With the close of one month, it's time to look ahead to the upcoming month's research challenge. For December, that bustling month of holiday preparations, I'll hopefully reserve some time to gain a breakthrough on yet another of my father's Polish ancestors, my second great-grandmother Elżbieta Gramlewicz.
For this upcoming month, I'll be taking my cue from last month's research success. I'll not only be exploring what I can find on Elżbieta's parents, but examining her collateral lines. Of course, the main reason for such a move is to seek connections through DNA matches, but in finding records for those collateral matches, it is also possible to find corroboration for other family details, such as mistakenly-entered surnames on records. After all, Polish surnames are not exactly the easiest to spell, as I've already discovered with the past two months' research projects on my paternal lines.
To search for Elżbieta, we'll shift our attention from last month's focus on the tiny villages in Pomerania to the west and the province of Posen, another region where Poland was also swallowed up by the governmental designation of Prussia. Thankfully, once again, a local Polish genealogical organization will come to our rescue with their website providing not only transcriptions of Prussian documents but also links to view the actual records. In particular, we'll be seeking the Gramlewicz family in or near the town called Żerków.
As we launch into December's edition of my Twelve Most Wanted for 2025, I'll start with a recap of what we've already discovered about Elżbieta Gramlewicz from work in past years. Then, as always, it will be time to explore what record sources are now available to us this year, and look for promising signs of Elżbieta's life story between 1825 and 1886.
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