You can teach yourself Polish using this site: http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/#. It's put on by the University of Pittsburgh. On 12/8/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In a message dated 12/7/2008 8:08:08 PM Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > 1. Re: Wawiernia - Bilinski - Jelska (Tina Ellis) Bialousy, > Poland (Tina Ellis) > 2. Re: Ret, Vol 3, Issue 787 Re: Wawiernia - Bilinski - Jelska > (Tina Ellis) (Tina Ellis) > > Tina, > Thank you very much for all your help. I certainly have my work cut out for > me. I only wish I could have had more time with my grandparents. They died > during my senior year in high school. I can remember having my grandfather > try and > teach me Russian rather than Polish. At the time I thought Russian was a > much > more "exotic" language than Polish. When one is young how stupid we can be! > Phil > > " > You did great finding this place. The Slownik does not give the name > of a parish for Bialousy. The Slownik does say that it was in the > gmina of Janow and powiat of Sokolski. > http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_I/195 Many times > the gmina and parish are in the same town/village. Today there is a > parish in Janow, which has been there since 1740. If that yield any > information, than try Sokolka, today's gmina. They have two parishes. > The oldest one has been there since 1631, the newer one since 1987. > > LDS Catalog site for microfilm: > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp > > My grandmother told me the same story. Her father would not let her > go to school. He pulled her out. They lived across the road from the > school in their tiny village. Her father taught her at home. > > Tina" > **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and > favorite sites in one place. Try it now. > ( > http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010 > ) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >