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SOME RESOURSES FOR RESEARCHON

POLISH AMERICAN GENEALOGY (CONTINUED)

compiled by Edward R. Brandt for thePolish Genealogical Society of Minnesota

as revised February 22,1995

Gazetteers and Atlases for Polish-American Research

1.x Filipa Sulimierskiego, Bronislawa Chlebowskiego et al, Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego ii nny c h kr aj ow slowianskich (Warsaw, I 880- 1 902 ; 1 5-vol ume gazetteer)

2. Sp* Uieisbowosci polskiej Rzecrypospolitej ludowej (Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Kommunicacji il-acznosli, l%7) -- two-vblume ciosi-refeience between former German and current Polish names

of villages; on LDS microhlmM. KaJmmerer, Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschafien jenseits von Oder und Neisse ([rer,Germany: Verlag Rautenberg, 19138) -- cross-references between German and Polish names ofvillagesOtto-Kredel & Franz Thierfelder ,Deutsch-fremdsprachiges (fremdsprachig-deutsches)Ortsnamenverzeichnis,3 vols. (Berlin: Deutsche-Verlagigesellschaft, 1931) -- g.vetteer whichincludes German and Polish names of localities transferred from German to Polish rule after WorldWar I

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5.* Euro-Reise Atlas-Polen(very detailed atlas of Poland with maps on the scale of 1:300,000, withtowns indexed in Polish and, where applicable, in German for the larger towns; available fromGenealogy Unlimited, Inc., Dept. PGSA, P.O. Box 537, Orem, tII 84059-0537;1993-94)

6. Dr. E. UEfrcht, ed., Meyers Oris- undVerkehrs-Lexikon,Sthed. (1912-13) -- gazetteer whichincludes all Polish localities then ruled by Germany

7. Fay S. & Douglas M. Dearden , Comrnon- Abbreviaiions lJsed in Mgerl Orn Gazettegr_,9V ol.print*f no* incoftrorated into The German Researcher: How to Get the Most Out of .an LDS Family

-History Centei,4th ed., (Minneapolis: Family Tiee Presq, 12ry) -- provides Fgli*tt translation ofkey terms in Meyer's gazetteer;(i parallel book, The Polish Researcher, is planned)

8. H.'Rudolph , Volisti:ndigstes geographisch-topographisch-statistisches Orts-Lexikon von

Deutschtand (ca. 1851i--- gaieGer-which includes all Polish localities then ruled by Prussia and

Austriag. Henryk Batowski, Slownik Nazw Miejscowych Europy Srdkowej i Wschodniej-XlX i ){X WeAa(Wariaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1964) -- gazetteer of selected place-names in Eastern

and Central Europe in 24languages with the Polish material prepared by Barbara Urbanska10. Otto K. & Vera N. Kowalli s,A Genealogical Guide and Atlas of Silesia (out-of-print) -- cross

references Polish and German namesl l.xBrian J. [.enius, Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia (Author, Box 18, Grp.4,R.R. l,Anola,

Manitoba;1993)

x Indicates item is in The Polish Collection at the MGS Library. Continued on page I

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President's LetterBy now I trust that you have renewed your

membership dues for the year 1995, for which manythanks -- dziekuje bardzo! Your response helps tomaintain PGS-MN as a viable organization.

As President I herewith wish to express myappreciation, along with the other officers ofappreclauon, along wlth the otherPGS-MN, to Paul KULAS for his

W. KORNEL KONDY PRESIDENT

f-efrsrltltlu €niw-X(ft3f T.ednktora

It was very nice to hear that our "little country church" wasfeatured in your fall newsletter. I myself haven't seen yournewsletter and if you do have an extra left wouldappreciate receiving it. Thank vou and may God bless andkeep you.Sincerely,

Vrs. Robert (Marge) Cemenski, Trustee of St. Joseph'sChurch, Lexington.

The following are Polish parishes in the Morrison, Toddand Stearns County area:North Prairie -- Holy Cross, founded 1876Elmdale -- St. EdwardSobieski * St. StanislausRoyalton -- Holy TrinityBowlus -- St. Stanislaus KostkaLittle Falls -- Our lady of l,ourdesFlensburg -- Sacred HeartOpole -- Out L-ady of Mount CarmelHoldingford -- St. HedwigSt. Anna -- Irnmaculate ConceptionBrowerville -- Christ the KingThere is also a Polish National Catholic Church located inPlatte Township in northeastern Morris<ln County (northof Pierz, MN).Sincerely,Bob Prokott, Minneapolis, MN

lrtters to the editor should be addrcssed to: KornelKondy, PGS-MN Newsletter,619 S.E Seventh St.,Minneapolis, MN 5YI4- l4?7.

MISSING BRANCHESQueries: Each issue of the newsletter will contain a research informationexchange section. Members are invited to place queries pertaining to theexchange of family information, requests for helpor offers to aid othersresearching the same fmily lines. Send to: lV. Komel Kondy, Editor,PC}S-MN Newsletter,619 S.E. Sevcnth St. Minneapolis, M].i5flt4-Bn.

