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SfRtNG tq?q V. g, alo,7 Poli sh Genealogical Soci ety of Umnesota NE\AISLr,TTETI VOLUME 5 SPRING 1997 NUMBER 1 PGS-MN MEMBERSHIP MEETING o Saar&R April L2,1997,11:00 a.m. Snoo* Mike Jaros Minnesoa state legislator from Duluth, llm thils frssue q q q speaking on 1. April meetings: 21 Polisb Family's History in Bosnia.' MikeJaros: "A Polish Family's History in Bosnia." Mike will cover the story of his family's badrground in Galicia PGS-MN visits St. Cloud! and Bukowina, and its migration to a Polish enclave in Bosnia at 2. President's Letter by Greg Kishel the end of the 18th century. He will detail the history of the 3. The Bulletin Board community until the end of World War I[, when most of its 4. Letters to the Editor: members were dispersed to the new r /estern provinces of Poland, Include e-mail addresses. Australia, and the United States. This will be a rare look at a litde Where is Piesno? .1 known outpost of Polonia- Grandfathe r's biography found- The meeting will be held at the St. Paul Public Library, Meniam Who is Robert Prokott? Park Branch, 1831 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul [located on Marshall Ancestral village found! Avenue west of Snelling Avenue; take the Snelling Ave. o<it off Church records from Wpzkow? t-94, go south to Marshall, take a right, and t}le library will be on M/hat happened to Uncle Michael? the north side ofMarshall about six blod<s from Snelling]. The 7. Resources for Polish-American library faciJitywill open at 11:00 sharp and the meeting will start as Genealogr in Minnesota soon thereafter as possible . 10. Polish Catholic Churches in the Diocese of New Ulm (continued): Polish Catholic Parishes in PGS.MN VISITS ST. CLOUD! Mcleod County Satuday, April 19,1997 by Paul Theodore Kulas with presentations by Paul Kulas 12. Legendary Wilno (Canada) Cabinetmaker m y have left PGS-MN will be part of 77te Haitage andCiltne ofSteans legacyin St. Paul, MN Cot*y, a day-long seminar cohosted by the St. Cloud Area by Shirley Mask Connolly Genealogists and the Steams County Historicd Society. 15. Map: The Partitioned Common- Registration will start at 8:30 a.m. Admission is free but a cash wealth donation to the area food sheHis suggested. l6.LibrrryComer. Book Reviews Paul will present FindingYonAncatral Parisb in Poland (at "PGS-MN Church and Local 10:30 a-m.) and Patbts ofPolish ScttlematinMinncsota: Nmt History Collection: A Progress Clusfronthe 1910Cnsas (at 1:30 p.rrl.). Other speakers will Report, Part2." discuss Slovenian settlement in centrd Minnesota, Cuban- The Lands of Partitioned Poland. American genealogy, uses of passenger lists, computers in 7795-1918 byPiotr S. Wandycz. genealogy, and basic research techniques. PGS-MN will have a 18. Missing Branches di.pI"y and sales table. Take a spring drive and join us! 20. PGS-MN at St. Mary's Orthdox The seminar will be held at the Stearns County Heritage Center, Cathedral 235-33rdAvenue South, St. Cloud. Polish Genealqgical Society ofMinnesoa Spring 1997 President's Letter by Greg Kishel Po list Gn ealogica I Socury On February 8, L997,-our Society was treated to a presentation at St. Mary's Russian Orthodox Cathe&al in A Branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society northeast Minneapolis. Father Nathan KroL a member of pastoral gave a P.O. Box 16069 the Cathedral's staff, us lively speech on the St. Paul MN 55116-0069 origins of its first congregation, which was made up of (612) 64s-3677 Greek Catholic Slovals and Rusins from Galiciq the borderland that spanned modern-day southeastem Poland Officers westem Ukraine, and eastem Slovakia- The story of the fledgling parish's disassociation from the Roman Catholic Greg Kishel .....President Archdiocese Paul and its the Russian Paul Kulas (672- 427 -4523) .....................VicePresident of St conversion to Margaret Kowaiewski (507-45 4-6149)......... Secretary branch of Orthodox Christianitywas a cautionary tale. It Barbara Rodcman (672-493-8455)................Treasurer powerfrrlly underlined the need to req)ect others' outward W. Kornel Kondy (612-378-7739) .......Past President traditions in the interests of preserving a unity founded in Mary Ellen Bruski (512-588-3301) ................Director common faith. Beyond its historical and genealogical Terry IGta (672-927 -0779) .................