These are the Old entries in my Guest Book

Name: Ted Tomchak (Homepage)
Country: Canada Date: Sat Nov 16 05:45:13 2002
Comment: Very much impressed.
Name: Tara Bartkow (Homepage)
Country: Canada Date: Wed Nov 13 08:04:31 2002
Comment: Thank you so much for sharing this information with the world! You have helped me to understand my ancestry so much clearer! God Bless. Tara Bartkow
Name: Debbie (Homepage)
Country: Poland Date: Tue Oct 1 00:09:10 2002
Comment: Paul, Thanks for the Legends pages. My son used the "Hejnal" for his 8th grade history fair project.
Name: Ignas Babusis (Homepage)
Country: Lithuania Date: Tue Sep 10 19:50:23 2002
Comment: man, i'm just happy seeing U working and finding your roots. If i can help you jut e-mail me!!!!!
Name: Eleanor Ritchie (Homepage)
Country: Canada Date: Fri Jun 28 20:42:00 2002
Comment: I finally was able to view your site and it is amazing...especially the history. My father was born in Kopyczynce in 1905 and I have still have cousins there with whom I correspond and have also visited...however there is a large gap in the history of the place and particular in respect to my family...I have not been able to find books or histories of what went on in Kopyczynce...would it be too presumptive of me to ask for references?...it would be much appreciated...I'd like to add that I alwa
Name: Teresa (Homepage)
Country: Canada Date: Mon Jun 17 02:42:43 2002
Comment: Am finding all this very interesting. My mother was a deportee to Siberia. She survived all sorts of horrors and she is with me in London Ontario. Are there any other people from Nowogrodek area here in London?
Name: Paul (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Fri Mar 29 16:13:45 2002
Comment: I really enjoyed reading the pages on Polish tradition. I am of the second generation born here in the US, and I love keeping family traditions alive and the page on the contents of an Easter basket was superb!! Thanks
Name: Sylvester Lukasiewicz (Homepage)
Country: Poland/USA Date: Wed Mar 27 06:13:46 2002
Comment: I apologize for the multiple posts. I did not realize that the limit was 500 words until I posted the first message and it was too late to leave my story unfinished.

Sylvester
Name: Sylvester Lukasiewicz (Homepage)
Country: Poland/USA Date: Wed Mar 27 06:06:07 2002
Comment: back what is left to show of that distance past. Michal, my Grandma's brother is still alive and well. God give him health and strneght to be my leader on that crusade.
I want to send much love to anyone and everyone reading this message. I feel like I shared part of my life with you.

Thank you, and God Bless.
Sylvester
Name: Sylvester Lukasiewicz (Homepage)
Country: Poland/USA Date: Wed Mar 27 06:05:45 2002
Comment: to New York in 1996 after I paid them the last dues by laying them to their final resting place in Poland.

Having two photographs of Zarudzie, one of their house, makes me want to go back and research the roots. I know that the church they lived by was turned into a Russian armory on the day my Grandparents were leaving Zarudzie and not to ever come back.

As a filmmaker I am considering going with my camera to the Podole area, and with God's help searching for anything to bring
Name: Sylvester Lukasiewicz (Homepage)
Country: Poland/USA Date: Wed Mar 27 06:05:24 2002
Comment: Jan died in 1994, Maria in 1995. Their son Henryk was a young priest when he died of an internal infection caused by a burst-appendix in the late 1960's. Three of them are now buried in the Family Tomb in Krasnik Dolny. Graves of my Grandma's father, her two sisters and their aunt are also in the same cemetery.

Sharing this story makes tears run down my cheeks since my Grandparents always wanted to go back with me and show me the area of Zarudzie and Tarnopol. We never did that. I came
Name: Sylvester Lukasiewicz (Homepage)
Country: Poland/USA Date: Wed Mar 27 06:04:57 2002
Comment: I remember stories being told of the war and the Banderowcy, also the trips my Grandparents took to Tarnopol to sell livestock and other goodies. Those were the good times until 1945 came and that's when the four of them (my father was born in the late 1940's) had to migrate from Zarudzie to Krasnik Dolny by Boleslawiec Slaski in the Ziemie Odzyskane (wroclawskie) with hundreds of other families.

