TimTucson
3 Apr 2011
Genealogy / tracing my family roots- the surname Tarasiewicz? [8]
Hello Tara,
My great-grandmother's surname is Tarasiewicz. My sister and I went to Poland in 2009 and found family members in the farming communities of Szabin and Krasnybor, in the area south of Augustow and north of Bialystok. At a village church there, the parish priest told us that older birth and death records records are kept regionally. You might start with the ancestry.com website and see where that takes you. While in Warsaw, we walked by a gallery featuring Leon Tarasiewicz' artwork; I did some Internet research when I got back home, and he is a well-known artist from this same region, the borderlands between Poland and Belarus. From this, I am assuming that the family came from this area.
I hope this helps point you in the right direction.
Tim
Hello Tara,
My great-grandmother's surname is Tarasiewicz. My sister and I went to Poland in 2009 and found family members in the farming communities of Szabin and Krasnybor, in the area south of Augustow and north of Bialystok. At a village church there, the parish priest told us that older birth and death records records are kept regionally. You might start with the ancestry.com website and see where that takes you. While in Warsaw, we walked by a gallery featuring Leon Tarasiewicz' artwork; I did some Internet research when I got back home, and he is a well-known artist from this same region, the borderlands between Poland and Belarus. From this, I am assuming that the family came from this area.
I hope this helps point you in the right direction.
Tim