Swiniary — What Genealogy Resources Are Available #Genealogy #Polish #Kielce #Gubernia

Świniary is an important parish to Stanczyk. The reason is because the earliest mention of an Eliasz from Pacanow is found in Swinary parish marriages in the year, 1797. This jester has written two articles on this:  1797 Marriage in Swiniary parish, Jakob Eliasz  and Jakob Eliasz, The 1st Pacanow Eliasz .

Now I wondered why Swiniary is NOT in Metryki.genbaza.pl (AP Kielce) only in the AD (diocessan archive). So I went to FamilySearch.org catalog  (Swiniary – Busko). There were two listings:

Kopie księg metrykalnych, 1878-1884

Author:	Kościół rzymsko-katolicki. Parafja Świniary (Busko Zdrój)

Księgi metrykalne, 1668-1865

Author:	Kościół rzymsko-katolicki. Parafja Świniary (Busko Zdrój)

Unfortunately, you need to be at FHC or FHL (Salt Lake City) to use the digital records for Swiniary.

Luckily for this jester, a Marlene Hardman (Polish genealogist) was a volunteer for her local FHC and she graciously provided this blog with the images of the indexes for 1878-1884. So I will be updating this blog at some point to link to their location on a public Google Drive in the cloud for those who also wish to have a look for an ancestor of theirs. Bless Marlene for RAOGK to this jester!

If the folks over at Geneszukacz would like me to index these indexes for their online database, I would love to pay it forward and provide such. Just let me know!

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Resources:

1. Genbaza — Świniary (1668-1865)
2. FamilySearch.org (1668-1865, 1878-1884)
3. Pradziad — Świniary (catholic, 1875-1913, in Archiwum Państwowe w Kielcach¹
4. Parish (Parafia)  St. Stanislaw (sw. Stanislawa) —  (Birth 1860– Present?, Marriages 1885– Present?, Deaths 1880– Present?) [Source: parafie.genealodzy.pl]
5. SzukajWArchiwach.pl online archive for AP Kielce (only metadata, no scans, for Swiniary)
6. Swiniary Parish via Diocese (info, history)

¹ – Archiwum Państwowe w Kielcach
25-045 Kielce, ul. Kusocińskiego 57
tel: (41) 260-53-11 lub 17
fax: (41) 260-53-10
email: kancelaria@kielce.ap.gov.pl
http://www.kielce.ap.gov.pl/

Polish Genealogy Blog — #RussianPoland #partition #KielceGubernia

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The parishes on this map (large) are the predominant parishes that Stanczyk writes about. So If you ancestral villages are here or more generally in Kielce (Kieleckie) Gubernia /  Wojewodztwo  (now SwietoKrzyskie) then you can learn some useful information to help you in your genealogy research. Feel free to email questions too!

Parishes (partial list) / Parafia (Russian-Poland partition):

Beszowa, Biechow, Olesnica, Ostrowce, Pacanow, Polaniec, Ruda, Solec, Stopnica, Swiniary, Szczebrzusz, Zborowek

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Below the Visutla River / Wisla  Rzeka (Austrian-Poland partition):

Slupiec, Suchy Grunt, Szczucin, Wadowice Dolny, Wolka

 

Pacanow — Indexes & Metric Stats #Genealogy #Polish #Kielce

Stanczyk is  stuck on Pacanow. So I thought I would collect the metric statistics for all events (Births/Marriages/Deaths — Ur./Mal./Zg.) and  individuals from the marriages.

— sample data collected:

On marriages, I wanted to figure out how many times a person was from outside the parish. On all events, I wanted to know how many of each per year and the totals, plus the net growth (Births-Deaths) of Pacanow population (catholic).

I also hope that someone from Poland a genealogist or a resident of Pacanow or an archivist can answer one question: Is there any existing metric data for Pacanow before 1875? It would also be nice to know why, if there is no data or where if there is data.

A neighboring parish, Biechow (my grandmother’s parish),  has the same data available online from the National Archive (AP), but has data from late 17th century (w.) up to about 1850 (from Diocesan Archive – AD). Again why is there a gap between 1850 and 1875 in Biechow in the AD/AP data? Why is there no record of Pacanow data in the Diocesan Archive (AD)?