Krasnik Dolny (Boleslawiec) is where I was born in 1978 and where my grandparents are buri
Name: Sylvester Lukasiewicz (Homepage)
Country: Poland/USA Date: Wed Mar 27 06:04:04 2002
Comment: Very nice page. Reading it from "cover to cover" made me pull out old photos of my ancestors and write this story of them.

My Grandfather, Jan Lukasiewicz was born in 1907 in Zbaraz, and my grandma Maria Lukasiewicz (maiden name Kordyjaka; brother Michal, sisters Genowefa d.1997 and Franciszka d.1995) was born in 1917 in Zarudzie. They had three children: Henryk d.1969 (became a priest), Bronislawa (became a teacher) and Mieczyslaw (my father).

I remember stories being told of
Name: Joseph E. Zatylny (Homepage)
Country: Ontario, Canada Date: Tue Mar 26 19:16:16 2002
Comment: Thanks Paul My Great Grandmother left Poland in 1897 and her son my grandfather followed her in 1901. To the best of my knowledge they came from the area of Czortkow or Tarnopol. Both husbands of my ggmother died in Poland( Michael Zatylny and Steve Kuzyk)
I am seeking their bithand marriage certificatsand possible relatives in either Poland or Ukraine.
Keep up the excellent research. To the best of my search there is a Z
Name: Carol Seguin-Kardish (Homepage)
Country: Canada Date: Thu Mar 21 23:41:31 2002
Comment: I am researching my family and came across your site. My father was Francis Skikiewicz; his father Joseph Skikiewicz came through Ellis Island to McKeesport, Penn and then to Canada through Manitoba to farm in Saskatcehwan. He came from Galicia - I believe village spelling was Oryzkowcachi near Husiatyn. With so few people with this name (apparently), we are likely related! Carol.
Name: Piotr Sosabowski (Homepage)
Country: London, England Date: Tue Mar 19 01:05:21 2002
Comment: An excellent and most informative site. Good to see 'our' point of view and not the Soviet and Ukrainian propaganda which seems to be so prevalent.
Name: Michael Kulik (Homepage)
Country: UK Date: Tue Mar 12 21:42:13 2002
Comment: A hugely impressive site which seeks merely to set out the facts, report actual events as they happened, so leaving the reader to come to their own conclusion.

