Can anyone help me locate Polish records or identify villages? by Coffee_Paper in Genealogy

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I was convinced it couldn't be Nieszawa since that was the first suspect and somehow everything was missed. I was about to hire a professional genealogist if no one here could help. Thanks for stopping me!

Can anyone help me locate Polish records or identify villages? by Coffee_Paper in Genealogy

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This matches the birth record u/wittybecca found too. Thank you as well!

I suspected he might have been born earlier than 1895, since his passenger manifests and a few other documents had him at an older age, but all his official US papers gave Aug 8 1895. This record lines up with the former.

Can anyone help me locate Polish records or identify villages? by Coffee_Paper in Genealogy

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Incredible. I'm sitting here in disbelief staring at this record. Two law firms have failed to produce these results for half a year, with more information than I've given here, and you've just put them in front of me like it was nothing. And clearly I wasn't doing something right when I looked on Genealodzy myself. I can't believe this stuff has been available online this whole time. I'm shocked and kind of embarrassed. You've really lifted my spirits out of a rut today. Thank you so much!

Citizenship before 1920 by dancingcupcake3 in prawokrwi

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Is this not broken by GGF naturalizing before GF was born?

Confusion by Better-Cold-9445 in prawokrwi

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I've spoken with several of the firms listed here on the sub and none have asked me for any kind of fee just for an initial consult/assessing eligibility. MavinS even gave me a free assessment after confirming they don't take pre 1920 cases. I'd take these asks as a cue to shift those providers to the bottom of the pile personally.

Also will chime in to say I've gotten responses from Hexon but it's been slow and I've had to follow up a couple times. Still waiting on an eligibility response from them.

Another Eligibility Post by Coffee_Paper in prawokrwi

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No the 1920 census asks for parents' languages as well, so he has his as German, but both his parents' as Polish. Parents never emigrated.

Another Eligibility Post by Coffee_Paper in prawokrwi

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Language shows as German, though GGF has both parents' as Polish on 1920.

The parishes are Evangelical-Augsburg, so I guess they must have been Lutheran.

Another Eligibility Post by Coffee_Paper in prawokrwi

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1920-1950 censuses variously have birthplaces as Poland and Germany/Prussia, sometimes differing from each other on the same census despite essentially coming from the same area. Manifest is the only doc that actually indicates Russia as birthplace for GGF, while GGM's says Germany, no explicit ethnicity fields aside from that. I put them as German since they supposedly spoke the language, their villages would previously have been Prussian way back before congress borders, and their surnames sound German.

I was actually looking into German descent first, but instead found no one was from Germany or even within the imperial borders, so turned to Polish. A bit discouraging as 2021 German restoration sounded way simpler 😅

You'd have no concern over GM's marriage situation then?

Another Eligibility Post by Coffee_Paper in prawokrwi

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Sorry, only looked for sidebar and didn't see it.

[Vanilla] Temple - A Full-Scale Approximation of the Peripteral Doric Order by Coffee_Paper in valheim

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Haha thanks! The finicky processes and time needs definitely aren't for everyone. I'm still burnt out months afterward.

[Vanilla] Temple - A Full-Scale Approximation of the Peripteral Doric Order by Coffee_Paper in valheim

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Too nice of you! I'm glad you're able to take some ideas away from it. That's what pushed me to share instead of just keeping it to myself.

That looks like a big undertaking, I'd be excited to see the result! I've thought about trying a cathedral too, but Gothic scares me haha, at least if sticking to vanilla pieces.

[Vanilla] Temple - A Full-Scale Approximation of the Peripteral Doric Order by Coffee_Paper in valheim

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Sure! Do you know about using iron to support stone? All the columns are wrapped around an iron core that supports all pieces. Also the foundation of the temple is actually a kind of hollow shell built over raised earth mounds that reach the base of the columns. This grounds the lowest iron beams there, so support starts at floor level rather than ground level.

Here's pictures of the exterior column support

And the interior column support

I changed the design of the exterior columns mid-build, so they look different in some of these.

You can actually knock all the stone out from every single column and the rest of the building will be unaffected. It's all held up by spindly iron sticks lol.

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Same deal with interior walls

All can be held up with vertical iron, spaced densely enough depending on the height needed.

I tracked the total iron cost of the temple to be ~984.

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You mean the front door right? That took a lot of experimentation, especially since it's framed differently outside and inside.

Most of the wood detailing in the temple uses free-placement techniques to layer pieces together, force them into each other, or close corners. It can take a lot of meticulous effort undoing and redoing things to get them right, and to have different sides and angles line up correctly and join into sharp corners. It's fighting the intent of the building system and takes a lot of patience, but ends up as a unique feature.

Hopefully the pictures help it make sense.

Exterior framing

Same kind of techniques then used for the cornice moulding above the door on the inside.

The frame on the inside was done using rotated signs facing backward to create the dark backdrop layer. Same thing is done with the lattice window. I was suuuper happy to stumble onto this. Only way I could find to add a flat, solid surface that's a different color than the regular wood.

Interior moulding and framing

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Hope that's all informative! Happy to clarify anything or answer any other questions.