Pomocy z Polski ?

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Adamczak from Trzebieslawice — #Polish #Genealogy #Łoniow

Birth #22 from 1908 Łoniow Births – Maryanna Adamczak daughter of Walenty Adamczak & Elzieta Kamuda God Parents: Wicenty Adamczak & Rozalia Adamczak all from Trzebieslawice in Parish Łoniow

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Fras | Frass | Frasowa | Frasskosz — #Genealogy, #Cousin, #NewLineOfResearch

A week or two ago, Stanczyk got a bolt out of the blue. It was another genealogist; She was inquiring after my Leszczynski lineage — specifically Agnieszka Leszczynski.

Well a long time ago I got used to the fact that there were so MANY Leszczynskich out there that the possibility that any were directly related was infinitesimally small. Now to be sure a few second cousins have re-connected and it was good to get updates on the American branches. But in my 17 years as a genealogist — I had not received an inquiry on the line of Leszczynskich from my great-grandfather, Tomasz Leszczynski’s first wife or their children.

Old Tomasz lived a long time … to be 104 years of age from about 1835 to 1939 (give or take). He had two wives and bless his heart he had 14 children by them. From his first wife, he started to have children in 1860. Agnieszka (or Agnes as the inquiry was for) was born 9th December 1866. I had her birth record from the church in that lovely Latin Box format and I had deciphered all that was written. But I had no idea if Agnes made it to adulthood or married or even when she died.

Well this genealogist said her-great-grandfather had a mother named Agnes Leszczynski (from his death certificate). Yes, I said, but there are so many Leszczynski families, where was your great-grandfather from. She had a vague idea of the area and the names seemed to be close to a village that I had ancestors from but it was horribly misspelled if it was from that area at all. I was still skeptical, but she sent me an Ellis Island ship manifest (actually a tiny bit of transcription from one). So I thought I would go take a look and see if I could decipher where her ancestor was from — it would be an RAOGK. I was going to help her out.

Well imagine my surprise! Her great-grandfather was from an ancestral village of mine, coming from his father Wladyslaw Fras in Piesciec [sic  -> Piestrzec, today; Piersiec back then, although I had seen it spelled Piersciec many times too]. Now I had never seen any Fras before in those villages, maybe some Franc (Frąc) which was close. But then I went to page two of the ship manifest and he was going to Depew, NY to his uncle, Teofil Lezczynski!!! That was my grand-uncle. OK, I was now getting interested in Jozef Fras.

Now, I had to do some research, but I found him with his family in Toledo, Ohio. Well I had some family from Toledo. In fact, my grandmother’s sister Antonina Leszczynska Sobieszczanski lived there. Well this jester had a few St Anthony, baptismal register images that I could peruse. Now I was even more amazed. Jozef Fras’ wife, BENIGNA (not a common name) was the god-mother of one of Antonina’s sons. Benigina Fras was god-mother to Matthew Sobieszczanski. Those percentages kept going up. I said, perhaps the Fras had children baptised in St Anthony too. I examined their birth years and looked in the register images and there was their first child Helen Fras whose god-mother was my Antonina Sobieszczanski (to Jozef and Benigna’s daughter). Ok, in my head, we are now at 99+% related.

1 Wladyslaw FRAS d: 11 Feb 1919
  + Agnieszka LESZCZYNSKI b: 12/9/1866
    2 Josef Edward FRAS b: 16 Mar 1893 d: 08 Aug 1935
      + Benigna PALICKI FRASS b: abt 1897
        3 Helen FRASS b: 25 October 1917 d: 23 May 1982
        3 Joseph Radislaus FRASS b: 25 March 1922 d: 14 March 1934
        3 Eleanor FRASS b: 15 Jan 1926 d: 25 Oct 1988
        3 Melvin R FRASS b: 15 Jun 1930 d: 10 Dec 2006

So now my next goal is to find the church marriage record of Wladyslaw Fras and Agnieszka Leszczynski (probably in Biechow parish), since Jozef Fras’ ship manifest said he was born in Piestrzec. This would give me the certain Genealogical Standard of Proof — but I have already added the above to my tree.

Thanks second cousin, twice removed, Mindy! By the way, this line of reasoning I am leaning on is again the Social Network Analysis (what Thomas MacEntee calls cluster genealogy).