Please continue with your efforts, the truth must continue to be heard.
Name: andrew gorski (lewalt) (Homepage)
Country: usa Date: Tue Mar 12 01:14:48 2002
Comment: father: witold lewalt- gorski (levalt von elsen aus gorau) mother: countess jordan rozwadowski owner of the estate baranowicze which included the town baranowicze. i am the last of the two families. there are jordan rozwadowski with family crest traby but have no title. It is the generals branch. i was a pilot w/o captain of lancaster n for nun serial # NN746 in the 300 sqdn. i did not take part in the berchstesgarden raid becaus i and my crew were on vacation. my crew: jas sierbien navigator,
Name: Maks (Homepage)
Country: Polska Date: Wed Mar 6 21:21:49 2002
Comment: Bardzo ciekawe. Tym bardziej, ze przedstawia POLSKI punkt widzenia. Szkoda, ze brak polskiej wersji tej strony.
Name: A Sluka (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Fri Mar 1 22:44:22 2002
Comment: Paul, Thank you for compiling this data. I assume you are aware of the memoirs published in the UK in Polish titled "Z Kresow Wschodnich RP" and "Z Kresow Wschodnich RP Na Wygnanie". The first includes many lists of settlers on a village by village basis.
Name: Thaddeus Holynski (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Thu Feb 28 22:07:35 2002
Comment: I was born in Buczacz in 1944. In June of 1944 our entire family was removed to Geisenfeld Germany to work as laborers on a German farm. My father's entire family was killed that year as they chose to remain in the Buczacz area. My father had a farm in the Kurdwanowka area. I am not sure of the spelling. Your site is quite informative and reinforce many things my father told me that happened in the Buczacz area during WWII. Thanks for everything. I intend t
Name: Aleksander Topolski (Homepage)
Country: Canada Date: Wed Feb 20 19:21:04 2002
Comment: Born 1923, I lived in Pruzana and Horodenka until imprisoned by Soviets in 1939. After prisons and labour camps, I joined Anders army and left USSR in 1942. I wrote my story of those years--Without Vodka: Adventures in Wartime Russia which has now been published in Canada by McArthur & Co. and in USA by Steerforth Press. Details (reviews,photos, index, etc.) are on my website:-- www.withoutvodka
Name: cris moreland (Homepage)
Country: usa Date: Thu Feb 14 04:59:45 2002
Comment: what a neat page, a lot of good imformation to digest
Name: Judy Neustaedter Bitton (Homepage)
Country: Israel Date: Wed Feb 13 17:19:52 2002
Comment: Great stories. As a new tourguide to Holocaust Poland for highschool students, this is a great source. I request your permission to translate the stories into Hebrew so my students can enjoy them too, when we visit Poland. Judy
Name: C. Herbert (Homepage)
Country: Canada Date: Mon Feb 4 01:38:16 2002
Comment: This is an excellent site! You have done a lot of research. I learned a lot tonite reading about "Galicia". My family is from there too!
I've book marked your site so I can come back and visit again.
Name: Michal (Homepage)
Country: Poland Date: Mon Jan 7 22:30:52 2002
Comment: You did a very good work here. Perhaps you would like to get some more view on kresy watching a very nice movie "With Fire and Sword" (J. Hoffman, 2000). Good piece of work and some beautiful landscapes... i suppose you didn't see it becouse you did't list it on your web.
Name: Linder Stachnik (Homepage)
Country: Nottingham, Eng Date: Fri Jan 4 12:53:18 2002
Comment: Well done Paul, excellent site
Name: Okana (Homepage)
Country: US Date: Thu Dec 20 13:43:08 2001
Comment: Thank you so much for including my Polish beliefs information on your web site! It always makes me happy to see this beautiful spirituality shared.
Name: Kimberly Walby (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Mon Dec 17 23:49:59 2001
Comment: Thank you very much for taking the time to create this informative site. I am researching the family names of Radzik, Godzisz, Kuzmow, and Ruszczyckich. I am also trying to find out about the town Roztopach where my grandparents were born in the 1880's. Thanks again
Name: Krzysztof Barcikowski (Homepage)
Country: Poland Date: Sat Dec 15 21:24:36 2001
Comment: Fantastic and exciting page!!!
Szkoda, ze nie po polsku.
Name: Frances Janke Hahn (Homepage)
Country: U.S.A. Date: Sat Nov 24 17:37:17 2001
Comment: Just discovered your site....I have gotten some information from it for which I thank you. I shall keep returning as I am positive you will be getting more valuable and interesting things for us....Hope you get into the areas of Dobzyn and also Glewo....surnames Patzer/Janke.... I love finding out more about Poland as my Mom and Dad knew it...I wish I had listened more!!!!thank you
Name: Tomasz (Homepage)
Country: Poland Date: Wed Oct 24 13:05:20 2001
Comment: Bardzo fajna strona. Mam nadzieję, że wraz z upływem czasu będzie się powiększać. Gdyby zaistniała możliwość powiadamiania mnie o nowościach na stronie to będę bardzo wdzięczny.Pozdrowienia z Olsztyna
Name: Leszczak z domu Trzeciecka Elw (Homepage)
Country: Poland Date: Mon Oct 8 09:53:51 2001
Comment: Szukam wiesci o Trzecieckich
Name: Jamie Cox (Homepage)
Country: UK Date: Thu Oct 4 16:02:54 2001
Comment: A good site with great content! My Grandad (Bronislaw Turzynski) came from Eastern Poland and ended up here in the UK after the war. It is very good for me to read about where he came from.
Name: Gerald Tobin (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Sun Sep 30 17:33:57 2001
Comment: Very good site. Keep up the good work.

