2019 #Genealogy #Goals — AP Kielce (Polish Archive)

AP in Kielce

Stanczyk is always looking for information about his paternal 2nd-great-grandfather (prapradziadek), Marcin Eliasz or his great-grandfather Tomasz Leszczynski.  So it is not a surprise that these two ancestors would top my list of 2019 genealogy goals. I would also like to find my aunt Alice Eliasz Stickney’s (Aleksandra Elijasz) birth record from Pacanow parish in 1909 or 1910. So those would be my heartfelt desires for my genealogical research.

So my best bet may be utilizing the AP in Kielce.

Now most people probably think of finding parish church metrical records or USC record in the archive and these are undoubtedly the most popular use of the online version of the archive (szukajwarchiwach.pl). Of course, at present,  very little of the archive is actually online, beyond its metadata.

I clicked on the one in the red box. Oddly, the text appears to be Czech. It’s not Polish and Russian has no diacriticals. When I clicked, I got the details (shown below). I also highlighted some pertinent areas in red.

At the top, we see “21/145/0/-/1189” that is the full reference #, if you needed to request this from an archivist. I also highlighted the “1189” the last part as it is a kind of file #. I know the year is important for my research, hence the “1886”. I also knew that the # of pages (strony) of “26” would be important too. Finally, at the bottom, I pointed an arrow to the Polish text for the description (that I thought was Czech—).

You could translate the Czech or the Polish, but my understanding of Polish/Polish genealogy, led me to use that instead. So, I went to Google Translate and pasted the Polish (that I selected and copied – not shown).

Now it became really interesting to me. It appears to be about my great-great-grandfather(prapradziadek), Martin Eliasz who died in 1879 and who lived/died in Pacanow. Readers of this blog may remember, a blog article back a bit, where I found an historical newspaper account in “Gazeta Kielecka” from 1879 where my 2x great-grandfather was attacked by horse thieves and there was a mention of his father’s barn in the crime story.

So perhaps by emailing the archive, I will try to acquire the file, with its 26 pages to see if there is a bit of probate history  on Marcin Eliasz (show above) and at least inquire about Aleksandra Elijasz (my aunt / ciotka), daughter of Jozef Elijasz & Waleria Leszczynska born in either 1909 or 1910.

Does anyone have any tips for bank wires or money transfers to the Polish Archives? If so please email or post a comment to this blog post. Dziękuję!

Good searches a Happy New Year 2019 / Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku 2019 r.

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P.S.

Here are some other metadata that look interesting…

Fond #	Year	Pages	Description (in English)
21/40/0/6.2/3396	1904-1910	n/a	Biechów easement, village Wójcza – Joseph Eliasz  and the others  complaint against the Commissioner resolution of 9 August 1905 for No. 107
21/145/0/-/1139	1885	27	Investigation of Aniela and Kacper Pawłowski, Marianna Eliasz and Walenty Palucha with Antoni Wojtys for ownership of real estate in the village of Pacanów
21/2461/0/-/70	1910 (or possibly 1909).	n/a	1875-1912 for birth, marriage, death, & alegata  In particular, 1909 – 1912 [inclusive] since those are not available online.
21/1/0/-/6224	1822-1863	n/a	1822-1863  Files regarding the cemetery in Pacanów
21/7/0/-/54	1854-1860	116	1854-1860 Pacanów Cemetery burials,contributions – name list]
21/2519/0/-/15	1932-1948	n/a	Register of inhabitants of the Pacanów settlement:  (various streets ref #14-#19.
21/1/0/-/2551	1817-1823	n/a	[Detailed files regarding] Privileges of the city of Pacanów