About Maria Minakowska
Maria Jadwiga Minakowska (born June 13, 1972) is a Polish historian, genealogist and demographer creator of the Polish genealogy database Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiej (en. Minakowska's Great Genealogy). In 2024 Minakowska announced her transition from male to female. == Biography == Minakowska was born as Marek Jerzy Minakowski in Olsztyn, Olsztyn Voivodeship into the family of Jerzy Minakowski and Wiesława, née Kraszewska. After graduating in philosophy from the Jagiellonian University, in 1998 she was awarded a PhD for a dissertation titled Formal logic prior to Aristotle, also in Kraków, under professor Ewa Żarnecka-Biały. In 2001, she founded the Polish genealogy website Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiej based on extant historical records and data submitted by correspondents. By 2022, the site contained details of around 1 million people with ties to Poland. Based on the historic Great Sejm of 1788-1792, by 2022 Minakowska had assembled details of over 130,000 descendants of the participants of partitioned Poland's outgoing parliament, some of whom have been scattered across the globe. Minakowska focuses on "mass genealogy" whose research results are published on line and in print editions. == Personal life == In 1994, being formally a male, she married archaeologist Anna Lebet-Minakowska (born 1963) and had a daughter together.
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