ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
Joined: 28 Apr 2007
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:35 am
Post subject: PolishOrigins Surnames & Places Database
After several months of work by our team in Poland and in the USA we have put at your disposal a new tool: PolishOrigins Surnames Database.
The main goal of this project is to make it possible for everyone to search for people who are interested in the same surnames or places and to enable the exchange of information and findings.
We have all heard stories about researchers who did a great deal of work, spent months or even years researching their family, and after all that time ran into someone else who had already done the same research! Of course, very often it happens that this is a distant relative of whom we were not aware...
Why not check the Surnames Database first and share with others the surnames of your forefathers and the places (villages, towns, cities) of their origin?
How you can use the PolishOrigins Surnames Database:
1. You can search the database for surnames of interest. You can use either the internal search engine or the alphabetical index. You can search on only part of a surname (even two letters are enough) and you will get all the results that include that sequence of letters.
(Soon we will add an index for Places too; however, you can already find places of interest for given contacts by clicking 'More...' when viewing a surname entry.)
2. You can add surnames and places you are interested in. Just register or, if you are already registered, log in and edit your profile and enter all the surnames and places of interest in the appropriate fields.
3. You can create your own simple information page. When you edit your profile you will find a 'Notes' field there. This is the place where you can put everything that you think might be important for others to know about your genealogical projects. By clicking 'Toggle visual HTML editor' below this field, you will be able to add a link to your website, add photographs, and describe important facts. Click here: http://polishorigins.com/surnames/show/id/2/letter/Z to see an example of a Notes page.
You can always modify all the information by editing your profile and the changes will be immediately visible in your profile and database.
This is a beta version of the tool and although we have done our best we are aware that there can still be some bugs. We are also open to any suggestions that could make the database even more useful and user-friendly for all of us. Let us know what you think of this new project by posting reply here in Forum, or by sending private message to me.
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
Joined: 28 Apr 2007
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Location: PolandBack to top |
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:30 am
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Places Database is ready!
As promised a month ago, we just completed work on Places Database. You can see the main page of the Places Database here: http://places.polishorigins.com. Now you can search for people who may be interested in not only the same surnames but also the same villages, towns and cities as you are.
We also added a few improvements to the whole database. The most conspicuous is change in appearance of your personal pages. Now there is only one column with four rows in the table. Thanks to that you have more space at your disposal to present your surnames, places and information about your family and research.
We would like to remind you that you can always log in to the Database and change the content of your personal page in your profile (click here: http://forum.polishorigins.com/profile.php?mode=editprofile ). You can add or remove your surnames and places. You can add, change and format content in your Notes field. You can even add pictures of your ancestors or old documents which will be visible in the Notes field in your personal page. To format text and add pictures you have to switch into html editor by clicking 'Toggle visual HTML editor' link below the Notes field. Example of simple personal page is here: http://polishorigins.com/places/show/id/2/ .
We are aware that it is only the beginning of the Database development and we are open to any suggestions and improvements you think could make the tool more useful for everyone.
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
Joined: 28 Apr 2007
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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:24 pm
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Most of you have probably heard about Polish Genealogical Society of America http://www.pgsa.org . I know some of you belong to this meritorious Society established in 1978 in Illinois, USA. One of many ways the organization assists its members in their own genealogical research is quarterly publication Rodziny (in Polish Families) http://www.pgsa.org/Publications/publications.php .
In the latest, winter issue of Rodziny we can find a note about our www.PolishOrigins.com website and Databases. I couldn't express it more aptly what they wrote about our Databases (quotation): The databases are small now but will become more valuable as user contribute information.
If you know personally, or from your Internet interest groups, someone who might be interested in his or her family history, surnames, places, tell him or her about our Databases. I hope that thanks to growing number of people sharing information about their research there will be more and more opportunities for researchers and for those looking for their families to take another step forward, to overcome brick walls, or maybe even to find distant relatives....
Below you will find scans of the cover page and part of page 11 from Rodziny sent to me by Bob Janice. Bob is the author of "Computers and Genealogy" series in our website (click here: http://polishorigins.com/document/computers_and_genealogy ) . His last article was entitled "Image Editing and Cataloging Programs and Genealogy" and....... look whose image is on the cover of Rodziny .
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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BobKPO Top Contributor
Joined: 11 Nov 2008
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Location: Portland, Oregon USABack to top |
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:47 pm
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Zenon wrote: | We are aware that it is only the beginning of the Database development and we are open to any suggestions and improvements you think could make the tool more useful for everyone. |
I couldn't find the town of DORNKINKE (if such a place?) It would be helpful to have an additional Forum associated that data base where I can ask about unlisted towns? Or pronounced similarly..
Thanks,
Bob K
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
Joined: 28 Apr 2007
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:55 am
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Bob,
That's why a few months ago we set up a special category in the Forum: Villages and towns of our ancestors' origins.
I have never heard about such place name as DORNKINKE. If you have any document showing spelling of the town upload it into new thread in the "Villages and towns..." category. Maybe together we will be able to make it out.
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:24 pm
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Village names?? What does Wola mean? Example of a village Wola Buczkowska. What does Dolna and Gorna mean? Example Brodnica Dolan and Brodnica Gorna.
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PolishLibrarianPO Top Contributor
Joined: 28 Aug 2010
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:10 pm
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Hi Lindaski~ Most of us at this site don't speak Polish. We just struggle through using things like Google Translate. At the Google homepage, click the More tab and choose Translate, then choose Polish to English and put in your word. Of your 3 words, I was successful with two - Dolna means lower and Gorna means upper. Not sure about Wola - Google translate says will. Other common words in geographical names are: Stary means old and Nowy mean new, Czarny is black, Bialy is white.
Have fun with it. If you do a Google search and get results on Polish websites, you can copy the Polish text and paste it into Goole translate. If you do this enough times when searching the web, pretty soon Google asks if you want to "translate this page" and then you can switch back to the Polish as well. ~PolishLibrarian
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SlavPolishOrigins Team
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
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Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:04 am
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Hello
I am a new (registered) member and trying to navigate through this site. I am trying to post something but cannot find how to do it? Can someone help
me? Thank you! David
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bunny
Joined: 17 Feb 2009
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Location: Brooksville, FLBack to top |
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 7:53 pm
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I just saw a few posts for my grandfathers last name (Rczek), however they are all in polish. Is there a simple way to change this to English, so I can read it.
Thank You
Bunny Nelson
[email protected]
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bunny
Joined: 17 Feb 2009
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Location: Brooksville, FLBack to top |
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 7:54 pm
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Da Bunny here again. I spelled my grandfathers name incorrectly. It is RYCZEK.
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Agnieszka PawlusPolishOrigins Team
Joined: 10 Mar 2013
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Location: PolandBack to top |
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:18 am
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Hello Bunny,
Do to some constant changes made by Google our database is now available only in Polish...
So far we have not found the solution to this problem.
If you will have any questions about your grandfather or your family history in general, you can always post it on our forum. Maybe our members will be able to help you.
Warm greetings,
Aga Pawlus
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Loucee08
Joined: 28 Mar 2011
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Location: IndianaBack to top |
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 2:08 pm
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Hello, A person may have information for me and wrote for me to contact them. I did with a reply, but have no answer from them. Is there any other way I could contact them through an email address or something? Please help.
Thank you!
Loucee08
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