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Betting on a better life back home
In earlier posts, I pieced together the story of the chain migration of Bosakowski family members from Założce, Austria to New York City between the years 1905-1921. About 20 Bosakowski family members… more →
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Betting on a better life back home
wrote 1 month ago: In earlier posts, I pieced together the story of the chain migration of Bosakowski family members fr … more →
Sailing in the Titanic's wake
wrote 1 year ago: One hundred years ago today, my grandmother Katarzyna Bosakowska arrived at the dock in Cuxhaven, Ge … more →
One more generation in the Bosakowski family tree
wrote 1 year ago: When I started out this family history project, I could only name one great-grandparent. Now, with a … more →
The final chapter in the Bosakowski immigration story
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wrote 1 year ago: In a series of earlier posts, I described how my grandmother Katarzyna Bosakowska was one of over a … more →
Christmas cards from behind the Iron Curtain
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wrote 1 year ago: I remember that my father had a small stash of Christmas cards from relatives in Poland. After a bit … more →
The laboriosus who became an oppidanus
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wrote 1 year ago: Bazyli Bosakowski, my great-great-grandfather, was born the son of peasants in a village called Miln … more →
The Bosakowskis of Milno (part 2 of 2)
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wrote 1 year ago: I have traced the family of my grandmother Katarzyna Bosakowska back five generations to my third gr … more →
The Bosakowskis of Milno (part 1 of 2)
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wrote 1 year ago: After poring through church records going back to the early 1800s, I can trace my grandmother’ … more →
The Lower East Side or the Eastern Front: the Bosakowski family during World War I
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wrote 1 year ago: In earlier posts, I told the story of how my grandmother Katarzyna Bosakowska came to America. She w … more →
The phonograph swindler
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wrote 2 years ago: Not long after my grandmother Katarzyna Bosakowska arrived in New York in April 1912, she landed a j … more →
The Bosakowskis take Manhattan: 1910-1915
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wrote 2 years ago: In an earlier post, I provided an overview of the sixteen Bosakowski cousins – including my gr … more →
My grandmother’s immigration records – at long last!
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wrote 2 years ago: When you start a family history project you have this dream of finding the very moment when your anc … more →
My great-grandparents’ 1883 wedding record and other cool finds
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wrote 2 years ago: I learned that the Family History Library possessed microfilmed copies of church records from Zalozc … more →
The first group of Bosakowskis come to New York: 1905-1910
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wrote 2 years ago: On May 26, 1905 Ignacy Bosakowski sailed into New York harbor on the S.S. Carpathia – a ship that wo … more →
Maps of old home towns
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wrote 2 years ago: I’ve been searching the web for vintage maps of my grandparents’ home towns – Zalo … more →
Keeping up with the Bosakowskis
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wrote 2 years ago: My grandmother Katarzyna Bosakowska came to this country in 1912 – one of at least sixteen Bosakowsk … more →
There's nothing like a good obituary
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wrote 2 years ago: Researching your family history can lead to frustrating dead ends. This is especially true when it c … more →
Identifying my eight great-grandparents
wrote 2 years ago: When I started my little family history project two months ago, I could only name two great-grandpar … more →
Katarzyna Bosakowska Kowal
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wrote 2 years ago: My grandmother Katarzyna Bosakowska Kowal was born in 1893 in Galicia, the part of Poland that fell … more →
