 Hi everybody, how are you? Kessu, Aowyn, and I brought today, we brought Skye from the Poland Project. I'm so excited about this because I have been dying to get into some of the Slavic countries to investigate one of my husband's lines actually. So I am thrilled that you're here with us today. This is really great. And I just want to warn everybody, the three of us kind of spent the last 15 minutes getting a little bit of an education on the dates and the changes and the locations of Poland, and we've got a lot for you. So if you have people that you're researching in Poland, but it's not just Poland, is it Skye? It's going to be different areas. Then this is the bingo for you. Based on some information that Skye wanted to make sure that we got out there, I wanted to do a very short presentation. To show you what we're going to be talking about today. There's so much to talk about with Poland. So basically on researching and tracing your Polish ancestry, it's complicated, isn't it Skye? You guys over in Poland, you have the record loss just like we do in the States because of wars and just because of record loss in general. And it's very interesting because Skye created a one-place study that we're going to talk about right before we do the second bingo card. That was Cousin Bate that actually brought some records to you via your one-place study. And an interesting story with that. So hold on. I was fascinated by that when you gave me the information. And then the best way to start any genealogy tracing, and especially if you've got brick walls, is to start with your family. Start with the records that you have, the records you can find and the records you know. Even if you have a brick wall, I'm going to guess that Poland is very similar to Germany, for example. And a lot of records are also church records as you dig in. Yeah, yeah. I don't know where you want to start with, where you start with researching. Well, we'll talk about researching in just a moment. I just want to give everybody a kind of heads up of what we're going to talk about today, because Poland is complex. I learned even in 15 minutes before we joined that it's got a lot going on throughout the decades and throughout the years. So you're also going to show us some of the Polish State Archives and how to research for the particular items or people that we're looking for, as far as baptism and other documents involved. This is very, very important. And I want to point out that Sky is part of a team. And her other teammates are Maggie and Tina. And Maggie and Tina are in chat. So if you have questions, please feel free to drop them in chat. Maggie and Tina are going to also try to answer as many questions that you have in chat, and we'll try and answer them as well as we go along. But definitely drop your questions in chat. Now, Sky studies more the Kingdom of Policia and Lodomiria. Lodomiria. And Tina's expertise is in the Prussian side of Poland. And there's already, we're talking about two different places that you might have heard of or might not have heard of this associated with Poland. And then Maggie's roots stem on the Russian side. So these ladies, the three of them, you guys come together and make the perfect team for Poland. You really match them all together. So it's going to be interesting as we go through some of your notables as well as seeing what there is and where they were born, did they migrate, did they stay in Poland, did they have to migrate as well? Because a lot, Poland was, you know, if you've studied your World War II history, especially, you know, Poland was kind of ground central. And also for labor unions, it was kind of ground central for the world as well. Lots of border changes. Lots, lots of border changes. And Sky's going to walk us through that. So you know if you have ancestors you're searching, you'll know exactly what to call the region at the time that your ancestor lived. And Sky's going to kind of tell us a little bit about why that's important as well. You need to identify the village of your ancestors. That would probably be your first step into researching, wouldn't you say, as you dig back in? Yes. So when you first begin your research and you only know that like your ancestors were Polish or you know that they were Ukrainian or whichever. When you first look into like their immigration records, the passenger manifest typically is what's going to show you what the village was where they were resided before they had came over. And then also if you're able to get a hold of their naturalization paperwork, that's not always possible though. I mean, these records are there, but sometimes they're not available online. You might have to request to the National Records and Archives in order to get these and this piece of information. But a lot of times like where people will start is in just the census records. The US Census Record or Canadian Census Record. It'll tell about the date that they immigrated. It'll tell what their mother tongue was. Were they Yiddish? Were they speaking Polish? Were they, what were they? And then it'll also state like the place where they were born. It'll say Russia, Poland, you know, whichever. And you always have to remember too that depending on the census date, these people didn't know it to call Poland. That's true. We find that a lot with Europe like Italy as well had a little bit of struggle with that as well. So hold that thought. I want to get this one point before we start talking about researching because this was I think one of your most important points that you said please make sure that we mentioned that the Poland project is not focusing just on one ethnic group. Right. And that was a concern that there are many Poles, Germans, Ukrainians, Russian Jews. You even said that Tina comes up with some that you hadn't heard before. So I think that's really important to note as well that I think like when we talk about the Italy project, for example, we talked about Italians. But Poland, we can't just say we're talking about Pollocks or Polish. We've got to really expand that out a little bit. So we've got just a few questions right off the bat. I'm going to show you the project page. Oops. I'm going to show you the project page. And hi, Thomas. We have missed you. We haven't seen you for a bit. And we've got a lot of people here that know the areas that we're talking about, which is great. So Stephen's great grandmother came from an area that you're very deep into research with. And then Janine's, her daughter-in-law's ancestor, arrived in the U.S. about 1911 or so from Poland. And we're going to tell you it was Poland called Poland in 1911. We're going to find out. I know. Julie just started with the project and first bingo. So this is like winter, winter chicken dinner. Welcome, Julie. Welcome to Bingo as well. Here's another side. My ancestors who are German from Russia came out of a region from Poland. So it's really, really awesome how these wiki trees are telling us kind of setting up what we're going to talk about for the regions. Yes, Maggie and Tina are there and they're going to help all of us learn who to go to for which areas as well. And we do have a question. Let's go ahead and see if we can answer it. Did people travel throughout Poland? My grandparents are from two different places and I can't decide if travel was more