Nick Gombash's Genealogy Blog

Back about 5 years ago, I discovered a newspaper article from the late 1910's that stated an Emma Gombash was divorcing an Alex Gombash...

Grządziel is the surname of my paternal grandfather's mother. I don't know too much about this line considering the Roman Catholic ...

Have you ever seen a family use the mother's surname, instead of the father's? My maternal grandmother, Elaine Stuempges, is the gra...

My paternal grandmother's surname is Adas. Before immigrating to America, they were ethnic Kashubians from West Prussia. It was my gran...

My mother's family, the Rodgers, have been in America since the early 18th century; immigrating from Ireland in 1718 and settling in Pen...

A few weeks ago, I was doing some indexing and arbitrating for the Hungarian civil registration records on FamilySearch Indexing. To my sur...

Long have I put off beginning this weekly genealogical meme, but it's about time I started! Before I begin with the actual data, I wante...