Teri CAPPS, Rt. 3 Box 955D, Jacksonville, TX 75766is researching theKRANC and KLIRKOWSKI sumames from Poznan, Poland.

Cynthia KRISKE-PEIERSON, P.O. Box 432, Littlefork,I\,,tN 56(49seeks information about Mrs. H. WILCZORTK and MartinTOBOLA(of Duluth). Both resided in Philadelphia, PA in Febnrary, 1925.

PGS-MN, to Paul KUL-AS for his many hours behindthe scenes in preparing the NEWSLETTER forpublication. As our readers are no doubt aware, ourelforts are all voluntary. Therefore, our gratitudeand thanks goes to Paul for all the work he puts in oncomputer and layout to make our publication onethat we can be proud of. Czol'em!

Articles of interest are needed for future issues.You may have an interesting or amusing anecdote torelate about your research, perhaps youi visit toancestral haunts, birthplaces, churches, graveyardsand the like. Don't be modest! Your peisonalexperiences are indeed of interest to our readers. Sosend your contributions to: W. K. KONDY, Editor,619 S.E. 7 St., Minneapolis, MN 55414-1327.

We need volunteers to help with our variouscommittees, so that all the work does not fall uponthe same shoulders. Please contact me, i[ you wouldlike to help out.

KLrcA THOMPSON, 16 Maria St., Mandurah. WesternAustralia 6210 seeks information on Franciszek KLICA, b. 6 June 1893,Hucisko, Rzeszdw, d. 4 Sept. 1973 in Shelton, CT. Parents were Jan

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OfticersW. Kornel Kondy (378-1 7 39)...... ....... ... ........PresidentRay Marshal (7 2L -7 59 3) ....... ....... .. ... Vi ce-PresidentGreg Kishel. . .... .SecretaryBarbara Ro&man (493-8455)... .. .. ....... .... ...TreasurerBlanche lGbechek (5 45 -7 707 ).. .... ... .... .. Past Preside ntDr. David liroska (25 l-6134).................... .. DirectorDaniel Nedoroski (645-2368)....................... DirectorBernie Szymczak (788-0352).. .J)irector

Committee ChairsEd Brandt, co-chair (338-2001)....... ........... . ProgramGreg Kishel.. ....PublicityW. Kornel Kondy (37 8- L7 39)................... NewsletterPaul Krrlas(427-4523).......... .....LibraryDaniel Nedoroski (645 -23 68). ........ .... ....... ...ResearihBarbara Rockman (493- 8465)................MembershipDaid Zaw orski co-chair (63 9- 1 630) ... .... .. . Program Continued on page 9

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The Bulletin BoardTHE POLISH PRESENTATIONS At thc MGSBranching Out Meeting on March 4 were excellent.Greg Kishel gave a fascinating account of thebeginnings of his family research. Ron Tomczikbrought two experts to the Kashubian presentation.Adeline Sopa presented the background of the Kashubsin Poland and Gerald Langowski regaled his audiencewith tales of the Kashub settlement in Winona. Ourthanks go to Gerald, Ron, Adeline and Greg flor theirefforts. Those in attendance thoroughly enjoyed thesessions.

IN THIS ISSUE we are again printing an articlesubmitted by one of our members. Beginning on pagesix is an article by SLrn Kava about the settlement of hisTryba relatives in Minnesota. Beginning on page oneis a continuation of the bibliography of resources forPolish genealogy by Ed Brandt which will be continuedin future issues of this newsletter. Our Library Corner-- Book Reviews column again appears in this issuervith reviews by Greg Kishel and Komel Kondy. Thankyou very much to all of you who contributed. We arehappy to print these articles and invite others to submitarticles for publication. All submissions of articles,letters to the editor, nervs items, queries, etc. should besent to: W. Kornel Kondy, PGS-MN Newsletter,6t9S.E. Seventh St. Minneapolis, MN 554141327.

YOU SHOULD MAKE THESE CORRECTIONS toEd Brant's bibliography which was printed in our lastissue. The new address of the Federation of EastEuropean Family Societies (under the heading --Multi-Ethnic Organizations) is: Azra Jolic, P.O. Box2136, Salt l-ake Ciry, UT 8p.L2L-034r, Also, to thesection headed European Archives. Research Centers.and Religious Offices should be added the following:Ukraine, 29O 006 L'viv - 4, Tsentralnyi derzhavnyiarkhiv Ukrainy, pl. Vozziednannia 3A, (for Galicia).

PGS.MN MEMBER, DR. TED RADZILOWSKI wasnamed hesident of St. Mary's College in Orchard [-ake,Michigan on February 20. Msgr. Stanley E. Milewski,chancellor of the Orchard [.ake Schcpls announced the

appointment. Dr. Radzilowskr has been a professor ofhistory at Southwest State University in Marshall,Minnesota since 1970 and since July 1993, theAssociate Vice President for Academic Affairs. He wasalso the academic advisor and story editor of theaward-winning public television film, "Out ofSolidarity: Three Polish Families in America" whichwas aired in 1987.