of a thing than, I guess, need a time frame too. What type of decade or year are we looking at? Since grandparents, I'm going to say probably looking at maybe the early mid 1900s. I would say even just based off of my experience with developing categories, yes, they did travel. Yes, they did go to different areas. Yes. For what reasons, I don't know. It could be like the same reasons why people in the USA travel. There could have been disease. There could have been bad crops or could have been an opportunity to own land somewhere else or could have been a variety of reasons why people would have moved. But yeah, I know from just doing categories and working with one family group, seeing how kids are born in different areas. In travel. And I know we talked a little bit about this in the United States. We also talked a little bit about this in Germany when they visited. And I know the Swedes do this as well for jobs. You move for the jobs where you could keep a roof over your head and family. And this is kind of like hits me a little hard to it. It's so true. Maggie said it's important to remember that researching Polish ancestry that Poland literally disappeared off the map for 1795. It's a 1918. So your record search might not say Poland. It might say something else. So it's really fascinating what has happened to Poland and where they are today as well. Just to follow up. Jen said 1900 in 1910 is about one. Oh, okay. And I think let's go ahead and get started with the project page. So as you guys know, I like to start with the project page, the main page. And this is going to be your beautiful is beautiful pictures, your beautiful Poland project. You guys do something a little bit different than some other projects. What you do is you offer teams that are dedicated towards certain areas within your project that I have not seen before. And I'll tell you what that means. So if you want to join the Poland project and help them out, you will need to join a team. But first, just like every project on WikiTree, go to their homepage to the box and there's going to be a G2G welcome. Go ahead and click on that and read the instructions at the top of the G2G and say that you would like to join the project. Now, let's talk about if you join the project and the teams. This was interesting to me. You guys are in a building stage. You guys are looking, you've worked on the categories. You've worked on profiles and now you're building your membership up and came up with some great teams. And let's show you what some of those teams are. So you've got a challenge team, which is going to be like the THON. And by the way, is everybody still THON exhausted or have you guys recovered from the THON? So I can join one of these teams or multiple of these teams. Is that right? You can join multiple. So I can be on the challenge team. I can be on the suggestion error team. Some people also call those the database error teams where you go and you look at the report weekly and help them clean up the errors that are on their profiles that are assigned to them. We've got the migration team and I thought that was really, really interesting that have a specific team for migration. We have a couple of members that that's especially Steve. And is he even here, Steve Thomas? I think he's here. That is his like forte. That is his thing. That's his bread and butter. So he is fantastic with it. He takes care of it. He works with all different areas in all of the world. So not in Poland, but just everywhere. So we're like, we'll just make a team for you. And then actually somebody else had an interest in it as well. And that's how it starts. That's how it starts with any project. And I love that. So if you have an interest, then that's kind of how these teams get developed. And if you want to take on a role with it or any project, that's awesome. You also have a research team. And I want to point the research team out because you mentioned, I gave you an example. I was researching my husband's family and I want to join the Poland project. But I don't really want to be on a challenge team because I'm not that experienced yet. And I might not be on the cemetery team or the noble team because I'm not that experienced maybe with the language yet. But I do like to research my family and wouldn't mind helping others research theirs. Then I would be on the research team for that. Well, if you pull in project, the people who hold the badges, those are for people who are going to work on profiles outside of their own. So people who are in the research team, they're already building profiles outside of their own. So it might be for family and friends, but they're making all these different wonderful connections within the community. So if somebody doesn't want to join, they don't want to commit, but they do need some help on the Poland project page. We have an area underneath requesting help. So we have developed a couple of categories that can place their ancestors in there. And then somebody from the research team, when they get the time, they'll go in there and they'll take a look at, you know, what they can do to help you to kind of push you push you over the over the hump. So, yeah. And then, of course, the bilingual proofreaders. So let's say I think somebody said they had a document in here. And if you have a document, then I could probably come over here to the bilingual proofreaders, find somebody who might be able to translate for me a document. If you do know the language, then you could definitely join the team and offer your skills in that way as well. But I just really like the teams. I hadn't seen this. I've done a couple projects, bingoes lately, and I hadn't seen the teams like this and I really like it. And the Notables team, of course, you might not think of it, but Poland has quite a bit of Notables as well. Do they still have a noble house? Even though they might not be like the King of England? I know there's a couple of people in Poland in the chat, so maybe they can answer that. I don't know if I could even answer that question. I don't know if I can answer that. Because I imagine the lineage is still continued. They just might not have a throne. Well, like some of them, the descendants were done. So I know some of them, the trail leads nowhere. So that I am not, I am not certain of. And let's go back. Now I want to mention too that we will come back to the research topic in just a bit. We're going to spend a lot of time on the research, but let's go ahead and talk since we're talking about Nobles. Let's talk about some of your Nobles. So I know you know Polish perfectly, right, Sky? I have my cheat sheets here. Bolesław. So, okay, so this was, I'll try it, Trogry, the brave, the Prince of Poland, the King of Poland. And I love this profile. This is a really nicely done profile as well. And you can see the King. Now this was, this is a territory I don't touch because I just know me and I know my research skills, but we're talking about 967. So these are going to be some interesting medieval ones that are going through. I know some markets having a trouble hearing us. And I'm not sure, not sure is anybody else having any issues hearing us. I'll let you guys drop that in the chat if you are and we'll see if we can tech support that for you. Okay, so I love this profile because it's so old. And it's one that