Ceil Wendt Jensen‘s Michigan Polonia -Her passion is Polish
Cecile Wendt Jensen is the owner of Michigan Polonia. Ceil taught public school for 30 years in traditional and digital art, and social studies. She transitioned these skills to professional genealogy in 1998. Her passion is Polish. Stung by Polish jokes as a child, she was thwarted by the Cold War and Iron Curtain to find out about her family heritage. Her interest started with a grade school assignment. She interviewed her father who showed her the birth certificate carried by her grandfather for his passage to America. She was hooked!
Her father's untimely death several months later made her determined to continue her research and find out the ancestral villages of her Przytulski, Wendt, Wojtkowiak, and Zdziebko grandparents. Ceil is now a Certified Genealogist who has documented her ancestry back to the 1600s. Ceil has become a featured international speaker sharing her vision to bring Polish genealogy into the mainstream and guiding 10 million Polish Americans back home. She dispels the myth that records were destroyed during the World Wars and that language barriers make research difficult. She has done on-site research in Poland and leads research trips abroad.