JOHN RADZILOWSKI, Ted's son, is also a PGS-MNmember. He is a doctoral candidate at Arizona StateUniversity and is working on a dissertation about Polishsettlements in Minnesota. His paper, "Family L-aborand Immigrant Success in a Polish American RuralCommunity, 1883-1905" was published in the Autumn,1994 issue of Polish American Studies. The paper dealswith the Polish settlement in Wilno, Minnesota. Johnalso has authored One Community. One Church. TwoTowns: The Poles in Southwestern Minnesota(Marshall: Department of History, Southwest StateUniversity, 1991) and has co-authored Out of the Wind:Poles and Danes in Lincoln County. Minnesota,1880-1905 (Marshall: Crossings Press, l99z).

THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION of theFederation of East European Family History Societies(FEEFHS) will be held in Middleburg Heights, Ohio onAugust 4-5,1995. There will be 39 presentationincluding two Polish presentations by Jan Zaleski, A.G.entitled "Following the Paper Trail to Your AncestralVillage in Europe" and "How to Prcrceed Once You findYour Ancestral Village in Poland". There is also atentative presentation by a member of the PolishHeritage Society of Kaszubs on the Kashubians.Contact Ed Brandt at 13 - 27th Ave. S.E,, Minneapolis,MN 55414-3101 for further information on thisconvention.

THE MINNESOTA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY issponsoring its Fifth Research Trip to Madison,Wisconsin on 10-13 May 1995 under the leadenhip ofArthur L. Finnell. Travel is by chartered mini coach tcr

Madison. Deadline for registration is 10 April. Forcosts and particulars call Arthur Finnell, evenings onlyat (61?) 893-9747.

THE OREGON TRAIL PROJECT of the ldahoGenealogical Society is issuing special certificates toanyone whose ancestors came west via the Oregon Trailbetrveen the years 181l-1911. Project commcmoratessequrcentennial of the peak year of westerly migration.Pioneers began to head west of the Missouri River in181 I using the Old Platte Road, later known as the

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LIBRARYCORNER... o. o. o.. o.o.oo.. o o... o....o. o. o....

A Translation Guide to

19th-CenturyPOLISH-LANGUAGh

CIVIL-REGISTRATIONDOCUMENTS

(Birth, Maniage and Death Records)

2nd Edition

Compiled and Edited by

]udith R. Frazin

A Translation Guide to l9th-CenturyPolish-Language Civil-Registration Documents(Bifth, Mamiage and Death Reconls), compiledand edited by Judith R. Frazin (Northbrook, Illinois:2ded.,1989). Available from the JewishGenealogical Society of Illinois, clo LO25 Antique[ane, Northbrook,ILffi6} for $23.50; a copy is inthe PGS-MN collection at the MGS Library in St.Paul.

Reviewed by Greg Kishel.

Many Polish and Polish-American genealogists donot know it, but they owe a substantial debt toNapoleon, the First Emperor of France.

This statement probably gives you pause to

wonder. The diminutive general, after all,laid waste tomuch of Europe in his two bids to become a new Caesar.What could he possibly have done to give us any help inour little, very personal endeavor, nearly two centurieslater?

The answer is an intriguing one. In his effort to destroythe political and social remnants of medieval Europe,Bonaparte revived many of the legal and administrativesystems that the ancient Romans had developed to rule avast, pluralistic, and polyglot empire. Among them werethe notion of "codifying" law--that is, bringing all of thelaws that were to govern society together into onesystematic, organized text. This "Napoleonic Code" wasdesigned to make govemment more efficient in taxcollection, military conscription, and ensuring thesuccession of property down the generations. Suchefficiency is promoted if government records the identityof its citizens and subjects, and their relationships withinand between families. The so-called "Napoleonic systemof civil registration" of major life events--births,marriages, and deaths--was developed to ensure accuracyin this process.

For our purposes as Polish-American genealogists, oneaspect of Napoleon's legacy stands out most of thenon-French nations that he subjugated ended up retainingor adopting his legal and administrative systems, evenafter they and their allies defeated his great armies atL*ipzigand Waterloo. Among them was the RussianEmpire; between l8O4 and 1808 it imposed a Napoleonicregistration system on many of the localities within itsdomain, including the portions of Poland that itsubjugated during the three partition of 1772-1795.Recognizing that parish priests d,ould remain the primarysources of social legitimacy in a rural,culturally-conservative society like Poland's, regardless ofwho controlled the larger levels of political organization,the Russians conscripted them to become the civilregistrars for most of the areas of Poland under its rule.

A surprisingly large number of the records that weremade under this system survived 150-plus years of warand revolution. Because they were compiled by churchofficials, and because they contained sacramental as wellas civil information, the Roman Catholic Churchpreserved one or more of the several copies that weremade for its communicants, both at the parish level and indiocesan archives. Civil authorities of the Polish state andthe Jewish and Lutheran clergy were able to maintainmany other records through two grievous world wars andmuch civil uffest around them. Beginning in themid-11)60s, the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-DaySaints obtained permission to microfilm these recordbooks, to incorporate them into the collection at its centralFamily History Library at Salt lake City. Thesemicrofilms are now readily accessible at local Mormon

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o . . . o . o . . . . . . o o o o . o o o . o o . . o . . o o . . o . . o o o . BOOK REVIEWSFamily History Centers.

