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Hi I am Mary from Pennsylvania. I am of Polish-Slovak ancestry. As you can tell from some of my posts I have recently found relatives in Poland. Trying to find relatives in Slovakia but having a hard time due to lack of information. So glad that I found this forum. Everyone is so nice. Love viewing the pictures. Thank you Jaga for doing such a beautiful job.

Hi Mary,

I am so glad you found our forum. We have some Slovak-Americans. Ron, his nick "Kaima" is one of the longest members in the forum. Very recently he even contributed some articles about the region on Polish-Slovakian boarder:

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art34070.asp
Polish Part of Tatra & Pieniny Mountains seen from Slovakia

Hi Mary -

This is Kai, the Slovak from PA, up here in Alaska most of the time since '71. If it were not for the width of the Poprad river I would be at least half Polish. As it is I claim Slovak casually, and Rusyn when things get to more precision.

Where is your trouble in getting information on Slovakia family? THere is a discussion group "Slovak-Roots" for geneology help on Yahoo, and Slovak-World on Yahoo for general discussion, some argument and lots fo tales about food and other things.

Glad to see you are on board!

Kai

For all our new visitors - please, tell us something about you!

Hi all,
I'm Suzanne and have been a lurker on this forum for a few months. I found it in the spring when I came here to post a question. I've enjoyed reading many posts and am amazed at the variety of topics here. I have some Polish ancestry in my background but I know pitifully little about Polish culture and history. But I'm very interested in learning more, and this site has certainly been educational.

Hi Susanne,

thanks for uncovering yourself and hope you would like it here with us. Please, don ot feel bad if you do not know that much about Polish culture yet. I do not know that much about American culture although I live here more than 10 years!

Czesc,

I am from San Diego. I was raised in Denver. Went to St. Joseph's Polish School and Church. No Polish Language classes there, just English.
Both Parents were from Poland, Blazejewska i Przedzienkowski. Attended the University in San Diego and continue to live there. Most of my career work has been in the field of Computer Science.

Czesc Kuba,

nice to see you here!

I was in San Diego briefly in Spring. This is a beautiful town. It seems that we have something in common, at least in a science part and also some interest in the Polish heritage <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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Hello.... I am Marge Galus Sandlier of Omaha, Nebraska. Both my paternal grandparents immigrated from the village of Leki G�rne, Poland (located between Tarn�w and Pilzno) to Nebraska. My maternal grandfather immigrated from the village that is now Borzyslawiec to the northeast of Szczecin. It was under Prussian rule when he immigrated with his parents. I have been interested in genealogy for many years, but tracing my Polish roots has been my main focus for the past several years.

My husband and I have some of our genealogy on our website. My family information is at
Forget Me Not .

I was introduced to the Polish Culture website when I received an e-mail (from Nancy, I think) telling me that she had posted a link to my Polish photo albums on my website and at Webshots.

I took my first trip to Poland in May/June 2004. I stayed with a cousin with whom I connected through my webpage. He found my web site though a Google search. I have to say that my exprience in Poland was wonderful!!! I can hardly wait until my next trip. No definite plans are on the horizon as yet. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> It was so awesome to be able to visit the village of my ancestors and walk where they walked and breath the air that they breathed.... Gives me goose bumps just remembering the experience.

Besides genealogy I am interested in photography and crochet. I am trying to learn the Polish language, but I fear that I will always remain a neophyte in this venture.

I look forward to checking out the forum further.
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Hi Marge,

welcome on behalf of me and Nancy. Nancy should be back tonight or tomorrow.

You have really a wonderful website, I am glad Nancy found you and introduced in our site.

We just moved the site from a different location. We had there over hundred thousands visitors per month, now we have to build this site since scratch. But we hope we will succeed since we have so much information already on the site, but it would take a time!

Thanks for joining us here!