Genealogy / I am looking for missing relatives ( Mancarz ) Last known address was in Warsaw [2]

There are some ways e.g. :
1) write to actual manager of this real estate :
WSPÓLNOTA MIESZKANIOWA NIERUCHOMOŚCI PRZY UL. RÓŻANEJ 19, UL. RÓŻANA 19, 02-548 WARSZAWA or
2) warsaw's city office:
Delegatura Biura Administracji i Spraw Obywatelskich w Dzielnicy Mokotów, 02-517 Warszawa, ul. Rakowiecka 25/27
3) gavermant administration :
Centralne Biuro Adresowe ul. Kazimierzowska 60, 02 - 543 Warszawa

According to no 2 and 3 you need fill the form application up as bellow and pay fee.

ad 2) in the link below they've explain how to do this, but just Polish version:

um.warszawa.pl/zalatw-sprawe-w-urzedzie/sprawa-w-urzedzie/udostep nianie-danych-ze-zbiorow-meldunkowych

and form for no 2 and 3 you can find :

um.warszawa.pl/sites/default/files/Wniosek_o_udostepnienie_danych .pdf

ad 3 you don't need fill the form up, but is the risc the administrator don't have any information about 50's.

Best regards
Jerry

Genealogy / Seeking an old friend of my father in Warsaw [4]

There are some ways e.g. :
1) write to warsaw's city office, but there are more then one, actually 17 for each quarter

or

2) gavermant administration :
Centralne Biuro Adresowe ul. Kazimierzowska 60, 02 - 543 Warszawa

According to no 1 and 2 you need fill the form application up as bellow and pay fee.

ad 1) in the link below they've explain how to do this, but just Polish version:

um.warszawa.pl/zalatw-sprawe-w-urzedzie/sprawa-w-urzedzie/udostep nianie-danych-ze-zbiorow-meldunkowych

and form for no 1 and 2 you can find :

um.warszawa.pl/sites/default/files/Wniosek_o_udostepnienie_danych .pdf

Powodzenia / good luck

Genealogy / Marriage & Birth Records in Czech Republic / Czerny family [10]

Maybe your relative, the most famous person in Poland named Czerny:

naxos.com/person/Halina_Czerny_Stefanska/38982.htm

History / Communism, was it the best form of government Poland ever had? [68]

Of course not. No doubt. But we have had no choice.

History / Heroes of War: Poland (TV documentary series) [4]

In Poland we still looking his grave for. There is a place in Warsaw part off famous graveyard "Powązki" little meadows where communist's buryed their victims from AK.

Real Estate / POLAND RENTAL SHORT-TERM LEASE - Tenant overstaying. [8]


Is there your flat some where in Poland ? If so I can post short example. But 2 months is very short time and maybe it is not worth to take the risk.

Besides that to find someone honest for such short time would be difficulty and your risk greater.

Jerry

Work / Virtual offices in Poland. Anything similar to AllDayPa (All Day PA)? [9]

eg. : e-biuro.eu or try in google "wirtualne biuro"

something similar ?

History / Heroes of War: Poland (TV documentary series) [4]

I think yes. In 2014 will be continue archeological work in this part of "Powązki" which is combined with genetic research.

Off-Topic / Polish Programming Forum - No one wanted friendship [14]


And are you quite sure that you are ? And what is the reason you are here and not in real life ?
My is simple. Just practice English. The second - find emotion. The third - maybe - get the knowledge about the others you can called friends.

So. Can you be my friend ?

Jerry

Off-Topic / Polish Programming Forum - No one wanted friendship [14]

I'm very glad to hear this. But whenever I start email foreigner it takes no longer than few days. I'm afraid I'm boring, even though I try hard not to be. So, what's your day today ?

Love / Questions about Polish Men - flirting, cheating, liking? [44]

Culture all-round is different but biological causation is more or less the same. You love your partner and there is much more than one reason you don't want to cheat her/him even though it doesn't mean you don't thing about it.

