Hello Hello, Witam! Jack and Rose, I am very excited to read about the trip to Poland and meeting of family. I am not so easy to share in these forums most of the time, but I am sharing a lot now in this message and many will probably not care, but I am so excited. On Aug 30 I will depart to meet my Burzycki family. They live in Gawrych Ruda near Lake Wigry, a most pristene forest area in all of Europe from what I have been reading - Wigry Nat'l Forest area http://www.wigry.win.pl/parki/wpn/wpn_en.htm. I have only found my family this last November after looking for them for about 10 years. I was very blessed - with some smart searching, posting and luck!!! My new found cousin Janet was the LUCK for me and very important person Tadeusz Wysocki of Poland Genealogy Forum:http://genforum.genealogy.com/poland/messages/37996.html I have befriended the translator I was using and so I invited her and her husband for my travels there. My family invited them also. She is a journalist / professor / business start-up for young artists, and her husband is a chef in Wroclaw. They will pick me up in Warsaw and we will spend the night at Hotel Maria http://www.hotelmaria.pl/ which looks very charming. Then on Saturday we will in (new car for them) drive to Gawrych Ruda where I have booked us two 'apartments' in a beautiful lodge (Bachus) near the lake. http://www.bachus.suwalszczyzna.com.pl/index.php I am so lucky because I do not speak any Polski, but I have been trying to study. We may go tot he Baltic Sea for a day also and canoe the Hanscza River and I want to go mushrooming too. I am getting very anxious for all of this and most to meet my Poland family. http://www.wigry.win.pl/kwartalnik/nr19_gawrych.htm My babcia (Sushoska / Poplawski) is from Brzygiel just on the other side of the lake and that must be how my grandparents met..... http://www.wigry.win.pl/kwartalnik/nr20_bryzgiel.htm I will try to find my babcia's family there when I visit. http://www.wigry.win.pl/parki/wpn/wpn_de2.htm (clearly shows me that a romance began over the lake) I want to bring gifts with me but I am a small person with a knee replacement and so I really want to pack light. Does anyone have any good suggestion for US gifts that maybe you can't get so easy in Poland and light to pack? Thought I would throw that out there and see if maybe you can all offer me some good suggestions......... How can I best bring gifts with me? should I pack boxes or try to carry in my luggage.... I really need to bring gifts. and I really really love pierogies and golumbkis or golabkis (ha ha) and my mother makes the best pierogies ever!!!!!!!!! and I love my Polish Pottery big time! I have a great collection that I use in my everyday life. Some of the best pottery made in all the world! Please to all my PBS sisters and brothers - send on the information if you have any to share with me. Dziękuję Maryann Marianna Burzycka as the nuns would have me say...... > To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:25:39 -0400> From: chrishuk@aol.com> Subject: Re: [PBS] My trip to Poland> > I have driven in Poland several times.? About 7 miles from Warsaw the roads are very American and after that they become two lane no shoulder roads.? Driving is not bad except for the maniacs who pass just feet away from you.? This is common.? However, they must be excellent drivers as I never saw an accident.? Once you get into the villages , the roads become one lane dirt roads and if it rains you now have a one lane wet ditch.? Twice I had to get out of my car and move cows who would decided to stand in the middle of the one lane dirt road.? Make sure that you get a good Polish road atlas map, the maps that come with a rental car will not get you anywhere.? This is the only way to get to your family villages.? I never saw a bus going on these dirt roads.? Villagers of all ages and sex ride bikes.> > Choosing Italian drivers over Polish ones (I was just in Italy a month ago) I would choose the Poles.? I think that the only way to cross the street in Rome is to close your eyes and run, hoping that the cars will not hit you.> > > -----Original Message-----> From: Sandra <skbdesign@yahoo.com>> To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 9:16 pm> Subject: Re: [PBS] My trip to Poland> > > > Hi Rose,> > Glad you had a wonderful experience!> We would like to go to Poland next year... did you drive at all? If not , how > did you get around? I've heard that driving in Poland is worse than driving in > Italy! We survived that, but wonder if we should try it in Poland.> > Thanks,> Sandra in sunny CA> > Jack and Rose <thankgod@optonline.net> wrote:> Hi Noreen> Thanks for asking> IT WAS BETTER THAN MY HUSBAND OR I EVER ANTICIPATED....