Between 1808 and 1867, these records were compiledin the Polish language. This book is a guide to extractingand translating the most important genealogical data in -them. (As editor/compiler Judith R. Frazinnotes in hergeneral orientation, imperial policy mandated that civilrecords be maintained in the Russian language and inCyrillic script after 1867, iu part of the Rlussificationcarypaign that followed the crushing of the Polish peasantuprising in the early 186Os. The translation of the iaterRussian-language records is beyond the scope of Frazin'sundertaking.) Aimed at native speakers o[ English whohave no knowledge of written or spoken Polish, this bookis remarkably "user-friendly";mudh like a computerprogram in the "Windowsn format, it enables ttre reader toapproach the task of understanding from several differentstarting points, with equal facility.

lts most important contribution is a comprehensivesystem for " abstracting' Napol eonic- formal records - -that!s, for identifying the key words that separate thefunctional- parts of the documents, and then gleaning themeaning from each such section. As Frazin notes, thesedocuments were inscribed in a standard format that variedlittle, even between areas that were widely-spaced ingeography. However, when confronted with these finestandardized documents, the reader not versed in writtenPolish faces several daunting tasks. One must firstdecipher the handwriting, which is definitely not the"Palmer penmanshipn or D'Nealian hand familiar tomodern Americans. At times the writing is elegant andclear;gften, however, it is maddeningly idiosyncratic.Once finishing the transcription, the researcher must plowthrough a vocabuldry that (unlike that of the Romance 'languages) bears almost no surface resemblance toEnglish; too, Polish grammar differs greatly from that ofEnglish in several major respects. Even the reader with apassing familiarity with modern Polish finds archaicspelling, syntax, and declension forms, and grammaticalerrors on the part of the good registrar-priests.

After no more than three of four exercises, however,Frazin's system enables one to locate the key informationthat these documents contain in surprising abundance: thenames, occupations, ages, and villages of origin of thesubjects of the records, their parents, and the witnesses tothe civil or sacramental events in question, and sometimesother information such as the identities of grandparents orother extended-fami I y members, social status, I e giti macyin birth, and so forth. She presents a compreheniiveseries of examples of the two major formats for therecords, in specimen copies of their original handwrittenform and then in Polish transcription and Englishtranslation. She keys the steps of her abstractingprocedure into the text of each example, to link them to

her written narrative instructions. Nearlv half of thevolume is devoted to twelve extensive p6listrvocabularies, broken out as to subject (metric data,family, location, Iegal terminology, geographiclocation, and religion, among others). Even if one hasenough familiarity with these documents to dispensewith Frazin's formal procedure, these lists and thehandwriting exemplars are indispensable.

The only real shortcoming of the content is a minorone: the vocabulary list for occupations focuses a bittoo heavily on urban and commercial livelihoods,slighting other areas of interest like the various levelsof status among the peasantry and the upper classes o[l9th-century Polish society like the szlachta (nobility)and government servants and officials. This omissionis understandable, given that the book wasunderwritten and published by an organizationdevoted to the family history of a people that wasbarred from ownership of land and political power inthe Russian Empire, and which accordingly ended upconstituting a major part of the urban mercantile andartisan class in Russian Poland. The omission,however, prevents this h-lok from being quite asuseful to quite as many Polish-American genealogistsas it could have been.

tlltimately, however, this rninor point is no re:rsonnot to use this hrck, and to use it extensively, if yourancestors are from the eastern half of present-dayPoland, or from those regions now in Ukraine,Belarus, and Lithuania that had large Polishpopulations before 1945. Its practical utility isenhanced by two nifty additional features. Thevolume includes a small, separate "Quick ReferenceGuide," printed on stiff 8 ll2 x 11 stock and folded topocket size. This item contains a summary of themost important key words for each class ofdocuments, and a quick directory in Polish for thecardinal and ordinal forms for numbers, the days ofthe week, and the months of the year; it also has anindex for the vocabulary lists in the main volume anda list of the symbols used in Frazin's system. It fitsneatly into the hard plastic cover that encases thepaperbound book itself. This cover enables thefrequent user to haul this fine little reference to theFamily History Center repeatedly, without inflictinggrievous wear and tear in the hauling or theconsultation; it certainly promotes more efficient useof time at the microfilm reader.

If your ancestry sprang from the Russian Partition,this book is worth its weight in gold--or, at least, inzlotYr.

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TRYBA IN MINNESOTA.. THOMAS TRYBA

stanley w. ruuull*r-*, membrRancho Cordova, California

The parents of Thomas Tryba were his father Jan who camefrom around Pilzno near Tarnow in the Galicia area of Poland(Austria at that time) and his mother, Anne Sluzarski, whocame from Dabrkow, seven kilometers east of Pilzno.Thomas was their first child who was born on 22 September1862.

