Melissa Strojek, Mansfield
I am the great-granddaughter of Polish immigrants. For those of us who love genealogy and family history, find ourselves fascinated by those who came before us, especially when they faced many hardships — most of them worse than any of us in a modern world have faced.
Imagine travelling to a foreign country where you spoke very little of the language, had only the clothes on your back, what you could carry (children included), and had all the money you possessed in your pocket. The most discouraging part of all may have been travelling in the belly of a large ship in very poor, filthy, smelly conditions.
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