Volume 3, Issue 1 January 2000

http://www.itsnet.com/~genun/ Maps Available Online Unlimited, Inc. Your source for historical, topographic, and http://www.netins.net/showcase/travelgenie/ modern European maps and atlases; also poland.htm archival supplies and a few charts. Travel Genie Detailed maps of Poland - 1:300,000 & 1:100,000 scale maps Sanborn Insurance Maps http://www.generationspress.com/ Generations Press With urban renewal and commercial Generations Press sells a limited number of development in the early 1900s came the regional maps for areas in Central and razing of many older homes in Baltimore Eastern Europe. City. Homes that once housed our immigrant ancestors were removed to build http://www.fourone.com/maps.htm factories, businesses, or parking garages. If Four One Co. you are lucky enough, a photographer may Atlases and maps for most Eastern European have caught one of these houses on film, and countries. you have a record of what your ancestor’s house looked like. If not, how can you get a http://www.omnimap.com/ glimpse into a past that’s long gone? The Omni Resources Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps! The worlds largest on-line map catalog (or These are a series of maps published so they say) in 1890 on a scale of one-inch equals fifty feet. They indicate the house numbers, http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~feefhs/maps/in number of floors for each section of the dexmap.html house, yard size, and out buildings (or out Federation of East European Family houses if you prefer). Additionally, you can History Societies Map Room locate businesses, churches, and schools that Viewable maps of many areas in Central and were in the general vicinity of your Eastern Europe. A very nice selection of ancestor’s neighborhood. Most of these are historical maps. labeled with a name and description.

1 Where can I see these you ask? They are available on microfilm at many of Rocznik Diecezji the Baltimore area research facilities. Some of these include the State Archives in The LDS (Mormons) have Annapolis, UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library, microfilmed a complete set of diocesan and the LDS Family History Centers. almanacs (Rocznik Diecezji) for Poland, These maps are an excellent resource which were prepared after World War II. when doing geographical research on These handy guides have a picture of the Baltimore’s neighborhoods. Below is a parish church, statistical information about small example of what to expect. the parish, the names of the curates, a description of the artworks of the church and, most importantly, the dates the surviving parish records begin. In addition, each parish kept an annual chronicle of events (kronika), which may be a trove of genealogical information. Their dates are also listed.

Upcoming EEIG Programs

Thanks to Dottie Aleshire for her November program titled “Passenger Lists – Baltimore Wasn’t the Only Port of Entry.” Dottie explained about the many ports used by immigrants coming to America. For that ancestor who you swore swam across the Atlantic, she explained where to find clues to a possible port of entry. Thanks again Dottie the program was very informative.

January 8 “Finding and Understanding Polish Church Records from Galicia” Anthony Bogdan

This Bulletin is published by the Baltimore County Genealogical Society’s Eastern European Interest Group P.O. Box 10085 Towson, Maryland 21285

This portion of a Sanborn Fire Insurance EEIG Chairperson: Dottie Aleshire Map of Baltimore City includes the corner at Bulletin Editor: Anthony Bogdan the intersection of South Bond Street and Thames Street in Fells Point. Submissions of stories, ideas, or suggestions concerning this bulletin can be made to the editor at the above address.

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Volume 3, Issue 2 March 2000

http://ciuw.warman.net.pl/alf/archiwa/ind Internet Research ex.eng.html This site includes all the addresses of the http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ archives in Poland, description of their ~ruthann/charts/chartsrecbooks.htm history, how to access them, etc. Best part – This site has free genealogy forms and it’s in English! charts ready to be downloaded. http://catholicgoldmine.com/diocese/ http://istg.rootsweb.com/compass/begin Dioceses: Index html The Compass. This is a great site for ship http://www.polska.net/book/ information. Polish Internet Address Book with search engine. http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/paris h.html http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map Here is a site with links to finding Parish _collection/historical/Baltimore_1869.jpg Addresses in Poland. Not all, but most are A 1869 Map of Baltimore City. Nice detail, listed. You can even select instructions in but slow loading. English. http://alapadre.net/churchoc.html#Polska Book Reviews Polish Roman Catholic Churches on the WWW. Mostly in Polish. “Netting Your Ancestors” by Cyndi Howells http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/polan Genealogy Publishing Co. Inc. darchives.html Baltimore, MD 1997 PolandGenWeb Archives, transcribed records from volunteers for over 28 The creator of "Cyndi's List" of towns/parishes in Poland. In cludes church, Genealogy Sites on the Internet explains to a cemetery, and ship records. Thousands of novice in her book how to integrate names are contained in these records! computing Internet techniques with genealogy research. The 182 page book,

1 which can be obtained from the library, is present a discipline for inquiry and data packed with Internet "how to's" from setting collection. Succeeding chapters tackle up with an Internet service provider (ISP) to elusive record research by providing ideas doing genealogical research on the World from online sites. Appendixes offer Internet Wide Web (WWW). and computer jargon definitions and short E-mail, mailing lists, newsgroups, cuts. One CD comes with this book and it web surfing, software sites, and a glossary contains demos of various available of Internet terms make up the book’s . The 318-page book content. This is a good first book for taking comes with a very good index. your genealogy online. Ron Sacker Ron Sacker

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"Genealogy VIA the Internet” Selected items of interest from the Poland- by Ralph Roberts Roots or GENPOL list servers. Alexander Books, Alexander, NC 1998 I am new to the list and I am looking In this book, Roberts "cuts to the for information on the name Wielinski. chase" and tells the beginning genealogist Originated in Poland/Germany. What I have exactly what to do in mounting an assault on learned from death certificates is that the family fact-finding. He lists several children of Stanley (Stanislaus) and genealogy software resources, but is a fan of Magdalena (Kromolicka) Wielinski were the " Maker," a best-selling born in Baltimore, MD. (1885-1903). Then family history research software package. they came to Chicago, IL. By taking the reader through several I would appreciate any ideas on computer panels in developing and getting information. Thank you…Jeanne categorizing family data, Online services, [email protected] bulletin boards, types of access and resources, and www are explained. A list of ------genealogy web sites is near the end of the book. Hi, I am journalist. I work for Ron Sacker KURIER PORANNY in Bialystok. My daily newspaper is available in Bialystok, ------Lomza, Suwalki region. Our WebSite is www.kurier-poranny.com “Genealogy Online for Dummies” If there are people from POLAND - by Helm & Helm ROOTS who are searching relatives in our IDG Books Worldwide, Foster city, CA region - we could publish such adverts in 1998 our daily paper. Free of charge.

This book is a comprehensive Tomek Wisniewsk companion to genealogy research since it Bialystok Poland explores many aspects of the genealogist inquiries and provides path solutions and ------references for guidance. The early chapters

2 Dear List, This Bulletin is published by the I receive a newsletter from Family Tree Baltimore County Genealogical Society’s Finders. The other day it contained Eastern European Interest Group information about a new search program, P.O. Box 10085 Towson, Maryland 21285 "Copernic 2000." I have just started using it, and have found more information than EEIG Chairperson: Dottie Aleshire with other search engines. There is a free Bulletin Editor: Anthony Bogdan version that you can download and a more detailed version available for purchase. For Submissions of stories, ideas, or suggestions concerning this bulletin can be made to the editor more information, at the above address. http://www.copernic.com .

Good luck, Linda E.

Welcome New Member

Welcome to new member…

Beverly Klos Williams 404 Dawson St. Kane, Pa., 16735 e-mail: [email protected]

