The LDS has microfilms where I have found ancestors, but I am wondering if there are any members of the family line still living in Poland.  I have sent out several email feelers but got no responses. --- On Mon, 2/1/10, Mary Snow <marysnow@bellsouth.net> wrote: From: Mary Snow <marysnow@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: [PBS] Genealogy sites To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 4:30 PM Hi, Linda, There are many existing mailing lists and message boards for people seeking information about ancestors; the information you seek may already be online. One way of searching family ancestral towns is to see if the records have been microfilmed by the Latter Day Saints.  Using this place search, it is possible to see if there are records available: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp In the event there are no records microfilmed, the next source is to contact the ancestral parish to see what records are available.  Various changes in Poland's borders can account for movement of your ancestors. Did you go to the town itself and not find any family members? Let us know what specific information you seek and members of this mailing list will try to help guide you in your search. Regards, Mary Linda Boris wrote: > I just registered an account on the site.  Is there any way to start a new forum?  I would like to start a genealogy forum.  I searched for one of my family names in the town of my ancestry but it yielded no results.  I'm sure people may have moved if there were any family still there.  How do you find them? > > --- On Sun, 1/31/10, lorraine <lorr42no@verizon.net> wrote: > > > From: lorraine <lorr42no@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [PBS] Finally It's My Turn > To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com > Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 7:20 PM > > > To All, > > Thank you all for taking the time to email me your kind words.   I know that > each of you are sincerely happy for me as I have been when I read that > someone has found family.  It has been a day and half and I still keep > tearing up and I cannot stop smiling.  I feel like the child that got that > special gift on Christmas morning. > > I pray that all of you searching for family will soon be rewarded with that > 'email' or 'letter' from Poland. > > I have truly been blessed. > Lorraine > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tina Ellis" <polska.research@gmail.com> > To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:42 PM > Subject: Re: [PBS] Finally It's My Turn > > >    >> What a wonderful and fulfilling story.  I'm very happy for you.  Your >> story >> brings tears to my eyes. >> >> Step one in researching is to never give up.  If you give you, undoubtedly >> you have failed. >> >> This weekend I have begun to search to help a 90 year old woman find >> family >> in Poland.  I found all of them concentrated in the Warsaw area.  The name >> is not found in any other part of Poland.  There are even telephone >> listing >> in the city of Warsaw for her family name.  Maybe she will also be lucky. >> >> Tina Ellis >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:34 AM, lorraine <lorr42no@verizon.net> wrote: >> >>      >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I just have to share.  After all these years of searching for relatives >>> in >>> Poland I can finally say someone has been found! >>> >>> So many people over the years have asked why I have not given up but my >>> answer is that everyday technology is changing, the world is getting >>> smaller >>> and smaller plus in many ways in Europe things are moving much faster >>> than >>> here and I just knew if I kept at it - then one day - just like yesterday >>> morning - I will find that email or when I go to the mailbox - there will >>> be >>> a letter from Poland. >>> >>> A few months ago, using the social group http://nasza-klasa.pl/  I found >>> a >>> lovely woman in my grandparents' birth village and we have been emailing.. >>>   It has been quite an adventure since I do not speak Polish and she does >>> not >>> speak English.  She has been trying to locate family for me.  Viola's >>> mother-in-law thought she knew some of my family but I would have to wait >>> until she visited where they now live.  She visited this past week.  She >>> told of how I have been searching for family. >>> >>> I keep tearing up.   I was told that my cousin cried too, hearing someone >>> in America has been trying find them.  They do not do not have a >>> computer. >>>   So I guess I'll be using the Post Office.  And fortunately for me, my >>> cousin's granddaughter speaks English. >>> >>> My cousin is Jadwiga must in her 80's..  A few years ago I found that her >>> father had been murdered by the Nazi's in the Stutthof Concentration >>> Camp. >>>   No one here in America knew this.  He was my Grandpa's only brother.. >>> Jadwiga sent me via my Polish friend, Viola copies of two photos.  Wow, >>> what >>> a family resemblance!   She only has one picture of her father and so do >>> I. >>>   Imagine how pleased I was when I saw the photo was not the same one I >>> have. >>>   You can bet I'm sending her a copy of my picture of her father. >>> >>> The only sad thing about this is that my mother did not live long enough >>> to >>> see that I have succeeded in finding cousins in Poland and that there is >>> someone in Poland that looks just like her. Sadly, my Mom passed this >>> past >>> October.  I like to think that knowing my obsession, somehow Mom was able >>> to >>> help from the other side. >>> >>> Whenever someone in the group would write to tell us of their finding >>> family I have to admit besides being thrilled for them there was that >>> little >>> bit of jealously.  When would it be my turn?  Well it was yesterday!  So >>> please do not give up.  You too, will one day, get that email or find >>> that >>> letter in your mailbox. >>> >>> Lorraine >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>>        >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>      > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >        >  > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >    ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message