I don't get to see very often because I don't resource these areas. So I really love seeing seeing this but also for those of you that don't know that Poland had a King. I didn't know Poland had a King. So that was the first one. And so the interesting thing about him is the day that he crowned himself King. I think he died a day later. Oh my gosh. He was King for a day. Was he? But he was King. He will be known as a King on wiki tree. He's he's well revered as far as a notable character for Poland because of how he expanded the kingdom of Poland. So I mean, he went on into like Prussian areas and I don't even know where Lusatia is. I guess it's a German region, but you know, I made like a little bit of notes here on some of these characters. But yeah, he did that. And then he also he created the Polish church that was free of German control. So that was pretty big for Poland. He made Poland a major European state. He was a member of the Piazt dynasty. So those are those are like his main things. But yeah, it was King for a day and then he he passed away from old age. And I will go ahead and drop the link in there. I think some of you have found them and found that you're related to him as well. So that's good. Hey, when this chat is like one of the most active chats we have ever had everybody says where they're from and their grandparents. I'm so amazed. Everybody loves Poland. And I've got some really interesting notables coming up too. So Razzlewell, I brought this one up because most of you probably heard somebody called John Kennedy and you probably heard Jackie Kennedy. And then you probably heard of her sister and her sister was married into the Razzlewell noble family. So that that's about as far as I can take Poland's nobility that I know of. But another great profile that really shows not only the Polish roots but the Lithuanian roots and wait till after the first bingo card. And we're going to explain those two stickers kind of more to you when we talk about how to research in what regions. So that's pretty much why I brought this gentleman up. And then, of course, I think everybody knows this gentleman, Pope John Paul was he was interesting to I remember when he was selected. It was a different choice, you know, going from to Poland was not something that they thought would happen. It ended up being a beloved choice as well. So it ended up being a choice. But I remember, I remember the choice and I remember how happy Poland was specifically because Poland was really coming out of the aggression of the Union Wars, the labor unions and things like that. And this was a ray of hope I think for a lot of the country. Yeah, they say that when it's it's stated that when he came to the Warsaw airport and kissed the ground that that was the demise of communism, not just in Poland, but in other areas of the world to the world. He has kind of the, who knows if that was really the starting point could have been coincidence maybe not, but he's just a lovely character. That's pretty cool. I love your Polish project people are showing up. Thank you all for for showing up and supporting the project on wiki tree. I love you guys. This is this is really cool. Okay, then another one. This one was interesting. I stumbled on him and I love this one. This one is kind of bringing Poland to Hollywood as well. So I love this this general men Martin happened to play in a lot of TV series. So he was in the TV series Wild Wild West who is the Secret Service agent Artemis Gordon. He also played in the movie The Great Race, along with Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. So this is bringing Poland to Hollywood at this point. I love this and I recognize his face. I was the first thing that I saw. So another great job that the project has worked on this one. This next one. It was very cool to this is like if you're into, you know, war history. This gentleman was really interesting as well. So he reconstructed the sight unseen Nazi German military ignigmas cipher machine. And that was so cool. You definitely I'll drop the link. Take time to read his profile after bingo, because this was a really big deal. But remember that Poland was kind of ground central for war war two and the cypher machine is so cool. Thanks. So if you're into military history, this is definitely something to take a look at this. This profile is just fascinating. It was really, really fascinating. And then one last one show before we do the bingo card. So I will put the bingo card up one more time. Everybody get ready for it. And sky's going to have a really good time with these words. You guys all words in polish. So this gentleman again, I stumbled on this and this is the best thing I think about wiki tree. If you are like, just sitting there waiting at the airport. For my case, I was waiting for the baseball game for stop raining. So I was just on wiki tree randomly looking at the Polish notable and this was a fascinating profile. This guy was born again. We'll talk a little bit about Polish Lithuania, but he died in Savannah, Georgia. And the reason why I thought that was really, really cool was because I'm in Georgia and I was like, how did he die in Georgia in 1779? This isn't recent. This was a while back ago. But the cool thing about this was he met Benjamin Franklin in Paris and was persuaded to come support the American colonies. So he came and fought for our independence here after meeting Ben Franklin. We have a Pulaski day. Yes, it's so cool. And I just really, I had no idea and there's in Savannah and I know the monument. I've seen it. There is a Pulaski monument in his honor. So I just is such a diverse group of notables that I found for Poland that I was shocked at how cool and everything they were that you guys have really not only contribute to the own country, but to the world, to globally. I thought that was pretty cool. And here we go. So in Illinois, it's March 4 for next year. So we'll have to make sure to. Stephen, what city limits? He must be Milwaukee or Savannah. We'll see. So guys, remember, we have Maggie and Tina that's in the chat. So if you have any specific questions or anything that we don't seem to cover, please leave your comment there. And they're doing an excellent job keeping up with everything. It's a lot. Okay, let's talk then bingo. So is everybody ready for your bingo part? I'm ready. I know this is exciting. I can't wait. Okay. So the wind bingo, you need to get diagonal horizontal vertical. There is a free space. Go ahead and click on that now that is a Polish flag. So go ahead and click on that. And that gives you a head start of where we're going to go. I'm going to let sky say the names, but the words will definitely be on the screen as well. If we happen to mispronounce the words, our apologies, if we don't pronounce the words because we're too nervous to. We'll tell you what the word means, no matter what and go from there. Do not speak Polish. So for those that are sitting in Poland right now, we beg your forgiveness in advance, but it's it's all in knowledge and all learning right. The first person that gets bingo is also the first person that gets it on their card and says it in the chat and make sure you yell bingo at me because we do get talking. And I want to just divert just five seconds because a one did a big wiki tree games announcement this week. So for