After the revolution of 1848, the population boomed andland became scarce. As an inducement to get a railroad builtacross America, the United States govemment gave therailroad companies land for ten miles - later twenty miles --on both sides of the track on odd nurnbered sections. Thiswas more than they could sell, so they went to middle Europewhere the soil, climate and vegetation was similar toNebraska's Platte valley region. The Union Pacific railroadpromoted sale of land, arranged transportation, helped withihe paperwork and promised land and easy financing. Severalcolonies of Poles formed in Plate County, Nebraska andelsewhere.

So Thomas Tryba, his brother, Andrew, two younger sistersand his parents came to America on the German ship,HAMMOMA, on 14 June 1876 from Hamburg - k Harve toNew York. The railroads helped them to Nebraska on thefamous 'Zulv" cars.l Thomas was fourteen years at the time.

Thomas's father bought two parcels of land of eighty acreseach on the shores of the Loup River at Duncan nearColumbus in Platte County for $8.00 per acre -- quite highwhen the govemment was selling it for $2.00 -- but on a 11

year loan. All in all, it was a good deal. Jan was able togrow some good wheat crops in the sandy soil and prospered.He was ableto buy sizable farms for his two sons when theymatured. There were nine children.

Thomas was a maverick. He didn't like farming. He ranoff and punched cows. In those days range wars were going

on between farmers and cattlemen who wanted no land to be fenced or plowed. Jan would go find himand bring him back home. Maybe there was a generation gap in those days also. Jan could find himbecause people would tell him of this Polish guy playing certain songs. Jan knew these songs, he hadmade them up. Thomas played very well on his violin orfiddle -- as popular as guitars are today.

Thomas learned the American language and helped the Polish people with their translation ofimportant papers and was what we now call a lawyer. He informally taught them the law.

In 1893, he left Nebraska and went to Minnesota. His youngest sister, born 21 December 1885, never

lRailroad cars that were used in the late 1fth century in the United States and Canada for transportingimmigrants and their possessions to the West.

Thomas Tryba on the TrybaFarm in Burleene Township,

Todd County, Minnesota.

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saw him.Thomas bought 160 acres in Burleene Township in Todd County,

Minnesota, near Eagle Bend for $8.00 an acre. Here he built a cabinwhich is supposed to be still standing and used for a fire wood shed.He married Ella Anderson, a German woman from Little Sauk on 27September l90/. They had nvo sons, Theodore and Raymond.Thomas was well known and liked. His farm was known as the "Tryba

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Farm". Thomas died there on 5January 1955 at the age of 93 and isburied nearby.

One son, Theodore, was killedwhile in the United States Army inItaly during World War II.Tragically, he was blown up whencrossing a river carrying a radio.Theodore never married and had nochildren. He is buried near Jan.

Theodore Tryba, son of ^ The.second son, Raymond,

Thomas. Log cabin built {p:d very j-uc.cessfully incircaisgS- Minnesota. He had beautiful" Belgian horses. He married Ruby

Steinka on 12 August 194f.. Theyhad no children. Raymond died on 19 February 1969 and is buriednear his father. Raymond's wife, Ruby, moved to the town of EagleBend and corresponded as of 1992. When she dies there will be noone remaining from this Tryba line in Minnesota.

This anicle w,Ls written by Stan Kava, the last child of VeronicaTryba, the last daughter of Jan Tryba.

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Oregon Trail. To qualify applicants must prove ,

direct descent from a person who traveled any partof the Oregon Trail between 1811-1911. Forapplication and more information write Oregon TrailProject, 4620 Overland Rd., fl06,Boise,ID83705-2f#7. Enclose SASE.

You are reminded that POLISH NIGI{I AT THELIBRARY continues atthe MGS Ubrary on thesecond Thursday of each month from 6:30 to 9:30pm. One of our more experienced genealogists isthere to assist you on these nights. Complete libraryhours are: Tuesdays, 6:30 to 9:30 pm; Wednesdays,10:00 am to 4:00 pm; Thursdays, 10:00 zrm to 4:00pm and 6:30 to 9:30 pm; and on Saturdays, 10:00am to 4:00 pm. The library is located at 1650Carroll Avenue in St. Paul. Come and make gooduse of this facility, of our Polish collection and ofPolish nights at the library' on the second Tuesday ofeach month.

PGS-MN has inaugurated a CHURCH HISTORY ANDBOOKLE| COLLECTION for its library (housed.at theMinnesota Genealogical Society's facility in St. eairt;.We rvould welcome your donation of church histories,parish jubilee and anniversary booklets and the like,from any congregation in Minnesota that had a Polishethnic affiliation or a sizable component of itsmembership of Polish extraction. These publicationscan contain little nuggets of genealogical information,from information on founding parishioners and theirEuropean backgrounds to data on wedding anniversariesand the like. If you do not wish to donate the original,we will (carefully) photocopy it and return it to youpromptly. To date we have photocopies of jubileebooklets from St. John the Baptist Roman CatholicChurch in Virginia, Minnesota, and St. Mary, Star of theSea parish in Duluth. Please help us to broaden thecollection to parishes from the Trvin cities, Winona andall of the other locales in Minnesota where Polishimmigrants founded their own church institutions.Contact Greg Kishel,445 Mt. Curv'e Blvd., St. Paul, MN55105- 1326 (telephone 612-6903329).

