To Ellie, I have to say that I envy your just starting your search. It is so thrilling when ever you come across the least little piece of information and watch the family build. You may think it is going slow but every little word counts and adds to making your family real. It has been 30+ years since I started and it is still a thrill when I find something but nothing like the first time we found family on passenger list or in the census records or read the church records of Hungary and found my grandmother's birth and other information. So good luck and the best of wishes for a very fruitful New Year. Merry Christmas Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellie Dowling" <ellied5@bellsouth.net> To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 3:04 AM Subject: Re: [PBS] Genealogy Joy! > Hi, I am just beginning my family searches, don't even know enough to know > what questions to ask yet!!! But I had to comment on this heartwarming > reunion I just read! That is so wonderful. In a world filled with so > many > bad stories, this one sure blessed me. God Bless everyone who had a hand > in getting those people back together again!. By the way, I am wanting > to > find information on the Plinske surname. I will have more time to write > all > the information I have after the Holidays. My grandfather on my mothers > side > was a Plinske, who came to America during some sort of persecution when he > was a child with his parents. A relative remembered her Aunt Annie whose > maiden name was Plinske say that they were some sort of Nobility, or > something like that in Lithuania. I understand Aunt Annie also had a > pretty > vivid imagination, so who knows. Since various countries owned Lithuania > at > different times, I am not sure where to start looking. Happy New Year! > Ellie Dowling > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Tina Ellis" <polska.research@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:02 PM > To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [PBS] Genealogy Joy! > >> Good story. I love happy endings. >> >> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM, MiPolonia <cjensen@mipolonia.net> wrote: >> >>> Yesterday I received an email from a Kiwi who was helping her Dad locate >>> a >>> childhood friend from Poland. They were both displaced from their >>> village >>> of >>> Chotyn during WWII. After a Google or two, a couple >>> ancestry.comsearchers, >>> and referencing now declassified records, I was able to find and arrange >>> an >>> online reunion for Kazimierz, residing in Wisconsin, and Mieczyslaw of >>> Wellington N.Z. - their first since 1946! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.430 / Virus Database: 270.14.119/2585 - Release Date: 12/24/09 08:11:00