those of you that play bingo and know how to blur it out a word real quick in chat, you're ahead of the game. Trust me, you're ahead of the game. Stay tuned. Okay, so let's go ahead and go. Oh, if you want in the past six months, you cannot win until six months has passed. And let's go ahead and start. So random words. The first one. Oh, this one's a good one. That's me. And that means welcome or hello. And for those of you that are new with your card, all you got to do is click on the mouse when that word, if you accidentally click on a word that you did not mean to just click on it again, and it'll, it'll go. Right, Carol Yes, I think it's pronounced where to what, where to what. And this is Pope John Paul, right. Yes, hope John. Well, this is good. I am too. I'm learning Polish. And so this is good. When you see that little character the L with the slash that's a what, what to what the W's are always a V, what to what, there we go. Okay, so my tree key that is that's one of our genealogy research sites. It's one of the many. And that's what I'm going to show you after this bingo part to the research library. That they have all these links is awesome. Let's just shorten this one and say. Okay. You all know who he is. He's the composer. He's, he's, he, he was untouched. He was the best of the best. He was a child prodigy. He was very, very famous. Very good. His music is very dramatic. It's very intriguing. It kind of draws you in as well. It's not one of those things you're going to fall asleep to usually. Oh, I like this. You guys are having fun with this. Russian parts. Now we're going to talk about all the partisans. This is tricky, but in it in like a one sentence. Is there one sentence that we can explain? This, this was one of the partitions from the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. I believe I don't know if that was the one that was in 1795 or 1792 is one of those. And Maggie, that's perfect. She's playing so on is there. Okay. Oh boy, here we go. Oh my. Mausenchwo. There's supposed to be an O at the end of it. That means marriage. So when you're looking at marriage records in Polish, this is the word that you're going to see for those records. And I want to point out to before we go further, do not close down your bingo card. Some people are have already won, but they like to play along and, you know, y'all bingo who doesn't like y'all bingo. I love the y'all bingo. So don't close down your bingo card until we confirm. Okay. Can you go back to the other word real quick? Go back to the other word. Just real quick. To me, I was just laughing because I was pronouncing in my head before I knew it was marriage and to me it just looks like males in tow. And so when she said it was marriage, I was like, that's, you know, males in tow. Okay. So voy voy de ship. That's the Polish word for a province. That is the proper word. That's the one that everybody should be learning. If you don't know your terms, your Polish terms, you need to know these. All right, Marie Curie, I'm going to go with the short answer. We know who she is. She's, she's a notable. She's a Polish French physicist. So she was the first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, I think with her husband for her work on radiology. What is it? The radio activity. So that was her research was radio activity founded a couple of elements. One of them was named after Poland, Polonia. You know, I will not quote me too much because you guys will definitely have to back check me. But I remember watching an old movie sometime this year about her that Greg Rossin was in. And I was researching her and her casket had to be so thick and heavy because she was filled with the radium that they had to make sure it didn't leak and see. She's incredible. She did a lot of work for everybody. She created X-ray machines for the war too. And she sent those out to, you know, for soldiers in the hospitals and stuff like that. Incredible one. A gamina that is basically it's a cluster of villages. It's an administrative district and it's a cluster of villages. There's not really, we don't have something United States like this because, you know, when you have your city, you have basically your mayor of the city and stuff like that. But this is a cluster of villages. You've got your village, cluster of villages, and then your county level. Interesting. The county is lower or higher? Higher. So you've got your village, your gamina, cluster of villages, and then your Polonia, which is county, big. Polonia, that is, that's what's referred to anybody who lives, who's Polish ethnic and they live outside of Poland, they call them Polonia. And it looks like we have a bingo winner because, yep, you click the flag in the free space. Nice, John. Yeah, Irish John has got it. Oh, okay. I love this. Thank you guys. I love it when everybody tells me because they know I talk too much. Everybody tells me that he has bingo. That's awesome. So congrats, John, on the bingo win. And what you're going to do is, we come over to bingo. You are going to email Eoin and Molly. Make sure you email Molly. Molly just got a haircut. She did. My dog's been like itching to go out. Now you just got to lay down. Lay down for her. I might disappear for a minute to take her out, actually. Yeah, when the doggy goes like this, you know that it's fine. But John, go ahead and email. Now I think, well, since we've got you here, Eoin, the 15th anniversary. Yeah. Shirts and things like that are in the store. So if you win bingo, you could get one of those special limited editions. Here's the 15th anniversary shot glass, I'm just saying. Oh, there you go. And you'll want that because Wiki Tree Day is coming up and you want to make sure that you are all prepared for that. Okay, are you guys ready to dig into the many different centuries of Poland? Yes. That's the best way I can probably explain it. So let's, I guess, let's go back and let's talk about the homepage again. If you're joining us again with when we're talking about Poland. There's timelines involved that to me, and they might not be to you, but to me, they are pretty precisely, slightly complicated because I need a cheat sheet. And the Poland project came over and gave us this cheat sheet. Look at this. It has the dates. I mean, that is really, really awesome. And Maggie, you can just ditch that card. I'll post a second card in just a moment. So I want to give a little bit of time here so Sky can explain a little bit about why Poland has these timelines. And the importance of researching properly during these timelines. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah. So we, the Poland project likes to focus on the area of the partition, which you'll see, you've already pulled up the photograph, you know, the pictures there that shows Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. And then when it was basically partition, the reason why this is important is because a lot of people cannot research their Polish lineage prior to this. It's very, very difficult. So a lot of times this is kind of the starting point for everybody, or this is like the furthest back you're going to be able to go. So it's important to understand what it is. So what year does it start? Well, the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth started like in the 1500s, but the partition with the different wars, it was divided up into three parts. So it's divided up into Prussian and Habsburg monarchy slash Austrian slash Austro-Hungarian. So that's the most important aspect for us as researchers, especially if your origins are in the United States or Canada or elsewhere outside and you had an immigrant that came from Poland. So basically the partitions ended like 1795 and then there was some little trickle effect of like 1804. So you had the three regions. So if you'll kind of go down the slide a little bit. Okay. We've got the Prussian partition. You see the map that shows all the Prussians. So you see on the right hand side of that were Poland is and how that feeds into Germany because that was all under German control. And you see the different Bavarian ships or the different provinces at that time, which were part of Prussia. And then you scroll down and then you have Congress Poland, which was part of the Russian Empire. This map doesn't show Gradno or full of Lublin as well. But those were part of the Russian Empire, but not in Congress Poland per se. Okay. That's off to the East side. And then let's think of Congress Poland more as the Russian Empire. Yeah, Russian Empire basically, but not like I don't know why it was called Congress Poland. But it was it was ruled by Russian Empire. So that that's the most important thing to know as far as records are concerned because that would have been their nationality. They would have been Russian. So if you scroll down, you have the Austrian partition. So that just shows down there with with Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomaria. That's just the Western portion of it that existed in Poland, Galicia and Lodomaria extended all the way into West Ukraine just as well. Okay. World War One. Let me backtrack 1900 is important because give or take a decade that's when a lot of the immigrants came, you know, they left they came to the United States came to Canada. And when you're looking at records, it's not going to say that they were from Poland. It's going to say they were from Austria, from Russia, or from Germany, or from pressure. That's really important that everybody kind of let's sink in for a minute. Poland did not exist. Just remember that not until World War One. And when you do these records and you see like the, you know, the Ellis Island information, or you see the census information United States, and they're saying Russia, but you swear that they were from Poland. This is this is why we're getting these different names come out. So there's a period of time and as Maggie mentioned earlier, Poland did not exist as a word as a country that it was a different name territory. Same land, land never moved land still there people still there people that might have been born in Poland, but then if they left or died. Same farmhouse. So let that just make sure as you're looking through your records and you're researching if it gets confusing come to the Poland page and look at the dates because the chances are Poland was wiped. The name was wiped off the map. Well, and remember your your ancestors didn't know what to call what they were from as the border changed through the throughout the census records. In 1910, it would have said Russian, you know, Austrian whichever, and then after like 1929 1930 that's when you start seeing Poland and whatnot, but they themselves didn't know what to call themselves because nationally they were not Polish they were still they were Russian, they were Austrian, but that no longer exists. So, not that really matters because now they're a new citizen of a new country but I think there was kind of this, I don't like to say identity crisis but they didn't know what to call themselves and then you had people after the war who were stateless. They didn't have citizenship it was revoked. They really didn't know what to call themselves and it had probably held to emigrate as well. We and we see this with Austria hungry has the same, you know, change of territory lines and things like that we see that, but not to the extent that we have seen with Poland. Yeah, well, Austria hungry Galicia. And that was part of Austria hungry. So, Austria hungry was the poorest country in all of Europe. It was a third world country, these people had. Well, I can't see. They didn't have a pot. They, they, that's why they came they came. They left. They came with the promise that they were able to own land that they can farm it that they, they would have a better life so. There were people who remained and we're able we're able to remain but this is where you get a lot of the Ukrainians that fled. So they fled right after the turn of the century right when the Russian Revolution was starting in 1905. There is Polish nationality, you know, going on so they didn't feel like they had a home. There's just a lot of civil, a lot of civil discourse so they came during those times. I know I said this before, but I'm not kidding. I've done it with my own research. Come look at these dates and come look at the information and it'll clear things up, especially if you're researching US and going back to Poland and trying to kind of see what's going on. The one thing that I find amazing with your project as well is that if you do not know how to categorize something. You guys clearly say just ask us, we will do it for you. Don't don't even bother don't even stress over it just come and ask us we are happy to help. And I love that. Yeah. And it's based off of present day position so it's it's I think in the protocol it's 2022 because that's when I developed it but that's all pretty much the same right now. So present day category fulfills any point in history for any of your ancestors but always remember on the wiki tree profile itself. It should reflect the historical name. So it's okay that reflects the historical name and it's it's position or nested in the present day category is we want all profiles from that particular village. We can't create categories based off a coordinate wish we could. Yeah, like a map of coordinate that way, you know, regardless of border changes, you know the village but unfortunately, there are many villages with the same name and Poland some of them appear over like 20 times. Sometimes they're in the same poeot and that gets a little bit county gets a little bit more complicated so we just prefer to go on ahead and take care of that. You can place those in the polar profiles in the poeot or the boy to ship they'll be seen eventually if it's something that's needed immediately, you can contact me or Tina and we will, we'll create your village categories for you immediately. But otherwise we kind of slowly work through the list that you have and I think this is again this is on their homepage this box and take the time if you need something created take the time just to scroll down. It's towards the bottom half of their page but they clearly make it visible. So if you do need a category made for you they give you step by step of how they will help you and I love that because there's a lot of times categories are made, especially when we're talking about foreign languages. How do I use the correct letter do I use the letter that you would use in Poland do I use the letter that I would use in us do you have both some some countries on wiki tree have companion, you know, in there. And so