Nick Gombash's Genealogy Blog

I don't know too much about this branch of my family, because church records are not readily available on microfilm. Here is what I do k...

Yesterday, I was able to obtain a written transcription from the 1730's of the 1690 patent of nobility that was issued to my 8th-great-g...

This has been one of my most dead-end lines up until a few years ago, thanks to the Poznan Project. This is the family of my 2nd-great-gran...

Amelia Stec is my 2nd-great-grandmother. She immigrated to America via Ellis Island with her daughter, Katarzyna (Catherine) Grządziel on 27...

This is one of my favorite families in my family tree; the first one being Bódogh (a future post!). Tóth is the surname of my direct-paterna...

Martin is the surname if the only great-grandparent I was fortunate to meet and spend time with. Her name was Sylvia Martin, and she passed ...

The Szepessy de Négyes family was the first connection to "large" nobility I had in my family tree. I discovered this cousin line...