My family was not from Konin, or so I thought. I still haven’t been through all the records that I retrieved during my trip, but apparently, we were there. From JRI-Poland, I knew that the Konin archive had a couple records for my Halpert family. So I took the train over and went to the archive in the morning.
I found those two records, the births of two siblings of my great-grandfather, Henry Halpert, finding that their mother was a widow on the second record. That changed the story a little. But I still haven’t found the records for the older siblings or their marriage, or any other Halpert records, except for her husband’s death, which is in the Kalisz archive.
I had plans to go to the Kalisz archive next, but that proved a bit difficult. I couldn’t find a train or the right bus, and it was Friday. Instead, I wandered around Konin for a bit before heading to Krakow, but I didn’t go much more than a couple blocks away from the train station. I hadn’t done any research about what was in the city, as I didn’t expect to stay for long while waiting for a train.
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- Konin
Train station arrival in the evening.
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- Train Scenery
From Warsaw to Konin.
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- Archive in Konin
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- Konin Park
I only walked a few blocks from the train station. I was looking for somewhere to have lunch and found this park.
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- Konin Park Fountain
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- Konin
I'm not sure what this was about.
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- Konin Memorial
"Soldiers of September 1939, sons of the land of Konin, on the 50th anniversary of the homeland defense."
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- Berlin-Warszawa Express
There were some excited game fans on this train that went through the Konin station. The Euro 2012 games were still going on while I was in Poland.
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- Wrzesnia
And then I ended up at this station for a few hours.
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- Train
This train went by while I was waiting. Same artist as earlier?
The URL of this post is http://idogenealogy.com/blog/2012/10/21/konin/.
All photos and content Copyright 2012 by Banai Lynn Feldstein.
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