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VOLUME 8 AUTUMN2OOO NUMBER 3 Flo'vrz Mar,rq Cousir.rs Wef,le ln llm thfls ilssue q q q Ycnlr Sth Grabc Oass? How Many Cousins Were In Your 8th Silesian Polish setdement in south central Minnesota Grade Class? Silesian Polish settlement in south central Minnesota...... page 1 by Jeanette Bias
4Sonnek Family History from Roben Sonnek, 1977. Autumn2000 Society of Minnesota Page2 Polish Genealogical
Potisl Gneahgical SocietY oifMinnesota
A Branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society
5768 Olson Memorial HwY' Golden ValleY MN 55422
http://www.mtn. orglmgs/branches/polish'htm I t ttprTl***.tootsweb.com/-mnpolgs/pgs-m n'html Tbrry Kita Officers/Board of Directors: President's Letter by (512-927-07t9) President:...... Terry Kita Our recently updatecl membership list shows 285 dues- > < terry.kita @federalcartridge'com ouuinn of which 150 have a listed email address. president...... Vacant *"*t6rr, Vice Wiril;;ilbership was fairly constant, the members with a Secretary...... M"ry Ellen Bruski (763-588-3801) by 40 fiom last year' Those (7 63- 493-8465 listed email addreis increaseh T.earurer...... Barbara Rockman they use for genealogy' pt.tia""t.'.."...Greg Kishel
area or farnily, via email, that I unearth a mother lode ly send messages to members, sometimes on short of information, and "speak" to yet another enthusiast. notice, about a particular prograrn or event. This re- F'or me it is preferable to the phone, and at times to an quires that we design, print, label and mail the notice-- in-person discussion. It is tast, allows one to keep all of which takes time and money. The same notice, printed records, and to reflect when answering a ques- sent by email, requires the design and electronic send- tion. I find that archivists, such as those I contact regu- ing to be considerably faster and less expensive. We larly in northeastem Wisconsin, enjoy discussing re- will set up such a system for those who have email ad- quests for information via email. It is via email that I dresses, while using US mail for those who do not yet am able to juggle simultaneously the search fbr ances- have email. Our membership records are computer- tors scattered around Europe, and quickly pass this in- ized, allowing us to contact members with email formation back and forth among my interested rela- easily. It is important that members help us to maintain tives. It is very stimulating to contact someone whom their current, correct email address. you have never met, in another part of the world, but with the same interest. It is much less personal than a If you are not yet connected to the intemet, it is pos- "blind" phone call, and is therefore preferable for me. sible to preview it at your local library, or at a friend's house. Once you begin to use email, whether for gene- Besides the individual's use of the intemet and alogical research, or personal use, it is like entering a email fbr genealogical research, there is an advantage new dimension. from an organizational standpoint also. We periodiCal- Mark your calendars: o We have reserved the meeting room on the lower aout'., level of the MGS Library in Golden Valley for FUTURE MEETINGS on the following dates in 2001: February 24, April28, October 13, and November 10. In addition, the PGS-MN will again participate with The Bulletin Board several sessions in MGS's annual "Branching Out" meeting on March 24,2W. Announcements of speak- Attention members with e-mail: ers and topics will follow separately in future issues of this newsletter and via mailed flyers. As you know, one of the perks of your membership --Greg Kishel in PGS-MN is the posting of your sumames on our website at
Y outh international e xchange Corrections:
I am writing to you today from Youth For Under- When we acknowledged extra contributions to standing Intemational Exchange in Washington D.C. PGS-MN in our last issue ["The Bulletin Board," We are celebrating our 5fth year of promoting the PGS-MN-Newsletter,8 no. 2 (Summer 2000), p.31, benefits of cross-cultural education to high school we misspelled two narnes. They should read: Mary students worldwide. We currently offer excellent year Alice Rekucki and Bernie Szymcmk. We apologize. and summer programs to Poland. Students will be en- rolled in a school and live with a host family on the Also, Bob Prokott informed us that the names on year program. Our Discover Poland program is a six- the translated marriage record ["Where is Koeln?," week homestay in the summer. PGS-MN-Newsletter,8 no. 2 (Summer 2000), p. 51, We would like an opportunity to promote our pro- should rcad Johann Jany arrdGregor Hylla. Both grams to Poland in your newsletter. I'm sure you stunarnes, he said, were cornmon among Polish set- would agree that a global education is a valuable asset tlers in central Minnesota. -.PTK to young people. I'm hoping to encourage more and more students to visit this part of the world! If you have media kit available, I would be happy to receive Seeking anecdotes it. I also invite you to check out our web site for more information about our programs, including Poland!
What the heck did that word mean? of these days I must find another one that Dad used, something sounding like "rasspooshnyok," which he tagged to any kid who was acting like a weasel. Mary Ellen Bruski's request for correction of e-rnail addresses appearing (see on ortr u,eb postings page 3) Greg also sent his reply to Mary Ellen,who replied: lead to an exchang,e of e-mail messoges. She had end- ed her notice as follows: Hey, thanks Greg! My poor father was half Irish and half Polish. The only kid with an Irish sumarne arrend- . . . I apologize for any errors. I have found some by ing St. Adelben's school. His kish uncles used to dress myself and have banged my fbrehead on the screen a up like Santa Claus at Christmas and make him kneel few times calling myself the only Polish word my down and say his prayers in Polish before they'd give father ever used-- goppa! him his presents. Then they'd laugh and laugh at him (nice guys). So I don't blame my dad for only hanging Slrc added an aside to me: onto one real good word he could mutter when the oc- casion called for it. At the end I typed a word the way it sounds--do you have any idea of the correct spelling? It's a Polish Latter she wrote: word for "dumb" or "idiot" (I'm ref'erring to myself when I use it). As an addendum to the gapa story; I just remem- bered that when my first son (my father's first grand- I didn't know what to make of the u,ord but it sounded child) finally leamed to talk, he couldn't say "Gram- like one that I did knov', so replied I to her: pa." But he'd run behind my dad calling "Gapa! G:pa!" I recall my dad rolling his Are you eyes and saying, sure the word isn't dupa? It means, "Oh great, that's just perfect." ahhhhh--well, it means "behincl, rear end." She added: Mary Ellen wasn't real happy u,ith nry suggestiort. She replied: This episode could tum into an article for the news- letter all by itself! We could call it "Whar rhe heck did _ Well, if'you can't tind it in any Polish dictionary, that word mean?" don't put it in the newsletter. Just end the article with something about my disgust with myself as a typist. I And here it is! -.PTK never did see that word written, I just remember my dad using it when he meant someone dicl something stupid. And yes, I know that other word--dupa! The Rose Ensemble presents: I thought that I'd better get o littl.e help w,ith identify- Rose in the East - a Slavic Holiday ing tlrc yvord.l fonuarded h.er question to colleagues John Radzilow,ski and ()reg Kishel. John replied: A concert of vocal music from ancient Poland and Czechoslovakia will be presented this December at the I think itis glupi or glupa--meaning "stupid or Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis. Much of this dummy." It may come out differently in some dialects music is newly researched and transcribed from med- of Polish. ieval manuscripts and has never been performed in the United States! Also featured in the concert will be And Greg replied: tales of ancient heroes and saints from Eastem Europe, in addition to several hymns (in Gregorian chant), At first, I guessed that she was referring to the extolling the virnres of these legendary figures. adjective gtupi (fem., glupa), meaning "foolish, silly, Travel with us to medieval Eastem Europe this holi- idiotic, asinine," etc. etc. I can remember kids on the day season! Leave behind the stress of last-minute Range calling each other "goops," probably from the shopping and visit ancient Prague and Krakow, where related Slovenian or Croatian word. But then I remem- mysterious chants, psalms, and joyful carols are min- lered my father referring to dumbos or yokels with a gled with tales of saints and folk of good will. Polish word very much the same as the one M.E. 8:00 p.m. Friday & Saturday, December 22 &23, quotes, "goppa" in phonetic spelling. And there 'tis in 2000. The Basilica of Saint Mary, 17th Street & Hen- Wielki Slownik: gapa, defined as "giddy goat, empty- nepin Avenue, Minneapolis. Tickets: $8 any person of headed gawk, booby, lout." I'll be damed--another limited means, $17 general admission. one of those childhood words slips into context. One --fohn Radzilov'ski Page 8 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Autumn2(X)0
At left: Polish settlement in south c entral Minne sota. Polish immigrants settled in Easton, Wells, Minnesota Lake in F-aribault County, and in Mapleton in Blue Earth County, with extended settlement in Freebom County. Other Polish settlement in south central Minnesota occured in the Owatonna area in Steele County and the East Chain/Fairmont area in Martin County. (Map source:1997-1998 Official Highway Map of Minnesota.)
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Cousins, continued from page l went to the Family History Library and did a "Locality Search" from their Catalog for both Neudorf and Grove Church. Many of the early Polish immigrants Nowa Wies and tbund microfilm for 29 towns by the were maffied in this church. My great-grandparents, name of Neudorf ancl three towns by the name of Frank Staloch and Susanna Pietrok, were married there Nowa Wies. When I looked at the microfilm for Nowa on April 11, 1880. In less then 20 years the log church WieS Ksia2eca (Kepno)8 from the province of Posen, became too small for the congregation and so the I found many clf my ancestors and relatives listed. It Catholic community decided to build a new church in was my best source for verifying the birthplace of my Easton. The new town had been plotted following the ancestors (and finding their parent's names) and for laying of the Southem Minnesota Railroad. A new anyone else from Neudorf. frame church was completed in 1885 on the site of the present brick church.S Information I found on the Intemet helped me un- derstand the bounclary changes for Silesia ancl Posen.9 The history of St- Casimir's Catholic Church in Part of the province of Silesia, where my ancestors Wells, Minnesota began in 1881 with the arival were bom, was changed to the province of Posen (Poz- families of lrish descent. Settlers of Polish descent nari) and was retumed to Poland after World War I' soon followed. Among the Poles were Felix Schultz, Syc6w and its vicinity are near the border between John Troska, Ignatius Rathai, John Dulas, John Janski, Posen and Silesia in what is now southwestem Polantl. Mathias Smolka, Michael Praiss, Frank Staloch, Frank I was in Poland in 1999 on a two-week tour and man- Chirpich, Ignatius Weilowski, Lawrence Staloch Sr., aged a side trip to my ancestor's birthplaceslO and Bartholomew Sonnek, John Kulla, and John Kalis. They departed from Prussian Silesia, bringing along with them their own language--Polish.6 5Celebrate OLMC 125 Years of Living Failh -- l99l {OLNfC = Our [,ady of Mount Cannel) I began the research for my ancestors by finding their obituaries in newspapers on microfilm at the 6St. Casimir Church, Wells, Minnesota C--entennial, June 1985, Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul. Some page 9 not.7 obituaries mentioned the birthplace but many did 7It w"r not very conunon uunong small town Minuesota news- The places of binh named were Neudorf, Nowa Wies, papers of the early 20th cenrury to mention the birrhplace. and Wartenberg, all in German Poland. The provinces named were Silesia and Posen. The place narnes were 8See FHL note in "Table of Immigration Information" on page usually misspelled and it was very confusing. At the t2. John Borchert Map Collection at the University of 9Website: http: Minnesota, I used Ritter's Geographisch-Statistisches //mernbers.aol.com/genpolaud/pos.lrtrn Icxikon (1874); I found there were 146 towns by the lOSee: Jeanene Bias, "A Drearn Come True," PSG-MN News' name of Neudorf. So how did I find the right one? I letter 7 no. 49 (Winter 1999-2ftfr):20-22. Autumn 2000 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page 9
The following should give you some idea of the close-knit nature of these communities in Europe and America: There were24 pupils in my 8th grade gradu- ation class at St. Casimir's Catholic Grade Schocll. I have 16 of these classmates in my Family History data- base. Of those 16, I am some kind of cousin to nine of them.
