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From: "Alan J. Kania" <>
Subject: Off topic - Wikipedia
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 17:47:37 -0600
In-Reply-To: <4459340F.F37F911C@erols.com>


Please keep in mind that when you cite Wikipedia as a source for research,
Wikipedia can be edited by anyone who wants to "correct" information on the
site. It doesn't mean the corrections are correct. Using Wikipedia as a
primary source has become controversial and those of us in mass
communications are urging our students NOT to use it because the information
is not always confirmed to be factual.

-- Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: Laurence Krupnak [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 4:52 PM
To:
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [POLAND] Galicia

Hello Debbie,

"Control" and "occupier", IMHO, will require Paul to present an
indepth political and history discussion in his family history report,
or at least detailed footnotes in his family history chart.

Regarding Poland in 1960, it was "a sovereign state as defined by
the international law" - the People's Republic of Poland or Polish
People's Republic (PPL) (Polish: Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL).

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_Poland

Now the semantics: PRL leaders since the 1956 were appointed or
accepted by the Soviet Union leaders (the USSR...Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics). "They (PRL) aligned their policies with those of
Moscow, making the PRL a satellite state subordinate to the Soviet
Union."

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_Poland

Nevertheless, the fact is that the PRL was not a republic of the USSR
- from an international law perspective.

_____

Lavrentiy Krupniak





Debbie Greenlee wrote:
>
> Paul and Lavrentiy,
> My point in listing the village, Poland and the occupier as I did was so
> you could keep POLAND in the location and not get confused.
>
> Austria was in control of Nowy Targ (Galicia) in 1900.
>
> USSR was in fact in control of Poland in 1960:
>
http://www.poland.gov.pl/The,20th,century:,Poland,under,Soviet,domination,36
1.html
>
> Debbie
>
> Lavrentiy wrote:
> Poland in 1900 was not a nation-state
> Poland was not part of the USSR in 1960
> Lavrentiy Krupniak
>
> Debbie wrote:
> Paul,
> If you are using a genealogy program, one way to handle this is to list
> the village, Poland and the country "in charge" at that particular point
> in time.
>
> In 1900 you might record, Nowy Targ, Poland, Austria
> In 1919 you might record, Nowy Targ, Poland
> In 1960 you might record, Nowy Targ, Poland, USSR
>
> Debbie
>
> Paul Tomasko wrote:
> > My great grandmother is from Nowy Targ, Galicia. What other countries
> has Galicia been part of? My fathers side of the family is from
> Slovakia, and my mothers side from Poland. My great grandmother came
> over to the U.S. about 1900. On my tree I don't know if I should put for
> place of birth as either (1) Nowy Targ, Galicia, Poland or (2) Nowy
> Targ, Galicia, Austria-Hungary or (3) Nowy Targ, Galicia, Hungary. I
> look forward to hearing any suggestions.
> >
> > Paul Tomasko
>
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