Don’t you wish you could search Ellis Island by whom people were going to or coming from? Better database search capabilites are needed and the GEDCOM standard needs to be enhanced to handle these social network/cluster analyses

Post Office Department – Stanczyk’s Mailbag — #Polish, #Genealogy, Kuc, Kucz, Swiniary

From the Post Office Department

From Stanczyk’s Mail Bag …

Email From:   Barbara

I have been trying to do research in Pacanow but have not been very successful.  My Grandmother — Maryanna Kuc(z) is from Oblekon.  I wrote to the parish there — Parafia p.w. Najswietszej Maryi Panny Krolowej Swiata but never received a reply.  Perhaps they just couldn’t find any information.

My Grandmother:      Maryanna Kuc(z)

Born:                        March 15, 1886

Baptized                   March  25, 1887

Immigrated to USA:    September 1912

Father:                      Benedict Ku(z)

Mother’s first name:    Marianna

She had a sister Eva (born 1895)

 & a brother Jozef  (born 1893) both came to America.

I think she had other siblings but have not been able to find any records from Poland at all i.e. Marriage of parents, birth or baptisms or death of her parents.  I know her father was alive in 1912 when she came to America.

If you can help or shed any light on how I could obtain the information I am seeking, I would be extremely grateful.

Keep up the excellent work on your blog.

Thank you for any information in can provide and Thank you for your blog,  I learn a lot from it.

Barbara

I had told Barbara that I would search the Swiniary indexes that I have pictures of to see if I could find anything for her. When I searched my indexes, I found that her family name is spelled most as she had it: Kucz, but I did find one example where the priest wrote Kuć. There was also another family Kuzon, but I do NOT feel like they are the same family as her Kucz/ Kuć. Since this was from the era 1829-1852 the records were in Polish. I found one marriage index in the Swiniary parish:

1836 Franciszek Kuć marries Maryanna Duponką   [this is not your great-grandparents, but probably related]. 1836 was the only year that I had a marriage index picture.

1830-1840 no Kucz/ Kuć births in the indexes.

1841 Jozef Kucz birth record #23

1842 Maciej Kucz birth record #21

1843-1845 no Kucz/ Kuć births in the indexes.

1846-1849 I had no indexes (or pictures thereof)

1850 no Kucz/ Kuć births in the indexes.

1851 I had no indexes (or pictures thereof)

1852 Stanislaw Kucz birth record #28

I think I have seen Kuc in the surrounding parishes (Biechow & Pacanow).

First off, I checked the LDS website (FamilySearch.org). I wanted to see what microfilm they had. Your birthdates: 1886, 1893, 1895 are rather late (most LDS microfilm stop around 1884). Here is their inventory for Swiniary (you want “Akta urodzeń“, for births):

Family History Library Catalog (Place Search): Swiniary

Akta urodzeń 1686-1811 — małżeństw 1668-1863 — zgonów 1686-1811 –  INTL Film [ 939952 ]
Akta urodzeń 1797-1811, 1826-1865 –  INTL Film [ 939951 ]
Akta urodzeń, małżeństw, zgonów 1812-1816, 1818-1825 –  INTL Film [ 939949 ]
Akta urodzeń, małżeństw, zgonów 1878-1884 –  INTL Film [ 1808854 Items 9-15 ]

Akta zgonów 1797-1839 –  INTL Film [ 939950 ]

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That is all the LDS (aka Mormons) have in their Family History Library that you can rent microfilm from. Next I checked the Polish National Archives via PRADZIAD . They did have books/microfilm for the date range you are seeking. Here is the contact info for the archive that has the data you seek. You would need to write them in Polish and they will write you back with their findings and instructions for wiring their bank the money they require (all in Polish).

PRADZIAD:

http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en&mode=showopis&id=14781&miejscowosc=swiniary

Archive:

Archiwum Państwowe w Kielcach Oddział w Pińczowie – akta przeniesione do AP w Kielcach
28-400 Pińczów, ul. Batalionów Chłopskich 32
tel: (41) 357-20-02
fax: 357-20-02
email: pinczow@kielce.ap.gov.pl

I hope this helps you out!