-...........Director aspects, the presentation was a Iine opporn:nity for our Joanne Lisson (612-489-1181) .......................Director Bob Prokott (6!2-571-8090) .......Director member-attendees--of Roman Catholic upbringrng one and all--to learn about the other major sffain of Slavic Commitrce Chairs Christianity. Father Nathan graciously and ably answered many questions about Orthodox theology, liturgy, and life. Mary Ellen Bruski (612-588-3801)..........Membership In dl, it was a good opportunity to broaden our Greg Kishel.. .......Program &Publicity knowledge and oudook on the Slavic immigrant experience Terry Kita (612-927 -0719)...........................Research key Father Paul Kulas (612-A7 -4523)........Library & Newsletter in America. In one way, though, Nathan's Katlrleen A. Matelski (7 79-536-9570)......Cornputer approach was a lesson for us as family historians. To explain , (e-mail: 7 L77 5.7 07@ compuserve.com) the events he covered, he discussed the disparate influences of geographn faith, and politics (secular and religious). One had to learn about the 16th-cennrry religio-political origins Polisl Gnealogical Socicty of the Greek Catholic, or 'IJniate," affiliation with the Latin EfMinemta Na uslettr Church, to make real sense out of events in Mirrnesota over three hundred years later. That inuoduction enabled one to Newletter Staff . understand the devotion of the first St. Marys pSrishioners to the Eastem Rite of Christianity, and its adherence to a Paul Kulas (612- 427 - 4523)........... ................... Editor married dergy notwithstanding its past institutional W. Ibrnel Kondy......... Contributing Editor -.......... allegiance to Rome. Set against this were the gods of Barbara Rockman...... ..............Printiqg RodJulkowski .......Labels A-rchbishop John Ireland, the "Great Americanizer." The Greg Kishel, contrast underlined the inevitabrhty of tsplit, and made it Daniel Nedoroski, clear just what a historical deparnrre the congregation made Barbara Roclnnan...... ..............Mailing when it elected to retain Father Aloris Toth and to take up ties with an Orthodox national institution that shared its in Spring, basic church culture. Finally--and ringrng back to Central Summer, Autumn and Winter. Submission of Europe--those Galician origins and past Latin affiliation items for publication is encourged. Deadlines erplain the persistence at St. Mary's of certain litugical for inclusion of submitted material are Feb. 15, practices that reverberate with Rome, rather than May 15, August 15 and Nov. 15 respectively. Constantinople or Moscow. All articles, letters, book reviews, queries, news The lesson here for us as genealogists is the need to place items, etc. should be sent to: our family history against the bigger context. Ifuowing Paul Kulas, PGS-MN Nervsletter, 12008 West something about the geography, politics, and society that River Road, Cheryliq MN 5531G2145. were contemporaneous with those dated individual hfe (e-mail [email protected] ?. 6o.or; events makes the world of our ancestors come alive. Just @ 1D7 Potish Genedogical Society of Mi.nesota finding the rawvital statistics does not. That's why consulting a good guet:..er. should come immediately after Spriog 1997 Polish Genealogical Society ef ffiinnssefa Page 3 learning the name of an ancestralvillage. Slov:nik ge0{aficzny--published just a century ago--is available The Bulletin Board in microform both in the PGS-MN collection at the MGS U:f:.ruy, and at the LDS Family History Center I APOLOGIZE for the delay in getting out this issue. in Crystal. It often contains a wealth of data about the While worhng on ice dams on my roo{ I fell about 10 local population, industry, material culture, feet onto my asphalt driveway. Four broken ribs and a topography, and even dimate, dl presewed right at the collapsed lung kept me in the hospitai for 10 days. pointwhen most of our ancestors were emigrating. While convalescing I read RzmantbqMeDanckgby flMhile Slbz:nik is in the Polish language, many o-fits Ken Perejko. It is a bittersweet novel of the Polish entries are in a standard format, with uniform immigrant erperience set in mral Wisconsin in the year abbreviations, and the microform version begins with a L922. I found himself crying when Frank died and basic translation guide. With thag and one of the prayrng for Mary as she faced her disturbing dilemma. dictionaries in our collection, one can get the gist Ask for it at your local public library. If they don't without a bit of prior instruction in Polish. ) have it, recommend that theypurchase it. --PTK Beyond this, of course, there are maps and aerial photographs--the former available in great variety and IN OUR LAST ISSUE we suggested that members minute detail at the Wilson Library at rhe University contribut to ourlibraryfund. We want to purchase a . of Minnesota, and the latrer to be had through the complete set of detailed maps of contemporaryPoland. mail from the U. S- govemment. These maybe So far in1997, we have collected $82 from our members specific enough to show just how tiny those individuat for this fund. We thankyou. We need more than twice farm plots were getting through repeated division- that amount before we can make the purchase. Please through-inheritance. This, with a vengeance, is consider making a contribution to our library fund. concrete evidence on why those peasants were pulling out centuries-old roots to cross the Atlantic. Finally, IFYOU HAVE NOT YET RENE\ IED for 1997, general histories of Central Europe can illustrate the this is the last issue t}lat you will be receiving.