I have by no means completed my fernily history research. I haven't had time to research or verify the exact birthplaces of Chicos/Cichos, Dusza, Kensok, Zimney and Woitas who are also from these same villages in Poland.
St. Mary's Catholic Church ofWesner's Grove I feel very fortunate to have many genealogical St. Mary's was the first Catholic Church in Faribault contacts throughout the United States who helped with County. It was built in 1866 near Easton, Minnesota. much information on our cofirnon family histories. Thanks to them all. [ound the topography near Syc6w and Faribault county are very similar. They are both farming communities l lSee "Table of Irnmigration Information" on pages 12-13. and the surrounding countryside is very flat. l2Many people ask: "If we are Polish, why doesn't our name How did I find so many people from the same end ir 'ski""? Very few Silesian surnames end with "ski." Silesia I I was separated from Poland for almost 600 years, It was during villages? When I was researching my direct ances- this period of separation that the practice of using surnames tors (Staloch, Dulas, and Wanzek),I found the same developed. Therefore, different surnaming practices evolved in sumarnes kept tuming up as their spouses--Chirpich, Silesia than in Poland proper. Kalis, Krowiorz, Kullot, Lenort, Rathai, Schultz, 1 3Family Stencel, Stenzel, Troska, Yokiel, Chicos/Cichos, History Library microfi hn 2041929, lten 29, #20 (Death record of Elizabeth Staloch Glowik). Family History Zimney and Woitas.t2 My curiosity led me to find Library microfilm 2O4l93O,Item24, #3 (Death record of Franz out where they were bom and died. Many obituaries Staloch). mentioned when they immigrated so I verified the information by looking atthe Germans to America Passenger Ship Index. I could not find everyone, of course, because the Index has omissiclns and misspelling of names. I looked at many Passenger Ship Manifests looking for clues to the immigrants' places of birth. Most said Prussia, Germany and a very few said Poland. The Passenger Ship Manit-ests tbr Vincent Stenzcl (21 March 1882) and the John Staloch fami- ly (20 May 1886) show the destination as Wells, Minnesota.
When I begin rcsearching my ances- tors, I wondered if Elizabeth Staloch Glowik on my mother's side and Franz Staloch on my Dad's side were related. I discovered Elizabeth and Franz had the same parents, Valentin Staloch and Ma- ria Cichos.l3 This means my parents had the same great-great-grandparents and were third cousins although I don't be- lieve they knew it. St. Casimir's Catholb Church (1885) in Wells, Minnesota Page 10 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Autumn2O00
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Above: Modern Polish n ap shou,ing the native villages in Poland of many of the settlers in the Wells area. Roughly clockwise from the upper right they are: Kochlowy, Marianka, Remisz6wka, Ilychtal, Drozki, Trgbaczdw, Nowa WieS Ksi42gca, Perz6w, Syc6w, Dziadowa Kloda, Blotnik, Wojciechowo and Biskupice. These are the modern Polish place names. See map and caption at right for 19th century place names. The map above is a composite of a portion of two maps from the MapaTopograficzna Polski [Topographic Maps of Polandl map series. This complete map set can be found in the map files at the MGS Library (See a review of this map set on page 19). The top portion of the map above is from the southeast comer of map M-33-VI-- Ostr6w Wielkopolsti. The bottom portion is from the northeast comer of map M-33-Xil--Wroctaw. Autumn2000 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page 11
Above: Inte l9th century Austrian map shoking the native villages in Poland of many of the settlers in the Wells area. Roughly clockwise from the upper right they are: Kochlow, Maryanka, Remiszowka, Reichthal, Droschkau, Trembatschau, Ftirstl. Neudorf, Perschau, GroB Wartenberg, Kunzendo{ Blatnik, GroB Woitsclorf, and Bischdorf. These are 19th century German place narnes. See map and caption at left for modem Polish p_lace naqes.Jhe map above is a composite of a portion of two mapi from the Austrian Map Series of Middte Europe. The Polish areas of this map set can be found in the map files at the MGS Library (See a review of this map set oll page 19). The left portion of the map above is from the westem part of map 35051o Breslau.The right protion is from the eastem part of Map 36-o51" Oppeln. Page12 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Autumn2000 TABLE OF IMMIGRATION INFORMATION: Silesian Polish settlement in south central Minnesota
This table shows when the families from the Wells area immigrated, where the place of birth was found, the Polish narne of the town, and the town in Minnesota where they settled.
Polish name of town German name of town
Biskupice Bischdorf Blotnik Blatnick (Ruebenfelde) German narne changed in 1937 Dro2ki Droschkau Dziadowa Kloda Kunzendorf Kochlowy Kochlow Marianka Maryanka (Lenka Mroszenska) Nowa WieS Ksiqzgca Furstlich Neudorf Perz6w Perschau Remisz6wka Remiszowka Rychtal Reichtal Syc6w Gross Wartenberg Trgbacz6w Trembatschau Wojciechowo Gross Woitsdorf
These towns are circled on the maps on pp. 10-11. A modem Polish map is on page 10. A 19th century German language map is on page 11.
Kev to notes in table
* - my ancestors ** - Different Staloch/Dulas than my ancestors FHL = Baptism records (1854-1880) from NeudorfA.{owa Wies found on microfilm 1191125 item #9 and microfilm 1191160 item #1 frcm the Family History Library in Salt Lake City Wells Minor - Weekly newspaper of Wells, Minnesota
Immisrated Familv Place of Birth Found Polish Town Minnesota Town
Circa 1851 Sonnek, Andrew Sonnek Family history Trgbacz6w Minnesota Lake Circa 1851 Sonnek, Joseph (NY) Sonnek Family history Trgbacz6w Stayed in New York Oct 1855 Sonnek, Albert Sonnek Family history Trgbacz6w Minnesota Lake Oct 1855 Sonnek, Philipp Sonnek Farnily history Trgbacz6w Minnesota Lake Oct 1863 Troska, Alben Troska farnily history Trgbacz6w Wells Oct 1863 Troska, Franz Troska family history Trgbacz6w Wells 1867-1875 Schultz Families Schultz Fam His & Obits Remisz6wka Wells May 1873 Staloch, Frank * Brother's Obit Nowa WieS Ksipgca Wells May 1873 Staloch, Lawrence Wells Mirror Obit Nowa WieS Ksi429ca Wells 1874-1886 Staloch Families {' Flil- &Wells Mirror Obits Nowa WieS Ksi429ca Wells/Easton May 1874 Stencel, Franz & family FHL Nowa WieS KsiA2gca Minnesota Lake May 1874 Yokiel, Thomas & farnily FHL & Wells Mirror Obits Nowa WieS Ksi429ca Wells May 1874 Troska, Johann & family FHL Nowa WieS Ksi429ca Wells May 1874 Pietrus, Andreas & farnily FHL Nowa WieS KsiqZeca Wells June 1874 Kalis Horn Staloch, Josephine Nephew's Obit (Wells Mirror) Marianka Easton Irnmigrated with Elizabeth Schultz @emisz6wka-a few kilometers away) Nov 1874 Chirpich, Frank Chirpich Farnily History Nowa WieS Ksiq2gca Wells Nov 1874 Pietrok, John & family FHL Nowa WieS Ksia2gca Wells Nov 1874 Rathai,Ignatz RathaiFamilyHistory NowaWieSKsi42gca Minnesotalake Apr 1875 Latusseh John & farnily Author's educated guess Probably near Sycow Wtlls May 1875 Wiorek, Jsftnnn & farnily FHL NowaWieS KsiqZgca Wells Circa 1876 Kulla, Mathias Author's educated guess Probably near Sycow Wells July 1876 Kalis, John G & Thomas Nephew's Obit (Wells Mirror) Marianlia Wells Autumn2000 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page 13
Immisrated Familv Place of Birth Found Polish Town Minnesota Town
July 1876 Kulla Kalis, Antonia Grandson's Obit (Wells Mirror) Marianka Wells Circa 1878 Domogalla Staloch, Mary Wells MirrorObit Trgbacz6w Wells 187711878 Lenek Schultz, Pauline Wells Mirrar Obit Rychtal Wells Nov 1878 Yainske, Johann & family FIIL Nowa WieS Ksiq&ca Wells June 1879 Pietrus, Johann & family FHL Nowa WieS Ksi42gca Wells Circa 1879 Pietrok Staloch, Susanna x Funeral Book Nowa WieS Ksiq2eca Wells Circa 1879 Sonnek, Bartek Wells MirrorObit Trgbacz6w Wells Nov 1879 Osdoba, Philip & family Trgbaczdw Church Record Trgbacz6w Minnesota Lake Circa 1880 Bushlack, Caroline & family Boslak8ushlack Farnily History Kochlowy Wells before 1881 Rzotkiewka, Johann & family FHL Nowa WieS Ksi429ca Wells Circa 1876/1881 Sonnek, Barbara Wells MirrorObit Trgbacz6w Wells Circa 1881 Dulas, Johann & Johanna ** FHL NowaWie6 Ksi4&ca Wells Nov 1881 Poziemba, Johanna FHL & Wells MirrorObit NowaWieS Ksi4igca Wells May 1882 Staloch, Peter ** Wells Mirror Obit Trgbacz6w Wells 1882-1884 Stenzel families FIIL & Wells Mirror Obits Nowa WieS Ksi429ca Wells March 1883 Jusczakowska, Elizabeth (m. J. Kalis) Author's guess: Probably Marianka Wells Circa 1883/88 Krowiorz farnilies Wells MirrorObits Trgbacz6w Mapleton Circa 1884 Mikolai, Frank & family* Wife's Obit (Wells Mirror) Trgbacz6w Wells Nov 1884 Dulas, Simon & family FHL & Wells Mirror Obits NowaWieS KsiqiWa Wells Nov 1884 Lenot, Thomas & family FHL & Wells Mirror Obits Nowa WieS Ksi429ca Wells Circa 1885/92 Kullot farnilies FHL & Wells MirrorObits Nowa WieS Ksi429ca Mapleton May 1886 Yokiel, Josef & farnily Wells Mirror Obits Trgbacz6w Wells May 1886 Yokiel, Franz & family FHL Nowa WieS Ksi429ca Wells May 1886 Gohla, Christina (knmigrated wfYokiels) Probably Trgbacz6w Wells May 1886 Troska, Valentine Wells MirrorObits Trgbacz6w Wells Aug 1886 Kalis, Anton & family Son's Obit (Wells Mirror) Marianka Wells Aug 1886 Kalis, John J Wells Mirror Obit Marianka Wells Aug 1886 Nowak Kalis, Julia Wells MirrorObit Dro2ki Wells Sept 1887 Wanzek, Simon & family x Frank Wanzek Bfuth Record Trgbacz6w Wells Sept 1887 Kozitza Wanzek, Maria * Marriage Record 1876 Dziadowa Kloda Wells Sister's Golden finniversary write-up Sept 1889 Bias, Christian & family * Wells MirrorObit Biskupice Wells Sept 1889 Kuropka Bias, Elizabeth * Trgbacz6w Church Records Trgbacz6w Wells Sept 1889 Bias, John * Archdiocese of Wroclaw Archive Blotnik (Syc6w) Wells May 1890 Glowik, Johann x & Elizabeth FHL & Harnburg Passenger Nowa WieS Ksi42eca Wells Ship Info - Intemet June 1891 Troska, Andrew (Sr) tlamburg Passenger Ship Info-- Trybacz6w Wells Intemet & Brotheris Obit July 1891 Lltzka, Jacob FHL Nowa WieS Ksi429ca Wells May 1892 Pietroch Anton & family FHL Nowa WieS Ksi4zgca Wells Cnca 1893D6 Wirth Staloch, Rosella & fam FHL Nowa WieS Ksiq2gca Wells Circa 1893D6 Wirth, Julius Archdiocese of Wroclaw Archive Perz6w Wells
