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Google Earth Presentation

As you click on the icon above, a Google Earth presentation featuring a 360 degree virtual tour with a personal audio/visual commentary opening up a virtual odyssey tour of my Eastern European roots in Poland, Slovenia and Ukraine. This virtual tour can be displayed on computers, tablets and smartphones which makes it compatible like O+ blood with multimedia attributes of interactive Google maps, historical video clips and photo galleries, background music, annotated notes as well as customized virtual panorama connectivity and more!! Thus, making it a "keepsake" presentation for my family, grandchildren and future generations.

      1. Click on the country icons at the top of the opening screen and there's an index to peruse each photograph for each country.

      2. For each virtual photo, there is a Google Earth map provided for your convenience in viewing the geographical location from roof top to outer space.

      3. On each photo you will find icons for individual photos and/or red balls as hot links to other nearby virtual photographs.

      4. Once a still photo is displayed within each virtual photo, click on it and the still photograph will appear in the center and then click on the "I" icon on the tool bar if it is unshaded.

      5. By clicking on the "I", a commentary about each photograph will be displayed.


John Kuzmich Jr. Genealogy Blog; Eastern European Roots

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Poland: Snietnica, Stawisza, Krempachy, Nowa Biala. Juszczyn, Krolik Polski, Trzebunia, Więciórka, Maków Podhalański, and Szaflary (KUZMYCZ, KUZMICZ, KUZMYCH, KUZMICK, BOCHNOVICH, GALINIAK, HOC, BASALYA, KUCSALA, SURMA. PAZIS, WOLOSHYNOVICH, KUCHTA and TOMASKOVIC)

Ukraine: Maximilianovka (KUZMICZ, PETROVICH, PUGACH, IVANOVICH AND FEDOROVICH)

Slovenia: Novo Mesto (TURK, GAZVODA, STANGEL, HROVATIC, SCHURER, SEVEROVLJA, GOLOBIC)

Czech Republic: Stara Wieś -- Staravesz in Moravia: (DLUGI)

Slovakia: Holic (GALINIAK, SKUBOVA)

Life Story of John Kuzmich, Jr. through a Google Earth Presentation

My Eastern European Roots of John Kuzmich, Jr.

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

 Ukrainian Genealogy Is Still Possible Today Because. . . !:   Be prepared for the next level of excitement if you do your homework?! (reads better click here)

Who said that doing genealogy was boring?!  Here's a small scenario of my Ukrainian relative’s most recent success story.  Now it is unrealistic travel to visit my relatives because NONE of them are living where their homesteads were before the 2014-Russian-Ukrainian War of today.  Especially is this true with my relatives on the ‘Donetsk side (eastern side) of Ukrainian where the Russia army is so aggressive with massive destructions.  Fortunately, all of my relatives have mobile phones.  An added blessing of helping us was that I sponsored a niece to immigrate to America in that she is very much in touch with her parents living in Western Ukraine today and can easily translate for me. My uncle was dramatically rescued at the very, very last minute when his home was blown up.  If he would have stepped out of his neighbor's basement (bunker) 30 seconds earlier, he would have died instantly.  Here are photos of his home and that of his son in-law’s home in absolute rubble.  His youngest daughter then miraculously hired a private driver after their homestead was blown up to pick up my uncle in the middle of an active war-zone to drive him 11 hours over 550 km away to join their family in western Ukraine in reuniting his wife, daughter and son in-law and grandchildren after almost one year of being separated because of this war.  How do you buy gas for a car in Ukraine must be quite a feat to accomplish?  Now they are all living together in one room, three generations together with only a few hours a day of electricity along with a minimum of heat during a cold Ukrainian winter much like in Colorado.  But if a bomb were to hit their house, we could easily lose three generations.

To learn about this mircalous escape from the Russian bombings to my uncle's home along with photos, please go to http://www.kuzmich4.com/Facebook/Ukrainian%20Genealogy%20Is%20Still%20Possible%20Today%20Because.pdf






An Incredible Story About our Dlugi Relatives from the Czech Republic in Nowa Biala, Poland

Here's an unpublished history of Nowa Biala, Poland pertaining to our Dlugi ancestors who originally came from the Czech Republic.  It came from Tadeusz Pilat, our very important Polish genealogist.  Click here for this incredible story at http://www.kuzmich4.com/Dlugi/Dlugi.pdf.

Here's a true story that was obtained from an unpublished history of Nowa Biala, Poland pertaining to our Dlugi ancestors who originally came from the Czech Republic.  It came from Tadeusz Pilat, our very important Polish genealogist.

However I do have information about Joannes (Jan) Dlugi (Slovak: Dluhy,
Hungarian: Dlughi).  In fact he is one of the few inhabitants that we have a little bit
of history for.  And I only know about it because when I was in Nowa Biala, I took
some notes on a unpublished history of the town.  And it goes something like this:

In approximately 1765, the church in town burned down and after a little 
delay, the town leaders decided to rebuild it (what is now the church in town).
Much of it was to be brick and so they hired three bricklayers from Silesia; they
were three brothers named Dlugi. They obviously came from a town named 
Stara Ves ("Little Village") in what is today Moravian/Silesian section of the
Czech Republic.  The distance away from Nowa Biala was 150 to 200 miles.
I have no idea why they had to go so far for bricklayers.  They came and did 
their work on the church.  Two of the went home; one stayed.  That one has to
be your direct ancestor, Jan Dlugi.  I believe that he is ancestor of all the people named
Dlugi/Dluhy in the town.  HIs story is well known there and in fact that house his
family lived in is called something like "the house of the bricklayer." (House 55).
Dlugi's have lived there since (perhaps to the present day). 

Now I can't absolutely prove all this but it is the only way of explaining
the facts and stories I have.  That's all I have but it is a lot more about a single
person living in the town than practically anyone else.

Let me know what you think!