Beverly is researching the names Gajkowski and Nowak

Upcoming EEIG Programs

March 11 Open Discussion of Research Problems

April 8 Preserving Your Documents & Photos

May 13 Tour of Locust Point

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Volume 3, Issue 3 May 2000

Databases. A synopses of selected sessions Computerized Genealogy are presented below Conference NAME INDEXES ON THE INTERNET The following information is taken from a Alan E. Mann, an Accredited U.S. government trip report on the annual Genealogist, with an obvious wealth of Brigham Young University Computerized experience in genealogy, presented this Genealogy Conference March 16-18, 2000 paper. Mann presented the pros and cons of in Provo, Utah. using name indexes on the Web and the advantages of using meta-indexes to speed The Keynote Speaker, David E. the search. Most tools search across multiple Rencher, President of the National databases and through hundreds of millions Genealogical Association, spoke about of names worldwide. The most productive where the Internet is going in the new meta-indexes are: millennium, and the impact on data Familytreemagazine- availability and how data will be stored, http://www.familytreemagazine.com/search accessed and researched. Unlike past which searches 12 different databases and technological revolutions, the Internet has eliminates duplicates, and enveloped the entire planet in a very short Multi-Gen- time and promises to change not only how http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages business is done, but how leisure is pursued /CACulman/MultiGen.htm as well. Genealogy has become a worldwide Mann had two cautions: just because pass-time. Some of the statistics were it's on the Web doesn't mean that it's right, so astonishing, in particular that more words on VALIDATE, and make sure that apparent genealogy have been published on the Web multiple sources aren't really based on the in the past four years than published in all same and possibly erroneous source. media in history! Most of the conference speakers were accredited genealogists. The LOCATING LIVING PEOPLE conference was divided into four tracks Barbara Renick presented Locating loosely broken down into the subjects of the Living People. She advanced three reasons Internet, Software and Hardware Tools, why a genealogist might need to research Research Techniques and Productive living people:

1 1)gain contact with a relative or researcher, assumptions, bumping into data, and finding 2)update old contact information, and 3) new sources through persistence and find ancestral file submitters to obtain more disciplined analytic techniques. information. Renick advised against using search engines to find people because they TYPES OF DATABASES ON THE search such a small portion of the Web, INTERNET don't search newsgroups, mail lists, Barbara Renick presented a rather telephone directories, email directories, nor complete compendium of the different types do they help find specialized online tools. of databases that can be found on the The use of directories was suggested Internet. She first cautioned that genealogy as the best place to find people. Basically Web sites are constantly adding new directories use databases such as telephone features, capabilities and data and that it directories, DMV records, voter cannot be assumed that once used they are registrations, property tax lists, product not useful in the future for the same subject. registrations and email registrations. There Exactness in genealogical research is the are a large number of commercial sites cardinal rule. Consequently, all sources must which charge, according to the type of be qualified as original data, dependable search: people locator, unlisted phone data or data pointers. She listed the numbers, pre-employment checks, credit following general categories of Web sites. history checks and criminal record checks. Portals - Portals can be compared to Other approaches include searching newspapers in that they try to offer newsgroups, mail lists, RootsWeb Mail List something for everyone. Portals in fact, offer Archives, OneList and the Social Security so much that they can be overwhelming. Death Index (the latter helps find the state Some sites, such as FEEFHS (Federation of the deceased lived in at the time of death East European Family History Sites) offer and, because the index only list those wide ranging and detailed information not individuals for whom death benefits were only on European countries, but has links to paid, the location of possible beneficiaries). Baltic, and Balkan countries to include Searching online newspapers through Nexis, historical maps. News Library, county genealogy mail lists Lists of Links - Link sites are (often list survivors in obituaries) and the essentially pointers that link similar sites to Web sites of the many worldwide aid in searches. Some sites list a few dozen newspapers are all useful. links, while others link one topic to mega- sites (directories), covering hundreds of FINDING USEFUL INFORMATION ON categories. A well-known and worldwide THE INTERNET link is Cyndi's List. In this session Alan Mann gave a Search Engines - Search engines are case study of what he called a typical computer programs that search one or more approach to Internet research, beginning indexes. Indexes are gathered by robotic with searches of already compiled programs, which constantly index the information and working towards original Internet. According to the author it is sources. The demonstration of how this estimated that the biggest indexes only cover research progressed is presented at about 17% of the Internet. Some search "www.geocities.com/Heartland.com/". The engines index only their own site, such as case study was a good demonstration of Alta Vista, while others, like Ask Jeeves, going down blind alleys, making incorrect

2 search the Internet with multiple search include the Genealogy Benelux Web Ring, engines. the Ukrainian Roots Genealogy Webring and Commercial Sites - Commercial the USGenWeb Project. sites offer a variety of products, both free Queries - More and more locations and for fee. Their biggest service to are springing up on the Web where anyone researchers is that they make available can place a query, which is automatically databases otherwise inaccessible or placed, and routes responses directly to you. affordable to the general public. These services automatically search through Additionally, because they are in the Internet for lists of queries placed by competition with one another they have to others with the same interests. Common maintain a level of quality not usually found Threads and YourFamily.com are two of in non-commercial sites. Ancestry.com and these sites. Everton Publishers are two examples of such Gedcom Databases - Gedcom sites. databases are repositories for Gedcom files, Reference Sites - Reference sites are which are compiled records made available places to go for research help. Help ranges by genealogists. The author cautioned that from foreign language translation services, these files must be viewed as suspect and online dictionaries, tutorials and mapping, to always validated. Gendex, Royal name a few. Example sites include and RootsWeb World Connect FreeTranslation.com, LearnLots.com, and are such databases. OneLook Dictionaries. Home Pages - Home pages are Web Indices/Collections - Indices are pages posted to the Internet which contain a generally sites provide card catalogue type wide variety of genealogical data, such as information. Collections, on the other hand, Gedcom files, family trees, family histories, are sites that offer entire collections of etc. Some are large, others small, some specific subjects, sometimes even digitized updated frequently and other not at all. Sites images of actual records. Examples include can be found using Web crawlers or Ask Danish Emigrant Database 1868-1903, and Jeeves. Mayflower and Early Families. Catalogues Online - Online Surname Listings - Surname listing catalogues are posted by organizations to sites are locations where researchers can allow researchers insight into their physical register their research interests so that others holdings, such as lioraries. Not all who share those interests can contact you. catalogues list all of the holdings available Sites generally encourage such listings at that repository. DBI-Unk, for example, because they prompt more visitors and lists holdings of 3,000 German libraries. provide exposure to other services and Email Archives - Email archives products. Kindred Konnections, One-Name include Email services (HotMail, ISP Studies and RootsWeb Surname list are servers), newsgroups and ListServs. Each of among these sites. these services allows the entire population of Genweb Projects and Webrings - the Internet to communicate and share Genweb Projects and Web-rings are non- information of specific interest. profit organizations world wide organized both formally and informally to make genealogical information freely available. These groups are usually organized geographically or topically. Examples

3 ACTUAL SOURCES ON THE INTERNET: FINDING REAL Letter from the Editor RECORDS Alan Mann and Kory Meyerink, both This is the last EEIG bulletin until Accredited Genealogists, teamed the fall. We will be having one more EEIG up to give a presentation on finding real meeting in June and then we will break for genealogical records on the internet. the summer as we did last year. The next Meyerink used a viewgraph machine to meeting after June will be the second display information he had found about Saturday in September. various individuals in paper form, while As usual the Bulletin is still in need Mann searched the same individuals on the of articles, stories, or any information you Internet. Generally, the Internet found more would like to share with others in the group. information. The point of the discussion was As members of the EEIG, this Bulletin not only to demonstrate the completeness of belongs to you. Use it to help others in their the Internet, but also to demonstrate that research by sharing your knowledge. there are more and more actual records Read an interesting genealogy book? digitally reproduced and made available on Write a short review and tell us what you the Internet. Although only virtual records thought. Discover a new or unknown source (as opposed to physical records) are for research? Tell us about the source and available on the Internet, all the categories how it helped you. Find a great web page? of information available in hard copy are Give us the URL to post in the bulletin. found on the Internet. These include Have a suggestion or idea on something new Original information (the first recording of to include in the Bulletin? Let’s implement an event), Compiled records (records created it! by researchers), Background information We have all summer to gather/collect (information that 'helps researchers) and these things. Help me to fill this years Finding aids (records which identify where remaining Bulletins. Thanks for your records can be found). support, and have a great summer.

Original Information - Electronic text, Cemetery inscriptions, Obituaries, Military Records.

Compiled Records - GEDCOM files, This Bulletin is published by the Family histories, Periodicals, Biographies. Baltimore County Genealogical Society’s Eastern European Interest Group P.O. Box 10085 Background Information - Gazetteers, Towson, Maryland 21285 Maps, Mailing lists, Glossaries, Language aids. EEIG Chairperson: Dottie Aleshire Bulletin Editor: Anthony Bogdan Finding Aids - Indexes, Search engines, Submissions of stories, ideas, or suggestions Directories, Catalog~ Portals, Gateway concerning this bulletin can be made to the editor at the above address.

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Volume 3, Issue 4 September 2000

Hamburg-Links to Your Roots Fells Point Church Closings Hamburg Emigration Lists Sadly, we've seen the closing this Eventually the records from 1850 to spring of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church on 1934 will be posted. The 1890 lists are South Ann Street (see the article by Michael complete and searchable online, and parts of Olesker dated April 2000). Holy Cross the lists for 1890-1893 are also available at: Polish National Church at Broadway near http://www.hamburg.de/LinkToYourRoots/E Gough St. is also on the verge of closing its nglish/welcome.htm doors.

The church records (baptisms, A Hidden Tool marriages and burials) of Holy Rosary, St. Stanislaus, St. Patrick's and St. Michael's (all It may not be a family treasure, but Catholic Churches) have been microfilmed it's a tool for Windows 98 users. Did you by the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis know that you could translate your e-mail and can be accessed there. Unfortunately, to into many languages including Greek, my knowledge, the records of Holy Cross Turkish and Russian? Check out the Polish National Church have never been installed components window on Win 98, copied and will probably be sent to an click on Multilanguage Support and select archive in Scranton, Penna. which language you want. Your e-mail will be translated into the incoming language It's more important than ever that we when you send it. This is a handy tool when all try to preserve the church and cemetery trying to communicate with someone with records of our ancestors whose blood, sweat little English Knowledge, but great research and tears supported these churches for over capability. Not sure how to do it? Click a century. Help at the Startup Menu, then Reading and Sending Internet Messages…from Arlene Dottie Aleshire Turtle (Missing Links-Rootsweb Gen. Journal 2 Feb 2000).

1 Dec. - No Meeting - Happy Holidays Holy Rosary Cemetery If you know of an upcoming event of We can all be proud of the work we interest to other members of EEIG, please let did recording and getting published Dottie or Anthony know so that we can pass "The Tombstone Inscriptions of Holy the word along. Rosary Church." It was extremely well received by those interested and also made a little profit for the society. If you need a Document, Document, "special" gift for a relative or friend, we still Document have a few copies left.

Contact Dottie, e-mail: [email protected] When you send out copies of or anyone on the BCGS library staff. documents, pics, etc. to people, stick your address label on them so the receiver will Joe Simon has been recording the always know who sent them. interment records of Holy Rosary. Although we have copies of the originals in the BCGS When you receive documents, etc., library, they're not indexed and the write down who sent it to you so you don't handwriting can be very difficult to read. I forget where you got them. think we recorded at least 10,000 names on the existing tombstones, but the interment When you're entering new names in records could by double that number. Evelyn your genealogy program, put sources in for Dudley and Melvin Jagielski have been the names as well as the birth dates. helping to proof read. When you download a GEDCOM from someone, add their name and address Mark Your Calendar in the source list on your program.