Syc6w Syc6w woj. kaliskie Kalisz province
Prawa miejskie uzyskal The city charter was acquired w XIV wieku. Nazwa maiasta in the fourteenth century. The name of the town pochodzi od nazwy osobowej Syc derives from the personal name Syc (od wyrazu syty). Herb (from the word "satiated; well-fed; full"). The crest przedstawia w polu czaorym presents a black field, in which there is jeidlca na bialym koniu. dm4cego a horseman on a white horse blowing w zloty 169. pomigdzy trzema on a golden horn, arnong three zlotymi gwiazdkami w ukladzie golden slars in an open w roztr6j. Godlo jest znane 6iangle. The symbol is known zpteczqri miejskich from the city seals odXIV wieku. from lhe fourteenth century.
Herb (official crest) of the town of Syc6w. Source: Andrzej Plewako and J6zef Wanag, Herbarz Miast Polskich (Warsaw: Wydawmictwo Arkady,1994),218. The English translation of the Polish caption is by Greg Kishel. Page 14 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Autumn2000
From Slownik geograficzny : area of 164 hectares, 7 hcruses, 67 inhabitants (31 Catholic). The town torest land has an area of 300 T}+E I+OMEIAND OTT}+E hectares. The village-settlements (with a railroad sta- tion, restaurant, manor farm with castle, and sheep- POLISI+ PIONEETTS Of \VELI-.S: fold) have 5 houses, 112 inhabitants. A flax market is SYCOW AND SELECTED NE,ARBY VILLAGES held in Syc6w. The town was formerly surrounded by By Greg Kishel walls; only in the year 1809 were the fortifications de- stroyed and the moat filled up. Of the four gates, one is At aPGS-MN meeting in March, 1999, member Jan named the Polish one and two are named German. Bias told me about her realization that many of the first There are suburbs as follows: a Polish one, a German settlers in her home town of Wells, Minnesota had one, and Komor6w (Kamrneraz). Syc6w is headquar- come from the vicinity of Syc6w in southwestem ters of the national and fideicommissioner district Poland. To some extent, the phenomenon of this chain (S t ande s he r s c hoft) "Waft enberg, " belonging to the migration was already a matter of public knowledge; princes of Biron. The Catholic parish church, named I recalled that one of our members--Ed Brandt or John for Saints Peter and Paul, was in existence by the year Radzilowski--had remarked on it in one of his past 1444, and from 1560 to 1601 was kept in the hands of writings. However, it looked like Jan had done a very the Lutherans; it was destroyed in the fire of 1813, and respectable amount of work to actually document this was reconstructed in 1840. In the cemetery stands the decades-long process while doing her own genealogy. chapel of St. Mark. The second church, St. Michael's, I strongly suggested that she pursue her research as far was given to the Lutherans in 1601; after a fire it was as it would go, cornmunity-wide, and then write up her tumed into an exchange warehouse. The Lutheran par- results for ourNew sletter. ish of Sts. John and Peter, next to the castle, was built in 1785-1789. Before that there was a Lutheran chapel A week or two later it struck me that a good accom- at the castle (from 1735). The l,utheran services were paniment for Jan's article would be a group of transla- given in the Polish language. The city walls were tions from Slownik geograficzny kr6lestwa polskiego, erected in 1576. Great fires destroyed the town in the the principal gazetteer of the Polish lands in the 19th years 1444,1544,1616,1637,1742 and 1813. In the century, much like the ones I had done for my ances- histories of Syc6w it appears as a market in l276.In tral parishes of Rajgr6d and Bargl6w Koscielny. I of- the records of the distribution of territory arnong the fered that to Jan as a further inducement for her sub- Silesian princes from 1312 it is mentioned as "Wartin- mission. Over the past year we forged ahead separately berg cum suo districtu." fn the treaty of Jan, the Czech with the foundations for our pieces, and then coordi- king, and Kazimierz the Cireat from 1337, it is men- nated the final written products. Thus, here's a snap- tioned as"Wortemberg," as a city, in which the staros- shot of the region from which the Polish pioneers of ta of Wroctaw was requirecl to conduct the criminal Wells sprung, starting with the principal town of the coults (Kod. Wielkp., Nr. 952 and 1166). After 1490 area and then covering as many of the villages of ori- Syc6w belonged to the duchy of Ole3nica. In 1570 gin as Jan and I could tind in SGKP: Baron Jerzy Braun, descended from an early Silesian family, bought Syc6w from the widow Elzbieta Malt- {< {< {< {< {< {< {< {< {< {< zan for 133,000 [thalers?], and afterwards purchased Miqdzyb6rz and Goszcza. He restored trade and manu- Syc6w, in German PolnischWartenberg, in the year facturing in the town. He attempted to regulate and im- 127 6 Syc zow, in 13 12 W artinbe r g, a p ou, iat I district prove the condition of the peasantry through the issu- town in the regency of Wroclaw, in Prussian Silesia, at ance of a decree in 1575. His sc'rn Jerzy Wilhelm 51017'56" north latitude and 35021'37" east longitude, assumed the estates after the death of his father (in altitude 489 feet above sea level, it lies 8 miles to the 1585). He was a reckless adventurer. In 1591 he sold northeast of Wroclaw and 3 miles from Kgpno and Syc6w to the Burgrave Abraham of Donin for 140,000 Ostrzesz6w (in the duchy of Poznari). It has a Roman thalers. The new purchaser wanted to restore to their Catholic parish church, a I-utheran parish church, own native Catholics the churches that had been con- 1 schools (including a trade school), a train station on the verted by annexation, the population put up resistance. Kgpno-OleSnica line (25lon. away), a postal and tele- From among 36 Protestant churches which existed in l graph clerk, two castles, an English park with a phea- the area of the jurisdiction of Syc6w between 1571 and santry. 219 hectares of land (150 of farms) belong to 1597, six converted to Catholicism through 1598, two the town. The town has2l4 houses (587 farmsteads) in 1601, and the rest (with the exception of and2320 inhabitants (887 Catholic,127 Jewish). The Miqdzyb6rz) conveted in the years 1605-1654. In castle gminaltownship (Wartenberg Schloss) has an 1869 the parish of Syc6w, of the deanery of the same area of 29 hectares, 31 houses,215 inhabitants (43 narne, had 4998 Catholics, 10,000 Lutherans,255 Catholic). The estates (Wartenberg Schloss) have an Jews. In 1869 the deanery of Syc6w, of the diocese of Autumn20O0 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page 15
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Wroclaw, numbered 13,179 Catholics, 37,483 Luther- Pollentschiner Berg). From the northem slopes of that ans,472 Jews, 6 dissenters. It was put together fiom 7 ridge flow the waters of the BaryczRiver (to the parishes : Bralin, Migdzyb6rz, Syc6w, Droltowice, Odra), and liom the south slopes flows the Widawa Szczodr6w,Trgbacz6w and Turk6w. The services River (also to the Odra). The capital of the district lies were held in the Polish language. The history of Syc6w along the line of the watershed of the two rivers, on is compiled in liagmentary monographs by: Gomolke, the ponds draining off to the Barycz River. The soil is Kurtz, Koenigk and Jclsef Franckowski. The work of insutficiently fertile, conducive only to the growing of Schoenbom is also concemed with Syc6w. flax and the raising of sheep. The numerous ponds (near Syc6w) serve for the raising of fish. Throughout powiat/disrrictLies Syc6w in the northeasr part of the the area we find the cultivation of fruit trees and wine area of the regency of Wroclaw. It borders on the south grapes. The wooded areas are fairly extensive. Glass I with Namysl6w pow,iar/district, on the west with aurd iron works are arnong the industrial plants. The OleSnica and MieliczlMiliczl pou,iatyldisrricrs, and on village of Bukowina has iron ore deposits. The area of I the north and east with the Grand Duchy of Poznafi. the district, amountingtoSI,2ST hectares, is composed The area of the district amounts to 14 Vz square miles. of 41,7 4t hectares of fields, 8229 hectares of meadow, It presents sandy-clayish plateaus, with towering, 24,497 hectares of forest. The net eamings from the prominent ridges (Trzebnicki, aklaKocie gory), run- hectares of fields amount to only 9.40 marks (while in ning from Kgpno (in the Grand Duchy of Poznaf) to- other districts they eam 37 marks). 408 hectares of ward the west on beyond Trzenica [Trzebnica], toward land (270 hectares of fields) belong to the towns; the the Odra River valley. The elevation of these promi- rural townships have 29,797 hectares (2I,213 hectares nences reaches 768 feet (the mountain above Bolgcin-- of fields); the greater estates have 51,682 hectares Page 16 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Autumn 2000