> > LOT air is great, I would highly recommend it to anyone thinking of > traveling to Poland or Eastern Europe> > We stayed in the Warsawa Westin Hotel in Warsaw> EXCELLENT, expensive, but well worth it> We had a banquet there for 20 family members that I have never met before> What a family Re-union or should I say UNION....> > Family came from Belarus and all parts of Poland to meet my husband and I.> > Saw Warsawa, Krakow, Concentration Camps in Auschwitz. etc....Bialystok, > Poltusk, oh so many towns ( mostly Center of Poland, Southern Sections and > some Northern Sections of the country)> And the FARMLANDS ARE AMAZING....> > I thought Lancaster County PA was beautiful, but nothing can compare to the > rye, wheat farms in Poland> > Hugs and God bless you all> Rose Zydel Olson> > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:57 PM> Subject: Re: [PBS] Enough Golobki Already!!!> > > > Hi Rose,> > Welcome back and how was the trip?> > Noreen> >> >> >> > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL> > at> > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour> >> > -------------------------------> > 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> > > > ---------------------------------> Get your own web address.> Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! 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I would put all presents into a suitcase with wheels.  Easier than carting a box.  -----Original Message----- From: Maryann Maciejewski <maryann_mack@hotmail.com> To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com Cc: jbernosky@olc.accomack.k12.va.us Sent: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:57 am Subject: Re: [PBS] My upcoming trip to Poland (Gawrych Ruda / Bryzgiel) Hello Hello, Witam! Jack and Rose, I am very excited to read about the trip to oland and meeting of family. I am not so easy to share in these forums most of he time, but I am sharing a lot now in this message and many will probably not are, but I am so excited. On Aug 30 I will depart to meet my Burzycki family. hey live in Gawrych Ruda near Lake Wigry, a most pristene forest area in all of urope from what I have been reading - Wigry Nat'l Forest area ttp://www.wigry.win.pl/parki/wpn/wpn_en.htm. I have only found my family this ast November after looking for them for about 10 years. I was very blessed - ith some smart searching, posting and luck!!! My new found cousin Janet was he LUCK for me and very important person Tadeusz Wysocki of Poland Genealogy orum:http://genforum.genealogy.com/poland/messages/37996.html I have befriended he translator I was using and so I invited her and her husband for my travels here. My family invited them also. She is a journalist / professor / business tart-up for young artists, and her husband is a chef in Wroclaw. They will ick me up in Warsaw and we will spend the night at Hotel Maria ttp://www.hotelmaria.pl/ which looks very charming. Then on Saturday we will n (new car for them) drive to Gawrych Ruda where I have booked us two apartments' in a beautiful lodge (Bachus) near the lake. http://www.bachus.suwalszczyzna.com.pl/index.php am so lucky because I do not speak any Polski, but I have been trying to tudy. We may go tot he Baltic Sea for a day also and canoe the Hanscza River nd I want to go mushrooming too. I am getting very anxious for all of this and ost to meet my Poland family. http://www.wigry.win.pl/kwartalnik/nr19_gawrych.htm y babcia (Sushoska / Poplawski) is from Brzygiel just on the other side of the ake and that must be how my grandparents met..... http://www.wigry.win.pl/kwartalnik/nr20_bryzgiel.htm will try to find my babcia's family there when I visit. http://www.wigry.win.pl/parki/wpn/wpn_de2.htm clearly shows me that a romance began over the lake) I want to bring gifts with e but I am a small person with a knee replacement and so I really want to pack ight. Does anyone have any good suggestion for US gifts that maybe you can't et so easy in Poland and light to pack? Thought I would throw that out there nd see if maybe you can all offer me some good suggestions......... How can I est bring gifts with me? should I pack boxes or try to carry in my luggage.... really need to bring gifts. and I really really love pierogies and golumbkis r golabkis (ha ha) and my mother makes the best pierogies ever!!!!!!!!! and I ove my Polish Pottery big time! I have a great collection that I use in my veryday life. Some of the best pottery made in all the world! Please to all my BS sisters and brothers - send on the information if you have any to share with e. ziękuję Maryann Marianna Burzycka as the nuns would have me say...... > To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:25:39 -0400> rom: chrishuk@aol.com> Subject: Re: [PBS] My trip to Poland> > I have driven in oland several times.? About 7 miles from Warsaw the roads are very American and fter that they become two lane no shoulder roads.? Driving is not bad except or the maniacs who pass just feet away from you.? This is common.? However, hey must be excellent drivers as I never saw an accident.? Once you get into he villages , the roads become one lane dirt roads and if it rains you now have one lane wet ditch.? Twice I had to get out of my car and move cows who would ecided to stand in the middle of the one lane dirt road.? Make sure that you et a good Polish road atlas map, the maps that come with a rental car will not et you anywhere.? This is the only way to get to your family villages.? I never aw a bus going on these dirt roads.? Villagers of all ages and sex ride bikes.