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		<title>Emigration Of Bandera Texas Polish Silesians</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elenora Dugosh Goodley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Napoleon freed a part of Poland in 1817, problems arose for the Polish people. An agreement was made at the Congress of Vienna in Austria. Austria took the Polish Saxony region and Russia took most of Poland. The Russian Czar, “Alexander,” formed the kingdom of Poland, giving it a constitution, an army, and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of St. Hedwig Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 09:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Mylius and Michelle Stiefer Lovering</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving through the state of Texas, it is not uncommon to see many small towns decorating the countryside. Many of them are farming communities established in the mid-19th century that have not grown much since. One such place is the town of St. Hedwig. With a population of 1,443, St. Hedwig has stood in east [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Stoneham, Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 13:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward C. Kucera Jr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Joseph Catholic Church was established in 1909 by a group of Polish-speaking immigrants from the Grimes Prairie, Stoneham and Plantersville areas. For many years, Stoneham&#8217;s Polish community worshiped either with the Polish community of St. Stanislaus in Anderson or with the Ukrainian-German community of St. Mary in Plantersville. In 1909, because of historical rivalries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of St. Michael&#8217;s Parish in San Antonio</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doris Jaeschke Kosub</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The parish of St. Michael&#8217;s in San Antonio was established on 8 November 1866 when Father Vincent Barzynski, a Resurrectionist priest, arrived from Rome. It was the third Polish Catholic church in Texas and the United States (after Panna Maria and St. Hedwig). It was also the third Catholic church in San Antonio-the first being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panna Maria, Texas: The First Polish Settlement in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Lysiak Jr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many know that the largest settling of Poles outside of Poland is in Chicago, Illinois. What few know is that the first Polish settlement in America was in Texas, south of San Antonio, in a place called Panna Maria. There were Poles in Texas before Panna Maria. There were Poles in the failed French colony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Polish People Of Thurber</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo S. Bielinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreword There are perhaps a half-million people scattered throughut America who have ancestral ties to Thurber. This is the &#8220;Thurber Diaspora.&#8221; When Thurber was shutting down from 1921 to 1933, about 3,500 people had to relocate. The majority of Thurber&#8217;s coal miners moved to the Illinois coal fields or other jobs in northern cities. Others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of St. Mary Catholic Church &#8211; Brenham, Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Addicks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Established on November 19, 1870 the second Roman Catholic parish in Washington County, Texas, St. Mary&#39;s in Brenham, has evolved over the last century and a quarter into a congregation of over 1,000 families. A projected growth of an additional 500 families is expected by the turn of the century. The parish was founded and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, Chappell Hill, Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Felchak Hill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roots: There is a Polish, melancholic song which describes the reason and origin of the emigration from Poland to the United States: Goralu, czy ci nie zal odchodzic od sron ojczystych; Swierkowych lasow i hal i tych potokow srebrzystych. Goralu, czy nie zal&#8230;Goralu, wracaj do hal. A goral no gory spoziera, i lzy rekawen ociera; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polish Texan History Timeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Smock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time line lists some of the important events in Polish, Texan and American history that had an influence on the Polish Texans. This timeline can also be viewed as it relates to a specific person or persons in our genealogy database by clicking on the timeline button on the persons main page. An example [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of the Founding of the Polish Colony in Bremond Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teana Sechelski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Joseph Bartula in the year 1894 (translated by Katherine and Teana Sechelski) &#34;In the year 1873 I left my native country on 16 May with my entire family from the town of Brzostek, obwod Tarnow, powiat Pilzno (Poland). My family was composed of my wife, Katherine Panciewicz, my sons Stanislaw, Wladyslaw, Mieczyslaw, Bronislaw [...]]]></description>
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