Jerry Tobin
Name: Pat Johnson (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Wed Sep 26 23:41:29 2001
Comment: Everything I read is so interesting. I started doing the genealogy of my mohter's family, Labudzinski from Szarwark, Tarnow. I've had luck, but I'm hoping for more.
Name: Helen Sioch (Homepage)
Country: United States Date: Mon Aug 27 18:56:03 2001
Comment: Great web pages!!! I am Lithuanian, my husband is Polish, so this is VERY interesting to me. Great Job!!!
Name: Zenis Zima (Homepage)
Country: Canada(Ontario) Date: Fri Jul 27 18:25:18 2001
Comment: Hi Paul: Thanks for contacting me and making me aware of your great website.It gave me a lot of information on the area that my parents came from.I am researching the following names of family from Chorostkow,Kopycznce,Tarnopol---ZIMA,BIEGANOWSKI,CZORNENKI,HUCAL,KUCZAR, MYSLICKI,SIDOR,SOLSKI,WASYLENKI,BEWASKA.Thanks again for your assistance.
Name: Carol Zalinski (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Fri Jul 27 17:12:22 2001
Comment: Very Informational, very helpful, and in some cases, very amusing.
Name: maggie galinski (Homepage)
Country: england Date: Tue Jul 24 21:02:14 2001
Comment: I found your site very interesting. My husband's family came from Lwow and left during the war when it was taken over by the Russians. He was not allowed to return. If you have any information on the Galinski family please contact me.
Name: Philip Szostak (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Sat Jun 30 12:49:15 2001
Comment: I was excited to find information here.
Name: jean (Homepage)
Country: Date: Sun Jun 24 20:50:24 2001
Comment: hi there. sure enjoyed your pages, very interesting. I was going to print out the clothing that the Polish people wore in the 1800, but did not know if you would mind. So I did not.
Name: Stanislaw Kosiedowski (Homepage)
Country: Poland Date: Mon May 28 13:11:05 2001
Comment: Very interesting - Thank You
Name: Barbara Ewanciw (Homepage)
Country: Date: Sun May 13 17:20:35 2001
Comment: Wonderful information, I shall return when I have more time to browse!
Name: Anne McCormick (Homepage)
Country: United States Date: Thu May 3 20:13:19 2001
Comment: Thank you for providing all this information.
The information I recently learned is my maternal grandparents came from Kaweczyn Sedziszow MLP. Do you know where this is located? What does Kaweczyn mean? What does MLP mean? Thank you for any help you can provide.
Name: margaret walker (Homepage)
Country: canada Date: Thu May 3 16:08:07 2001
Comment: very interesting site. I am researching the Zastawny family history. I suspect the name originated from Zastavna village, however, I may be wrong. I know that there must some Zastawnys still live in Sniatyn and Pystin. There are also many families of that name in Dibriniv. I know my grandfather came from Galicia. My grandfather was Wladyslaw Zastawny, his wife, Katarzyna Kamieniecka.
Name: Arnold k (Homepage)
Country: Canada Date: Sun Apr 29 04:40:12 2001
Comment: I am researching my grandfather Joseph Sobischanski from the village of Orynyn. He was born on Nov.1, 1890. His family were wealthy land owners at the time. I am having trouble locating Orynyn on any maps as well as any information on the village. Can anyone help????
Name: Joseph William III, Dombrovski (Homepage)
Country: Date: Wed Apr 25 15:55:36 2001
Comment: This is an excellent web site Mister Havers. I especially enjoy the old maps of Poland. It is extremely helpful having information concerning the Kresy region of Poland available.
Name: Janet (Homepage)
Country: Australia Date: Sun Apr 8 00:02:07 2001
Comment: Great site! Thanks for extending my meagre knowledge of my ancestral roots with the "real" culture of legends, recipes, etc. Keep up the good work! Cheers
Name: Phyllis Fleigle (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Sat Apr 7 18:28:45 2001
Comment: Fantastic site!!!! I am searching surname Sobieski.My grandfather was Leopold Adam Sobieski.Son of Anton Sobieski, no idea a where in Poland or Prussia.
Name: Radek (Homepage)
Country: Poland Date: Thu Apr 5 09:37:18 2001
Comment: Very interesting page. I search for contacts with people from Krzemieniec. Please look on my page.
regards,
Radek'
Name: Evelyn Micolichek (Homepage)
Country: U.S.A. Date: Fri Mar 30 21:52:12 2001
Comment: I have to try the Moskol. Good job
Name: Basia (Homepage)
Country: Australia Date: Tue Mar 20 20:57:10 2001
Comment: Keep adding to this site. it is the only one like it. I am interested in the area around Baranowicze and Slonim. My grandfather (Milkiewicz)was the estate manager for an estate called Hrudopole for the Jundzil family. I can't even find out what has happened to the estate. Also the surname Ciechanowicz.
