Approaching the last three of my Twelve Most Wanted ancestors to research for the year of 2025, we move from the family lines of my father-in-law to those of my own dad. I have to smile to think that as I drew up these plans at this time last year, I had given up hope of finding anything further on my father's Polish roots. By the time I actually did the research this past fall, enough resources had opened up to enable me to progress far more than I had dreamed. Let's hope the same will hold true as I shift from last year's exploration of my father's maternal line to seeking his paternal roots next October.
First line of research for this coming fall will be on my dad's patriline, with his grandfather, Thomas Puchała. Thomas, of course, would be the English counterpart to whatever his given name actually might have been in Poland. I still have quite a bit of work to do to track down any actual documents to verify his existence.
But "Thomas" is not the only one I'll be seeking. I'd like to expand that search as wide as I can to determine if there were any of his siblings who survived to adulthood. At this point, I have not found any, but it would help to know, especially in the case of finding DNA cousins who are related to this line.
The search for the Puchała family this fall will take us to Lubichowo in northern Poland, in what once was the domain of the historic region of Pomerania. Hopefully, as happened last year, revisiting local genealogy websites will lead us to newer resources and, perhaps, additional documentation. I may have a skeletal sketch of my father's paternal family tree at this point, but it would be so beneficial to add collateral lines with some additional guidance on names, dates, and places for this extended Puchała family.
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