–Stanczyk

Pacanów Parish 1881 Marriages (from the index) – #Polish, #Genealogy, #ChurchRecords

Stanczyk would like to apologize. This posting is a month old and then was further delayed when I went to the RootsTech 2012 conference.

Here are the 40 Married couples from the 1881 Church Book of Pacanów parish (parafia):

1. Wojciech Banas & Marianna Wieczorkowna   Akt # 1
2. Antoni Buzon & Julianna Banasionka              Akt # 9
3. Walenty Begaszcz & Joanna Orzechowna      Akt #20
4. Adam Banas & Franciszka Duponczyna          Akt #28
5. Jozef Czernecki & Franciszka Nowakowska     Akt # 2
6. Jozef Elijasz & Marianna Piotrowska              Akt #29
7. Ignacy Gurgol & Marianna Czapliakowna        Akt #19
8. Antoni Grelia & Katarzyna Zhiczowna             Akt #26
9. Kasper Izak & Teressa Bieliatowna                  Akt # 3
10. Wawrzyniec Juszczyk & Franciszka Gulowna  Akt #17
11. Wojciech Jarosz & Marianna Przeworszczonka Akt #17
12. Franciszek Kosatka & Agnieszka Sugojowna    Akt # 4
13. Antoni Krawczyk & Katarzyna Waliasowna      Akt # 6
14. Jan Kobac & Marianna Stachurska                  Akt #16
15. Stanisław Krupa & Katarzyna Kordosowna      Akt #30
16. Wawrzyniec Kierop & Katarzyna Wojciechowska Akt #36
17. Stefan Lewinski & Agnieszka Wierzbowska       Akt # 5
18. Jan Mulszie & Agnieszka Tomczykowna           Akt #27
19. Jan Miotlowski & Marianna Dudzionka              Akt #38
20. Wojciech Madziak & Marianna Zhigliczka          Akt #39
21. StanisławNowak & Marianna Wiestranowska    Akt #10
22. Ludwik Nowitzki & Katarzyna Subisnow           Akt #40
23. Konstanty Piotrowski & Urszula Lewinsnow     Akt # 7
24. Wladysław Pytka & Katarzyna Nowakowska   Akt #21
25. Wawrzyniec Pietryka & Marianna Murodzionka Akt #25
26. Martin Porada & Rozalia Wawrzykiewicz           Akt #31
27. Andrzej Poliniak & Jadwiga Soltyskowna          Akt #37
28. Kazimierz Siwiec & Marianna Zasuczowna         Akt #11
29. Michal Sliski & Marianna Kordosow                   Akt #12
30. Tomasz Stopiniszcki & Antonina Zhilioniow       Akt #23
31. Jozef Stempnik & Lucija Wuszczykowska        Akt #32
32. Jan Ksabowski & Marianna Bursowna              Akt #33
33. Wojciech Szymaszski & Tekla Borczykow        Akt #14
34. Marek Szelmaszski & Franciszka Wierzbyczkowna Akt #24
35. Wawrzyniec Wieczorek & Katarzyna Szelmanikowna Akt #13
36. Kazimierz Wielgus & Julianna Szylmanikowna    Akt #18
37. Leon Wojtiak & Katarzyna Kolpakowna            Akt #22
38. Walenty Zdyb & Katarzyna Pojioniow              Akt #15
39. Julian Zabkowski & Franciszka Wtorek             Akt #35
40. Jan Zhigliczki & Eleonora Wojtysiowna             Akt # 8

Many of the above names are spelled incorrectly. They were transliterated from Russian Cyrillic to a Polish name, but my translation is very suspect in many cases. Caveat Emptor!

Uh A Major Mistake …

Mea Culpa  !       Stanczyk played the fool for sure yesterday. I thought I had made a major breakthrough — pun intended. Instead I made a MAJOR mistake. Let’s examine two proper nouns in Russian Cyrillic.

Major in Cyrillic

MAYCHER

<- That is MAJOR

That is MAYCHER ->

The two names are close, but they are clearly not the same name and are transliterated into English (or Polish) as shown. So I erred when I said MAJOR=MAYCHER. Please note my mistake  and accept my apologies.