I think that this is just brilliant that you guys came up with this when in doubt or even a little bit fearful. Just go to Poland project they are more than happy to help in do that I love I love that about you guys that's awesome. Okay, let's we talked a little bit and there's no way that we can explain all the different polling changes and their names and their territories and the dates is just a lot. Go to their homepage, they also have the other resources but let's talk a little bit about research library and I'm going to drop this link. They have a full research library for you to dig into if you're researching for ancestors or anybody in your trees. We're just going to skip into this and is a lot this is awesome. This is a lot this must have taken you guys a while to put this page together. And to any time if, if anybody has anything new if you find a new link, please share it with us. Please, please, please share it with us I can express that enough we can't do everything. We love getting suggestions from anybody. I get random messages every now and then saying hey you know check out this link this would be great to put on the page I add it to the page it's wonderful thing. Anybody who does that so. But yeah the research page. It's broken down by, you know, various things that you would want to research so it's amazing so you've got your general research by location which is fabulous if you know where your ancestor is and you can pinpoint a location. That probably be your first start, but you guys go a little bit deeper so you've also given us some military records you've also given us the Holocaust records which are very, very important that we recognize those as well in wiki tree. You've given us immigration you've given us Poland in the United States Poland in Canada as well because we do know that there's a large contingent of Polish that came to United States but Canada as well. You've given us kind of research areas in those locations to. I mean I really feel that if you have a Polish ancestor that you're looking for the chances of you finding them from a one of these items on this page is pretty good. Much and not just Polish to other ethnic groups just as well so glad you mentioned that because as this guy really pointed out she really wanted to make sure that everybody knew that there are so many ethnic groups within Poland. It's a you're almost a melting pot like the United States like we call ourselves and there's so many and there's different ways to research them as well. I agree with Maggie I posted up her information as well church records are fantastic ways. If you have any family stories or histories they might drop an idea of the location, you could start with that as well. I would say that definitely, you know, as Maggie said geography matters the dates matter because then you know what you're calling the geography of Poland at that point in time to. This is something new to me so Polish records are not centralized. No. They have different archives. They can be positioned with different churches. So you have the village church you have the archdiocese. So there's several different ways that you can find it. Remember that not all villages had a church. So the main thing to make sure is if your village did not have a church is to there's the Jewish Jen has a nice list of who the parent church or affiliated church would be that information is on that page. But even when I did the one place study I found records and all these other villages that were you know pertinent to to pleads to my village that I was researching so make sure that you you figure out where all the churches were surrounding your village and you double check all of those two because you just never know what might turn up. You have no idea where they married. I mean you don't know and look under every name surname that you have as well because you know in the United States they tend to change their name Ellis Island did not change names but the people themselves tend to change their names a little bit. We see that a lot with first name like Johan is becomes John for example and things like that but they also changed their last names a bit since you brought it up. I want to talk a little bit before we do the next bingo card this is a really really cool story and I think this applies to all of us in wiki tree. And it's one of those I wish it would apply to me in certain cases on wiki tree as well. So we're talking about a name study as well. And this is yours. This is one that you created. And this was basically you created this to kind of capture your own ancestors. Okay area. So I, you know I've been researching my genealogy for probably 25 years and my Polish lines specifically have been untouched for about since the last year. For 24 years nothing because I had a huge brick wall. I did the one place study to pleats, my Polish lines were not from there he married a woman from there her family was from there she was Ukrainian it was Ukrainian village, he was Polish, they weren't from there. Because they weren't from there. I looked at my DNA. I looked at all my Polish matches. I came up with possibility of some common places where they could have been from I had well as our chicha that was like a big, it was a big to do that kind of came up over and over so I knew I needed to sort of look there. So then what I did is I created the surname study so I started to research anybody with my last name to see if I could kind of link up my DNA matches. Of course I was going to have to do the work on there and because a lot of people, you know they just have like, maybe a tree going back to grandparents and that's about it so I did do some of that work. I had that up for maybe about two months. And Thomas is in here Thomas on shower he's in here he's the one who reached out to me. He's so great really. Yeah, he reached out to me, and he says, Oh my gosh, you know you have information on my family. This is really cool so we went back and forth and he asked me you know I was doing this and I basically told him my story about my brick wall and a little did I know one Christmas he drops me an email and he took upon himself to go to the church of bull as our chicha and he found the marriage record and he gave me like three generations back and I can't ever like repay him for that. That's just the most wonderful thing ever but had I not done this study. That would have never happened I would have never made this connection so what I love about wiki tree is how it can give you the ability to make these connections with other people. I get random messages all the time, all the time either from my one place study from whatever. And it's wonderful to make the connections it's wonderful to be able to give the gift to other people, and to receive them to. But you know I always always talk about on bingo the power of wiki tree and I talk about the different projects how they work together so we know that the Poland is working together with a lot of Slavic countries and probably Germany and we've got you know you mentioned Russia you mentioned Ukraine we've talked a little bit about Austria, Hungary, but the one thing that I have never been able to actually give to you guys on bingo is a cousin bait, and I love an actual cousin bait that worked in like the sky said she's had this for about two months, and Tomas came