Off-Topic / Polish Programming Forum - No one wanted friendship [14]

I pretend to work hard but today I have no hart for it. Other ways it is maybe the work for the future till I would be able to speak and write fluently that language.

Now I have to take my daughter from home and drive her to music school and pick another form school up and do so many times till 8 pm.

So I have to go now. Hear you soon.
I have dog too. 6 months westy.
Best Regards
Jerry

Off-Topic / Polish Programming Forum - No one wanted friendship [14]

Yes, it's really a baby. Even my eldest almost 14 years old daughter is a little jealous. She play piano. And my language is a bit from the callan method, but generally terrible. Are you English ? And do you have a big dog ?

Work / Teaching English in Poland? I am American and I have the CELTA certification. [42]

Why Poland ? Do you want start your own business or just become a teacher in one of many English school we just have in Poland ?

google.pl/#q=angielski+dla+prawnik%C3%B3w

Law / Does Poland encourage theft? [8]

It is just misunderstanding. The theft under 400 zł is forbidden as well but not according to penal code but "kodeks wykroczeń" which is about trifling offences.

No 119 KW

Art. 119. § 1. Kto kradnie lub przywłaszcza sobie cudzą rzecz ruchomą, jeżeli jej wartość nie przekracza 1/4 minimalnego wynagrodzenia ( since 1st. Junuary 2014 - 420 zł ),
podlega karze aresztu, ograniczenia wolności albo grzywny.

Love / Do I need to be Confirmed in order to get married in the Catholic church in Poland? [41]


Rather yes. But prist or bishop can give you dispention from this and many others barriers.
For your bride the link below:

factolex.pl/2012/09/23/malzenstwo-kanonicze-wymogi-formalne-przeszkody-i-ich-charakterystyka

According to kanon 1083 - § 1 canon law you are more than 16 and your bride more than 14 years old :)

Law / How to get a private NIP number in Poland (for a foreigner) ? [28]


You have to ask your accountant, but I would say yes. If not, these invoices would be invalid and your taxes will be higher. I suppose you run "działalność gospodarcza". There are different ways for how to pay income tax and in relation to this different kind of documentation you need to have :

1) bases is - "książka przychodów i rozchodów" - percentage of your profit,
2) "karta podatkowa", you pay constant tax -
3) "ryczałt ewidencjonowany" - you pay percentage of what you take - costs are not important
Taxes rules in Poland there are very complicated and very changeable.
And the good and reasonable accountant is the most important you need.

Law / How to get a private NIP number in Poland (for a foreigner) ? [28]


OK. Your are right.

Law / Can my American wife stay in Poland with me? I have citizenship of Poland. [12]

Step 1:

Art. 53. 1. Zezwolenia na zamieszkanie na czas oznaczony udziela się cudzoziemcowi, który:
6) jest małżonkiem obywatela polskiego,

Step 2:

Art. 64. 1. Zezwolenia na osiedlenie się udziela się cudzoziemcowi, który:
2) pozostaje w związku małżeńskim, zawartym z obywatelem polskim co najmniej 3 lata przed złożeniem wniosku i bezpośrednio przed złożeniem wniosku przebywał nieprzerwanie na terytorium Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej co najmniej przez 2 lata na podstawie zezwolenia na zamieszkanie na czas oznaczony;

( ustawa z dnia 13 czerwca 2003 r. o cudzoziemcach )

Can someone translate this. I have no more time.

Law / Can my American wife stay in Poland with me? I have citizenship of Poland. [12]

Step 1:

If she want to stay in Poland more than 3 months she can get permission to live in RP because she's wife of polish citizen ( art. 53. 1, 1) - act of foreigners ) for two years.

Step 2:

After living in Poland for 2 years, without the brake, she can get permission to settle in RP, if before sending the application she was your wife longer than 3 years and also if she got the permission which I wrote above - step 1.