(20,249 hectares of fields,3819 hectares of meadow km. away, the train and telegraph stations in Kgpno and 23,263 hectares of forest). The principal proprietor about 5 km. away. It has a parish church with a branch is Prince Biron. In 1871 the t'ull population of the pow- in Kierzno. ... ISGKP v. 6. p. 824] iatldistict amounted to 52,195 and in 1884 51 ,l97.In 1 870 there numbered 57 Vo Poles, 2Vo Czechs and 4lVo Nowa WieS Ksiqhgca,in Getman Neufuirf Germans. In the towns there live 7254 inhabitants fuerstlich,in 1452 Newdorff, a village, Syc6w powiatl (numbering 3051 Catholics,208 Jews); in the rural district. In 1843 there were 104 houses here, a castle, a townships there are 37,2N inhabitants (14,625 Catho- farm, 935 inhabitants (70 Lutheran), a Catholic chapel, lics, 137 Jews); in the area of the greater estates there a branch of Trgbacz6w, a Catholic school, a sheepfold are 8097 inhabitants (3194 Catholics, 11Jews). Apart (2000 sheep), ancl cattle-breeding. The farms of from Syc6w there are only two towns: Twardyg6ra Neuvorwerk, Sorge, and Troska belong to Nowa WieS (Festenberg) and Miedzyb1rz, as well as two markets: Ksi429ca. ISGKP v.7 , p. 2I2l Bralin and Goszcz. Groups of Hussites occupy the set- tlement Friedrichstabor. Among the Lutheran popula- Remisz6wka, a rural settlement, Ostrzesz6w tion is a considerable percentage of Poles. Br. Ch. (Kgpno) powiatldistict, about 12 km. to the southwest [Bronislaw Chlebowski, principal editor of Slownik from Baran6w and Kgpno, on the border of Szlqsk/ geograficznyl ISGKP v. L 1, p.733-7341 Silesia, in the midst of forests; parish of Baran6w, post office in Kgpno, train station in Bralin in Szlqsk/ Biskupice, ... 3.) in German Bischdorf; a village Silesia, about 10 km. away, in the rural district of and powiatldistrict, parish in Syc6w, the population is Grebanin; 10 houses, 104 inhabitants. [SGKP v. 9, p. almost entirely l,utheran. LSGKP v. 1, p. 238] 6t4l
Blotnik, in German Blatnick, manor farm of the Rychtal, ...2.) ... in German Reichthal, a small estates of Wojcieszkowice Wielkie in Syc6wpowiatl town, on the Studnica river, Namysl6w powiat/district, district. LSGKP v. l, p. 2521 elevation 484 feet above sea level, it lies 9 miles liom Wroclaw. It has a Catholic parish church, named St. Droiki, in German Droschkou, a village in John the Baptist, several chapels, a Catholic schocll, a occupied as Namysl6w powiatldistict, Smogorz6w parish, it has brewery, about 1300 inhabitants chiefly shoemakers and in cultivating the fields. In 1842 there a succursal parish. The colony settlement of [branch] were 127 houses, 1310 inhabitants (1077 Catholic, Pojedynek belongs to Dro2ki. v.2,p.164) ISGKP Z2Ol;utherans, l3 Jewish). The Polish population pre- dominates. [t was lbunded in 1386 and it was endowed Dziadowa kloda, in German Kunzendorf, a village, with the Nissanski law. Until 1810 it lay in the estates p C parish Syc6w ow iat I district, [Roman] atholic of the bishop of Wroctaw. In 1782 a fire devastated Sliz6w, with a beautifully managed farmstead and the whole settlement. In 1869 the parish of Rychtal, of mill called Cholewa. ISGKP v.2, p. 26}il the deanery of the siune nalne, had 2025 Catholics, 1300 Lutherans,59 Jews,20 dissenters. [n the same Kochl6w 1.) a village, Ostrzesz6w powiat/district; year the deanery of Rychtal, of the diocese of 23 houses; l7l inhabitants; 25 Lutheran, 146 Catholic; Wroclaw, had7474 Catholics, 10,056 Lutherans, 103 43 illiterate. The post office, telegraph office and rail- Jews,20 dissenters, in 5 parishes: Kowalowice, Kreu- road station are in Domanin about five km. away, zendorf, Rychtal, Schmogran, Wallendorf. [SGKP v. about 7 km. from Ostrzes6w (Sc/zildberg)....\SGKP v. lO, p.741 4,p.226 Trgbacz6w 1.) in German Trembotschau,estates Lgka ...4.) ... Mroczefiska, a village and gminal and a village, Syc6wpowiatldistrict, Lutheran parish township, Ostrzesz6w powiatldistrict, two places: a) Drozki, [Roman] Catholic parish Trgbacz6w. In the Lgka Mroczefiska, village; b) Maryanka Mroczeriska, year 1885 the estates had 1625 hectares, 11 houses, colony settlement; 82 houses, 694 inhabitants, 68 Lu- 325 inhabitants (102 Lutheran); the village had 1051 theran, 626 Catholic; 88 illiterates. The nearest post hectares, 136 houses,ll% inhabitants (96 Lutheran). office, telegraph station and train station are in Kgpno. It has a Roman Catholic parish church (services in ISGKP v. 5, p. 6591 Polish), a Catholic school, and a castle. To Trgbacz6w lparish?] belong: Juedelforwerk, Korupke, Posnik, Myjomice ... in the documents Miomicze, a village, Wierzniok, Trgbaczowska Lgota. In 1869 the parish of and Ostrowiec, a colony-settlement, Ostrzesz6w powi- Trgbacz6w, Syc6w deanery, had 2544 C atholics, 2520 atldistrict,55 houses, 389 inhabitants. The post office Lutherans, 26 Jews. ...ISGKP v. 12, p. 47al is in Domanin about 3 km. away, the highway about 4 Autumn2000 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page 17
Wojcieszkowice Wielkie and Male,in German Woitsdorf Gross and Klein, in 1416 Foytzdorff; a village and estates, Syc6w powiatldistrict, Catholic ancl Lutheran parish in Syc6w. In 1885, the estates of Wojcieszkowice Wielkie were 507 hectares in area and had 155 inhabitants (28 Catholic); the village was 177 hectares in area and had 38 houses,256 inhabi- tants (28 Catholics). The estates of Wojcieszkowice Male were 22 hectares in area, and had 2 houses, 39 inhabitants (18 Lutheran); the village was 76 hectares in area, and had 23 houses, 197 inhabitants (87 Luther- an). To it belong the village-settlements: Blotnik, Bqklawe and Niwki, aklaG6ry Garbarskie. [SGKP v. 13, p.7431
{<*{<{<*J<{ Neither Jan nor I could find an entry in SGKP lbr Perz6w, the home village of at least one of Wells's early settlers; while the gazetteer is huge, it is not lW%o comprehensive. It also looked like there was no listing for the village called Gross Woitsdorf inthe records for Jan's grandfather John Bias, and now known as Wojciechowo; the several SGKP entries un- der the latter name were clearly for places elsewhere in Poland. While I was proofreading rny final draft of this article, though, I noted that Blotnik was connected to a place called Wojcieszkowice Wielkie. After see- Syc6w. Ko1ciil Sw. Pietra i Pawla ing the szune root word in both plaoe narnes, and re- The Church of SS. Peter and Paul in Syc6w--parish membering that wielkie means the same thing as church of some of the immigrants to the Wells area. gross--"1arge, great"--I looked in a modem-day road Source: Jerzy Kuratek and Teofil Lijewski, l,eksykon atlas and found that Blotnik was immediately south of Mia.st Polskich (Warsaw: Muza, 1998) p.847. Wojciechowo. A last-minute trip to the MGS Library produced our featured entry for Wojcieszkowice and of "dissenters"--probably Calvinists of what wc Wielkie, which definitely seems to be the place. This now term "Baptist" atfiliation.l Jan Bias found is another example of how both surnames and place would this part of the translation directly useful for her own niunes have wandered in form and spelling over the genealogy, as it reinforced her finding as to her great- last century in Poland. It also underlines how one must grandfather's birth village; he was a Lutheran when he use a little imagination to find a place in SGKP, if it emigrated, and her genealogical sources had indicatecl under assumed. isn't there the spelling first he was from Biskupice/Bischdorf. There, as SGKP had it, "the population [was] almost entirely Lutheran." The text of the entries for Syc6w town and p owiatl district shows that this area was a borderland in at least The other thing about everyday lit'e that jumps out In geographic political two different ways. the and from these texts is the relative diversity of the econo- sense, the area was on the marches between Poznania, my: agriculture (though not on very good soil, not very populated more by Poles, and Silesia, its mixed with productive, and not as concentrated in grain crops as in population; the former was subjected to Prussian rule regions further north), aquaculture (!), heavy industry only by the Partitions, but the latter had been part of a German state for over five centuries. Too, the area clearly was on a religious borderland--the lines having lI consulted William F. "Fred" Hoffman, dean of SGKP trans- been drawn initially in the sixteenth century, but then lators, for help on the meaning of the abbreviationdys.ldyss. that having swung back and forth between the Reformation appears in the enumerations of religious affiliation. He advised and the Counter-Reformation. Not only did the powiatl that "dissenters" is the most likely translation. From there I took the jurnp of inferring that this word had the same connotation as have a population district significant of ewangelicki-- in linglish religious parlance--identiffing adherents to one of the Lutherans of Polish ethnicity--it also had small num- Calvinist denominations that split from the mainstream local bers of Hutterites--apparently of German extraction-- Protestant church in the Second Reforrnation. Page 18 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Autumn2000 on a small scale,2 and shoemaking and brewing. The increasing difficulties of feeding a rapidly-growing {< {< {< {< {< {< {< {< {< population on soil more suited for flax and grazing must have provided some of the impetus for emigra- WITII A LITTIE IIELP FROM MY FRIENDS.'First, a tion. tip of the hat to Jan Bias, tbr providing the impetus for this project. Fred Hoffman again got me through the As a last note, I should mention some points of the more obscure words and abbreviations that I tbund in art of translation. this batch. In the first round, his assistance carne through a simple reference to the SGKP section of In The first goes to those readers who like to get a feel Their Words.In the second, Fred once again respond- for the size of things. Though the literal translations of ed cheerfully and immediately to an e-mailed cry for the words mila and stopq are "miles" and "foot," these help on the really puzzhngones. Finally, every time are not the traditional English units we use in the U.S. I've gotten fed up over this past year while slogging In fact, the archaic Continental European "mile" was through Polish text in my tbggy amateur way, I've quite long--about 7400 meters. On the other hand, the been revived by the work of two very different transla- so-called Prussian or Rhenish foot was, at 0,3238535 tors: Sir Richard Fiancis Burton, and Everett Fox of meters, pretty close to an English foot. The metric Clark University. A biography of Burton, and the hectare, for us backward Americans, is 10,000 square Modem Library edition of his Arabian Nights,werc meters--or a square 100 meters on a side.3 my vacation reading this year. And, last C)ctober 31, I had the pleasure of hearing Prof. Fox speak at rhe The second goes to several political and geographi- Jewish Community Center in St. Paul. His translations cal terms. The first such is starosta,often explicated direct from the ancient Hebrew of The Five Books of by Fred Hoffman in his SGKP translations inthe Bul- Moses andGive (ls a King! Sanruel, Saul, and David letin of the Polish Genealogical Society of Americabtt are an astounding revelation, right through ancient but perhaps unfamiliar to our members. Ttte starosta in newly-recreated eyes: here is another world, whose nineteenth-century Poland was a regional official of differences from ours are accented by the vividness of the royal govemment, empowered to perform fiscal, the text, but whose structure is hauntingly familiar law enforcement, and judicial functions. The starostwo from our own leaming. Enabling that sort of illumina- is was his domain.4 Afideicommissioner apparently had tion really what the translator's art is all about. comparable functions, perhaps from the more formal and centralized German suzerainty. And again in this 2As round of translations I had to wrestle with the term a native Mesabi Ranger, I was intrigued to encounter the termirddto and to see it generally translated as "source." lu this osady, abbreviated as or. ln any Polish-English dic- context it obviously means "ore deposit" or "ore body." I would tionary this word is literally translated as "settlement." guess that the Bukowina beds were only bog iron, though. In the ways I've seen it used in SGKP, however, it clearly refers to human habitations of different magni- 3I gleaned these equivalents from Jonathau D. Shea and Wil- tudes; the contexts ofthe usages are very different. I liarn F. Iloffman, In Their Words: A Genealogist 's Translotion decided that hencefcrrth I would make a jump of infer- Guide to Polish, Gennan, Intin., and Russian Documenls, Volurne ence, to refer to "village-settlements" when iontext I: Polish (New Britain, Conn: Language & Lineage Press, 2000), suggested a larger group of individual dwellings, and at p. 84. I will be reviewing this major new aid for Polish geneal- ogy in the next issue. "homestead-settlements" when it seemed to denote individual houses or farmsteads. I also decided to 4shea and Hoffman, InT'heirWords,p. 83: and, e.g., William translate kolonia as "colony settlement" rather than F. Hoffman, "Tips on Translating Entries from the Stownik Geo- as "colony." The single-word definition has a heavier graficzny," Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Geneological So- denotation for us Americans, and I am reasonably sure ciety of America, v. XX[I, no. I (May, 2000), at p. 3. that the kolonii of Poland were not carved out of virgin 5wiIiarn wildemess as our British-American ones were! F. Hoffman, "From the Stownik Geograficzny," Bul- letin of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, vol. VIII, no. 3 (Summer, 2000), at p. 12; William F. Hoffman, "'Powiat's and Finally, I decided to follow the lead of other SGKP Wola's and Grod's, Oh My!," Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish mavens, and not identify powiat exclusively as "dis- Genealogical Society of America, v. XXI, no. 2 (August, 1998), at trict" or "county," or gmina as "township." As Fred pp,2-3, Hoffman points out, the concepts are rough analogues, but don't entirely match.S To keep the references com- prehensible to American readers, I just decided to use both words, separated by the ubiquitous slash. Autumn2000 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page19 LIBIIARYCORNER. o o o o o oBOOI(RWTEWS Austrian Map Series of Middle Europe. (Wien: and East Central Europe from Germany to Greece, published by various agencies of the Austrian but we have purchased only those maps which cover govemment, based on 19th century land surveys "Polish" areas (see map grid below). These maps are and printed in color between 1910 and 1937). based on topographic surveys done in the late 1800s, thus they too depict the landscape at the time that our Mapa Topograft.czna Polski [Topographic Maps ancestofii were emigrating (see a composite of portions of Polandl. (Warszawa: Sztab Generalny Woiska of two maps from this set on page 11). They are, how- Polskiego Zarzqd Topograficzny, various dates in ever, on a scale of 1:200,000 and therefore look a bit the 1990s). more "crowded" than the Prussian maps. Reviewed by Paul Kulas A third map set--Mapa TopografrcznaPolski [Topographic Maps of Poland] is one that we have had We recently reviewed a newly acquired map set-- in our collection at the MGS Library for a year or two. Karte des Deutschen Reiches [Maps of the German It is a beautiful and complete set of maps of all areas of Empire] in this column [see "Library Comer--Book modem Poland. The scale of these maps is 1:200,000. Reviews," PGS-MN Newsletter,8 no. 2 (Summer It is useful to compare maps from this set to those from 2000), pp. 1a-151. We have purchased all maps of this the Austrian series. They are of the same scale and you series that includes "recovered territories"--areas that can easily see place name changes when they are are now in Poland. These maps are based on 19th cen- placed side by side (I have done this on pages 10 & 11 tury Prussian land surveys and are on a scale of in this issue). You can also see if any changes have 1:100,000. Thus they are very detailed maps and they been made on the countryside during the last century. depict the landscape at the time when most of our an- cestors were emigrating from Poland (An example of With the addition of these three sets we feel that we a portion of a map from this set is found on page 5). at PGS-MN have a very fine collection of maps of 19th This map set does not, however, include some areas and 2fth century Poland--perhaps the finest in Minne- of modern Poland that were parts of the Austrian or sota with the possible exception of the Borchert Map Russian partitions (see map grid in issue cited above, Library at the University of Minnesota. We are indebt- p. 1s). ed to our Sponsor Members and to those who have made additional contributions to our Library Fund (see We have now acquired a map set that does include "The Bulletin Board," PGS-MN Newsletter, S no. 2 these areas. This set does not have a formal title (that (Summer 2000), p. 3 and on page 6 in this issue). Their I could see) so I have named it "Austrian Map Series extra contributions to PGS-MN made the acquisition of Middle Europe." The series covers most of Middle of these materials possible. STETTIN WARSAW At Map grid of L. v. Fero3t right 9. o 3eo g4o Middle Europe. All 33. 