Perhaps they are the same and Fr. Michal Krolikowski erred when he wrote down MAJOR for Aniela Major, but perhaps he was correct and all of the error is with me. The only thing in my favor is that I have not found any MAJOR in pre-1868 records. I did send an email to a member of the SwietoGen Polish Genealogical Society, to a Kornelia Major, so perhaps she can help me correct my errant ways.

On the plus side, I did find another church record for a female ancestor  (actually a son of hers) that I had previously not  noted before. All in all, it was still a good find.

—Stanczyk

#Polish #Genealogy – Biechow Parish Clergy, including visiting clerics …

I decided to update the info from the SwietoKrzyskie Digital Library, in the book, “Historical Description of Churches, Cities, Monuments, & Memorials of Stopnica“, written by Jan Wisniewska in 1929 . I found that info in the book was very accurate indeed. What I did notice was his info was incomplete. So Stanczyk went through his images and compiled a more complete list. Please compare the image at left with my spreadsheet data:

Years	Cleric
1326-	Boguslaw ?
1391-	Konrad ?
1531-	Stanislaw Biechowski
1553-	? Gladysz
1610-	Aleksandr Lukomski
1641-	Joachim Parzniewski
1664-	Fran. Gogolinski
1668-	Marcin Humienicki
1671-1675+	Jozef Walcerz
1674-1675+	Albert Tryescinski
1693-	Kazimierz Rogala
1717-	Ludwik Siemieradzki
1727-	Zacharias Stakowski
1727-1730+	Antonius Ciolek Zaleski
1731-1759	Kasper(Gaspar) Sebastyan Zabrowski
1738-1748+	Karol Szaykowski
1753-1757, 1769-1782+	Camirus Zabkowski
1759-1764	Valentinus Szeligowski
1759+	Augustyn Zagoborski
1760-1763	Wojciech Basa Radoszowski
1760+	Casmirus Kayski
1763-1769	Matheus Sowicki
1764+	Franciscus Muszenski
1764-1777	Laurentius Lalosinski
1777-1780	Josephus Ignatius Malczewski
1778+	Sebastianus Skwarcz
1782+	Augustyn Filipowski
1779-1782+, 1792-1796	Wojciech(Adalbertus) Wdowskiewicz
1787-1797	Kajetan Aleksander Boniecki
1792-1794	Nicolaus Kotlinski
1796+	Carolus Binkowski
1796+	Alexius Debski
1797-1828	Jozef Parzelski
1797, 1806(Pacanow), 1827	Jan Gliszczynski
1797+	Dominicus Cyranski
1798-1799	Laurentius Gomborski
1798-1825+	Jozef Gierasinski
1800+	Felix Smukrowicz
1801+	Petrus Draskiewicz
1801-1806	Samuel Snorski
1806+	Domincus Boznowicz
1806-1808, 1827-1828+	Franciscus Stawiarski
1809-	Placidus Janicki
1809-1810	Fracnciscus Maykowski
1810+	Josephus Szwanderski
1811+	? Pasternik
1815-1817	Ludovicus Filipowski
1819+	Jacobus Walichowski
1819+, 1825+	Jozef Krzewski
1821-1822	Floryan Milewski
1825-1847	Jan Kanty Bielski
1848-1852	Jozef Stanko
1852-1907+	Michal Krolikowski
1910	Franciszek Dworak
1919	Jozef Banasik
Year(s)	Visiting Clerics (Parish/Monastery)
1720’s-1730’s	Jan Trzeminowski (Pacanow)
1720’s-1730’s	Michal Handzynski (Beszowa)
1720’s-1730’s	Atanasius Jedrzeykiewicz(Beszowa)
1720’s-1730’s	Christianus Ochozki (Beszowa)
1720’s-1730’s	Michal Kolowski (Trzes??)
1760’s	Josephus Kotlinski(Pacanow)
1770’s	Ignatius Glowacki(Pacanow)
1792	Laurentius Kloscenski(Pacanow)
1793	Nicolaus Dabrowski(Swiniary)
1796	Jacobus Walichowski
1796	Jan Gliszczynski(Swiniary) [see above]

Ecclesiastical Archive for: Biechow, Ksiaznice, Zborowek … and Pacanow?

