I am researching several surnames from Zablocie, Zyweic, Poland, including Biel. I have some family still in Poland, and some in the States, mostly settling around Chicago & Minneapolis. The flu epidemics, TB outbreaks and WWII caused a lot of separation and orphan situations for my family. My grandfather was orphaned and spent 50 years looking for even a brother or sister, writing hundreds of letters. So I'm trying to peice things together, little by little. I've been doing genealogy for 20 years on my other family lines, but I am totally new at blogs, and I've only been doing this for two days now. I'm trying to be brave and let you know I'm trying a blog to post info & resources I find. If interested, here's the address below. Hope it may benefit someone, and hope to find someone one day that recognizes my family too.
I have two Biels in my tree: Jadwiga Biel (born 1883)that married a Thomas Sanetra and settled in Minneapolis. Also a Magdalena Biel (b. 1781) that married Jakub Sanetra and lived the remainer of her life in Poland.
http://sanetra-genhistory.blogspot.com/