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Posts by Peter  

Joined: 31 Mar 2007 / Male ♂
Last Post: 4 Apr 2022
Threads: 3
Posts: Total: 248 / Live: 116 / Archived: 132
From: Trinidad & Tobago and Wroclaw
Speaks Polish?: No
Interests: Soccer, Genealogy, Reading, 80's Music, Food and Drink

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Peter   
14 Mar 2009
Genealogy / Kosakiewicz family / Sochowski [29]

Peter, thank you for the input, I wil use this as a starting point, anything else you can think of that might help I would appreciate it.

Best of luck with your searches. Let us know what transpires! From my own personal experience it was well worth the time and expense. I discovered 3 dozen + cousins who I never knew existed.
Peter   
10 Mar 2009
Genealogy / Kosakiewicz family / Sochowski [29]

You can start off by checking out ancestry.com below is the results for a search on "Kosakiewicz".

Census & Voter Lists 19
13 1920 United States Federal Census
6 1930 United States Federal Census
Birth, Marriage & Death 8
2 California Death Index, 1940-1997
2 Social Security Death Index
2 United States Obituary Collection
1 Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001
1 Wisconsin Births, 1820-1907
Military 3
1 Germany: Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Records, 1938-1945
1 France: Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp Record Book, 1940-1945
1 World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Immigration & Emigration 77
36 New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
26 Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 (in German)
4 Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1800-1945
3 Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
2 Minnesota Naturalization Records Index, 1854-1957
» View all 77 results
Directories & Member Lists 85
64 U.S. Public Records Index
16 U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002
3 Canadian Phone and Address Directories, 1995-2002
1 British Phone Books, 1880-1984
1 Poland: Nowogródek Province Business Directory, 1929

You need to put your hands on as much documentation as you can regarding when your Polish ancestors arrived in the US, their correct names at that time (especially if they americanised their names), what town or village they were from, etc. This will help you narrow down your search.
Peter   
30 Jun 2008
Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

I flew with LOT in 2005, Heathrow - Warsaw - Wroclaw return and found the service to be quite good. The flight was 1 hr late leaving Heathrow and we got into Warsaw with barely 45 minutes to make our connecting flight. Considering I was in a wheelchair they had us off the plane, through immigration and back on the Wroclaw plane within 20 minutes. Coming back into Heathrow we had a lot of turbulance on the final approach which was handled very well.
Peter   
15 Apr 2008
History / Is there a list of those in the Polish Army during WWII? [192]

The MoD will have his records but you may have to know what specific unit he was in. Other than that, you will also have to prove your relationship to him. A birth certificate should suffice but you can still enquire beforehand to determine what exactly they want to see.

Ministry of Defense
APC Polish Enquiries
Building 28 B, RAF Northolt
West End Road
Ruislip, Middlesex
HA4 6NG

Tel: 020 8833 8603
Fax: 020 8833 8866
Peter   
13 Nov 2007
Food / Mother of all hangovers....Polish Beer! [71]

have you ever tried Warka strong?

It's a nice beer! The emphasis here is on the strong.....

How can you say that

I do not get a hangover from beer but for some reason the taste of the Czech pilsner turns me off. I had an Urquell and another one in Wroclaw and I could not even drink half the bottle. I was looking forward to the pilsners!
Peter   
12 Nov 2007
Food / Mother of all hangovers....Polish Beer! [71]

Now that I really think about it, I cannot drink any of the Czech pilsners. I don't know why but it tastes "tinny" to me. Okocim, Tyskie, etc I like as well as Wolters and Braunschweiger but the pilsners do not agree with me for some reason.
Peter   
12 Nov 2007
Food / Mother of all hangovers....Polish Beer! [71]

Why does Polish beer give you the worst hangover imaginable and leaves a very bad chemical taste in the mouth?

Eh? WTF have you been drinking? Perhaps you're just not accustomed to drinking good beer?
Peter   
7 Nov 2007
Travel / Question about the Rynek and City of Wroclaw [15]

When I was there I noticed that nearly every other day you had different groups of guys who would walk around the Rynek chanting what I assumed were football songs and doing group push ups, etc.

Who are these people?
Peter   
7 Nov 2007
Life / Gypsies or Roma: European and Polish attitudes towards [87]

I saw many gypsies in Wroclaw

We were out with my cousins (8 of us) walking on the Rynek on a Saturday afternoon and there were a couple groups of them. It took me and my brother a few minutes to realise whoi they were but our cousins directed us away from them so we did not have to come into contact with them.

Forgot to add, everyone else on the Rynek seemed to be avoiding them too.
Peter   
2 Nov 2007
History / 'Battle of Britain' won thanks to Polish aces !! [158]

They were the most undisaplined aircrew around at that time

A statement refuted by numerous recollections of the British officers attached to the Polish squadrons. In fact they say that the Polish squadrons were far more effective at stopping, shooting down and turning back the German formations than the British ones.
Peter   
1 Nov 2007
History / 'Battle of Britain' won thanks to Polish aces !! [158]

Sounds to me that without these Polish aces the outcome may have been very different

Air Marshall Dowding, the RAF commander during the Battle of Britain, said after that had it not been for the Polish pilots the result may have been very different.
Peter   
30 Oct 2007
Genealogy / Searching for the HUDZIAK and MAZUREK family [14]

I think you will need to have a bit more information in order to really make progress. Do you have any documentation such as birth certificates? Since you are in Scotland did they become naturalised UK citizens? Information such as their parents and addresses will be on these documents which will help locating information about them.

My grand aunt married a Mazurek but their children were born in Sawchyn.
Peter   
20 Sep 2007
Genealogy / Polish Surnames Anglicized? [48]

changed to "ted brown" when i came to america

I like it!

One of my cousins migrated to Canada and changed his surname from Przystawski to Preston.
Peter   
19 Sep 2007
Genealogy / Polish Surnames Anglicized? [48]

One thing I discovered in my research was that 2 branches of my family (close cousins and distant cousins) both "chopped" the family surname in half and called themselves "Konas".
Peter   
6 Sep 2007
Genealogy / Surname WILK [8]

The Wilk surname appears in my family tree. Not much info about however.

My great grand-aunt married a Nicolaus Wilk in 1838 in Sokal. Sokal is just over the border in the Ukraine. They had 2 daughters, Catharin and Marianna born 1839 and 1841.

Do you have dates of birth, when they arrived in the USA, etc?

Have you tried searching the records on ancestry.com and the Ellis Island database?
Peter   
16 Aug 2007
Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

i like good rum and good coke too

And what rum do you use? Brand and colour..........me I prefer red rum.

I hope it's not Whalers or Captain Morgan!