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