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This Web Page is intended to be a repository of information about my grandfather's village of Strubowiska, the village of Smerek, and the surrounding villages in Gmina Cisna. Strubowiska and Smerek are located in southeastern Poland, geographically near the location where the present borders of Poland, Ukraine, and Slovakia meet. Here I will post information about the villages obtained from my research, and the research of others, including maps, history, surnames, genealogy information from census records, cemetery transcriptions, passenger arrival records, etc. In addition, this site will also provide information about the villages where immigrants from these villages settled in the U.S., primarily Clearfield County, PA. If you are researching this area and would like to join our Smerek discussion group on topica.com to share genealogical information, please enter your e-mail address below and click on join. Note, this discussion group is for a rather small geographic area -- the 20 listed villages. Please consider these limits before you ask to join our listserver group. |
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Begging For Acceptance, by Carol Menges Their story is told by their oldest daughter, focusing on her mother's relentless drive to achieve respect and acceptance all through her marriage—especially from her in-laws—and how her lack of any ethnic social status impacted everyone around her. Included is the mother's heroic history she never knew of own parents, about their separate emigration from Old Country Galician (Ukrainian) villages on the north side of the Carpathian Mountains just before World War I closed the borders, and their subsequent struggles among the lowest of the low classes in America.Check it out on Amazon.com. |
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Hunky - a book by Nick Karas about the experiences of the immigrants from the Gmina Cisna and Gmina Lutowiska areas. Check it out on Amazon.com. |