March 11 , 2007:
Encore Presentation: Visiting Jewish Poland
Presented by Cecile Wendt Jensen
2nd Chance- A REPEAT PERFORMANCE OF AN OUTSTANDING PROGRAM! DUE
TO A TECHNICAL FAILURE LAST SUNDAY, WE ARE BRINGING YOU
ANOTHER CHANCE TO LEARN INCREDIBLE INFORMATION.
Cecile (Ceil) Wendt Jensen was given a family history writing assignment
in grade school. She interviewed her father Frank J. Wendt. He took a
brown canvas pouch imprinted with F. Missler from the top dresser drawer
and removed three small pieces of paper written in German. They were
the birth certificates that her great grandfather Franz Wendt and his
sons Franz and Adolph used for their passage to America. She was hooked!
Her father's untimely death several months later cloaked
her family history in a mystique that lingers today. She
was determined to continue her research and find out where
the documents came from. At that time she was perplexed that
the certificates were in German yet the family was Polish.
Ceil is now a Certified Genealogist who has documented her
ancestry back to the 1600's. She has done on-site research
in Poland and now understands how a Polish family once carried
documentation written in German.
Arcadia recently published Ceil's book Detroit's Polonia.
She has completed two more publications: Detroit's
Mt. Elliott Cemetery and Detroit's
Mt. Olivet Cemetery. She has a forthcoming
book for the Polish Genealogical
Society of America, Sto
Lat: A Modern Guide to Polish Genealogy. Ceil presents
practical examples and suggestions on how to use records,
databases and archives to start or advance your genealogical
research while dispelling the myth that records were destroyed
during the World Wars and that language barriers make European
research difficult. She delights in helping researchers find
their ancestral villages.
Ceil taught in public schools for 30 years. She transitioned
to professional genealogy in 1999.
For additional information see: www.mipolonia.net
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