Dorota Walker Tłumacz Przysięgły Języka Angielskiego - Certified Translator

27/04/2026

🧐 Researching Polish ancestors in London? Not as weird as it sounds! The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum holds an absolutely amazing collection relating to the Polish government and military during the Second World War. I went through some papers to discover more about a man from Silesia who went through Siberia, the Middle East, the UK, and finally settled in Belgium. Absolutely wonderful story of resilience and the power of the human spirit!

🛩️ Who knows maybe you will discover that your Polish granddad was a wartime hero there?

🥰 And the British Library is a fabulous place to visit no matter what you are looking for. Always special in my heart - still feels like home!

02/04/2026

🐣 In the spirit of Easter, a new blog post about the records in https://lnkd.in/dEd5RsBt.

🐣 If you hit a in your research, I hope you will find some inspiration here!

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30/01/2026

📢 O tym marzy każdy genealog! Mapa małej miejscowości z naniesionymi domami, numerami i nazwiskami właścicieli. Nie ma szans na znalezienie tego w żadnym katalogu.

🥳 Najlepsze odkrycia są zawsze przypadkowe. Tym razem opłaciło się przeglądać "Kronikę Szkoły w Końskiej" - kiedyś odrębnej wsi w Księstwie Cieszyńskim, obecnie dzielnicy Trzyńca w Czechach.

😬 Ale żeby nie było tak łatwo - numery domów, których szukam pojawiają się podwójnie. Pomiędzy I wojną światową (z tego okresu mam ostatnie dokumenty), a rokiem 1940, kiedy narysowano mapę, zmieniły się nazwiska właścicieli. No i teraz zgaduj zgadula! A było tak blisko... 🤯

📢 It's every genealogist's dream! A map of a small village with houses marked, the house numbers and the owners' surnames. No chance you can find it in an online catalogue.

🥳 The best discoveries are always made by chance. This time it was so worth to go through the entire 'Konska School Chronicle' - a village in the Dukedom of Teschen, currently a part of the town of Trinec in the Czech Republic.

😬 It can't be too easy though - the house numbers I'm looking for appear on the map twice. The house owners' surnames changed between WW1 (that is the period the last documents I have come from) and 1940 when the map was drawn. So it's a guessing game! Sooooo close 🤯



Zdjęcie: Zemsky Archiv v Opave

27/11/2025

11/11/2025

🇵🇱 While everyone's celebrating the Independence Day in Poland, I visited the State Archives in in the Czech Republic.🇨🇿

⏳️ Although abroad today, it was the capital city of my home region - Austrian . I learnt a lot about their collections and how to use them in research on both sides of the border.

📜 I must say, handling a manuscript from 1484 is not how most people spend their day at work

👑 Absolute privilege!

If you have questions about in Central Europe, please drop me a line.

10/11/2025

To ogromny przywilej wnieść wkład do tak wspaniałej wystawy w jednej z najbardziej prestiżowych polskich instutucji kulturalnych jaką jest Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich/ Ossolineum. Mimo, że znam każde słowo i przecinek w opisach, to z wielką przyjemnością ją zobaczę, gdy następnym razem będę odwiedzać piękny hashtag

It was a great honour to give an input to this fantastic exhibition at one of the most prestigious Polish cultural institutions - Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich/ Ossolineum. Although I know every word and comma in the descriptions, I am really looking forward to visiting it next time I am in beautiful hashtag .

18/10/2025

12/03/2025

💻 📜 I have had an account on Ancestry for years and searched for hundreds of people there. Records for family history in the U.S. or Great Britain are amazing, and it is a useful tool for genealogists. Although there are some digitized collections relating to Central and Eastern Europe, I was never very hopeful to find my Polish ancestors there. I get notification emails with potential matches, but they are always so random and are never even close to the names in my family tree. That was until yesterday… https://dorotawalker.com/2025/03/12/ancestry-free-family-search/