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VOLUME 19 SUMMER 2011 No. 2 Twelve Days in May: Epidemic in the Family William Abromitis of Schuylkill County, In this issue: Pennsylvania Twelve Days in May: Epidemic .................... p. 1 by Lois Abromitis Mackin, Ph.D. President’s Letter................................................ 2 <[email protected]> The Bulletin Board.............................................. 3 (Editor’s note: This article is about a member’s descendants from Lithuania. Poland and Lithuania have a united history dating back http:// ............................................................. 5 to the 14th century. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was one Polish Surnames / Polish Settlements................ 7 of the largest countries in 17th century Europe and reached its Golden Age in the first half of that century. However, by the 18th Twin Cities Polish Festival............................... 14 century the Commonwealth had become weakened and vulnerable to Book Reviews .................................................... 15 foreign influences and by 1795 the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had been completely erased from the map of Europe. Thus, although Surname Indexing Project-Vol. 16 .................. 23 this article is about Lithuanian ancestors it is in line with the history of the Polish people.) Library Information .................................. 30 William Abromitis, son of Frank Abromitis and Missing Branches .............................................. 32 Marion Stanulis,1 was born about 1876 in Lithuania. There are eight original sources for William’s birth; all agree on place of birth but suggest birth dates Abromitis shows Vincas as his name. (Vincas Abromaitis first ranging from 1873 to 1878. These sources are the communion certificate (1933); issued at unknown date, SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church, Tamaqua, Pennsyl- Hamburg emigration lists, Ellis Island immigration vania; privately held by Mackin.) Manifest, S.S. Patria, 8 July records, 1900 U.S. census, William’s 1906 naturali- 1898, List [number torn], p. 6, for Vinzenti Abramaitis (age zation record, 1910 U.S. census, William’s death 24), digital images, Statue of Liberty—Ellis Island Foundation certificate, William’s grave marker, and the 1922 (http://www.ellisisland.org : accessed 26 May 2006). 1900 marriage license application of his son William U.S. census, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, population (birthplace Lithuania Russia). 2 Until birth or schedule, Shenandoah, Enumeration District (ED) 163, sheet 12 A, p. 119 (stamped), dwelling 182, family 182, William Abromatis; digital image, Ancestry.com Twelve Days…continued on page 8 (http://www.ancestry.com; accessed 3 March 2005), citing National Archives microfilm publication T623, roll 1484. 1 William’s parentage is documented in notes probably made Schuylkill Co., Penna., Naturalization Records: loose papers, in the early 1960s by his son William Stephen Abromitis petition no. 4292, William Abromitus, 1906, petition for (1901–1968) and his grandson William Abromitis (1925– naturalization; Schuylkill County Archives, Pottsville. 1975); privately held by Lois Abromitis Mackin, Plymouth, 1910 U.S. census, Schuylkill Co., Penna., pop. sch., Tamaqua, Minnesota, 2011. ED 97, sheet 13 B, p. 225, dwell. 240, fam. 240, William 2 “Hamburger Passagierlisten, 1850–1934,” digital images, Abromitus; digital image, Genealogy.com Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 January (http://www.genealogy.com : accessed 3 March 2005), citing 2007), entry for Vizenti Abramaitis, aboard Patria, Hamburg National Archives microfilm publication T624, roll 1418. to New York, leaving 26 June 1898; citing Bestand [inventory Pennsylvania Department of Health, death certificate (1911), no.] 373–7I, VIII (Auswanderungsamt I [Emigration List— William Ambromidus; Division of Vital Records, New Castle. Indirect] Band [vol.] 098 C; Staatsarchiv Hamburg microfilm New St. Jerome’s Cemetery (Tamaqua, Schuylkill Co., series K1701–K2008, S1763–S17383, 13116–13183. Penna.), William Abromitis marker; personally read, 2009. Lithuanian men named Vicenty or Vincas often used the Schuylkill Co., Penna., Marriage Dockets 1885–1969, 48:306, English name William in the United States; the first William Abromitis-Julia M. Sakusky; Schuylkill County communion certificate of the author’s father William Archives, Pottsville. Page 2 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Summer 2011 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota A Branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society 1185 No. Concord St. So. St. Paul MN 55075-1150 <http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnpolgs/pgs-mn.html> Officers/Board of Directors: President.................Jerome Biedny (952-944-5905) .......................................... <[email protected]> Vice President .... Richard Theissen (651-739-1490) ...................................... <[email protected]> Secretary ......Dana Halberg-Ridley (952-393-3516) ......................................... <[email protected]> Treasurer .............Michael Eckman (952-944-4008) ......................................... <[email protected]> Past President................ Terry Kita (612-927-0719) ....................................... <[email protected]> President’s Letter Director ............................ Jan Bias (952-236-0112) Each year for the past few, I’ve been taking the family ............................................ <[email protected]> and my mother-in-law down to her small ancestral town Director ..............Jason Waldowski (763-323-0639) .............................................. <[email protected]> of Freeborn, MN for an old fashion Memorial Day. There Director ................... Janet Mitchell (651-454-8211) are speeches by politicians at the fire hall, a parade down ........................................<[email protected]> to the cemetery for grave side ceremonies, and a luncheon Director .................Dori Marszalek (763-535-2296) fund raiser in the church basement for the Cemetery ..........................................<[email protected]> Association. If you have never attended such an event- Committee Chairs/Co-Chairs go to Freeborn. To see the somber faces of the veteran Library ....................................................... Jan Bias honor guard is to really experience the Day and its aim- Membership .................................... Dori Marszalek honoring fallen soldiers. It actually started as Decoration Newsletter ..........................................Peggy Larson Day after the Civil War, but that is a longer story. Program/Publicity .....Rick Theissen, Janet Mitchell Research...............................Greg Kishel, John Rys Well, for many reasons, we did not go to Freeborn or Web Site.......................................Jason Waldowski visit at local cemeteries this year. So I had three solid, Polish Genealogical Society rainy days to commit to something. I made my own of Minnesota Newsletter Memorial Day celebration project. From all corners of Editorial Contact [email protected] the house, I gathered together photographs and mementos Associate Editors .............. Paul Kulas, Greg Kishel that I had been wanting to organize. You know the stuff; Mailing Labels ................................ Dori Marszalek Surname indexing ......... Kay Freund, Mary Kowles you have it too. Envelopes with something tucked in here and something else in a folder there. A shoebox or plastic The Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota bag sits uncelebrated and contains that stuff that should be Newsletter is published quarterly in Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Subscription to the Newsletter is in a better place. I had even bought the archival plastic included with membership. Dues are $20 per year, or pages to slip these into. $50 for three years. Once I started, I could not stop! Hour upon hour I Please use application form on insert page. saw my life, and that of my wife, come into focus with Items submitted for publication are welcomed and encouraged. We require feature-length articles be 150 years of photos, funeral cards, paper records- submitted exclusively to PGS-MN. Articles, letters, including military discharge papers, etc. It was a very book reviews, news items, queries, etc. should be mailed pleasant review of what I knew plus surprises thrown in: to: Peggy Larson, 577 98th Lane NW, Coon Rapids, MN 55433 or e-mailed to <[email protected]> shots of my grandmother in a swimsuit! Address/e-mail changes or membership questions? So, where is this all going? I’m asking you to get a Contact: Dori Marszalek, Membership Chair rainy day project ready: gather the stuff, get the support 3901 - 61st Ave. N., Brooklyn Center MN 55429-2403 materials, and look for the time. It will pop up or e-mail: <[email protected]> © 2011 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota somewhere this summer. When it does, you will be ready for a great walk down memory lane. If you write on the back of those photos, you will be doing future generations Summer 2011 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page 3 a world of good AND keeping them from being Warning? sold at a garage sale as nameless faces. You could print a word of warning to people who If you don’t start somewhere, you will get are planning to visit the library. nowhere! Enjoy your summer. See you at the I know you had a map printed in past issues, but Polish Festival next month or at one of the meetings when I was traveling there, I figured, I have the in the fall. address so I don’t need a map, I'll just use