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Library and Archival Guides. Bibliographies and Newspaper Directories

1. Katalog InwentarTy Archiwalnych (Warsaw: Naczelna DyrekcjaArchirvow Panstwowych, 1971) -inventory of Polish archivesRichard C. Lewanski (comp.), Guide to Polish Libraries and Archives (Boulder: East European Quarterly,1974; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York)Norman Davies, Poland, Past and Present: A Select Bibliography of Wuks in English (Newtonville, MA:Oriental Research Partners, 19'17)A Historical Bibliography of Polish Towns, Vllages, and Regions (except Warsaw and Krakow) (translatedand adapted from a compilation by Wfttor Kazmierczak by Wlliam F. Hoffmann; reprinted with anintroduction by EdwardA. Peclowas; Chicago: Polish Genealogical Society, 1990)Allen County Public Ubrary Foundation (Ft. Wayne), Periodical Source Index (PERSI), annual supplements-- indexes 2,000 genealogical and local history periodicals from lU7 to nowPaul Theodore Kulas, "A Bibliography of Sources for Polish Genealogical Research located in theMinnesota Genealogical Society Library" (April 1993)Halyna Myroniuk & Joel Wurl, "Genealogical Sources at the Immigration History Center," inMinnesotaGenealogisr (June 1991)Suzanna Moody & Joel Wurl (eds.), The Immigration History Research Center: A Guide to Collections(New York & Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991)Foreign Language Newspapers in the United States (1952); list available at the Minnesota History CenterA Guide to Polish American Newspapers and Periodicals on Microfilm (St. Paul: Immigration HistoryResearch Center)Minnesota Historical Society, Library andArchives Division, Genealogical Resources of the MinnesotaHistorical Society (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 19t39)James P. Danky, Genealogical Resources: An Introduction to the Resoures of the State Historical Society ofWsconsin (Madison: State Historical Society of Wsconsin, 1!86)Directory of Canadian Polish and Polish Arnerican Periodical Publications (Orchard Lake, MI: 1976)Benedict Markowski , Aids to Research in Polish Genealogy: A Select Lrsr (available from the Detroit PublicLibrary)Frank Renkiewicz (comp.), The Polish American Collection (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota,Immigration History Research Center, Ethnic Collections Series, no. 6,2nd ed., Minneapolis,l9TT)

16.*Janina W. Hoskins, Polish Genealogy & Heraldry: An Introduction to Research (Whshington: GovernmentPrinting Office, 19&7; annotated bibliography available from Hearthstone Press,84O5-H Richmond Hwy.,Alexandria,VA223@))

17. Thaddeus Obal, A Biblio'graphy for Genealogical Research Involving Polish fuiceitry (Y\llsdale, NJ: author,19'8)

Publications on Polish Parishes and Parish Records

List of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland -- 1910, 1939, 1991 (Chicago: Polish GenealogicalSociety ofAmerica)Litak, Stanislaw, The Intin Church in the Polish Commonwealth in 1772: A Map and Index of Incalities(Chicago: Polish Genealogical Society of America, 1990)Ortell, Gerald A., Polish Parish Records of the Roman Catholic Church, Their Use and Understanding inGenealogical Research,3rd ed. (Orem, UT: Genun Publishers, 1989)Pecicwas, EdwardA., Register of Vtal Records of Roman Catholic Parishes from the Region Beyond theBug River (Chicago: Polish Genealogical Sociery* of America,1994)The Roman Catholic Parishes in Poland in 1984: Maps and Index of Localities (Chicago: PolishGenealogical Society of America, 1993)Swatlowski, Thomas Martin, Information Received from Catholic Ardtives, Poznan, Poland, andResearched in Mormon IGI Files (Author, 312 Marie St., New lberia, LA70%0-230; 1991)lbid., Selected Mormon Church Films: Miescisko, Poznan, Poland (1991)

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8.x Ibid., Selected Mormon Church Films ViewedfromWagrowiex, Poznan, Poland(L991)9. Wuschke, Ewald, "Lutheran Churches Wthin Pre-1919 Borders of Poland," inWandering Volhyniaies, June

1991 issue (Wandering Volhynian Group, 3492 West 39th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6N 3A2, Canada) -- listsnames and addresses of current pastors for various Lutheran parishes

Polish Genealoeical Books and Periodicals

l.x Prinke, Rafal T. (President, Poznan Genealogical Society), Poradnik Genealoga Amatora (Warsaw:Wydawnictwo Polonia, 1992)

2. Magaryn Heraldyczny (Heraldic Magazine), Wydawca Malgorzata Lawrynowicz, ul. Wiolinowa 7l?3,PLA2-789 Warszawa, Poland (Andrzej Kulikowski, editor-in-chief)

General Guides to Polish-American Genealogy

1. Baxter, Angus, In Search of Your European Roots (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986) -- everycountry

