from their homelands elsewhere,
to the new country and hope America.

And this All Souls Day was so
important for their all new lives,
they named it as 'Zaduszki', 'Dziady' before,
going from very old religion and Slavic myths,
more links about you can find in this web encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls_Day
together with this symbolic image of any Slav's

cemetery from this day and this strange and moving night:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wszystkich_swietych_cmentarz.jpg

That's all I know from the genforum,
for three years of my being there,
all of the immigrants took with them

on these ships all their relics they could carry,
 

Most important for them were family portraits:

http://www.swiatprogramow.pl/pgfsearchingroom/62/zd2b.jpg
and the Bible, family mementos like this small wooden cross:

http://www.swiatprogramow.pl/pgfsearchingroom/84/zd1b.jpg

the thoughts even of a book teaching origin language for their kids:
http://www.narodowa.pl/Ksiazki/15/zd1.htm

I remember from this summer a cornet taken to America

by Stas Polak 110 years ago, the same cornet type
rest in Poland with brother, and this amazingly
the same family legend about the farm and cat,

all discovered in 2006 after more than a century,
in almost forgotten small Sulejow on the Vistula river:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp

?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=50.9833&longitude=21.8000&size=big

For all of your ancestors this Spirit
was the most important to share with
all their kids in the US after immigration,

like for these brave immigants from Wilkeson,

that pic dear Stu from Seattle just sent me:
http://www.narodowa.pl/Polonica/14/zd3.htm