Stanczyk said a week ago he would show a series fonds in the Catholic Church Archive in Kielce, Poland. These fonds are microfilmed church books of the various parishes in the Kielce Diocese. Sadly, the church does not publish a library catalog of its holdings. Let’s review these images which I collected a long time ago and do not seem to be available any more upon the Internet. I also hope to beseech my readers (in Poland — I know there are a few of you tanks to my Flag Counter), to help me acquire at least Pacanow and I also hope for Swiniary too. Please email Stanczyk if you can help me locate Kielce Diocessan Holdings for: Pacanow and Swiniary parishes (parafii). I can accept a text file of the details or even an image (JPG, GIF, TIF, BMP, PNG) or even a PDF document.

Now lets take a look at what I have (and what I am seeking) …

Biechow Holdings in Kielce

 

Biechow Parish Holdings

These birth/baptismal , marriage/marriage banns, and death church records have been microfilmed by the LDS (aka Mormons).

The LDS also have three microfilm covering the years 1875-1884 which are church records written in Russian that do not appear in this image of their holdings. Now to be fair the image is a few years old and perhaps the Diocessan Archives has been updated since this was taken.

A careful comparison seems to indicate that the LDS microfilm are missing some things that Diocese has and that the Diocese may be missing some things that the LDS have. If this is true then it would appear this is not the source of the LDS microfilm.

You can find the LDS microfilm for my Biechow parish here  and also here too .

If anyone knows if the Diocessan Church Archives in Kielce has microfilm for Biechow from the years 1861-1910, please email me (see above for my email link),  so I can do complete research plans.

I also hope someone out there in the Internet can answer why there is not alegata listed in the Kielce Diocessan Church Archives. Poland’s  State Archives (PRADZIAD) has alegata mcirofilm. Why would the Kielce Diocessan Church Archive be lacking in this manner? I hope this present somewhere in their holdings. I have had excellent success with alegata records giving me missing data.

Finally, my last question is, does the Church Archive also have physical books or only microfilm? If the books exist, can you take photographs of the books themselves?

Now lets look at Ksiaznice. Most people are not aware that Ksiaznice was ever a parish or possibly they were not aware that microfilm existed for Ksiaznice separate from other parishes. I think people just think that Ksiaznice’s church records were added to either Zborowek or Pacanow.

Ksiaznice Holdings in Kielce

Ksiaznice Parish Holdings

The LDS does not have any microfilm of my Ksiaznice which is from the area around Pacanow. Now I did notice some scant records in the Pacanow(Zborowek?) microfilm for Ksiaznice. But look at all that Diocese’s Archive has in Kielce !

I will have to spend a lot of time here to figure out if any of my missing records are here or not. But the holdings looks very complete indeed  — very few gaps !

There is no LDS microfilm for my Ksiaznice, so I have no link to post for you. Clearly, LDS does not get their microfilm from the Diocessan Church Archive. I guess its microfilm  comes directly from the parish books. Again this is probably why people never think of Ksiaznice as a parish separate and apart from Zborowek. Yet look at all of the data they have.

Back at the beginning of July, I talked about this book I used about Biechow parish, from the SwietoKrzyskie Digital Library, in the book,
“Historical Description of Churches, Cities, Monuments, & Memorials of Stopnica“, written by Jan Wisniewska in 1929. This book describes all of these parishes in today’s posting too, plus more. That is how I knew about Ksiaznice.

And now lets review the third parish that I have, Zborowek.

Zborowek

The LDS does have microfilm for Zborowek. To be precise, they have one microfilm covering the years  1878-1884 for birth, marriage and death church records.

The Zborowek LDS microfilm can be found here. But look at the holdings in the Diocessan Archives ! Their records span the years 1736-1887 ! That is again a lot more than you can get from your local Family History Center which has only 6 years I spoke of above.

Again, Stanczyk has his work cut out for him to review the records in Zborowek. I can only dream about the possibilities.

So now gentle reader you know why I am seeking the holdings for Pacanow and Swiniary in the Kielce Diocessan Archives. The potential to close the holes in my family tree and answer all questions back to just before the three partitions of Poland for my Elijasz, Leszczynski, Wlecialowski, and Kedzierski lines is almost more than I can bare. You see I am hoping to plan the search beforehand, so I am prepared for a rather lengthy visit to the Church Archives.

Zborowek Parish