and said hey, I found you. And this is this is your, you know, I he was just amazing. I don't know how he found me just some random search and now he is just he's been bitten by the genealogy bug he transcribes records and genetics, if you know genetics, genetics is so important to any of us researchers, he gets records he develops relationships with these priests so he can scan them. He is just wonderful wonderful asset to to Poland research just on a whole. We would not have this. We would not have this and I want to point out something that sky has done very well with this page and I encourage everybody has a one name study or one place study I really really encourage you to give as much detail. Sometimes when when you start a one name study or one place study you're not quite sure where to go how to do it or what to add to the page. I know that I helped set up a lot of one place studies and we have a template and we just give you the basics. Here's the name here's the location here's wiki pd page and some people just leave it at that and that's fine if that's what you're comfortable with. But I just really want to encourage that sky is living proof that cousin fate works when we treat for one name studies and one place studies because also she filled out the information on these pages so well detailed giving as much information as she can. So then when somebody goes to Google or wherever your search engine is and searches. This comes up towards the top. And this is what's going to bring somebody to your one name study your one place study especially if you have brick walls, or you have something going on that you just can't figure out and you need help or you need documents. But because sky filled this out with so much detail. Thomas was able to come and say, oh wait, these are my people as opposed to if it was just kind of blank. He would probably question it and saying that maybe it's not. Yeah, whatever else he was working on so again I just really really really want to encourage everybody that if you have profiles that are very important especially brick wall once if you have one name studies one place studies this is the power wiki tree we get to add this huge amount of text and biography and information to these pages to create that cousin base. So thank you for sharing that well done to Thomas as well. Let's go into the second bingo card and then we'll finish up with an interesting news article that sky has as well. So if you guys are ready I will drop the link one more time we're going to go through this card pretty quick. I knew this bingo would run a little bit over so thank you guys for staying with us. And let's play bingo. Okay, same thing is as before if you get a bingo horizontal diagonal or vertical, please whoever's the first one that gets it that yells bingo in the chat is the winner. If you've won in the past six months you cannot win again until six months has passed. And if there there is, I believe it is something really cool in the middle here in amber crystal ball is in your free space so click on that now you get to click on that. I love amber and when you gave me the words and I saw amber I knew amber was going to be in the bingo. Again, those of you that have been in bingo or here today in learn to yell bingo fast. This will help you when it comes to the wiki games in August. That's all I'm allowed to say. Okay, let's go ahead and roll the bingo. Remember guys, we're going to go pretty quick. Malbork Castle. What is this the world's biggest cat castles in Pomerania, North Poland. And I believe one of the Stevens was looking for Pomerania and research knows it would know. I direct you to Tina. She is pierogi. Do you know what these are. I do. You should know what this is. They're yummy. I mean, you can get on almost anywhere but if you have a trader Joe's and you definitely get them there. I have yet to do it like from scratch, but, you know, No, yeah, you know that. That's part of being an American and only having, you know, being a Heinz 57 you kind of lack some of that culture sort of. There was our Pomeranian request from Steven Grimwood. Okay, crackle, crackle, crackle, crackle. I think it's the second largest city in Poland. It's in lesser Poland, but void a ship or Malowski. Void a ship. Polska that is Polish for Poland. When you're researching Poland, you should know some of these Polish words, especially when it goes to avoid a ship because we got the English and we got Polish, you should know both. I'm not sure since we're talking about wiki games. Is this the name that's on their Olympians uniforms. I remember. Yeah, it should be probably pose non that is greater Poland but void a ship large city. What is that known for. I have written most gay friendly city in Poland. There go. Famous for the croissants. Really. That's definitely a winner winner. Okay. Give me one second. There we go. It's a very old, old city. Other nice line. Does anybody know what that is Tina you can't answer. That's the modern German Poland border after World War two does anybody know who created it. Any guesses. You don't, you don't get a prize for this but. No. Does anybody know it seems like you have to know crickets are chirping it's Stalin Stalin created it. Oh really. Yeah. So this was the German Polish border after World War two. Okay and don't close down your bingo cards until we confirm that we have a bingo winner. The Baltic Sea Baltic Sea. I don't know that's on the northern side of Poland. That's where Hitler traveled traveled through to do his invasion. When he reached Godansk slobs and we all know what slobs are right. And we should point out that pretty soon right now if you're looking at some of Poland's projects, notables and things that says Polish roots. The roots is going away we got that straight from anyone before bingo so you'll start to see Poland project and you'll sort of a sticker for roots and I love Maggie sticker that that has Slavic roots. I love that sticker I love the graphic one so you'll still have those but the project box itself will be pulling project. So Baltic shows up as genetic group on your DNA is that Polish no. I think Baltic States is more Scandinavian. I'm you know it's it's going to be all in that region. I show up Eastern European for mine. But Baltic is Sweden Finland it's it's all it's kind of a different ethnic group than Slavic. I want to pause and just make sure this isn't a typo scanned over 11,000 pages. I told you he he's he's remarkable. I flabbergasted. He helps so many people now I'm you know he's just wonderful. Thank you for joining wiki tree now that we all know your name. He's he's on my proofreader list so he's my go to guy when I did like the wit to me page for Polish speakers so that was kind of my translation page because we don't have help pages in wiki tree for Polish yet. That's something we want to do. But so I created a free space page for people who only spoke Polish so they'd be able to navigate through some of the basics of wiki tree and he helped me with that. Angel is actually in Poland right now to Baltic or Latvia Luthian Lithuania excuse me in Estonia. All right so shuttle that is a Jewish community that typically resided sort of outside of a village. Jewish folks normally didn't live in the village they had their own community but so they call it a shuttle. And then they also said during