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Traveling in Poland:. Tips for Family History Travel. These slides at at. www.remus.shidler.hawaii.edu after September 1…. Use a high speed internet connection because it is a big file. Topics. Basic Preparations Package Tour or Independent Tour? Booking Air Travel - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Traveling in Poland:
Tips for Family History Travel
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These slides at at
• www.remus.shidler.hawaii.edu
after September 1….
• Use a high speed internet connection because it is a big file.
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Topics• Basic Preparations
• Package Tour or Independent Tour?
• Booking Air Travel
• Booking a Travel Guide
• Visiting Ancestral Villages
• Visiting Nearby Relevant Villages
• Visiting Museums and Other Sights
• Visiting Tourist Destinations
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Basic Preparations
• Organize Your Family History Information
• Check Your Passports (no visa needed)
• Choose a Good Time of Year to Visit
• If working with a guide, provide them with details on your family (more on this later)
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Package Tour or Independent Tour?
• The Pommeranian Society annually offers a tour running from Warsaw to Gdansk and across the north of Poland. With side trips available. Good guides in English.
• An Independent Tour misses some cultural spots and cultural background but you go just to relevant sites.
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Travel Alternatives
• Fly directly on Polish Lot to Warsaw, then to Gdansk, Krakau, Poznan, or other city.
• Fly to London and then onward with Ryanair to Warsaw, Gdansk, Krakau, Poznan, or other city.
• Fly via Frankfurt.• Take a train via Berlin to Poznan or
onwards.
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Areas of Travel in Poland
• Russian Poland
• Galicia
• Pommerania
• West Prussia
• East Prussia
• And more.
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Fly directly on Polish Lot
• A Good Airline that goes direct from North American Cities to Warsaw and connects onward to other Polish Cities.
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Fly to London and then onward with Ryanair to Warsaw, Gdansk, Krakau, Poznan, or other
city.
• The benefit in this option is enjoying England, especially London.
• Ryanair flights are cheap from London Stansted to Polish cities. Like Heathrow, Stansted is distant from central London.
• Ryanair flights are sold in one way segments so it is easy to enter through one city and exit through another.
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Fly to Frankfurt
• And enjoy Germany before going onward to Warsaw and Poznan Poland.
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Take a train via Berlin to Poznan or onwards.
• Rail travel in Europe is a very enjoyable experience. Buy either a German Railpass or Europe Railpass and travel widely. Then it is just a quick segment from Berlin to Poznan or other Polish cities.
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Travel Problems
• English is not widely spoken at the moment
• Hotels are few and far between
• Roads are good but travel logistics can be difficult
• Restaurants are few
• You cannot expect to speak to village residents in other than Polish
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Why a Travel Guide?
• The travel guide can do genealogical research prior to your arrival
• The travel guide can make all logistical arrangements and drive the car
• The travel guide can speak with the locals and perhaps find relatives
• The travel guide knows what to look for in villages
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Booking a Travel Guide
Do Check References (usually by email)
Do book months ahead.
Do try to start at their base city.
Let them drive and book accommodations.
As a single person, I budget about $200 per day. Additional people are only the cost of additional food and accommodation.
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Is more data available in Poland on my family? Yes ...
• Most FHC microfilms stop about 1880.
• Many records were not microfilmed.
• Many church books remain in the churches.
• However, your travel guide usually knows where they are and how to get access.
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My Travel Guide: Kasia Grycza
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Schwente (Swiete), Kreis Flatow, West Prussia
• This is my ancestral village and some of the sites there. To show you the value of a travel guide, I will illustrate what you can learn beyond a drive through the village by yourself.
• Do you recognize what is in this village?
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What’s this?
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• A Holy Hill (Swieta) dating back several thousand years.
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What’s this?
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• A German Cemetery with oak trees and lilies of the valley and perhaps lilacs. Few if any stones or markers remain.
• There is also a special cemetery in this village for cholera epidemic victims.
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What’s this?
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• Old style Prussian barn originally of wood beams and clay. Later as the clay eroded the clay was replaced with bricks. These can date back 200 or more years.
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What’s this?
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• An old style house dating back more than 200 years with the original internal layout.
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What’s this?
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An old style blacksmith shop with some modern updates inside. Still functions as a blacksmith shop.
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What’s this?
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A stall to put your horse in whenever his shoes need replacing.
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What’s this?
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• This is the general layout of Swieta and most old villages. Two rows of houses facing a common area. At the head of the village could be the manor house.
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What’s this?
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This is the base of a windmill from about 100 years ago. Now converted to housing.
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And, of course, Village History
• Dates back about 700 years• Burned and two thirds of the population
exterminated by the Swedes (circa 1650 and 1710)
• Germans invited in after 1710 to repopulate the village.
• Martin Remus and David Wenske were village mayors circa 1750.
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Visiting Nearby Relevant Villages
• Your ancestors generally went to market and church in villages other than the one in which they lived.
• They tended to marry within the village but sometimes to families in nearby villages.
• They lived on land owned by Polish nobility who often had estate houses (gut).
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Flatow: Where Martin Remus’ children were baptized
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Smiardowo: Where Martin’s son Caspar had his Krug
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But the krug (inn housing travelers and serving beer and food), located where the village shrine is now located, burned in 1850. So you have to go to …..
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Visiting Museums
• There are ethnographic museums in Poland that preserve the old buildings and churches
• There are county museums with local history exhibits (in Polish) and often old tools.
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A 17th century Krug
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Inside a Krug
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Enjoying Special Sights
I like the many wooden churches in Poland. And with my guide I get to see them in and out – and find out some history for the local lady with the key to the church.
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17th century Schwarngacz Church
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Flatow Museum
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This is a county (Kreis) museum with exhibits of old country life and folk art.
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How about manor houses?
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Or Mills?
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Visiting Tourist Destinations
• Gdansk (Danzig)
• Torun (Thorn)
• Malbork (Marienberg)
• Gniesno (Gniesen)
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Gdansk (Danzig)
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Danzig was the major port of Poland. Wonderful old churches, grain exchanges, houses, and streets circa 1612. A great place to visit even if no direct connection.
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Torun (Thorn)
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Another wonderful old German city. An important walled city in middle Poland. Home of Copernicus.
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Malbork (Marienberg)
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This castle complex was the headquarters for the Teutonic Knights who brutally defeated the heathen Prussi as well as controlling East Prussia (and most of northern Poland).
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Gniesno (Gniesen)
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Gniesno is an old and important city for both Poles and Germans. It has a wonderful market plaza and a fine catholic cathedral. A good central location for day trips.
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Exit Points
• Air Travel: Poznan, Gdansk, Bromberg, Warsaw, Krakow
• Rail Links to Germany