No, this is not about a text received from one of my traveling friends, laying out the itinerary while abroad for holiday in Europe. Having exhausted the resources for Irish research on my father-in-law's great-grandmother Margaret Flannery, I am giving up and moving on to my plans for October's research project.
That move is made with misgivings, however. It's not that finding my own father's ancestors in Poland will be any easier than pushing against the research brick wall in Ireland. But at least it is a new—or at least newer—project. Perhaps that will infuse some energy into the search.
For this month, my plan is to delve into what records can be found in the small village of Lubichowo, part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship—or province—in the northern coastal region of Poland. Not that we haven't wandered in that direction before; I've struggled over my father's roots for nearly my whole life. It's only been in recent years that breaking through that closely-held secret of my paternal ancestry—that we were not Irish, after all, but Polish—has enabled me to explore the truth of the matter.
For the remainder of this month, we'll review what we've already learned about my father's paternal grandfather, Thomas Puchała, and begin exploring what else can be found about his life in Poland during the mid-1800s.
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