Thank you for visiting my guest book. Thanks to those who have signed it, stating who you're looking for, and about your roots. Do you know the province or area in Poland your family was from? Did your relatives immigrate to America, another country, or is your family still in Poland? I love hearing other people's stories. I find it inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Julie
Note: In the blog title section, under "pages" there is now a "blog title surname index" page. This index I created is for names you write about. If you would like your guestbook post to be a blog post, let me know and I'd be happy to share your story.
Name | Robert Nasluchacz |
Date | 2011-08-28 |
Location | |
Message | hi.....um wow i never knew that about my family i was goofing off and up came you blog i am still in shock just want to say that a Nasluchacz has found it |
Name | message to Michele Toth Cinnamo-King |
Date | 2011-07-29 |
Location | |
Message | Hi Michele, Thank you for signing my guestbook. Your surnames have been added to my guestbook surname index page. Thank you for describing where your family is from, and describing mountains. I wanted to mention something about the surname Voytecek. I have been searching for Marianna and Joseph Wojtas in Minnesota. I was told to keep in mind the surname Voytecek, and Woytecek, variations of the name Wojtas, in the States. And I have seen that spelling in Minnesota, just not matching anything I was looking for.
I highly recommend keeping an eye on the Polish record collections at familysearch.org. (link on my blog) Vital records from Poland are showing up there with over a million records there now, the latest update only 3 days ago. When you search for Slavic surnames, soundex searches don't really work, because Soundex is based on English. But familysearch has done some things on their search engines to pull up things with similar phonetic spellings for that language. So when I search Wojtas on familysearch, the name Voytecek does show up, as well as others I would not have though to try spelling. The records on familysearch are free and always will be. It is indexed by volunteers to keep the records free and accessible to all interested. I hope maybe you'll find some helpful records there soon, if they aren't there already. Best wishes in your continued searches. Julie |