u/halloweenmochi

I'm hoping someone here might be able to point me in the right direction.

I've been researching my family history for the past several days and I've hit a wall. I recently discovered the name of my biological grandfather and, through Ancestry, was able to identify his brother and my great grandparents.

I'd really love to trace the family back further, but I can't seem to get beyond my great-grandparents. My great grandmother was born in Poland and my grandfather in Lithuania, but every search seems to end there.

I've tried multiple spellings of their names, searched using birth years, locations, and every combination I can think of, but I'm coming up empty.

Does anyone have recommendations for websites, databases, or research strategies that might help me break through this brick wall? I'd really appreciate any advice. Thank you!

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If it helps, here are their names and other variations in the English documents I have seen:

Piotr (Peter) T. Niwinski / Nivinski

1892–1973

Madeline (also Maggie, Maggie Ryan, Madel, Margret, Margaret) Ritz / Ryz Niwinski / Nivinski

1896–1966

Both arrived in America in/Around 1914. They lived in Hartford, Connecticut and had two sons Henry (1927 - 2002) and Frank J Niwinski (1919-2006).

I’m not sure if it’s just me or if I have some sort of allergy to it but I’ve tried pot a handful of times. Each time I get an incurable migraine for about 2 days and end up vomiting. This even happens if I take CBD. Anyone else experience this?

I'm not sure if it's me reading this the wrong way, but I kind of got a weird almost pushy vibe from this student. I get the sense that they will be extremely difficult to work with or extremely demanding in the future. Luckily I am in a position where I have a lot of students and I can afford to not take on another at this point. But I just wanted to check if it was a me thing or if there was something a little off about this message.

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I've been feeling really depressed lately and I figured here might be the best place to come vent a bit. I'm not sure if I'm even looking for advice or sympathy. I'm not even sure why I'm writing this, I guess I'm just lonely and want to get this off my chest.

I'm in my late 30s and I don't have any friends at this point. I moved around the world with my husband so much that it's been really hard to establish long lasting friendships. We finally settled down in the suburbs about an hour from Seattle and 5 years ago I've still found it really hard to connect to anyone or make friends.

I feel like I've been facing a lot of homophobia lately and it's been making me want to go outside less and less. I had a guy at Walmart threaten to beat the shit out of me in the Walmart parking lot after he called me a faggot for accidentally stepping in front of him.

I went on a trip to Denver Colorado a little while ago where someone approached me on the street and I was nervous to respond and he said, "Well you're ugly anyways, faggot" and walked away.

I've even had people shout stuff out of the car at me walking home here and there.

I don't advertise that I'm gay nor am I overly flamboyant (Not that there is anything wrong with that) I guess I just don't meet the rugged male look. Which is fine, I don't want to. I'm just me and I like who I am.

I guess what really set me into a deep depression tonight is I was trying to play Phasmophobia and I was in a lobby and was talking to people for a few minutes and someone was like, "Don't take this question personally, but are you gay?" And I was like, "Yeah?" and they kicked me out of the game.

I don't feel bad about who I am and the f word doesn't hurt me personally as I've been called it so much in the past. I think it's awful that people use it to try to hurt people though. I just sad that I don't fit in anywhere. I don't have any friends. I never want to go outside anymore and after this experience I don't even want to be involved with the internet world either.

I just feel like crying right now. I just feel like I'm constantly spending to much energy trying not to take up space to the point all I want to do is lock myself in my room and read books all day now.

I'm not sure if I'm doing anything wrong but I've been using the angel lamp to dispel the shadow figures, however my community points never seem to go up. It's been stuck at 75%. I was able to get everything else done though. I tried restarting my game and everything.

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Is anyone else fatigued by AI being literally everywhere? I'm not sure if it's an autism sense of justice thing or just a people thing, but every time I see it I have to walk away. I'm so sick of:

1. Everyone constantly relying on AI to get a quick answer when it's not even correct.

2. Every single image online starting to look the same.

3. People using the same boring AI designs for advertisement for their business.

4. Restaurants and stores using it to design their menus.

5. Businesses using it to reply to you whenever you send them an email.

It bugged me before but now whenever I see it I cannot help but get angry or upset and walk away.

I feel like this world is losing its creativity and ability to think and it feels awful and looks terrible.

It's getting worse every day for me and it's making it really hard for me to want to participate in society, go online or go outside anymore.

I even used to enjoy stimming by watching cute animal videos for hours but I can't even do that anymore because half of them are AI generated now!

Obviously your Dermatologist should know, but if you're using topical tretinoin on your face is it even necessary for other doctors like your Primary Care doctor, neurologist, GI doctor etc when they ask what medications you're on?