350 360 maps within the heavy n.B. E3o black outline will soon be in our Map Collection at the MGS Library. These maps are based on suryeys made in the late 1800s. Note: This map series uses Farro, not Greenwich, as longitude 0 degrees. You must add I7 degrees,40 minutes to the Greenwich longitude. Page20 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Autumn2000 GNESEN ANDRICE LARE: family's tradition of its origin,3 it appears that Gnesen A POSTSCRIPT was at least in part a Kaszubian outpost in its earliest by Greg Kishel years.4 Betty also advised that I arry C)raskovich, another Readers will recall my two-issue treatment of St. TRADER descendant ancl a PGS-MN member in years Louis County's earliest distinctively Polish-American past, has assembled a lengthy compilaticln of the fami- settlement, in Rice Lake and Gnesen Townships north ly's genealogy in Poland and the U.S. We hope to ob- preparing of Duluth.l [n my articles, I largely relied on tain a copy of Larry's work for the PGS-MN library written secondary-source matedals from libraries and collection. history centers, and on the sweat-equity of my own During a visit to the new facility of the Immigration transcribing. I did not consult anyone from the area, History Research Center this summer, I finally inspect- or anyone who had done research of their own. ed the treatment of Minnesota in Father Waclaw Kruszka's History of the Poles in America, in its As expected, the publication of my stuff gener- I'd original Polish-language publication. His coverage of ated responses from those with roots in the townships-- and some data that bore directly on the historical di- Gnesen5 is disappointingly short, not even noting the mension of my work. I-ongtime PGS-MN member historical primacy of St. Joseph's among the Roman Catholic parishes Betty Joyce is a descendant of Gnesen pioneer Frank of the Arrowhead. It does note that Gnesen TRADER; she forwarded the results of her genealog- had a Towarzystwo Mtodzieiy Polskiej-- ical research. Betty had traced the TREIDER/ "Society of Polish Youth --in the early 20th century. TRADER lineage to the village of Tuszkowy, in the It also reveals that in 1905 St. Joseph's was attached parish of Lipusz in Kaszubia southwest of Gdansk. to the Polish-American parish at Virginia, Minnesota, Prompted by this, I looked at the entries for TREDER as a mission church. With Fr. Kruszka's usual bombast and TREJDER in Slou,nik nazwisk wspdlczeSnie v, in proclaiming the civic prominence of American the Polsce u.Zywanych, the multi-volume work that places Polonia, he maintained that schools serving Gnesen, Rice Lake, "Hermanstown," and "Biwabick," sumarnes onto the map of present-day Poland accord- while "maintained by the state," were "clearly Polish, ing to their frequency in govefiunent records in 1990. as crowded as they are by Polish children." He also As I'd noted in my earlier article, TREJDER, in that noted that "the post offices all these communities] spelling, is not a corilnon one in Poland now; it ap- [of peared only ten times in the register, and from no place are in the hands of Poles."6 near Gdafisk. The form of TREDER, however, was I had another latecoming discovery tiom a different just the opposite, appearing for 1209 individuals in and at home, I've been accused of pre-1999 Gdnnsk province, 395 in the adjacent former direction. At work province of Slupsk, and a scattering in other former provinces. The concentration is the very area from 3Barbara June Tarnowski, Souhern GnesenTownship, with which the Minnesota TRADER family springs.2 a particular emphasis on the Antofi Tarnawski Family, p. 5 (ms., Northeasl Minnesota History Center, Duluth, fur "'Iarnow- Through correspondence with Sr. Theresa Lepack, ski, Barbara" tile; copy held by P(;S-MN as item no.37, Church of Pembroke, Ontario, Betty had also leamed that the and Local History Collection). binhplace of Martin I.EPAK was Brusy, near Choj- nice, again southwest of Gdansk. Betty's belief is that 4Readers will recall that I corulentecl on the variant spellings none of the earliest settlers of Gnesen were tiom the and vocabulary on several Polish-language headstones at the cemetery in Gnesen. "A Transcription of St. Joseph's Cetnetery, vicinity of Gniezno, and that the township's oral tradi- Gnesen, St. Louis Couuty: Part 1," PGS-MN Newsletter, v.7 , no. tion to that eff'ect was apocryphal. Judging by the fruits 4 (Winter, 1999-2000), p. 10, n.4. I now wonder whether some of her research, that's likely. Given the TARNOWSKI of these inscriptious were in the Kaszubiatr dialect. Can anyone out there help us ou this? 5Historya 1Ir consisted ofa two-part transcriptiou of St. Joseph's Polska w Ameryce, v. XI, pp. 40-41 (Milwaukee: cemetery, in our Winter 1999-2000 and Spring 2([0 issues, Kuryer, 1907). Through 1999, the Catholic University of America and "The Patterns of Polish Settlement in Minnesota: Rice Lake Press had published three volumes of a translation of this work, and Gneseu Townships, in St. Louis County, 1870-1920," in the all of which are in the PGS-MN's library collection. We await Sprirg issue. delivery of the final volurne, which includes the eltries for Minnesota. It should be shelved at MGS after the expected 2'lhe relevant entries are in vol. X. of Stownik nazwisk, ar pp. publication date in February, 2001. 577-578. This rnay not mean that the ancestral spelling in Poland 6The actually was TREDER; surname spellings have wandered over translations are mine. We'll see how accurate I am when the last century in Poland as well as in the New World. the real translation arrives. Autumn2000 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page27 being a bit pokey and incomplete in my transition to oriented research fbr over a year. There's a simple the digital age. I'm alraid that a venture on-line this lesson here: if you are doing local ethnic history spring proved that, right into my Rice Lake-Gnesen centered on f'amilies , consult people in the locality, or project.T For the first time, I checked into the Minne- people with roots tlrcre. As I said in my penultimate sota state sector of the USGenWeb Project--and I President's l,etter,l I our Polish-American ancestors fbund a large, varied, and high-quality page for St. have received precious little attention from generalist Louis County, for which Shirley Solem and Deb historians and genealogists. We are unlikely to find Rychlak are the GenWeb coordinators. It t'eatures comprehensive treatments of their communities in transcriptions for about a dozen cemeteries scattered broadly-available secondary sources. People with throughout the county--and among them is one for connections to the communities' bloodlines are more St. Joseph's in Gnesen.S There's also a multi-part likely to have quietly preserved, collected, or recon- transcription of the larger Duluth Polish Cemetery, structed the stories. In the last instance, they may taken by Pauline Majchrzak, which should also be of provide the best leads that we genealogists need. interest to PGS-MN members.9 As of press time, I've just met most of these mavens of Polish American I I family history in the Duluth area, at the "Digging for In our Winter, 1999-2000 issue, Your Roots" seminar in Chisholm; I will be corre- sponding with them soon! Cnesen Catlrsli* Cfrurcfr fele&rctes Finally, I would be remiss if I dicln't mention the work that PGS-MN member Ray Marshall has posted l:. on the Web. "The Polish Churches of Duluth, Minne- i: sota" is found on the site of the Federation East 1,, of ,,: European Family History Societies, at org/pol/mn/duluthpc.html>. Ray has collated thumb- r nail histories of St. Joseph's and the three other parish- es of Polish ethnicity in Duluth,l0 as well as his glean- ings on resources to'r potisn-Arirericaur genealogi in the Z,enith City. As he himself says, his article is an in- vitation for expanded research. For the early history of Polonia in Duluth, it's the best jumping-off point that we have now. So, I fbund that I owed my readers an expansion and corrective advisory right after I published my work--even though I'd carried on my document- 7In my researches in genealogy and local history, I fall by default into the time-honored hard-copy, original-document, microform-centered research methods of my undergrad days as a history major. Slow as it is, there's nothing better for merging into the past. 8Sr" .