2. Boczon, Mary Ann, How to Research Your Personal Polish Family History (New Carrollton, MD: author,1e76)

3.x _Chgrzempa, RosemaryA., Korzenie Polskie: Polish Roots (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993)4. Dickson, Jean, (comp.), Getting Started (Buffalo: Polish Genealogical Society of Western New York, 1990) --

oriented to the Buffalo area, but identifies many of the kinds of tG records available in general5.* Gnacinski, Jan and [.en, Polish and Proud: Tracing Your Polish Ancestry (Jan-Lrn Enterprises ,2236 S. 77th

St., WestAllis, WI 53219;1983)6.x Konrad, J., Polish Family Research, rev. exp. ed. (Summit Publications, P.O. Box222, Munroe Falls, OH

44262-,1992)7.x Schlyter, Daniel M-, Essentials in Polish Genealogical Research (reprinted by Polish Genealogical Society of

America, Chicago, 1933)8.x Wellauer, Maralyn A.,Tiacing Your Polish Roots, rev. exp. ed. (Roots Intemational,3?39 North 58th St.,

Mlwaukee, Wl 53216. 1991)

Translation Aids

1.x Frazin, Judith R. (ed. & comp.), ATranslation Guide to l9th-Century Polish-Language Civil-RegistrationDocuments, 2nd ed. (Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois, c/o 1025 Antique [-ane, Northbrook,IL 60062,

.1989.12.x Shea, Jonathan D., Russian Innguage Documents from Russian Poland: ATranslation Manual for

Genealogisrs (Genealogy Unlimited, P.O. Box 537, Orem, LIT 84059-0537; 1989)3.x Shea, Jonathan D- & Wlliam F. Hoffman, Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide

(Avotaynu, 155N. WashingtonAve., Bergenfield, NJ 07621;1992) -- analysis and translation of 59 documentsin 13 East and West European languages)

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KUCA and Katarzyna ORZECH. Also J<izefa DRUSZC/DROZD, b.26Much 1894iaTrzedd, Rzeszdw,d. 25Jan 1974, Shelton, CT.Parents: Wojciech DRUSZCZ and Anna ZEffNSru.

fiatty MALLEK,7ll S.W. 6 St. Little Falls, MN 56345 needsinformation on Sophie Trettel GAIDA I(ILLA, b. 12 April 1881 inPoland. Moved from MN in 1925 to Chicago where she lived 33yean. Returned to Pierz, MN in L957, d. there 1970.

,rk*y L. McCARTHY,3g Craig Av., Madison, Wr 53704 seeks any- information on atrcestors of her grandmother TheodosiaKOMECZKA ,b. ?3 May 1887 fu Ciosna, baptized Ostrowo, PosenProvince, Germany now Polmd. Pare,tts: Stefan KONIECZKA andStanislawa GRACY-ALNA. She married gtanis'lhw KOZLOWSKI

12 Juue 1911 in Menasba, \41, d. Menasha, WI.

/Mrr. A. SENFTLEBEN,28089 Ginley SL, Roseville, MI48066 isseaching for the family of Stenley and Estelle BUCZYNSKI whoresided in Sr Paul. Sanley and Estelle are both deceased Theyhad one daughter named Estelle who married a JENDERIC whoworked for the city of St. Paul. Estelle's last known address was2176 Burke Ave E., No. St. Paul, MN 55109. $tan16yBUCZYNSKI was bom in Czestotowa, Poland and is the rmcle ofher mother Hedwig.

Bernadine ZAK KARGIIL, 15180 Woodbine, Redford, M 218239

is seekiug information about the ZAK family, who seuled in theSilver lalie area of Mcleod in the 1870's. Some members moved

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LIBRARYCORNER. o. o. . ... o o o o.. o.. o ... BOOKREVIEWS

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Brian J. l,enius, Genealogical Gazetteer ofGalicia. published by the author, Box 18,Group 4 R.R. #1, Anola, Manitoba, CanadaROE OAO. A copy of this book isavailable in the Polish collection at theMGS Library.

For those researchers whose ancestorscame from the former Austrian Crownlandof Galizien / Galicia / Halychyna, thisgazetteer is a useful book. Throughout itshistory, this area was populated by various

ethnic groups: Poles, Germans, Ruthenians(Ukrainians), Jews, Armenians, Rusins andCzechs. As a result, searching for one'sancestors in this region poses a formidable taskif one only knows English, as records may verywell be written in Polish, German, Latin orUkrainian. This volume is most useful in that itprovides essential information for locatingvillages on maps, the names of church parishes,which the ancestor in question would haveattended. The two principal sources for researchin this area,viz. the LDS microfilms and theEuropean archives arrange their materialaccording to church jurisdictions.Appendix A -- PRIMARY COMMUNIry(village, town, cify) LIST is arranged accordingto the English alphabet. It provides: place name,administrative district, judicial district, presentcountry location (Poland, Ukraine), referencenumber (nearest post office), current diocese,R.C. parish, Greek Catholic parish and otherreligion such as Lutheran, etc.Appendix B -- SUPPLEMENTARY PI/.CENAME LIST includes smaller communities notincluded in App. A, such as hamlets, colonies,etc. These place names contain references, e.g.Bania see Rosulna or Lysa'Gora aka (alsoknown as) Eleornorowka.Appendix C -- UKRAINIAN AND GERMANLISTS. First section lists the Ukrainian namegiving its Polish equivalent. Ukainian placenames are transliterated from the Cyrillicalphabet employing the Modified Library ofCongress System. Second section lists placenames in German with Polish equivalents.Appendix D -- MAPS. Place names are listedalphabetically with a reference number referringto Appendix A; location of maps is a letter code,etc.