> Choosing Italian drivers over Polish ones (I was just in Italy a month ago) I ould choose the Poles.? I think that the only way to cross the street in Rome s to close your eyes and run, hoping that the cars will not hit you.> > > ----Original Message-----> From: Sandra <skbdesign@yahoo.com>> To: olandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 9:16 pm> Subject: Re: PBS] My trip to Poland> > > > Hi Rose,> > Glad you had a wonderful experience!> e would like to go to Poland next year... did you drive at all? If not , how > id you get around? I've heard that driving in Poland is worse than driving in > taly! We survived that, but wonder if we should try it in Poland.> > Thanks,> andra in sunny CA> > Jack and Rose <thankgod@optonline.net> wrote:> Hi Noreen> hanks for asking> IT WAS BETTER THAN MY HUSBAND OR I EVER ANTICIPATED....> > OT air is great, I would highly recommend it to anyone thinking of > traveling o Poland or Eastern Europe> > We stayed in the Warsawa Westin Hotel in Warsaw> XCELLENT, expensive, but well worth it> We had a banquet there for 20 family embers that I have never met before> What a family Re-union or should I say NION....> > Family came from Belarus and all parts of Poland to meet my husband nd I.> > Saw Warsawa, Krakow, Concentration Camps in Auschwitz. tc....Bialystok, > Poltusk, oh so many towns ( mostly Center of Poland, outhern Sections and > some Northern Sections of the country)> And the ARMLANDS ARE AMAZING....> > I thought Lancaster County PA was beautiful, but othing can compare to the > rye, wheat farms in Poland> > Hugs and God bless ou all> Rose Zydel Olson> > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > o: > > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:57 PM> Subject: Re: [PBS] Enough Golobki lready!!!> > > > Hi Rose,> > Welcome back and how was the trip?> > Noreen> >> > >> > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new OL> > at> > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour> >> > ------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an mail 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 end an email to POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com > with the word unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message> > > ---------------------------------> Get your own web address.> Have a HUGE ear through Yahoo! 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Hi Maryann I brought American gifts for my family in Poland and Belarus and THEY LOVED THEM I brought Russell stover boxes of Chocolates and M " M's Candy I brought American flag buttons and American baseball caps for the men, American Flag pins for everyone American flag bracelets for the women and then brought each of the ladies some earrings from the US..... I used Oriental trading company.com to buy the American things on the internet They have lots on their site Enjoy your trip and please let me know how you did in Poland God bless and Hugs Rose Zydel Olson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maryann Maciejewski" <maryann_mack@hotmail.com> To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Cc: <jbernosky@olc.accomack.k12.va.us> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [PBS] My upcoming trip to Poland (Gawrych Ruda / Bryzgiel) Hello Hello, Witam! Jack and Rose, I am very excited to read about the trip to Poland and meeting of family. I am not so easy to share in these forums most of the time, but I am sharing a lot now in this message and many will probably not care, but I am so excited. On Aug 30 I will depart to meet my Burzycki family. They live in Gawrych Ruda near Lake Wigry, a most pristene forest area in all of Europe from what I have been reading - Wigry Nat'l Forest area http://www.wigry.win.pl/parki/wpn/wpn_en.htm. I have only found my family this last November after looking for them for about 10 years. I was very blessed - with some smart searching, posting and luck!!! My new found cousin Janet was the LUCK for me and very important person Tadeusz Wysocki of Poland Genealogy Forum:http://genforum.genealogy.com/poland/messages/37996.html I have befriended the translator I was using and so I invited her and her husband for my travels there. My family invited them also. She is a journalist / professor / business start-up for young artists, and her husband is a chef in Wroclaw. They