***.rootsweb.com/-rnnstloui/gnesen.htrn>.'falcen ou November 7-8, 1998, by Kathleen Nelson, Barb Rogers, and Shirley Solem, this is a nice comprehensive collation of the bith, death, and marriage data tiom the inscriptions, My owu transcrip- tion has the sunounding text verbatim, in Polish or English. That's r-irt the historian supplanting the genealogist in my approach. Ah+ve is;i[:rlw: i[:*::!lrv t:j r!:* S-lt- !c'+elir Crii[:{}i:r: ci:ur'::ir, rl':it-;l tittr+tic parill: in llrt r]irtrr:;i, i'i*, (:*u:t:1 rvilL r-ci'r'r:rrir i[:; i']riiritrr juhilae tri:n+rr.rs u-ltlt i: sslernn [:iE].'mlrsr' in th(: rI:rr:rraP '"x': r 9I still intend to do a verbatim transcription of the Polish biin(iLlat s: 5:.iC F. t:i. Cemetery tbr publicatiou here, as I planued awhile back. Thanks to Pauline's making the basic data available, though, I will defer it for a year or two while I work up a couple of untranscribed Akar at St.Joseph's Church, Gnesen, 1930. Polish-American cemeteries in northeastern Minnesota. Source: Dulutlt Herald, Saturday, Nov. 22, 1930, p. 18. 10St. Mary, Star of the Sea; Ss. Peter and Paull and St. Josephat's Polish National Catholic. Page22 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Autumn2000 Origin of the MAGRYTA surname agency's records in 1990. A related sumarne, Magryi is fbund 354 times in 1990 govemmental records (A byPaulKulas map showing the provinces where the Magryta sur- narne was tbund in 1990 is shown below). I received the following request from PGS-MN memher Bill Magratten: The villages that you mention (Paszczyna and Lubzina) straddle the border of the pre-1999 provinces Enclosed is a checkfor $10.00 to cover the of Tam6w and Rzesz6w (Paszczyna is in Tam6w research of tlrc origins and meanings of the province while Lubzina is in Rzesz6w province-- see MAGRWA surname.This was my grandfather's map on p. 23). Notice that there is some concentration su,rname at birth. He was born in Paszczyna in of the Magryta sumuune in this area. But the largest 1867, in the parish of Lubzina, near Ropczyce, concentration is located in Zamo(6 province. Smaller concentrations are located a bit further Galicia. At the time of his birth, Galicia was north in Lublin and Chelm provinces. Malgorzata is a common part of the Austria Hungary Empire. Previously, Polish given narne. The sumame derived from it could have Galicia had been part of Polond. His particular arisen anywhere in Poland. However it is by far the region is now again part the of Polish nation. most comrnon in southeastern Poland--Galicia. Based on this distribution, I would guess that the Zamo36 I replied: area is the likely place of origin of the Magryta sur- narne. People with this sumarne probably subsequent- According to Hoffman's Polish Surnomes: Origins ly moved to adjacent areas liom the ZamoSd area and Meonings the Magryta sumarne is derived from through the years. the Latin given narne Margarita @olish--Malgorzata). The Magryta sumarne is not a very cornmon one. Ac- Have you done much research on this surname? cording to Slou,nik Nazwisk.. . by Kazimierz Rymut, How far back does it go in the Tam6w fRzesz6w area'! it appeared only 584 times in a Polish govemmenral Map at right: Distribution of the MAGRYTA surname according to \. Slownik nazwisk. . . 11 ! o\. "**" B(.rl4to* I We continue our offer I to research your Polish sumarnes in o'\ William F. Hoffman's ghlo , Polish Sumarnes: f,ode$e f D&rrGorr Origins and Meanings I o and in i 62'r GhQfn Kazimierz Rymut's \ o Slownik nazwisk wspdlcze{nie w polsce oZrmtc uiywanych. 2 Zrt o ^ /. Send your request to: Opol. Paul Kulas, editor 165 ('\.-) \.zt PGS-MN Newsletter ( ".%1/ 12008 West River Road, l(r6rc Champlin MN 55316. \ Include $10.00 per sumame. \.\ i Make check payable to: PGS.MN. Autumn2000 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page23 the same name. I will have to find out w,ho v,es the right one, by finding who was the son of who, etc. .... The distribution pattem on the map on page22 needs to be interpreted a bit. You will recall that Poland re- gained territory on its westem border from Germany after the end of World War II (See map below). The Poles called these territories the "Recovered Territo- Place narnes mentioned by Bill Magratten are circled ries" because they were part of the Polish nation at one on the map above. Notice the pre-1999 provincial time. But some areas along the German border had not boundary line running between Paszczyna and been Polish for almost 600 years. Consequently very Lubzina. Map source: Polska: Atlas Drogowy few Poles lived there just prior to World War II. When [Poland: Road At1as] (Warszawa: GeoCent er), 213. Germans left that area during and after WWII, Poles moved in. Most of these were Poles from territories in the east that were lost to the Soviet Union (areas now in Bill replied to my question as follows: Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine--see map below). East- em Galicia is now in Ukraine. Many Poles living in Thankyoufor you input on the Magryta these areas moved west after WWII. Notice that there is surname. I have recently taken the first look at an arc from Walbrzych in the southwest to Gdarisk in the baptisntal records from the II)S Library. the north along the German frontier where the Magryta Lubzino, Paszczyna, Ostrow and a.fev, smaller sumarne appears but very few occurrences of this nalne to,yytts were considered to belong to the Lubzina between there and southeastem Poland--the area that parish. was part of the Austrian partition known as Galicia. Poles with the Magryta sumarne probably did not The legible noting of the Magryta nante first originate in those westem areas but in eastem and was in 1790.There may have been some before southeastem Poland and beyond. People with the Ma- this, but I could the decipher the handwriting.l gryta sumame left areas that became part of the Soviet uncot,ered my grondfather's date of birth in 1867. Union, moved west, possibly picked up relatives living It appears that his father may hate been born irt inZarno(f, Tam6w and Rzesz6w along the way and 1848, however, there were tu,o gentlenten u,ith settled along the current Polish/German frontier. Map at right: The Recovered Territories. Shaded areas in westem and northem areas of present day Poland are territories "recovered" by Poland from Germany following WWII. The shaded area to the east of present day Poland are territories lost to the Soviet Union atter WWII. These areas are now in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. Map source: Norman Davies, God's Playground: A llistory of Poland, vol. 2, 1795 to the Present (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984), 612. Page24 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Autumn2000 PGS-MN T{EWSLETTER Surname Indexing Project--Volume 3 We are continui.ng to index the surnantes included in tlrc post issues of the PGS-MN Newsletter. T'|rc following listing includes all surnantes tlrut ap- peared in Volume Three, Nos. I -1: Spring 1995, Summer 1995, Autumn 1995, andWinter 1995-56.The code used in this listing is asfoilou,s: the first number is the volume number, the second number is the issue number, and the third numbers are page numbers. We u,ill index past volunrcs at the rate of one volume per issue. When w,e are up-to-date , we u,ill publish a complete integrated listing of Volumes 1-l0.We ore indebted to PGS-MN ntentber Aud.ra Etzelfor undertaking this project. Back issues of Volumes I ,2 and 3 are available from tlrc editor of this nev,sletter for $3.00 per issue. & Brandt, Edward Reimer Connelly, Shirley Mask Dunaiski, Corey E. 3:l:12 3:2:10; 3:3:10 3:2:03,05,07,091 Dzieminski,Albert 3:2:09 Acker 3:3:03 Brescoll, Jr., Stanley 3:4:10 3:3:03,05,06,07; 3:4:02,03 Dzieminski,Fiank 3:2:09 Adamchick 3:2:06 Breza, 3:2:M Connolly, Torn 3:2:O9 Dzieminski,Mary 3:2:09 Adamczyk 3:2:06 Father Breza, Rev. Paul 3:2:03 Copa 3:l:12 Dziemiuski, Michael 3:2:09 Allison, Brent 3:4:11 Brezinski 3:3:12 Cloulas 3;2;05,06 Dzieminski, Rosa 3:2;09 Andersen,Walentyna 3:2:03 Brown, Francis 3:4:10 Crozier, William 3:2: l0 Dzwonkowski 3:2:06 Andsrson, Elenore (i. 3:l:12 J. L. 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Duly, Williarn 3:3:10 Glofcheskie 3:2:06 3:2: l0: 3:3: l0: 3:4:10 Autumn20O0 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page25 Glowczewski 3:2:06 Jarosz 3: l: I I Kondy, Kornel -l:l:03,10; Lamczyk 3:2:12 Gnacinski, Jan 3:l:09 Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Anna 3:4:03 Lange 3:1:l I Gnacinski, I-en 3: l:09 3:4:10 Kondy, W. Kornel 3:l:02,O3; Langner 3:3:12 Gogola 3:3:12 Jaworski 3:l:12 3:2:02,03 Langowski, Gerald 3:1:03 Ciolembiewski, Thomas E. 