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3. Leonore’s Tour. Gniezno and Broniszewice. The last day.

Zenon — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:03:46 +0000

In the last day of our tour we left agritourism house where we stayed for two days for the first Polish capital Gniezno. This is the place where traces of the earliest Slavonic settlements were found and a very important town for the beginnings of Polish nation identity and Christianity in this part of Europe. You can read more about Gniezno in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gniezno .

Gniezno old town

Cathedral and statue of the first Polish king Bolesław I the Brave

Gniezno Cathedral 2

Gniezno Cathedral 3

From Gniezno we headed for Broniszewice, the last place where Leonore’s ancestors lived more than 100 years ago. To our surprise we found there two churches and cemeteries in this, not so big, village. This is very unusual.

Broniszewice. The first cemetery where Leonore found a few familiar for her surnames.

Map of the last days.

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Our Tour ended quickly in Poznan from where Leonore with her family left for Berlin. We said goodbye with initial plans in mind for the next tour in a few years, after Leonore digest what we have found and continue her search having more clues from our common findings. Maybe there is a match between living families we found in two of the places and her ancestors..? It requires more research now…

Zenon

2. Leonore’s Tour. Wągrowiec area. Day 2 and 3.

Zenon — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:49:50 +0000

Yesterday and today I found very exciting to walk where family lived even I don’t find traces here. It is sill very exciting to be in theses places. The churches are beautiful.

Smogulec Church1

Smogulec Church2

Smogulec Church3

Smogulec Church4

Ethnographic Museum1

Ethnographic Museum2

Ethnographic Museum3

Ethnographic Museum4

It was also very fascinating to find someone who has the same name as my grandfather and who might be related.

Leonore and Zenon

1. Leonore’s Tour. Brodnica Lakes area. Day 1.

Zenon — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:04:36 +0000

Map of our today’s trip:

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Brodnica is a fairly large city and it seems that there is a lot businesses. It seems to be a very busy place.

I was very excited to see the church in Pokrzydowo, the original one where my grandmother was baptized.

Church in Pokrzydowo1

Church in Pokrzydowo2

Church in Pokrzydowo3

Church in Pokrzydowo4

Church in Pokrzydowo5

Szafarnia surprised me because it was so very small but it is a beautiful area with the lakes in forests. It wasn’t easy to find it!

Szafarnia1

Szafarnia2

Szafarnia3

In Tereszewo the church is newer so there is no family there but cemetery has two people named Krakowski and I will look and see if they are possibly descendants of ?my? Krakowski. I have to do some research of that.

In Sadłowo even if we didn’t find anyone there is impressive because the town is 700 years old and the church is absolutely beautiful.

Sadłowo church1

Sadłowo church2

Tomorrow we are heading for Gdansk to see Solidarity monument and Baltic Sea. After that we are going back to Torun to do research in Archives there.

Leonore and Zenon

New Tour with Leonore and her family.

Zenon — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:36:26 +0000

In a week we start another Tour this year. We will be traveling throughout large area of central and northern Poland, what you can see on the map below (you can enlarge it to see more details by clicking on +):

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Our itinerary is fairly tight but we will do everything to write at least short relations and post many photos from all the places .

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Zenon