Description: Discovering our Ancestors' Travels and Travails
Our DNA matches indicate that at some point our ancestors were in the same place. Even if we share too little DNA to readily find common ancestors, I like to look at my DNA matches to see if we can identify common locations where our ancestors were from, and sometimes we can help one another look back to the past.
I did that with PB , a DNA match and a descendant of the Brown family. For this family, the surname Brown is an Americanized version of the Polish name Buranowski .
On 23 July 1889, Galician-born Jan Buranowski and Prussian-born Julianna Ojdowska were married at Saint Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsyslvania. In 1900, many members of the Buranowski , Kulwicki , Ojdowski , and related families were living near one another on Hancock Street on Polish Hill in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania.