My family's experience in discovering our ancestors in Poland. We knew our grandfather and his brother evaded the Russian/Polish army by dressing as girls and stowed away on a ship to America. After our journy to the fatherland, we became aquainted with over 200 here-to-for unknown direct ancestors and relatives, many of whom we met personally and have hosted in our home over the years.

1. Family
History
We
Are
Doing
it!

2. The Hearts of the Children
have Turned to their Fathers…
Grandfather
Milczarek
died when
my father
was only a
young boy…

3. The Hearts of the Children
have Turned to their Fathers…
At our family reunion this summer my Dad told us he would
like to go to Poland to see where his father came from

4. The Hearts of the Children
have Turned to their Fathers…
We kids decided to take our Mom and Dad
to Poland to learn about Grandfather

5. Because of the Truth they
have learned from Elijah
Malachi 4
 5 Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the
LORD:
 6 And he shall turn the
heart of the fathers to
the children, and the
heart of the children to
their fathers, lest I come
and smite the earth with
a curse.

6. And We as the Children can
Seek Out our Loved Ones

7. Preserving their names and
their memory

8. We can strive to be worthy to
kneel in the temple

9. And bind
them to
us for
Eternity
These are
the cards
which are
used in the
Temple to
record the
Sacred
Temple
Ordinances.

10. Here is how do we actually do
“Temple Work”
My niece Kimberly
prepared the names
to be submitted to
the temple.
My sister Carol and
brother-in-law Bill
were baptized for
them in the Provo,
Utah temple

11. Next week my mom and dad and
sister will come to Mesa and we
will all go to
the temple
and seal
Jan and
Apolonia
to their
parents

12. Dad's Family Tree
Before our trip to Poland
Arthur
Milczarek
Born USA
Living in SierraVista, AZ
Stanley (Stanislaw)
Milczarek
Born in Poland?
Came to USA
Archibald John
Milczarek
Born 18-Jan-1921 SLC, UT
Living in SLC, UT, USA
Albert (Wojciech)
Milczarek
Born in Poland?
Died 1937 Palo Alto, CA, USA
Victoria
Milczarek
Born in Poland?
Came to USA
Piotr
Milczarek
Born somewhere
in Russia or Poland
That’s
My Dad

13. Genealogy-We’ll Keep Doing It
Remember the 5 people on my Dad’s family tree before
we went to Poland?
Just look at our family tree after our trip!
That’s
My Dad
It is wonderful to get to know so many family members
but we have lots more work to do…

14. Finding the old Homestead…
Skierniewice
Warsaw

15. Kasia
Mira
Our Family in Poland
Darryl
David
Jonathan
Jim
Bart
Art Gary
Merry Ewa
Arch
Adele
Jolanta
Honorata
Carol
Simon
Michael

16. Genealogy
I Am Doing
It!
With cousin
Kasia at the
Warsaw
Airport

17. We went to church in Warsaw

18. “Kosciol” means Church in Polish

19. Chopin Concert in Warsaw

20. Sister Carol Shopping

21. Harry Potter with Babushka

22. Dormivnt Vigilant

23. Mom’s Luggage

24. Getting there is half the fun

25. Genealogy on the road

26. We found the old hometown church

27. Church in Slubice where
Grandfather was Baptized

28. Inside the old church in Slubice

29. Showing the Priest family pictures

30. The
Priest
opens
his
Archive
to
us…

31. We learn the Priest speaks German
so we ask more family questions

32. Into the Archive Library

33. Everyone searching for names

34. Can you find Piotr Milczarek?

35. We met our cousin
Wladyslawa in Warsaw

36. Sharing what we learned

37. Cousin Mira’s Mother and
Grandmother

38. We got to meet them in person

39. Cousin Stefan Milczarek

40. Dad, Stefan, Jolanta, & sis Carol

41. Pause for
Pirogues
for Dinner

42. Berry Good Eating

43. Back to work

44. Cousin James plays Rachmaninoff

45. Street Musicians in Lodz, PL

46. Swing your
partner, now
promenade home

47. Zofie & Stefan with us in Krakow

48. Flame-roasted Salmon anyone?

49. How about trying Nutella…

50. We
found
the old
family
home

51. Cousin Mira and her mother

52. Mira & Kasha's Grandparents…

53. We remember our loved ones

54. Mira with daughter and father

55. Yasmina and her kittens

56. “Koti” is the polish word for kitten

57. We learn of new found family…

58. As we embrace loved ones…

59. And share our heritage

60. The land of our forefathers…

61. So rich in tradition…

62. So full of culture and history…

63. The faces we will never forget
The faces we never knew

64. Family History-
I am doing it,
My family history.
And the love I feel
when I am doing it
Is very sweet to me.
I’ve read stories of my
progenitors,
I’ll write my history.
I’ll keep records
of my loved ones
On my own family tree
Family living now and
the ones who’ve died
Can all be sealed to me,
And some day I’ll meet
every one of them
I’m sure as I can be.
Oh what joy we’ll have
when they say to me,
“We’re all a family,
I am yours and
you are mine now,
Through all eternity.”