will pick me up in Warsaw and we will spend the night at Hotel Maria http://www.hotelmaria.pl/ which looks very charming. Then on Saturday we will in (new car for them) drive to Gawrych Ruda where I have booked us two 'apartments' in a beautiful lodge (Bachus) near the lake. http://www.bachus.suwalszczyzna.com.pl/index.php I am so lucky because I do not speak any Polski, but I have been trying to study. We may go tot he Baltic Sea for a day also and canoe the Hanscza River and I want to go mushrooming too. I am getting very anxious for all of this and most to meet my Poland family. http://www.wigry.win.pl/kwartalnik/nr19_gawrych.htm My babcia (Sushoska / Poplawski) is from Brzygiel just on the other side of the lake and that must be how my grandparents met..... http://www.wigry.win.pl/kwartalnik/nr20_bryzgiel.htm I will try to find my babcia's family there when I visit. http://www.wigry.win.pl/parki/wpn/wpn_de2.htm (clearly shows me that a romance began over the lake) I want to bring gifts with me but I am a small person with a knee replacement and so I really want to pack light. Does anyone have any good suggestion for US gifts that maybe you can't get so easy in Poland and light to pack? Thought I would throw that out there and see if maybe you can all offer me some good suggestions......... How can I best bring gifts with me? should I pack boxes or try to carry in my luggage.... I really need to bring gifts. and I really really love pierogies and golumbkis or golabkis (ha ha) and my mother makes the best pierogies ever!!!!!!!!! and I love my Polish Pottery big time! I have a great collection that I use in my everyday life. Some of the best pottery made in all the world! Please to all my PBS sisters and brothers - send on the information if you have any to share with me. Dziękuję Maryann Marianna Burzycka as the nuns would have me say...... > To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 > 00:25:39 -0400> From: chrishuk@aol.com> Subject: Re: [PBS] My trip to > Poland> > I have driven in Poland several times.? About 7 miles from > Warsaw the roads are very American and after that they become two lane no > shoulder roads.? Driving is not bad except for the maniacs who pass just > feet away from you.? This is common.? However, they must be excellent > drivers as I never saw an accident.? Once you get into the villages , the > roads become one lane dirt roads and if it rains you now have a one lane > wet ditch.? Twice I had to get out of my car and move cows who would > decided to stand in the middle of the one lane dirt road.? Make sure that > you get a good Polish road atlas map, the maps that come with a rental car > will not get you anywhere.? This is the only way to get to your family > villages.? I never saw a bus going on these dirt roads.? Villagers of all > ages and sex ride bikes.> > Choosing Italian drivers over Polish ones (I > was just in Italy a month ago) I would choose the Poles.? I think that the > only way to cross the street in Rome is to close your eyes and run, hoping > that the cars will not hit you.> > > -----Original Message-----> From: > Sandra <skbdesign@yahoo.com>> To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: > Tue, 17 Jul 2007 9:16 pm> Subject: Re: [PBS] My trip to Poland> > > > Hi > Rose,> > Glad you had a wonderful experience!> We would like to go to > Poland next year... did you drive at all? If not , how > did you get > around? I've heard that driving in Poland is worse than driving in > > Italy! We survived that, but wonder if we should try it in Poland.> > > Thanks,> Sandra in sunny CA> > Jack and Rose <thankgod@optonline.net> > wrote:> Hi Noreen> Thanks for asking> IT WAS BETTER THAN MY HUSBAND OR I > EVER ANTICIPATED....> > LOT air is great, I would highly recommend it to > anyone thinking of > traveling to Poland or Eastern Europe> > We stayed in > the Warsawa Westin Hotel in Warsaw> EXCELLENT, expensive, but well worth > it> We had a banquet there for 20 family members that I have never met > before> What a family Re-union or should I say UNION....> > Family came > from Belarus and all parts of Poland to meet my husband and I.> > Saw > Warsawa, Krakow, Concentration Camps in Auschwitz. etc....Bialystok, > > Poltusk, oh so many towns ( mostly Center of Poland, Southern Sections and > > some Northern Sections of the country)> And the FARMLANDS ARE > AMAZING....> > I thought Lancaster County PA was beautiful, but nothing > can compare to the > rye, wheat farms in Poland> > Hugs and God bless you > all> Rose Zydel Olson> > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:57 PM> Subject: Re: [PBS] Enough > Golobki Already!!!> > > > Hi Rose,> > Welcome back and how was the trip?> > > Noreen> >> >> >> > ************************************** Get a sneak > peek of the all-new AOL> > at> > > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour> >> > > -------------------------------> > 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> > > > > ---------------------------------> Get your own web address.