vgondek
Joined: 09 Jan 2015
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:58 pm
Post subject: Looking for Gondek-Mastalski and Palka-Bodzioch from Galicia
Hi,
I am trying to locate relatives of my father's paternal grandparents, Anton Gondek/1862 and Anna Mastalski/1868, baptized in Szczawnica Wyźna. Anton's siblings were John, Adelbert, Catherine, Marianne, Regina, Magdeline and Agnes. Anna's siblings were Joseph and Catherine (may be more). Anton and Anna immigrated to the USA (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin then Michigan) abt 1890 -1900.
I am also trying to locate relatives of my father's maternal grandparents, Adelbert Palka/? and Anna Bodzioch/1851 from Biadoliny Szlacheckie. Anna Bodzioch had several siblings, including Marianna, Valentine and Jakub. Adelbert Palka and Anna had a daughter, Sofia Palka/1888, who immigrated to Chicago in 1907 to work as a chambermaid at the Drexel Arms Hotel. Possible siblings were Agnes and Frank (who may or may not have left Poland).
My late uncle (a Roman Catholic priest), visited relatives in Poland in the 80s or 90s but unfortunately I do not have any information from his papers. I have several unidentified photographs dated lated 1800s early 1900s from Chicago and Poland that I would like share and perhaps identify. I am also interested in finding more family surnames of my ancestors.
Thank you.
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Cheers! Valerie
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:08 am
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Hi Valerie,
Book travel with this PolishOrigins Galicia Tour!, your both family origins are so beatifully located in the south of Poland, and we can find there with Polish census 1990, 2002, and old Polish white pages all your family names still living there - let's start with smaller town Biadoliny Szlacheckie (785 inhabitants in the present-day Poland), and the possible relatives of your GGParents Wojciech [Adalbert in Latin] Pałka, and Anna Bodzioch:
Beata Bodzioch, Biadoliny Szlacheckie, Poland
Jan Bodzioch, Biadoliny Szlacheckie, Poland
Janina Bodzioch, Biadoliny Szlacheckie, Poland
Władysława Bodzioch, Biadoliny Szlacheckie, Poland
Zofia Bodzioch, Biadoliny Szlacheckie, Poland
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Aleksander Pałka, Biadoliny Szlacheckie, Poland
Maria Pałka, Biadoliny Szlacheckie, Poland
Tadeusz Pałka, Biadoliny Szlacheckie, Poland
Waldemat Pałka, Biadoliny Szlacheckie, Poland
If you want starting correspondence now, and sharing with them these invalauble family pictures dated 1800s and 1900s, please find their postal address in Poland:
Name and Surname
32-852 Biadoliny Szlacheckie
Poland
You can start family letters in English with the google translator into Polish.
With the best good luck!
Tad
Warsaw, Poland
PS. For your nice weekend in the US, please visit your family ancestral town Biadoliny Szlacheckie, and touch virtually all your Polish family lands, deep woods, and local road few milies in South from their home to Debno, where in the 19th century was located their family holy church and cemetery:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=pl&lat=49.986663&lon=20.765533&z=13&m=h&show=/1573967/pl/Biadoliny-Szlacheckie
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