Pacanow 1883, A Survey of Births

Stanczyk wanted to take another look at the church records in Pacanow. Recently, I was emailed  by a Zwolski ancestor whose Jan Zwolski had married a Petronella Elyasz[sic]. So I went combing through the Zwolski records and sure enough I found a Petronella Elijasz married to a Jan Zwolski. There was a lot of synergy in the names of witnesses and God Parents too.

So I decided to do a survey of the 1883 Births of Pacanow for these “marker” families to see if I might find some female Eliasz/Elijasz ancestors and possibly some male Eliasz/Elijasz witnesses. At the end of this article I put together a table of people, places and dates of this little synergistic community within the Pacanow parish.

I was surprised at how well this little experiment had worked. Now wrapping my brain around the translation/transliteration of proper nouns from Russian/Cyrillic to Polish (or English) is not my idea of fun so I never did a survey of the Russian church records, like I did for the pre-1868 Polish records of Biechow (Pacanow does not have any pre-1868 records that have been microfilmed by the LDS).

So here is what I did. I looked at Elijasz (or Heliasz if any) in the indexes as usual, but now I also noted the records with: Zwolski, Siwiec, Odomski, Pytka, Zasucha, Paluch, Wojtys and for good measure, Zdziebko. Now that last one I added for my good friend, the famous genealogist Ceil Jensen, whose ancestors just happen to inhabit the same parish as my ancestors. Now keep in mind that this survey was just one year and just for the births.

The experiment worked, I found an Elijasz female and one Elijasz male mentioned in records that were indexed by the other “marker” families. Some people call these aligned or affiliated family names. I prefer the analogical thought that these are genetic markers for Elijasz (and on some deeper level this is true). I have joked for a few years now that the Elijaszow are related to all of the families in Biechow and Pacanow parishes. I even take note of these “parish names” when I come across them in the USA records in Buffalo, Toledo, and Detroit in particular, but other US cities as well. They are still good genetic markers for Eliasz/Elijasz even in the USA even more than a century later.

I did not find any Leszczynski or Wlecialowski, but to be fair, I seldom find them in the LDS microfilm. I did find a few other “marker” families that I had neglected to survey in the go around. I found Janicki, Janowski, Luszcz, Major and Kordos too. So these family names are also heavily intertwined with the original list. In fact, I think I found a few misspellings that are actually really in my list, but were misspelled. Now I cannot prove this, but I will build a little database and publish it to my website and see if any genetic marker families ping me about being related.

So I guess when you look at indexes, do not just fixate on your direct descent family name. At some point go back and look for your “marker” family names in the indexes and search those records as well. You too may find some extra nuggets of family gold. At the very least you may find some female ancestors who tend to get lost when they marry.

Oh, that Zdziebko experiment. It appears that Ceil’s Wojciech Zdziebko married one of my “marker” families, Jano{w}ski, and he had a child with Marianna Janoska. So even the Zdziebko’s are just one degree away from my ancestors – but no direct connection.

Database

Pacanow Parish, 1883 Births, a small Survey							Total Births:	203
Surname	Given Name	Age in Yrs	Approx. Birth Year or Birthdate	Birth Place	Church Record	Relationship to Baby	Baby Name	Notes / Marginalia
Czylanka	Antoni	36	abt 1847		25	Witness	Roman Elijasz
Elijasz	Jozef	23	abt 1860	n/a	25	Father	Roman Elijasz
Elijasz	Marianna		n/a		169	God Mother	Jan Kanty Zasucha
Elijasz	Martin		n/a		186	God Father	Marianna Zasucha
Elijasz	Roman	0	8-Feb-1883	Pacanow	25	Baby	Roman Elijasz
Grudzien	Walenty		n/a		169	God Father	Jan Kanty Zasucha
Grudzieniszkow	Stanislaw	46	abt 1837		25	Witness	Roman Elijasz	Grudzien?
Janicki	Teofil			n/a	85	God Father	Antoni Odomski
Janoska	Marianna	30	abt 1853	n/a	111	Mother	Tekla Zdziebko
Janoska	Zofia		n/a		19	God Mother	Apolionia Paluch
Katarzyna	Zhigliczka		n/a		186	God Mother	Marianna Zasucha
Kodos	Walenty	30	abt 1853		124	Witness	Bronislawa Wojtys	Kordos?
Korczynska	Zuzanna		n/a		162	God Mother	Jadwiga Kordos
Kordos	Jadwiga	0	7-Oct-1883	Rataje	162	Baby	Jadwiga Kordos
Kordos	Jan	38	abt 1845		162	Witness	Jadwiga Kordos
Kordos	Jan		1845?		162	God Father	Jadwiga Kordos
Kordos	Michal	28	abt 1855	n/a	162	Father	Jadwiga Kordos
Kordos	Stanislaw	50	abt 1833		162	Witness	Jadwiga Kordos
Kuczka	Maciej	56	abt 1827		111	Witness	Tekla Zdziebko
Lewinska	Franciszka	47	abt 1836		124	Mother	Bronislawa Wojtys
Lewinski	Michal		n/a		124	God Father	Bronislawa Wojtys
Lewinski	Piotr		n/a		170	God Father	Leopold Pytka
Lewisnka	Julianna			n/a	85	God Mother	Antoni Odomski
Lewisnki	Michal	36	abt 1847		170	Witness	Leopold Pytka
Lewsinski	Stanislaw	45	abt 1838		186	Witness	Marianna Zasucha
Luszcz	Ignacy	52	abt 1831		10	Witness	Agnieszka Wojtys
Luszcz	Kasper		n/a		25	God Father	Roman Elijasz
Luszcz -owa	Marianna		n/a		10	God Mother	Agnieszka Wojtys
Major	Magdalena	22	abt 1861	n/a	19	Mother	Apolionia Paluch
Mondra	Wiktorya	22	abt 1861	n/a	162	Mother	Jadwiga Kordos
Nowakow	Antoni	46	abt 1837		170	Witness	Leopold Pytka
Nowakow	Katarzyna	22	abt 1861	n/a	170	Mother	Leopold Pytka
Odomski	Antoni	0	27-May-1883	Pacanow	85	Baby	Antoni Odomski
Odomski	Antoni	48	abt 1835	n/a	85	Father	Antoni Odomski
Odomski	Antoni	45	abt 1838		124	Witness	Bronislawa Wojtys
Orzechowek	Tekla		n/a		169	Future Wife	Jan Kanty Zasucha	Pacanow Marriage Rec #16 for 28-Jan-1914
Paluch	Apolionia	0	21-Jan-1883	Pacanow	19	Baby	Apolionia Paluch
Paluch	Marianna		n/a		25	Future Wife	Roman Elijasz	Pacanow Marriage Rec #144 for 24-Nov-1913
Paluch	Walenty	27	abt 1856	n/a	19	Father	Apolionia Paluch
Piotrowska	Marianna	22	abt 1861	n/a	25	Mother	Roman Elijasz
Poniewirska	Anna		n/a		170	God Mother	Leopold Pytka
Poniewirska	Jozefa	40	abt 1843	n/a	85	Mother	Antoni Odomski
Pytczyka	Eleonora		n/a		25	God Mother	Roman Elijasz	Pykta?
Pytka	Andrziej	50	abt 1833		19	Witness	Apolionia Paluch
Pytka	Leopold	0	18-Oct-1883	Pacanow	170	Baby	Leopold Pytka
Pytka	Michal		n/a		10	God Father	Agnieszka Wojtys
Pytka	Tomasz	38	abt 1845		10	Witness	Agnieszka Wojtys
Pytka	Wladyslaw	23	abt 1860	n/a	170	Father	Leopold Pytka
Siwacz	Tomasz	46	abt 1837		169	Witness	Jan Kanty Zasucha	Siwiec?
Sliaska	Marianna	25	abt 1858		169	Mother	Jan Kanty Zasucha	Eliaszka?
Sowowa	Marianna	25	abt 1858	n/a	10	Mother	Agnieszka Wojtys
Strykarz	Jakob		n/a		19	God Father	Apolionia Paluch
Wieczorek	Antoni		n/a		111	God Father	Tekla Zdziebko
Wojtys	Agnieszka	0	13-Jan-1883	Pacanow	10	Baby	Agnieszka Wojtys
Wojtys	Aniela		n/a		124	God Mother	Bronislawa Wojtys
Wojtys	Antoni			n/a	85	Witness	Antoni Odomski
Wojtys	Bronislawa	0	31-Jul-1883	Pacanow	124	Baby	Bronislawa Wojtys
Wojtys	Jozef	50	abt 1833		19	Witness	Apolionia Paluch
Wojtys	Jozef	50	abt 1833		169	Witness	Jan Kanty Zasucha
Wojtys	Mateusz	45	abt 1838	n/a	10	Father	Agnieszka Wojtys
Wojtys	Tomasz	66	abt 1817		124	Father	Bronislawa Wojtys
Wtorka	Tomasz	60	abt 1823		186	Witness	Marianna Zasucha
Zagoczec	Elzbieta		n/a		111	God Mother	Tekla Zdziebko
Zasucha	Adam	26	abt 1857		169	Father	Jan Kanty Zasucha
Zasucha	Jan Kanty	0	19-Oct-1883	Pacanow	169	Baby	Jan Kanty Zasucha
Zasucha	Marianna	0	12-Nov-1883	Pacanow	186	Baby	Marianna Zasucha
Zasucha	Martin	23	abt 1860		186	Father	Marianna Zasucha
Zawada	Jan	60	abt 1823		111	Witness	Tekla Zdziebko
Zdziebko	Tekla	0	1-Jul-1883	Rataje	111	Baby	Tekla Zdziebko
Zdziebko	Wojciech	36	abt 1847	n/a	111	Father	Tekla Zdziebko
Zhigliczka	Katarzyna	20	abt 1863		186	Mother	Marianna Zasucha
Zhigliczkow	Teodor			n/a	85	Witness	Antoni Odomski

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