> Have a > HUGE year through Yahoo! 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My friends in Poland always ask me for Lifesavers.  They do not sell these in Poland.  They also like the Lifesaver gummie packs.  Another thing that they ask for is Tequila. -----Original Message----- From: Jack and Rose <thankgod@optonline.net> To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:46 am Subject: Re: [PBS] Maryann Maciejewski Hi Maryann brought American gifts for my family in Poland and Belarus and THEY LOVED HEM brought Russell stover boxes of Chocolates and M " M's Candy brought American flag buttons and American baseball caps for the men, merican Flag pins for everyone merican flag bracelets for the women and then brought each of the ladies ome earrings from the US..... used Oriental trading company.com to buy the American things on the nternet hey have lots on their site njoy your trip and please let me know how you did in Poland od bless and Hugs ose Zydel Olson ---- Original Message ----- rom: "Maryann Maciejewski" <maryann_mack@hotmail.com> o: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> c: <jbernosky@olc.accomack.k12.va.us> ent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:57 AM ubject: Re: [PBS] My upcoming trip to Poland (Gawrych Ruda / Bryzgiel) ello Hello, Witam! Jack and Rose, I am very excited to read about the rip to Poland and meeting of family. I am not so easy to share in these orums most of the time, but I am sharing a lot now in this message and many ill probably not care, but I am so excited. On Aug 30 I will depart to eet my Burzycki family. They live in Gawrych Ruda near Lake Wigry, a most ristene forest area in all of Europe from what I have been reading - Wigry at'l Forest area http://www.wigry.win.pl/parki/wpn/wpn_en.htm. I have only ound my family this last November after looking for them for about 10 ears. I was very blessed - with some smart searching, posting and luck!!! y new found cousin Janet was the LUCK for me and very important person adeusz Wysocki of Poland Genealogy orum:http://genforum.genealogy.com/poland/messages/37996.html I have efriended the translator I was using and so I invited her and her husband or my travels there. My family invited them also. She is a journalist / rofessor / business start-up for young artists, and her husband is a chef n Wroclaw. They will pick me up in Warsaw and we will spend the night at otel Maria http://www.hotelmaria.pl/ which looks very charming. Then on aturday we will in (new car for them) drive to Gawrych Ruda where I have ooked us two 'apartments' in a beautiful lodge (Bachus) near the lake. ttp://www.bachus.suwalszczyzna.com.pl/index.php I am so lucky because I do ot speak any Polski, but I have been trying to study. We may go tot he altic Sea for a day also and canoe the Hanscza River and I want to go ushrooming too. I am getting very anxious for all of this and most to meet y Poland family. http://www.wigry.win.pl/kwartalnik/nr19_gawrych.htm My abcia (Sushoska / Poplawski) is from Brzygiel just on the other side of the ake and that must be how my grandparents met..... ttp://www.wigry.win.pl/kwartalnik/nr20_bryzgiel.htm I will try to find my abcia's family there when I visit. ttp://www.wigry.win.pl/parki/wpn/wpn_de2.htm (clearly shows me that a omance began over the lake) I want to bring gifts with me but I am a small erson with a knee replacement and so I really want to pack light. Does nyone have any good suggestion for US gifts that maybe you can't get so asy in Poland and light to pack? Thought I would throw that out there and ee if maybe you can all offer me some good suggestions......... How can I est bring gifts with me? should I pack boxes or try to carry in my uggage.... I really need to bring gifts. and I really really love ierogies and golumbkis or golabkis (ha ha) and my mother makes the best ierogies ever!!!!!!!!! and I love my Polish Pottery big time! I have a reat collection that I use in my everyday life. Some of the best pottery ade in all the world! Please to all my PBS sisters and brothers - send on he information if you have any to share with me. ziękuję Maryann Marianna Burzycka as the nuns would have me say...... > To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:25:39 -0400> From: chrishuk@aol.com> Subject: Re: [PBS] My trip to Poland> > I have driven in Poland several times.? About 7 miles from Warsaw the roads are very American and after that they become two lane no shoulder roads.? Driving is not bad except for the maniacs who pass just feet away from you.? This is common.? However, they must be excellent drivers as I never saw an accident.? Once you get into the villages , the roads become one lane dirt roads and if it rains you now have a one lane wet ditch.? Twice I had to get out of my car and move cows who would decided to stand in the middle of the one lane dirt road.? Make sure that you get a good Polish road atlas map, the maps that come with a rental car will not get you anywhere.? This is the only way to get to your family villages.? I never saw a bus going on these dirt roads.? Villagers of all ages and sex ride bikes.