Name: Andrzej Kuras (Homepage)
Country: England Date: Thu Mar 8 13:57:41 2001
Comment: This is a good site. My mother has been to Kresy.
However, in your piece on the Battle of Grunwald, you called Kryzyzacy - 'Crusaders'. This is a common mistake. Crusaders are Kryzowce (or something like that). This book's title translates as 'Teutonic Knights'.
Name: Jaga (Homepage)
Country: Poland/USA Date: Tue Feb 20 03:06:07 2001
Comment: Great website!!! I am going to add a link to my website.
Jaga
Polish Culture Host
Visit my forum at
http://www.delphi.com/be-polishcultur
Name: Alice Feldman (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Sun Feb 18 19:01:19 2001
Comment: I am researching the following:
OKRZYNSKI,OKSZYNSKI,ZAGRODNIK,MROZ,SAJ,KUDLA,
LESKOW,Kwoderski and DUDEK.
I was particularly interested on the myth of Wanda. It seems that the writer Stefan Zeromski connected Wanda to an Okrzynski in one of his stories and I am curious as to the connection. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Name: Ryszard Kowzan (Homepage)
Country: England Date: Sun Feb 4 17:17:35 2001
Comment: Very interesting piece of work. Very handy for research. I will certainly re-visit regularly to check on your progress. Kindest regards.
Name: Joanna -Halina (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Sun Jan 28 03:07:38 2001
Comment: Thank you for not only reminding me of homeland history,but also learned more.I was born in Glembokie,Wieleszczyzna just before the war.We are the Poles expatricted to Siberia in1940.We came to U>S from England.Many thanks,,
Name: Edward Machon (Homepage)
Country: United Kingdom Date: Wed Jan 24 18:03:00 2001
Comment: Very Interesting, Good to refresh one's history.
Resently I visited Belarus. As I was born in Baranowicze obviously I went there visiting my childhood hauts ie Nieswiez, Nowogrodek poplywac w jeziorze Switez jak rowniez pomoczyc nogi w Niemnie. Dziekuje
Name: Chester LaBuda (Homepage)
Country: United States Date: Sun Jan 21 03:55:41 2001
Comment: I enjoyed your web site very much. The history and research is very informative and I copied some for my family book. Thank you for all the information and will visit again.
Name: Donald Webb (Homepage)
Country: UK Date: Thu Jan 18 21:51:08 2001
Comment: I enjoyed my visit, and will be back when I know more certainly where I'm interested in!
Name: Corrine Humenchick Balagna (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Tue Jan 9 23:52:19 2001
Comment: Very nice web site. My grandparents were from Kolymja. Having a hard time researching them. Surnames Humenchuk and Makarchuk. This is the first time I have seen any pictures of their town.
Thank you.
Name: lily (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Mon Jan 8 22:58:35 2001
Comment: A very nice and informative website. It is a big help because getting information about researching in Ukraine is scarce.
Thank you, Lily
Name: Walter Scarah (Homepage)
Country: UNITED KINGDOM Date: Wed Jan 3 21:28:05 2001
Comment: Great Page I am Looking for my Father who was from Lvov , born1923, his name is Franciszek Banet still searching for him,above is my adopted name.
Name: Barbara Mangan (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Tue Dec 26 18:19:19 2000
Comment: Both are great. Thanks for giving them to me again
Name: Helen Ginn (Homepage)
Country: Canada Date: Tue Dec 12 13:41:57 2000
Comment: Interesting! I am researching Smolinski, Malinowska, Sliwka, Trusz - all from Nizankowice. My father Joseph Smolinski was born in Nizankowice 1902 and passed away May 24, 2000.
Name: claudiaboyd (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Mon Dec 11 17:38:13 2000
Comment: nice job. lots of info. still on the search for Kanski
Name: Maggie Sypniewski (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Sat Dec 9 11:27:09 2000
Comment: Wanted to let you know I visited. Now to see what you have here. Thanks for giving us the URL.
Name: Stanley Klemanowicz (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Sat Dec 9 01:59:13 2000
Comment: Good start. Am researching my family from the Ivie area, northern present-day Belarus. Am visiting newly discovered cousins in Minsk in June. Will send many pictures. Best regards.
Name: Evelyn Micolichek (Homepage)
Country: USA Date: Fri Dec 8 23:47:43 2000
Comment: It really nice. But when I enlarged the church , then clicked on the red arrow at bottom I got a white page with error on it. Thought you would like to know. Good job though.
Name: jan madejski (Homepage)
Country: usa Date: Fri Dec 8 22:00:50 2000
Comment: what a great site the pictures bring back memories
keep it up
by the way; my favorite hero is ZAGLOBA
jan

 

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