Law / UK connected flights and Karta Pobytu (non-EU country) [7]

As the other posters say, the UK is not in Schengen so a visa for Poland does not apply in the UK.

If you are simply transferring onto a another plane in London, then like almost all other countries, you need to get a transit visa.

If you are a non-EU resident and want to come to the UK to work, then you need a work permit and visa. No employer can (legally) employ you without this.

UK, Ireland / Why Polish girls working in UK as escort more than other Eastern European girls [89]

Couple of things....being critical about a religion is not racist. I am anti-theist, yet my mother and father are catholic. We are the same race. So when I take the p*** out of the catholic faith, I am not being racist. And so this (new) trend that if you dare question islam, you are labelled a racist - not so - I am still anti-theist and whatever race these people are from is irrelevant.

Now....aboyinlondon....what can we say. You're in you 20's and have been using the services of ****** for some 10 years. And you have a preference for the Polish ******. Was it you who mentioned that you have even gone to the lengths of producing a scientific study of how and if they kiss.

There is no doubt you have problems. Why not save your money and visit some sort of psychiatrist or psychologist? They may be able to uncover what has caused you to be this way. I don't know. Maybe your mother didn't breast feed you. Maybe you were "touched" inappropriately by an uncle. These people can help. You're not normal.

UK, Ireland / Why Polish girls working in UK as escort more than other Eastern European girls [89]

Undoubtedly they are. Interesting though that the religion of peace, tolerance and equality isn't quite that. And if you are needing to get your kicks from the internet, then I suppose logic would suggest you are also more likely to want to visit these girls.

UK, Ireland / Why Polish girls working in UK as escort more than other Eastern European girls [89]

I'm not sure if there is something wrong with aboyinlondon or not but he has at least clearly issues developing normal relationships with women - perhaps he was abused as a child.

And quite why we are discussing this here is beyond me.

As for JollyRomek - I can't give you direct proof but if you search google for "Pakistan tops the list of most pürn searching nations" you will see an article in the Times of India which shows that 6 of the 8 top púrn searching countries are Muslim countries. Interesting that they top the poll on animal related púrn !

Genealogy / Are Any Birth Records Kept from "Poland" in the 1800's [9]

There are various sites holding records. Try genealodzy.pl. Many records there from various Parishes

You didn't say which part of Poland he was from....my own research has revealed some interesting things. My family is from what is now Belarus, but I wrongly assumed that because my family were Polish, their records would have been transferred to Poland when it became Belarus. Indeed, I was wrong and all records remained at the parish of birth - copies are simply issued as confirmation of a Belarussian Birth. Once records reach 100 years old, they get transferred to the regional or zonal archives (ZAGS) but bear in mind it is when the LAST record is 100 years old. If the books are less than 100 years old, then they are at the local registry offices. (I found my dad was born on a totally different day, month and year to what he always thought!)

I know some records were sent to Vilnius but I think those have now been returned to Belarus.

Genealogy / Monte Cassino + Russian labour camp [23]

It has probably already been mentioned somewhere on this site, but one place I managed to acquire one hell of a lot of information was via the Hoover Institute (I cannot find the email address of the person I dealt with). They have copies of all of the "Ankietas" or depositions of all those who were captured and held by the Russians - I say "all", I mean many.

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]

Hmmm. I'm new to this site, but over the years have read many of the threads. I have done quite a bit of research into the old eastern provinces (now Belarus) including transcribing the names of some 200,000 people who lived in Wojewódstwo Wileńskie before 1939 (they're on various websites now).

My father (still living) was deported on 10th February 1940 from the Smorgon area along with his brother, one sister and mother, to Rudnik Kommunar, Krasnojarski Kraj. They left behind one sister. According to my dad, some weeks before their deportation, all of the local (non-Polish) population came to their houses and told them to get out. My grandmother said "where are we supposed to go?" only to be told "go to your God....". They left to relatives not too far away, partially returning about 6 weeks later to find their house ran-sacked and all their animals taken. They only returned because they were told it was safe to do so now. As it is, one daughter was left behind at her grandmothers and on 10th February, she was not deported.

My dad remembers receiving a letter from her whilst they were in Siberia. Quite how the postal system worked across front-lines I'm not sure, but he remembers along with the letter was a parcel with food and other items.

The letter he remembers well because she says (and I summarise here) "It's all OK now. The Germans are here. They took me around the village and asked me to identify all of our livestock and returned it to us...."

Her father (my granddad) was an Osadnik having won his virtuti militari in 1920 in the bolshevik war. So that side of the family makes it clear as to which side is and was disliked more.

I have to add that on my maternal family side, it is opposite...their records show that even though they spoke Polish, their deportation records show them as Belarussian and my granddad would always break into Russian song and never hear a bad word against them, even though they deported him to Szoksza in Murmansk!