the war World War two it was much easier to convert these into ghettos because they're already living in the same area which was very sad so. And outside of where that have been mixed. Yeah well I mean they might have been in the city so if it was a big city it would have been a Jewish community which was the shuttle but then it was easier to convert it into a ghetto during war so. GRI Poland this is actually new and it's preservation for Jewish records but the site itself is very beautiful. They do locator services to so even if you don't have Jewish roots you can use that to help you with locating a village or what the village name was over to Maggie real quick Maggie probably will not remember this but I would say probably around 2017 maybe 2018 Maggie actually helped build out my we have a bingo but unfortunately Miss Margaret has to wait two more weeks. Oh because he already has a cup well it's been within six it's been with she's not quite over the six month. She's so close I know we talked about that in our Appalachia channel that I thought that she was she was eligible but not quite. So we're still going and I do have my my list up so I appreciate you so much Margaret such a sweetheart I appreciate you so much. Let's see and Carol Carol has to wait as well. Okay and I did see Steven I'm sorry about Steven Steven I love Steven he comes in and always bring such good comments to our bingo as well and he is a two time winner at bingo so I love that and I agree Maggie. I love all you guys Carol and Margaret and Steven you guys are awesome for coming in being a good sport and still playing it's fun to play bingo. Oh yeah. Okay so let's keep going. All right so oh you did you have that bow visa forest that's the biggest forest that was the one in the back they're known to home the European bison. In 1969 what's does anybody know what 1569 is what's what's it's got to be related to a change of territory or name. We already talked about a Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth was established. So Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 until 1772 since the first partition so those are the most important for us as researchers because you're not going to get typically further back unless you're in all the lines. So that's good to know too so as you're researching this is the best you can get which I will tell you if I could get that I would love it. That's why you should you should you should understand Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth you should understand the three partitions. Three partitions were for a couple hundred years until World War one those are the most important as researchers to know. And we we have a bingo winner so Julie even though you want a shirt during connectathon that has nothing to do with your winnings here at bingo so you want. And I will tell you that if you want a shirt definitely reach out to Steven to see his green shirt he showed me what it was and it's really cool looking but the most popular item in the wiki tree store hands down overwhelmingly is the infamous all black bingo mug. I mean it's big has a little bit of a following people will start posting it on the wiki tree Facebook pages that they got their mug. But what you're going to do is Julie you're going to email a win and she's going to send you a link to the store it's up to $30 it's a wiki tree branded store so they have hats they have mugs they have shorts long sleeve short sleeve all kinds of things. But just tell her that you won the bingo during the Poland project bingo and she will get you the information that you need. There are literally just added the 15th anniversary shirts were literally just added so definitely check those out as well you know I'm a fan of the bingo. Okay, before we wrap up, I want to talk about the article. So sky tell us a little bit about what we're looking at. This will make me cry. I'm not. I don't want to read it. It's basically through the one place study when I, I basically built up profiles for anybody who immigrated from the village of my ancestors so that people could find them, especially people who are in the United States or Canada or whichever they could connect to the records that I had already like built out there's over 7000 profiles or about 7000 profiles in the one place study. But they include people who immigrated at any point in time and that was so that other people could connect to it so this is like my favorite article that I had found so this guy was in camps. Just absolutely atrocious conditions led just just I can't even imagine, like none of us can ever imagine you can't even scrape this what these people had gone through, but it's just such a beautiful article. You can even post a link to oh you did post a link. But I love his quotes on there I can't read the quotes I'll start crying. I'm like emotionally connected to all these people so, you know, anyways it's just in the second column is probably probably the best but he was able to come to the United States after the war after being in camps and people had relatives identified him in a local newspaper so they're able to bring him through chain migration and after all his family had basically been killed during the war so. And it really is special it says although I've been in the United States only a few hours I love it already. He was garbed in working clothes and those of us who have gone through much in Europe, because he chills much in Europe really consider we are entering heaven when we come to live in the United States. It's powerful when you know his story when you know the story behind it and I have the link also dropped in there and a few of you've asked about the wiki tree store I dropped that link as well. And I just want to say that Poland is kind of similar to what we are a project of Apple actually talk about it's complicated. You know there's not an easy answer for Poland, but it's thriving, and the history is there. You can see how they a lot of the people of all ethnic groups stayed in Poland migrated out we've we've seen examples of, you know, Americans coming to Hollywood they've come to Hollywood. Thank you gentlemen's comes in just so thankful to be in America which he considers having in a new start, and thankful for all the people that have helped as well like Thomas. It's just fascinating that the Poland project has brought so many to wiki tree. And I hope everybody has a similar story where you can really go out and research. If you get stuck, reach out to the Poland project. If you need a category for especially location, reach out to the project they are more than happy to help it's an awesome adventure for you to go and dig, because you they've got your back. They're going to they're going to make sure that they help you along the way if you have any questions. So sky and Maggie and Tina. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming and showing us a little bit of your passion on wiki tree I appreciate it. All right, thank you. If for those of you that are watching live thank you so much you guys have been a blast today you've been very chatty and we love chatty we love the questions and for those of you that are watching after this is gone through. If you have any questions, still reach out to the Poland project and they'll be more than happy to help you out. Have a good weekend everybody.