> > Choosing Italian drivers over Polish ones (I was just in Italy a month ago) I would choose the Poles.? I think that the only way to cross the street in Rome is to close your eyes and run, hoping that the cars will not hit you.> > > -----Original Message-----> From: Sandra <skbdesign@yahoo.com>> To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 9:16 pm> Subject: Re: [PBS] My trip to Poland> > > > Hi Rose,> > Glad you had a wonderful experience!> We would like to go to Poland next year... did you drive at all? If not , how > did you get around? I've heard that driving in Poland is worse than driving in > Italy! We survived that, but wonder if we should try it in Poland.> > Thanks,> Sandra in sunny CA> > Jack and Rose <thankgod@optonline.net> wrote:> Hi Noreen> Thanks for asking> IT WAS BETTER THAN MY HUSBAND OR I EVER ANTICIPATED....> > LOT air is great, I would highly recommend it to anyone thinking of > traveling to Poland or Eastern Europe> > We stayed in the Warsawa Westin Hotel in Warsaw> EXCELLENT, expensive, but well worth it> We had a banquet there for 20 family members that I have never met before> What a family Re-union or should I say UNION....> > Family came from Belarus and all parts of Poland to meet my husband and I.> > Saw Warsawa, Krakow, Concentration Camps in Auschwitz. etc....Bialystok, > Poltusk, oh so many towns ( mostly Center of Poland, Southern Sections and > some Northern Sections of the country)> And the FARMLANDS ARE AMAZING....> > I thought Lancaster County PA was beautiful, but nothing can compare to the > rye, wheat farms in Poland> > Hugs and God bless you all> Rose Zydel Olson> > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:57 PM> Subject: Re: [PBS] Enough Golobki Already!!!> > > > Hi Rose,> > Welcome back and how was the trip?> > Noreen> >> >> >> > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL> > at> > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour> >> > -------------------------------> > 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> > > > ---------------------------------> Get your own web address.> Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! 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Maryann - I am so happy for you and that you will be visiting this beautiful country in August. It seems that your family ties come pretty close to where my g-grandparents were born and married. They came from Wegielsztyn (very close to Wegorzewo), and also located on one of the beautiful lakes of the area. It is located in the district of Angeburg, and I was able to find the church/parish of the Lutheran faith in 1867 when they were married. The problem is I cannot get further information since Lutherans are with the parish in Gizycho and they do not want to communicate. Again, enjoy your trip and I look forward to hearing from you at a later time. Ralph Scheffler rscheffler@dc.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maryann Maciejewski" <maryann_mack@hotmail.com> To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Cc: <jbernosky@olc.accomack.k12.va.us> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:57 AM Subject: Re: [PBS] My upcoming trip to Poland (Gawrych Ruda / Bryzgiel) Hello Hello, Witam! Jack and Rose, I am very excited to read about the trip to Poland and meeting of family. I am not so easy to share in these forums most of the time, but I am sharing a lot now in this message and many will probably not care, but I am so excited. On Aug 30 I will depart to meet my Burzycki family. They live in Gawrych Ruda near Lake Wigry, a most pristene forest area in all of Europe from what I have been reading - Wigry Nat'l Forest area http://www.wigry.win.pl/parki/wpn/wpn_en.htm. I have only found my family this last November after looking for them for about 10 years. I was very blessed - with some smart searching, posting and luck!!! My new found cousin Janet was the LUCK for me and very important person Tadeusz Wysocki of Poland Genealogy Forum:http://genforum.genealogy.com/poland/messages/37996.html I have befriended the translator I was using and so I invited her and her husband for my travels there. My family invited them also. She is a journalist / professor / business start-up for young artists, and her husband is a chef in Wroclaw. They will pick me up in Warsaw and we will spend the night at Hotel Maria http://www.hotelmaria.pl/ which looks very charming. Then on Saturday we will in (new car for them) drive to Gawrych Ruda where I have booked us two 