Sept 9 - EEIG Open Forum The number one rule to remember; if you think you'll remember where this came Sept 15 - Crab Cake Dinner - Christ Church from later, you're sadly mistaken. (Locust Pt.) Jeanne Smith (Ancestry Weekly Digest 15 Sept 24 - BCGS Meeting February 2000)

Oct. 14 - EEIG Meeting - "Czech & Slovak This Bulletin is published by the Baltimore County Genealogical Society’s Heritage - Mrs. Dolores Gentes Eastern European Interest Group P.O. Box 10085 Oct. 15 - Czech & Slovak Festival Towson, Maryland 21285

Oct. 22 - BCGS Meeting EEIG Chairperson: Dottie Aleshire Bulletin Editor: Anthony Bogdan

Nov 11 - EEIG Mtg. - "Mapping Our Submissions of stories, ideas, or suggestions European Ancestors" - Anthony Bogdan concerning this bulletin can be made to the editor at the above address. Nov. 24 - BCGS Meeting

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Volume 3, Issue 5 November 2000

If you are curious about the physical Maps conditions in and surrounding your ancestral village, look at a topography map (see next Maps…how important are they for article). You’ll be able to tell if the area is genealogy research? Very important! As composed of flat plains or steep mountains, you travel back in time doing your research, fields or forests, swamps or underbrush. Is you’ll find yourself, more often than not, the village at a high elevation, where the air referring to maps. is cooler and dry, or is it in a lower Lets look at our area…Baltimore elevation, with warmer, humid air? This City. Street names in this area have changed will give you insight to the conditions that somewhat over the past 100 years or so. An surrounded the daily lives of your ancestors. older map of Baltimore will show these old So you see there are a lot more to names. How about the Jones Falls maps, than using them to get from point A to Expressway, I-95, or I-395…all of these point B. Maps can be a valuable resource in highways pass through the city. What was your research, and can hold a wealth of there before they were built? Our ancestor’s information. I collect any and all maps that homes and communities, that’s what. These are pertinent to the areas of my research. places are gone forever, and can only be Just like a photograph…every map has a found on old maps of the city. story to tell, and I love stories! Want to find ancestors in the census records? Unless you’re lucky enough to Anthony Bogdan locate them in an index, you’ll be looking at maps of the wards and enumeration districts to narrow your search of the census records. Looking for that Ancestral village What is a Topographic Map? over in Europe? Get out the maps. If you know the village name, and can find it on a A map is a representation of the map, you’ll want to note the adjacent village Earth, or part of it. Traditionally, maps have names also. Most likely your family has been printed on paper. When a printed map been in that area for hundreds of years, and is scanned, the computer file that is created you’ll also want to search for records of may be called a digital raster graphic. those villages.

1 The distinctive characteristic of a topographic map is that the shape of the Maps Online Earth's surface is shown by contour lines. Contours are imaginary lines that join points FEEFHS Map room of equal elevation on the surface of the land Maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, above or below a reference surface such as German Empire, Balkans, Russian Empire, mean sea level. Contours make it possible to and more. Most from the 1882 time frame. measure the height of mountains, depths of http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~feefhs/maps/i the ocean bottom, and steepness of slopes. ndexmap.html A topographic map shows more than contours. The map includes symbols that University of Texas Map Collection represent such features as streets, buildings, Excellent source for current general interest streams, and woods. These symbols are maps of many countries. constantly refined to better relate to the http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map features they represent, improve the _collection/Map_collection.html appearance or readability of the map, or to reduce production cost. PolandGenWeb Consequently, within the same Maps of Poland and links to book stores. series, maps may have slightly different http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/maps. symbols for the same feature. Examples of html symbols that have changed include built-up areas, roads, intermittent drainage, and some Travelgenie type styles. On one type of large-scale Detailed maps of Poland topographic map, called provisional, some http://showcase.netins.net/web/travelgenie symbols and lettering are hand drawn. /poland.htm

Genealogyunlimited.com Modern European Books, Maps, and Atlases http://www.genealogyunlimited.com/inde x.html

Polish Genealogical Society of America Maps of Poland with links to other resources. http://www.pgsa.org/geomaps.htm

This Bulletin is published by the Baltimore County Genealogical Society’s Eastern European Interest Group P.O. Box 10085 Ground configuration shown by contours Towson, Maryland 21285

EEIG Chairperson: Dottie Aleshire Article taken from USGS website… Bulletin Editor: Anthony Bogdan http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/ Submissions of stories, ideas, or suggestions concerning this bulletin can be made to the editor at the above address.

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