Review of 2021

Happy New Year! The Polish Family History page is 15 months old. Sharing the journey of discovering our ancestors with the 133 family and friends who follow this page has been fun for me. Of the people reading the page, 76% are women and 56% live in the US. As I learn more, I set new goals that I couldn’t imagine doing at the beginning. For instance, there are 20 second cousins from the US and 44 from Poland. This group also has spouses and children. I now have a goal to identify all of them and their families. This is a VERY large task which requires lots of help. Besides the genealogical purpose of the birthdates, I have a goal to wish everyone a happy birthday. I have been working (with help!) to find birthdays so we can celebrate with them. While I hope you find what I prepare for the page to be interesting and useful, some of the most popular posts have been happy birthday wishes. It may be a very small thing to wish happy birthday to someone we don’t know who is related to us. Some of these wishes, however, lead to new connections, which is very satisfying. Even if they don’t lead to anything more, the birthday wish is an acknowledgement of the person being part of the group of us. Who is this group of us? The second cousins are all great grandchildren of Jan Raczkiewicz and Katarzyna nee Kaszucka. We range in age from 32 to 78 years old. We live in the US and Poland – and also Sweden, the UK, Germany, Iceland, Greece and Ireland. Approximately 12 of our parents are still alive– ranging in age from 74 to almost 100 years old. A few people from our family died in the past year and a few babies were born. I hope to learn more about us in the next year!