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Żnin County, Poland: Traveling in the Footsteps of my Ancestors

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  Żnin County, Poland: Traveling in the Footsteps of my Ancestors Is a genealogy-based tour worth your while if you are many generations removed from your immigrant ancestors? What can you learn about their lives just by visiting the towns and villages where they once lived when so many years, and world events, stand between you today and their lives long ago? This past September, I had the opportunity to answer those questions with a walk in the footsteps of my ancestors on a trip to Poland. I’ve been to Poland before, but both trips were before I had the luxury of time on my hands to pursue my interest in genealogy. In 2002, I traveled with my mom and sister. Mom only knew that her grandmother's family was from ‘Posen’, so off we went to visit Warsaw, Krakow, and Poznań , the city, on a bus tour. We had a wonderful trip, and enjoyed just being in Poland, even if we weren’t quite sure where our ancestors were from.  In 2014, I returned to Poland again, this time with my husba...
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Who is Credliss Barry?

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Exploring the name "Credlelass" One of the remaining unanswered questions about my early Lingle ancestors is the name and identity of Paul Lingle's wife or wives. One possibility is that she is the daughter and step-daughter of immigrant couple Susanna and Johannes Artz, identified on the passenger manifest of the Adventure in 1732 as "Credlelass Bennech". Credlelass is certainly an unusual name - should we assume it was a mistake and that her actual name was something more common, perhaps Catharine? Or was this an actually name or nickname (vorname or rufname, spelled phonetically on the list) used in the community where this family originated, the Palatinate and Alsace, specifically Bruchmühlbach-Miesau? While paging through the transcribed records church records of Heidelberg Township, Berks county, I came across a possible clue - another Credliss! Credliss Barry as recorded in the transcribed St Daniel's Church Record is Margareth Elisabeth Mauntz, daugh...
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