This compilation of Galician place names is amost welcome source indeed and contains awealth of valuable information.

Reviewed by Kornel Kondy.

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First Parishioners of Saint Adalbert's Church

We discussed St. Adalbert's Church in St. Paul in our Spring 1994issue of the PGS-MN Newsletter. The following is a list of thepioneer families of the parish as it appears in their CentennialCelebration 1881+ 1981 booklet:

Saint Adalbert's Church

Blachowski FamilyCepress FamilyDanielski FamilyDrobinski FamilyGondek FamilyGulez FamilyGraczkowski FamilyHolasz Familylwanowski FamilyJarosz FamilyKanka FamilyKazmierski FamilyKotaska FamilyKotefka FamilyKusz FamilyKrolikowski FamilyKruszewski Familyl-ange Familyl:rkowski Family

Lemki FamilyMatysik FamilyMatz FamilyMelerek FamilyNiemczyk FamilyNovak FamilyPodgorski FamilyRakowski FamilyRosenthal FamilyRychlicki FamilySandecki FamilySepion FamilySkorczewski FamilySobkowiak FamilyTomczak FamilyWaldoch FamilyWisniewski FamilyZwiewkaFamily

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to lvlorrison County (I-ittle Falls area) in the 1890's. Alsoassociated with this name are: MROZIK, POKORNO'WSKI, andBIELIIEWSKI.

NEW N,{EMBERS: The lollsrvingis tgring of rewnr newmembers and their areas of research.

Eleouore G. ANDERSON, 172!0 Onacrest Av., St. Paul,lvlltr55117 is researching the WASOWICZ and WIMARSKI familynames ia lfkraine.

Corey E. DIINAJSKI,1925 John Av., Apt. 4, Superior, WI 54SS0is researching the DIINAISKI, LEPAK,PASEK and JUSCZAKLrPoland and in central and northern Minnesota-

Ms. Dianne J. GUSTAFSON, 1565 NE 148th, Porrland, OR97?30 is researching the IIRBANIAK, SLAHTS/SCHLATA andKI-IRCHARSKI family names in Pozuan md Warsaw and inltrygq"l I-ake in Pine Corrnty, Minnesota md in Grays RiverinWahkial-um Couuty ia Washington.

Everett J. J{ILKOWSKI,4400 GardenwoodLn, Bakersfield, CA93309-6tsn is researching the JLLKOWSKI, WIOSKY andFRANCKOWIAK srunirmes in Chelmz:, Tonrn aud Poman iaPolandand in Kolaczyca in Austria and in Mnneapolis-St. Paglmd Delano iaMinnesota

George LAPATKA, 2333 Gorton Av., Willmar, MN 56201 isreseasching the LOPATKA nd,LAffiI-I-A family nmes fromPoznan.

Curtis Benoit LONDROCIIE, 1625lvlarion St., St. Paul, MN551173615 is researching the JAWORSKI, PIRVONSKA aadSHTIDA/SIIDZAK? family n,m es.

Ron TOMCZIK, 158 Peninsula Road, Medicine l-ake, MN 5341 isreasearchirg the BLNCZYK, TOMCZYK, IJRBANSKI,COPA/SOPAJFELSKI, ORLOWSLA/OSLOWSKA andLEMANCZYK family umes in Kashubia and the Starogard Gdanskiaea in Poland and in the Winona Sobieski, Little Falls, PlatteTowuship (Morrison County) and St. Clloud areas in Minaesota.

RENEWED MEMBERS: The following is a listing of renewedmembers who have indicated more complete areas of research on theirrenewal forms.

Thomas J. DRAUS, Sr. 888 Hwy 11, P.O. Box 4&, Hazelgreen, WI53811 is researching the DRAUS, GASIO& GORCZYCA, OPYT,MADON, KIJZIEI- and KIIRZEIA family names inGalica and inIllinois and Wisconsin

Wayne IIACI{OIJKI,256 S. Wrightwood, Orange, CA92669isresearching the CHOCFIALEK, CZAJKA, BAJOR, BASARA,KOZA, TRZNADEL, MCHNAL andHACEIOLSKI family names inGalicia (Rzeszow today) and in Chicago,IL.

Mary S. HARTIG, 158 S. liralter Ave., Newbury Park, CA913204339 is researching the SWIATEIVSWIONTEK,LESMOWSKI, BANAS and GOLLEMBIEWSKI familv namgs 11Galica and in Buffato, NY.

Gene STANEFSKI,345 18&Ave. So., South St Paul, MN 55075 isresearching the STANISZET/SKI, DRAPACZ, WTOREK andSIKORA sumames in Krakov.

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