment made to me by a family member recently suggesting Constantine or Konstantego as a possible name for the father. I'm not sure, though, if Konstantego is a real name even.

The name of mother I'd no idea whatsoever (and now I've two names :-)

Thanks so much for looking at this....

Does anyone else have ideas about the mother's names?

cheers

steve

Genealogy / What certificate is this?; birth certificate from the greek catholic church [63]


I shall take care of it. Possibly, seeing as it sounds of historical value, it might find its way into a Polish museum at some point. I did read not so long back that the German/Russian front was drawn up along the run of the river at Przemyśl, so it doesn't surprise me the territory was somewhat fluid (in fact, I found my father-in-law's UK registration document along with the certificate, and in that he describes his nationality as 'uncertain'. I assumed this was because he was largely illiterate, but now I'm wondering if it was more a case of the borders changing around him and as you say there not in effect being a Poland he could belong to until 1918). This is really fascinating stuff to me. I've not played the U-tube above yet, but I'll do so and try to research events more.

The project is a surprise birthday present for my wife, and in it I want to give her more than a family tree but also a 'feel' for what her family grew up with. Her father, when he was alive, would say nothing of his upbringing (a trait I've heard many Polish/English descendants bemoan). Possibly it's testament to the horrors and hardships endured. The wife's UK side is hard enough, but the Polish side is taking a good deal more work. The culmination will be a surprise trip to Poland in the autumn. So, a good day yesterday - what I thought might be of a little information has turned out to be a major find.

Genealogy / What certificate is this?; birth certificate from the greek catholic church [63]

Fascinating responses all of them - thank you all so much.

Here's the bigger file on my website if anyone would like to view it as a bigger picture.

It's about 450K, so if you have a slow connection it might take some time!

I think apart from obviously assisting me it's worth looking at to see just what one of these things actually looks like. Hopefully that will inspire those of us searching here to keep going...

Again, thanks for the help, and if anybody can add anything else that will be great.

steve

Edit: Oddly enough, if I click the link directly the picture is small, but when I copy and paste the URL into the URL window the picture is large. Something to do with the forums set up perhaps?


I'm definitely going to include that information in the 'Polish roots project', so thank you.

Genealogy / What certificate is this?; birth certificate from the greek catholic church [63]

You guys are the best! Thank you so much...

Is there any mention of his mother?

steve

Genealogy / What certificate is this?; birth certificate from the greek catholic church [63]

Thanks again...

We believe he was born in Tarnowce, near Przemyśl, right on the Ukrainian border in Feb 1918. The name he used was Michalczyk. Having that confirmed and learning parents' names if they can be deciphered etc means I'll be drunk for a week! :-)

steve

Genealogy / What certificate is this?; birth certificate from the greek catholic church [63]

Wow! Then it might really be gold! Can you glean anything about where and when or anything else of interest? Or do we need the higher resolution version as indicated above?

Thanks for your help

steve

Genealogy / What certificate is this?; birth certificate from the greek catholic church [63]

Hi Frd... I know what you mean. The forums say only files of 100K can be uploaded. What I'll do is put a higher definition version on the web and link to it. Then, hopefully people will be kind enough to click through.

I'll have to do that tonight at home.

Thanks for your input...

steve

Language / Collection of learning resources for learning the Polish language [129]

I'm not sure if this link has been posted elsewhere on the site, but I thought it worth including for those of us learning the language alone...wwitv.com/television/168.htm

steve

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

How about Michalczyk?

Does that one have a specific meaning?

steve

News / Poland's Organized Crime [58]

Thanks, 1jola.

I see my question has also been answered elsewhere recently on the boards, so apologies for repeating that.

My defence is I'm a newbie :-)

steve

News / Poland's Organized Crime [58]

Hi... jumping in and possibly diluting this subject a little, but is Poland a 'safe' place generally to visit? I read recently there's a lot of car crime. We visited Barcelona recently and the list of things to be wary of went on and on (and ultimately the trip passed without incident)! But I've not seen any 'do's and don't's' lists for Poland.

steve