( art. 64. 1. 2) - act of foreigners )
Zezwolenia na osiedlenie się udziela się cudzoziemcowi, który:
2) pozostaje w związku małżeńskim, zawartym z obywatelem polskim co najmniej 3 lata przed złożeniem wniosku i bezpośrednio przed złożeniem wniosku przebywał nieprzerwanie na terytorium Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej co najmniej przez 2 lata na podstawie zezwolenia na zamieszkanie na czas oznaczony;

( ustawa z dnia 13 czerwca 2003 r. o cudzoziemcach )[/quote]

Law / I have an Israeli Driving License. What do I have to do to get a Polish driving license? [19]

Seems to me you must have international driving license. It is valid in Poland, but just for 6 months since your arrival - according to act about drivers of the 5th January 2011 - Dz. U. 2011

no 30 poz. 151 - art. 4 ust. 1 pkt 2 lit. a. and art. 5 ust. 4.
Israel was the part of the Geneva Convention about road traffic of 19th September 1949.
To have the local Israel license is rather not enough.
If you want to live in RP longer than 6 months you can change your license after your arrival.
The embassy don't have technical possibility and also rights to do so.

Travel / Przemysl and/or Rzeszow and/or Sandomierz [14]

You must to visit £ańcut near Rzeszów.

zamek-lancut.pl/en/

About Rzeszów, sorry just Polish:

rzeszowdzisiaj.pl

Genealogy / I am looking for relatives of Wreczycki family [3]

I'm sorry I can't help much. Is there "Wręczycki" the original spelling of this surname.
In Poland we can find about 1 000 people with this surname : Wręczycki or Wręczycka.
And maybe is the town from which the most of them take their origin : Wręczyce Wielkie nearby Częstochowa.
The most persons with this surname live near this place.

Law / Business ideas when I'll get back to Poland [8]

laws and procedure you can find here: migrant .info.pl/Economic_activity_in_Poland.html

find idea - especially the great one is much more difficult question anyway Good luck.

Related: Auto szrot in Western Europe - a good idea for business in Poland?


Szrot in English (relating to cars) means trading in scrapped and written-off cars. OK for spare parts maybe, but unreliable for a whole car.

UK, Ireland / Calling all Brits! Travel in England advice [32]

As dhrynio I want to visit London in summer too. And can anyone tell me what is the best way to reach Oxford from North London, place like Stansted Airport.

Real Estate / Looking to buy property in Poland - understanding the different types of ownership! [10]

First of all I need to say the translation and the way someone use it can easly misleads you. In Poland according to flat the most popular is normal ownership ( odrębne prawo własności). Such flat must to have its own register estate ( księga wieczysta ). But similar to it and very popular too is owner's right to flat in the housing association ( spółdzielcze własnościowe prawo do lokalu). This second only sometimes has its own register estate, but seller need to have certificate from the housing association. So you don't need to know the meaning of the term cooperative ownership in advertisement but in real case.

Anyway you need to be careful what you bay and from whom. My suggestion is you need the lawyer service or your risk would be bigger especially in Warsaw.

UK, Ireland / Calling all Brits! Travel in England advice [32]

Thanks InWroclaw. I will see through these possibilities.

Life / No Toya box in my building in Lodz, so how can I get Internet? [11]

Ask your building's administrator what other internet service providers have installation in your building and then take their offers.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [173]

What do you mean by print of the Lwow Eaglets ?
The painting like below ?

Genealogy / Bernatowicz surname? (I am starting to wonder if anyone in my family was American?) [85]


If your grandad was born in Belarus, whatever it means, maybe you think about nowadays borders, that is not proof he was Belorussian. He can be as well Russian, Polish or Jew.

But if your parents said your grandad was Belorussian it doesn't matter where he was born.

Below some links about Barnatowicz in Poland.

According to same of them surname Bernatowicz become from first name Bernat ( Bernat - Bernatowic - Bernatowicz ). It was known even in the XII Century.

But there was as well the Armenian families with this surname.

And there are more then 1 000 people in Poland now with such surname.

genealodzy.pl/PNphpBB2-printview-t-18944-start-15.phtml
bernatowicz.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=1
moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/bernatowicz.html