Znajdź polskie informacje // Find Polish Information: HelloQ Sorry for the inconvenience, I don’t speak Polish very well. I have documents from my grandparents with me and I would like to explore my genealogy tree, I like genealogy.

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  2. Run Google Screen Translate on these pictures. It does an amazingly good job at character recognition in picture and then translating them to English.

  3. This is a military service book. The person was born in 1902 in Bereść, gmina (commune) Mołodiatycze, powiat (county or prefecture) Hrubieszów. Orthodox Christian. Polish language speaker. Parents called Piotr and Marja. Married a lady also called Marja on the 18th of November 1922. I cannot decipher her surname. Two kids, born in 1923 and 1927. He was literate. Was a shoemaker.

  5. Thank you very much everyone for taking the time to translate. This document belonged to my mom’s grandfather and now we find ourselves reading his comments. thank you !

  7. You could get an ancestry.com account and upload it to check for cross references

  8. That’s fun, some of the locations mentored are quite close to where my grandparents live

  9. With this information, you could probably identify the parish. Back then most recordkeeping was done in parish registries. Lots of them have been digitized or archived, if they havent burned down before then. You can browse them online for free, browse the physical archives (would obv require travel to Poland) or pay a company to go and search the archives for you. I think somebody linked a possible source for digitized versions.
    In those books you can find records of birth, marriages and deaths, often also tips about the parish that person came from if they moved (rare). You can probably trace a few generations back based on that, usually up to ~1860 but sometimes even back to late 1700s.

  10. Also, here’s the exact village: RJ28+GWM Bereść

  11. Also a fun tidbit: the first kids exact birth date not being recorded was often a subtle hint that it happened less than 9 months after the wedding 😉

  12. Judging by the religion, place of birth and languages spoken, the person those documents belonged to was Ukrainian

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