Having wanted to go for years, I took my first trip to Europe to see the cities and do genealogy research. Here are the blog posts about my adventure.
I brought my Round Tuit on the trip. It just seemed appropriate. :-)
Day-By-Day Posts
Written in and posted from Europe (except for the very last ones).
- Day 1 – Arrival in Warsaw
- Day 2 – [Warsaw Sight-Seeing]
- Day 3 – Genealogy! [Lomza Archive]
- Day 4 – Small Towns [Visiting Ancestral Villages]
- Day 5 – Trains
- Days 6-7 – [Konin Archive, Train to Krakow]
- Day 8 – [Shortest blog post ever]
- Day 9 – [Krakow Archive]
- Day 10 – [More Krakow Archive, Visit to Auschwitz]
- Days 11-12 – Trains, Ukraine, and Glad to be Jewish
- Day 13 – Kopinovtsi [Finding My Ancestral Home]
- Day 14 – [Passing Time in Uzhgorod]
- Days 15-16 – [Uzhgorod Continues]
- Day 17 – Mukachevo
- Days 18-19 – More Uzhgorod
- Day 20 – Mighty Genealogy Browncoat [Success in the Uzhgorod Archive]
- Day 21 – Travel [To Paris]
- Day 22 – IAJGS Day 1
- Day 23 – IAJGS Day 2
- Day 24 – IAJGS Day 3
- Day 25 – IAJGS Day 4
- Day 26 – Paris
- Day 27 – End Game [The Journey Home]
Post-Trip Blog Posts
Cities Visited
- Warsaw, Poland
- Łomza
- Zambrów (Jewish Cemetery)
- Rutki
- Wizna
- Jedwbne
- Konin
- Kraków
- Kazimierz
- Auschwitz
- Poland to Ukraine
- Uzhhorod, Ukraine
- Kopinovtsi
- Mukachevo
- Paris, France
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