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