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Re: Search for polish graves - tips and tricks

Elzbieta Porteneuve — Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:38 am

Author: Elzbieta Porteneuve

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:38 am

Thank you Doppler! Very interesting information and excellent idea.

Best,
Elzbieta

Re: Search for polish graves - tips and tricks

Shellie — Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:33 pm

Author: Shellie

Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:33 pm

Hi Doppler,

Thank you so much for providing this information. I have spent several hours today looking at the website you gave and I am so thankful to find so much information!

Some of my ancestors were from the borderlands - Greek Catholics in Huta Rozaniecka. The river in back of my ancestral home was the Russian border also. I have cemetery photos from my visit to the area in 2011 and have many cemetery gravestone photos that I would like to share on the site you mention.

The Greek Catholic church and cemetery in Huta Rozaniecka are now in ruins (destroyed during WWII) and only a few gravestones remain - many with my family name!

I wonder if anyone has an interest in this cemetery - Most of the stones were in Cyrillic? Ukrainian? and difficult to read, but I took the best photos that I could with my camera. About 2 years ago I hired a great researcher to search the archives for Greek Catholic records for Huta Rozaniecka and found some of my family - though the records ended around 1860. I have several pages of death records and I assume that these are funeral/burial records for the Greek Catholic cemetery. I would like to work with someone who is also interested in this cemetery so we can preserve the memory of those whose gravestones are now gone.

Can you help me find someone who shares my interest? I look forward to hearing from you.

Shellie

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Doppler wrote:

Looking for graves of your polish ancestors could give many information of your roots. However lots of place where you can do this don't give you any valuable information even they have more than million of information. This is happen, because most pages are based on automatic system, and collecting only well known graves. Most important information exists - but not on this well known grave. Lots graves are hidden, old, lots of them still exist on Kresy (eastern borderland of former Poland) - today Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania.

There is one service - actually this is foundation and group of volunteers - which collecting such graves. Lots of polish people trip on Kresy, making pictures and indexation of polish graves for this database. They collect now more that 60.000 of those forgotten graves.

You can search in that database - on this page: Search for polish graves or even ask living there co-workers to do archive research, light a candle, clean and maintain graves.

It is also big asking for any contribution, because those people wryly do tremendous work for all people who has polish roots.

Search for polish graves - tips and tricks

Doppler — Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:15 am

Author: Doppler

Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:15 am

Looking for graves of your polish ancestors could give many information of your roots. However lots of place where you can do this don't give you any valuable information even they have more than million of information. This is happen, because most pages are based on automatic system, and collecting only well known graves. Most important information exists - but not on this well known grave. Lots graves are hidden, old, lots of them still exist on Kresy (eastern borderland of former Poland) - today Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania.

There is one service - actually this is foundation and group of volunteers - which collecting such graves. Lots of polish people trip on Kresy, making pictures and indexation of polish graves for this database. They collect now more that 60.000 of those forgotten graves.

You can search in that database - on this page: Search for polish graves or even ask living there co-workers to do archive research, light a candle, clean and maintain graves.

It is also big asking for any contribution, because those people wryly do tremendous work for all people who has polish roots.