Jacek Jakubiec and the entry to Black ManorToday my big adventure was a day trip to Jelenia Góra just an hour and a half west of Wrocław. I was planning to meet Jacek Jakubiec who is the curator of the museum for Dwór Czarne (Black Manor). I will explain in a moment...
Some of the churches in the distance.This morning I woke up and the weather was perfect! I slept in late and then took my computer down to the outside seating of the hotel restaurant and had coffee while I worked on my blog posts and organized photos.After I finished blogging, I...
Lithograph from about 1850 by E. SacheA number of Blog posts ago I wrote about Dwór Czarne and the search for the Polish Manager after WWII. In this post I will present a history of Black Manor.When it comes to the timeline of this interesting and still very mysterious structure, I suggest...
Continued from Part 2The next piece of evidence was found in the 2/1999 issue of the quarterly Skarbiec Ducha Gór.The reader, Mr. Zbigniew Tomery, who is no longer alive, wrote a letter to the quarterly referencing an article about Black Manor from the December 1998 issue.Jelenia Góra, 08/18/46, at the gate...
Story continued from Part 1Here is how the process began for Jacek, in learning more about the unknown Polish manager of Black Manor.Lithograph from about 1850 by: Eduardo SachseThe unknown Firkowski/Wirkowski took over the management of not only the manor, but also, the entire agricultural property, which until recently was called...
Your family history research may help more than your family. Normally history helps genealogists find their ancestry, but in this case, genealogy helped a historian. When Łukasz Firkowski and I began researching the Firkowski family in order to find out how we were related, I knew that the information that we...
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