'apartments' in a beautiful lodge (Bachus) near the lake. http://www.bachus.suwalszczyzna.com.pl/index.php I am so lucky because I do not speak any Polski, but I have been trying to study. We may go tot he Baltic Sea for a day also and canoe the Hanscza River and I want to go mushrooming too. I am getting very anxious for all of this and most to meet my Poland family. http://www.wigry.win.pl/kwartalnik/nr19_gawrych.htm My babcia (Sushoska / Poplawski) is from Brzygiel just on the other side of the lake and that must be how my grandparents met..... http://www.wigry.win.pl/kwartalnik/nr20_bryzgiel.htm I will try to find my babcia's family there when I visit. http://www.wigry.win.pl/parki/wpn/wpn_de2.htm (clearly shows me that a romance began over the lake) I want to bring gifts with me but I am a small person with a knee replacement and so I really want to pack light. Does anyone have any good suggestion for US gifts that maybe you can't get so easy in Poland and light to pack? Thought I would throw that out there and see if maybe you can all offer me some good suggestions......... How can I best bring gifts with me? should I pack boxes or try to carry in my luggage.... I really need to bring gifts. and I really really love pierogies and golumbkis or golabkis (ha ha) and my mother makes the best pierogies ever!!!!!!!!! and I love my Polish Pottery big time! I have a great collection that I use in my everyday life. Some of the best pottery made in all the world! Please to all my PBS sisters and brothers - send on the information if you have any to share with me. Dziękuję Maryann Marianna Burzycka as the nuns would have me say...... > To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 > 00:25:39 -0400> From: chrishuk@aol.com> Subject: Re: [PBS] My trip to > Poland> > I have driven in Poland several times.? About 7 miles from > Warsaw the roads are very American and after that they become two lane no > shoulder roads.? Driving is not bad except for the maniacs who pass just > feet away from you.? This is common.? However, they must be excellent > drivers as I never saw an accident.? Once you get into the villages , the > roads become one lane dirt roads and if it rains you now have a one lane > wet ditch.? Twice I had to get out of my car and move cows who would > decided to stand in the middle of the one lane dirt road.? Make sure that > you get a good Polish road atlas map, the maps that come with a rental car > will not get you anywhere.? This is the only way to get to your family > villages.? I never saw a bus going on these dirt roads.? Villagers of all > ages and sex ride bikes.> > Choosing Italian drivers over Polish ones (I > was just in Italy a month ago) I would choose the Poles.? I think that the > only way to cross the street in Rome is to close your eyes and run, hoping > that the cars will not hit you.> > > -----Original Message-----> From: > Sandra <skbdesign@yahoo.com>> To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: > Tue, 17 Jul 2007 9:16 pm> Subject: Re: [PBS] My trip to Poland> > > > Hi > Rose,> > Glad you had a wonderful experience!> We would like to go to > Poland next year... did you drive at all? If not , how > did you get > around? I've heard that driving in Poland is worse than driving in > > Italy! We survived that, but wonder if we should try it in Poland.> > > Thanks,> Sandra in sunny CA> > Jack and Rose <thankgod@optonline.net> > wrote:> Hi Noreen> Thanks for asking> IT WAS BETTER THAN MY HUSBAND OR I > EVER ANTICIPATED....> > LOT air is great, I would highly recommend it to > anyone thinking of > traveling to Poland or Eastern Europe> > We stayed in > the Warsawa Westin Hotel in Warsaw> EXCELLENT, expensive, but well worth > it> We had a banquet there for 20 family members that I have never met > before> What a family Re-union or should I say UNION....> > Family came > from Belarus and all parts of Poland to meet my husband and I.> > Saw > Warsawa, Krakow, Concentration Camps in Auschwitz. etc....Bialystok, > > Poltusk, oh so many towns ( mostly Center of Poland, Southern Sections and > > some Northern Sections of the country)> And the FARMLANDS ARE > AMAZING....> > I thought Lancaster County PA was beautiful, but nothing > can compare to the > rye, wheat farms in Poland> > Hugs and God bless you > all> Rose Zydel Olson> > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:57 PM> Subject: Re: [PBS] Enough > Golobki Already!!!> > > > Hi Rose,> > Welcome back and how was the trip?> > > Noreen> >> >> >> > ************************************** Get a sneak > peek of the all-new AOL> > at> > > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour> >> > > -------------------------------> > 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> > > > > ---------------------------------> Get your own web address.> Have a > HUGE year through Yahoo! 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