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Are you curious about your Family History and want to know more, but just don't have the ability or time to do the research yourself? Would you like to discover what interesting things might have happened to your Ancestors?

How much do you know about your ancestors? Were they pioneers, entrepreneurs, immigrants looking for a better life or just for religious freedom? What challenges did they face, what was their day-to-day life like? Do you know what motivated them to come to America?

Do you look like your ancestors? What characteristics or traits have you inherited from your ancestors? And what can they teach you about yourself and about your own life patterns and choices?


These are some of the questions that encourage us to gain more knowledge about our ancestors. Are there additional questions that have motivated you to explore your family history?

If you are curious about who your ancestors are and what places and events shaped their lives, then you have come to the right place. Genealogy research can help you learn about your family's unique history, traditions, origins, and how those things led to your life.

Allow The Genealogy Assistant be your guide on a voyage into the past. The Genealogy Assistant offers a number of genealogical and historical research services that can be tailored to meet your needs to can help you in the search for your ancestors. For us the reward is in the journey, whether we are researching your ancestors or our own.

So? What Cities did I go to in Poland?


slide03Many people have asked me where I was when I visited Poland this summer, especially my genealogical colleagues, so I thought I would answer that question with a map.

This map only shows the places I have been in 2011 and only marks the cities that I was in. I am working on a map that will show the cities I visited in Poland during my 2004 and 2006 trips. Once that is done I can overlay the maps so you can see all the areas I have been to. Basically I have covered the overall central portion of Poland leaving only small areas on the far east and west part of Poland that I have not been to yet. 
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I hope to create a more detailed map soon with the position of every location that my new GPS camera recorded, then the latitude and longitude recorded on each photo will place a marker on the map. I have to figure out how to extract that a data from from the photo EXIF and put it into a database format that Google Maps understands. This obviously can not be done one by one (I have over 6,000 photos from this trip), so I have to find software that will handle the task.

The area in the red circle marks the area I spent doing genealogical research, and I have included a map that shows that area in greater detail. 

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