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Kruszewski 3:l:l I Libera 3:2:06 Hamernik 3:2:06 Kava, Stan 3:l:O3,O7 Krysinski 3:2:M Libera, Annie 3:2:07 Hartig, Mary S. 3:l:12 Kava, Stanley W. 3:1:06 Krysztof 3:3:09 Libera, Antonie 3:2:O7 Hays, Elsa M. 3:4:04 Kaz\rnierz,Ryrnut 3:2:IA Krzebetkowski 3:4:M Libera, Frank 3:2:07 tleine 3:2:03 Kazmiersczk, Wiktor 3:1:08 Kubijovyc, Wolodymyr 3:3:10 Libera, Paul 3:2:07,10 Ilennek 3:3:12 Kazmierski 3:l:11 Kuca, Franciszek 3 I:OZ Libera, Rosalia 3:2:Ol llerman 3:3:12 Kedroski 3:2:06 Kuca, Jan Libera, Victoria 3:2:07 '3:3:12 3:l:09 Hermanza Kedroskie 3:2:06 Kuczkowski, Joseph 3:2:07 Lica 3:2:06 I{ilbet, Mark 3:2:01 Keizer 3:2:06 Kujach 3:2:09 Lichtenstein 3:2:12 Hill, Virginia Felchak 3:4:10 Kenopic 3:2:06 Kukliuski 3:2:06 Lidwin, Stasia 3:4:07 IIimka, John-Paul 3:2:10 Kidrowski 3:2:06 Kukowski 3:2:M Lilla 3:2.06 llinkelman 3:2:12 Kiedrowski 3:2:06 Kukowski, Hubert 3:3:12 Lindgren, Dallas R. 3:4: I I Hoffman, Fred 3:4:09 Kiedrowski, Roanld L. 3:4:(Y Kulas 3:2:06 Lipinski 3:2:06 Hoffinau, William F. 3: l:08,09; Kishel, Emily 3:4:05 Kulas, August 3:3:06 Litak, Stanislaw 3:l:08 3:2:lO;3:3:04; 3:4:08 Kishel, Francis 3;4:05 Kulas, Father Ted 3:3:06 Literska, Marianna 3:2:09 I{olasz 3:1:ll Kishel, Greg 3:l:03,G1,07; Kulas, Paul 3:l:02,11; Literski 3:2:06 3:4r02,03,0-5,08,12 Hollowak, Thomas L. 3 :2tO2,03,O5; 3 : 3 : 02,03,05,01 Literski, Marianna 3 :2:@ 3:2:10;3:4:10 Kishel, Gregory F. 3:3:O2,O9 3:4:Ol,O2,O3,l2 Lobodzinska, Barbara 3:2:10 Holmquist, June Drenning Kisielewski,Francis 3:4:05 Kulas, Paul Theodore 3: l:08 Londroche, Curtis Benoit 3:2: I I Kisielewski, Michal 3:4:05 Kulas, Paulina 3:3:06 3:l:12 Horodyska 3:4:(Y Kizlowski 3:2:01 Kulla 3:l:09 Lopata, Helena Znaniecka Hortsch 3:4:04 Klisch 3:3:12 Kunda 3:2:06 3:4:10 Hoskins, Janina W. 3:l r08 Klopotek 3:2:06 Kuniczak, W.S. 3:4:10 Lorbetski 3:2:06 House, Barbara Jean 3:3:09 Klug 3:2:06 Kurcharski 3:l:L2 Lorbetskie 3:2:06 Humeniuk 3:3:09 Klukes 3:2:06 Kurkowski 3:l:02 Losinski 3:2:O6 Kneit'el, Eduard 3:3:10; 3:4:10 Kurzeja 3:l:12 Losinsky 3:2:07 I Knopik 3:2:06 Kus 3:3:12 Lowe, Patricia 3:4:ll Kobus 3:2:06 Kush, Raymond 3:3:12 Lozenski 3:2:06 Idzi, Kardynal 3:4:06 D. Kofel 3:2:12 3: 1: I Lukaszewski 3i3:12 Iwanowski Kusz I 3:l:ll Kolp 3:3:09 Kutchkoskie 3:2:07 Luker, Vickie 3:4:01 Kuziel 3:l:12 Lundberg, Treva 3:2:03 y Lyon, Dr. Joyce 3:3:02 f:lH:ift!1i,"i'*'!lo,ouM-arian '3:4:07 Janda, victoria 3:4:03 !!on Olsheski, Debbie -3:3:05 Ploski, Karen Rozek, Jau 3:2:07 JW -3:-l:12 '3:2:0-l Olson, Roberta Malcheski Podgorski -3:1:l I Rozek, Justine Madon 3:l:12 '3:2:12 Pogonowski, Iwo Cyprian Rubie 3:2:06 Magosci, Paul Robert 3:2:10 Omanique 3:2:06 3:2:l I Rudolph, IL 3:l:01 Malcheski 3:2:12 Omemik 3:2:06 Pokomowski 3:l:12 Ryba,l:3:12 Mallek, Patty .l:l:09 Opyt 3:l:12 Pok6jski, Piotr 3:4:0-5 Rychlicki .3:l:ll Malysheski 3:2:12 Orhkowski 3:2:O6 Polaczyk 3:2:12 Maria Ludwika, Queen 3:3:01 Orlowska 3:l:12 Polal 3:3:12 S Markowski, Benedict 3:l:08 Orselowski 3:4:M Ponagai, Chuck -l:4:0J Su!h' Sallyalu Marschall 3:2:12 Onell, Gerald 3:1:08 Ponagaiba '3:4:o4 Atndur A. 3:2:lo; Maschka 3:2:06 Orzech, Katarzyna 3:1:09 PornJgorski 3:4:M -3:3:lo Mask 3:2:06 Oslowska 3:l:12 pri,ke] Raral r. 3:l:09 la{o11ti 3:2:06,07 3:2 06 " Maszk Ostroski 3:2:06 Prirza, Rev. Peter 3:3:i0 :aluski,. ,3:2:06 Matelski, K. A. 3:'3:12 Ostroskie 3:2:M. Prokon,Bob 3:l:0213:4:02 lutul':,-Ed*3td'3 3:12 Sandecki. I Matelski, Kathleen A. 3:3:03 Ostrowski '3:2:M Prokon, Roberr J. r,:'oz,bs,r: 3:l:l Mathews, Dave 3:2:12 Puc, Eriea (Heren) 3:aG Matschke 3:2:06 g, Puchniak 3:4:M 3mll, ili"".,-r,,, Matuscwski 3:2:12 pulchinski -l:2:06 Scallen, Mrs. Lalonnie 3:2:12 Matysik 3:l:ll Palbicki 3:2:06 Pulcine 3:2:06 Schlata 3:l:12 Palbiski 3:2:06 3: Matz 3:1: I I Putz, Ellea (Ilelen) 3:4:M Schlyter, Daniel M' l:09 Matzke ll:2:06 Palbiskie 3:2:(b putz, Jacob' 3:4:04 Sclunidt, Stan 3:2:O2;'3 3:07 Palubeski 3:2:06 Maus 3:3:09 Putz, Janie (Annie?) 3:4:04 lclmlclt' Stauley 3:4:03 Mazurek, Rev. Jarnes 3:3:03 Palubeskie 3:2:06 I).h 3:2:O6 Schrnidt' Staniey R'- 3:3:04 McClarthy, Mary L. 3: l:09 Palubicki 3:2:06 Pito l:Z:oo Sclunolke' Julia -l:4:04 McGill, Joan Ella 3:3:12 Palubiski -l:2;06 Schneider, l.udwig 3:3:10 McQuat, Harry 3:3:03 Palubiskie 3:2:06 Schultz, Ben 3:2:05 Melerek 3:l:11 Panasiuk 3:3:09 R, Senftleben, Mrs. A. 3: l:09 Menzies, Mavis 3:4:l I Papczak,Justina 3:4:04 R., Mary 3:3:02 Sepion 3:l:l I Menzler 3:4:O4 Paschke 3:2:07 Radizowski, Dr.'Ihadcleus Seran 3:2:06 Meya 3:4:04 Pasek 3:l:12 3:3:08 Serediuski, Johu M. 3:3:12 Mezyk 3:3:12 Pass, Cecelia 3:3:09 Radzilowski, Dr. Ted 3:l:03 Sernoski 3:2:06 Michnal 3:l:12 Paul, Pope 3:2:M Radzilowski, Dr.'Ihaddeus Semoskie 3:2:06 Mikos 3:2:43 Pawlak, John 3:4:02 3:3:03 Sewozynski,Szczepan'3:2:07 Milewski, Msgr. Stanley E,. Pawlak, John T. 3:4:04 Radzilowski, Johu 3:1:03; Sforza, Queen Bona 3:4:12 3:l :0.1 Peckwas, Edward A. 3:l:08 3:2:lO', 3:3:03,1 2; 3:4:03, l0 Shea, Jonathan 3:4:09 Mischkc 3:4:M Pecoski 3:2:06 Rajtar, Ed 3:3:09 Shea, Jonathal D. Mohal, Jennifer 3:2:10 Pecoskie 3:2:06 Rajtar, Edward 3:4:12 3:l:091 3:4:08 Mokototl Gary 3:3:10 Pellowski 3:2:06 Rakowski 3: l: I I Shuda .l: l: l2 Molidre 3:4:06 Peplinski 3:2:06: 3;3:09; Recoski 3:2:06 Sibbald, Terry .3:3: l2 Moody, Suzanna 3:l:08 3:4:02 Recoskie 3:2:06 Sikora 3:l:12 Moscicki,lgnacy 3:3:06 Peplinski, Cyril 3:3:05 Reihmann 3:2:12 Sikorski, General Wladyslaw Movius, Johu D. 3:4:09 Peplinski,Des 3:3;01,05 Rekowska, Barbara 3:2:O9 3:3:08 Mrozik 3:l:12 Pepiinski, Evelyn 3;3:01 Rekowski 3:2:06 Sitarz, Anna 3:4:M Mruz 3:3:12 Peplinski, Jim 3:3:01,05 Rekowski, Father Al 3:2:0-5; Skorczewski 3:l:l I Mruz-Haag, Elaine 3:3:02,12 Peplinski Joe 3:3;01 3:3:06 Skorupska 3:4:M Miillerova 3:2:0.1 Peplinski, Leo 3:3:l 1 Rekowski, Fr. Aloysius Skrzyf ski, Fleuryk 7*r gba Miillerowa, Lidia 3:3:03,M Peplinski, Mikolaj 3:3:01 3:3:03,05 3:4:07 Myroniuk, Ilalyna 3: l;08 Peplirski, Paul 3:3:1 1 Rekowski, Rev. Aloysius J. Slahts 3:l:12 Myszka 3:2:O6 Peplinskie 3:3:03 3:2:03 Slominski 3:2:07 Pershick 3:2:M Reukiewicz, Frank 3:l:08; Sluzarski, Annc 3:l:06 Perszyk 3:2:O6 3:2:ll',3:4: l0 Smieja 3:3:A),12 "fit Petersen, Jean 3:3:12 Repinski 3:2:06 Smolla 3:3:12 Nagrlcon 3:l:04 Pgksyk, J6zef and numerous Reszka 3'.2:06 Sobkoviak, Rob 3:4:O4 Naveyss,Autoinette 3:2:07 variations of the Pgksyk Rettkowski 3:2;06 Sobkowiak 3:l:ll Ncderoski, Dan 3:3:03; 3:3:02; surnarne 3:4:04 Retza 3:2:06 Sobkowiali, Barbara 3:4:04 .l:4:02,03 Pichaske, David 3:2:03 Rippley. Prof. LaVern J. Sobkowiak, Jacob 3:4:04 Nedoroski, Daniel 3:3:02,09 Pick 3:2:06 3:4:l I Sobkowiak, Mary 3:4 (A Nclson, Edward 3:4:l I Piechowski 3:2:06 Ritza, Frank 3:3:01 SobkowiakMichael 3:4:M Nicotek, Rev. Frauciszek Piekarski,Catherine 3:2:01 Rockman, Barbara 3:3:02,09; Sobkowiak, Simon 3:4:04 3:4:O'7 Piekarski, Mathias 3:2:07 3:4:O2 Sochar 3:3:12 Niemczyk 3:1:ll Piergies, Victoria Borowa Rolbiecki 3:2:06; 3:3:09 Sokulski 3:3:12 Nierniec 3:3:12 3:4:M Rosenthal 3:l:l I Sopa 3:l:12 Nir, Rev. Roman 3:4:A,03 Pilch, Andrzej 3:4:10 Rottenberg, Dan 3:3: l0 Sopa, Adeline 3:l:03; 3:3:08 Novak 3: l:1 I Pilsudski, Jozef 3:3:03 Rouble 3:2:06 Sopa, Adeline M. 3:4: l0 Pirvonska 3:l:12 Roucek, Joseph S. 3:4:10 Soroka, Waclaw W. 3:4:10 a Plata, Rosalia 3:2:07 Rozach 3:2:06 Stanefski,Ciene 3:l:12 Plewako 3:2:03 Rozanski 3:3:12 Staniszewski 3:l:12 Ohal, Thaddeus 3:l:08 Plewako,Andrzei 3:2:Ol Rozek 3:2:06 Stetlan 3:2:06 Obal, l'haddeus J. 3:2:10 Plombon '3:3:12 Rozek, Franz 3:2:O'7 Steft'en 3:2:06 Autumn2000 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page27 Steinka, Ruby 3:l:07 Tobola, Martin 3:1:02 w. Wuschke, Ewald ll:l:091 Stodolka, Mike 3:2:12 Todd, Othelia Elizabeth 3:3:10 Stolpa '3:2:06 3:4:O4 Wagner, Carol 3:4:M Wynne, Suzan 3:2:10 Stoltman 3:3:12 Tomashek 32:06 Wagner, Joe 3:4:04 Wysocki, Charles 3:4:04 Stoppa 3:2:06 Tomasewski 3:2:12 Waldoch 3:l:ll Wytrwal, Joseph A. 3:4: l0 Storozynski 3:2:06 Tomcheski, Alex 3:4:M Waldoch, Jacob 3:2:O9 Story 3:2:O6 Tomcheski, Anna 3:4:04 Waldock 3:2:O6 Stumpp, Karl 3:3;10 Torncheski, Rose Frances Walek 3:3:09 v Sudzak 3:l:12 3:4:O4 Walesa, Lech 3:3:07 Yeretch 3:2:06 Walker, 3:2:06 Sulimierskiego, Filipa 3:1:01 Tornchick 3:2:O6 Sharon 3:3:12 Yezek Wallencyg 3:2:12 Surnoski 3:2:06 Tomczak 3:1:11 o Suruoskie 3:2:06 Tomczik, Ron Wanag 3:2:03 L, Wanag, J6zef 3:2:Ol Susalla, Donald L. 3:3:12 3: l:03,12; 3:3:02,09 Zaborowski 3:2:06 Swastek, Rev. Joseph 3:4:10 Tomczyk 3:l:12 Wasowicz 3:l:I2 Wayt 3:2:12 Zadorozna 3:4:M Swatlowski, Thomas Martin Trettel, Sophie 3:l:09 7ak 3:l:09 3:l:08 Tryba 3:l:03 Weber, Sophia D. 3:3:12 3:2:12 Zalaskowska 3:2:12 Swiatek 3: l:12 Tryba, Andrew 3:l:06 Wegener '3:I:L2 Wei Rebecca Kramer, 10606 Drake Street NW, Coon IMlilssilog Branehesr Rapids MN 55433 writes: "I'm interested in becoming a member of PGS-MN. I was referred to you by a QUERIES, Send to: Paul Kulns, editor, PGS-MN friend who told me that the last couple newsletters N ew slztter, 1 2 008 West Riv er Roctd, C lrumplin, M N have had information on the WARZECHA family. I'm 5 5 3 I 6 -2 I 4 5 o r t o e -mail : l*uls.s@tie s.kl 2. mn.us wondering if I could get copies of those newsletters." NEW MEMBERSz We welcome the followi.ng: Peter Lamusga, 6 NW 9VzSt., Chisholm MN 55719 John Coughlan,3707 Fifth Ave., San Diego CA is re- Ronald Parrish, 716 - 37th Ave NE, Mpls. MN J. RENEWED MEMBERSz The are renewed is researching ZMUDA, ZAJAC in Jbllowing 55421-3607 members who indicated their eqruil uddress the Poland and in NE Mpls. for first time or more cornplete areas of research: Mark Paynter,5036 Vincent Ave N., Minneapolis Bobbi Hoyt, E. Skyline Pkwy., Duluth MN 55805 MN 55430 Minnesota Genealogical Society Non-Profit Org. P olis h Ge ne alogic al S o c iety U.S. Postage ofMinnesota Paid 5768 Olson Memorial Hwy. Minneapolis, MN Permit No. 28318 Golden Valley MN 55422 Herb (official crest) of the town of Syc6w. Many Polish immigrants of the Wells, MN area carne from the Syc6w area in Pclland (See artitcles on pages 1,8-13. 14-18.).