Poli sh G ene alogcal Soc ie&l of Mlmcsota NE\AISLETTf.TI VOLI.IME6 WINTER 1998-99 NUMBER 4 P S G -M I{ Pre s e ntations : The Polish-American Churches Of Rural Minnesota a photographic presentation by DOUG OHMAN. On Saturday, January 16, PSG-MN members were treated to a fine slidc presentation by Doug Ohmann, proprietor of Pioneer Photography & Serviccs. Doug has photographed many churches throughout Minnesota inclucling many established by ]lm thf,s ilssue . q o our Polish immigrant frrrbears. Doug's beautitul photclgraphs are available tirr purchase (See Doug's carcl in the advertising insert PGS-MN events........ ....page 1 of this newslctter). President's l,etter by Greg Kishel....... .......P. 2 ........p. 3 St. Adalbert's: Polish Mother Church of St. Paul The Bulletin Roard.... Letters to the Editor: history and biography by RADZILOWSKI. early JOHN Meaning of the Pluskwik sumalne Saturday, Fehruary 20, 1999,10:00 a.ffi., C)ur website unites relatives! Ro sev i I I a I] r a nc h, Ram sey C ourtg' S uburban P ublir I'i brary, Fltitenstein records 2180 Hamline Avenue North, Roset'il.le: Bartelsee, Prussia...... ....p. 4 John is the current presiclent of the Polish-American Cultural New edition of Polskie B&B Institutc of Minnesota, and a PGS-MN board member. St. coming soon Adalberl's was the first Roman Catholic parish of Polish Research via e-mail. ......P. 5 ethnicity in the Twin Cities, ancl the "mother church" of all other Origins of the Lamczyk, Klarkowski Polish-American parishes in the St. Paul area. John will present and Wrzeszcz Sumames lindings on the fcrunclers ancl early history l-rom research for his by Paul Ku1as........ ....P. 6 dcrctoral dissertation ' Jointlv presented bl' PGS-MN and PACIM ' Is your great-grandmother on the Intemet? We have prelirninary information on two PSG'MN by Mary Illlen I]ruski..................p. 8 presentations scheduled tor the early Spring: The Legacy of Andreas Klescz by Rohert Prokott...... ...p. 9 We will participate in the Minnesota (ienealogical Society's Records of six Steams County Catholic annual all-day llranching Out meeting on March 20,1999, at parishes are located at Opole Bloomington Kennedy High School. Our units will include: by Robert Prokott.......................p. 9 Patterns of Polish Settlement in Minnesota: A lttok at the 19] 0 Pattems of Polish Settlement in 1910: Buyck TownshiP Census by Paul Kulas; Reconstructing Vanished Polish- Minnesota, by Greg .P. 10 American Conmtunitics by (ireg Kishel; A session for research Kishel....... A transcription of the "Polish side" ot ancl questions on Polish natmes (tirst and last) and geography. the F'orest Home Cemetcry, Buyck by Greg Kishel....... .p. 14 On the evening of April 15, 1999, Greg Kishel will present The Polish l-ands........ .....p. 18 Polish-American Genealogy, Starting Scratch, at a meeting from Polish History through maps Society at the Dakota of the Dakota County Genealogical compiled by Paul Kulas.................p. 18 South St. Paul. County Ilistorical Society's Museum in Missing Branches: New members............. p. 19 information when it becomes available, We will prot,ide furtlrcr Renewed members... ...P. 19 via flyer mailed lo members in Minnesota,Wisconsin, and Sacred Heart Church...... .P. 20 neighboring slltes. Page2 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Winter 1998-99 Po lisl Ge n ea logica I So c ie t1t ofMizzemn A Branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society 5768 Olson Memorial Hwy. Golden Valley, MN 55422 (672) se5-9347 http ://www.m tn. orglrngslbranches/poli sh.htm I Officers President's Letter by Greg Kishel Greg Kishel ......President (e-mail: gfkl@cornell. edu) We are wrapping up another year ol activities lor our Terry Kita (672-927 -07 19)..................Vice President organization, and are looking firrward to beginning another Lisson (612- 489 -1781).....................Secretary Joanne one. My message this time around is simple. but serious: to Barbara Ro&man (672- 493 -8465)...............Treasurer can'y it forward, u,e could Ltse some help.There are three W. Kornel Kondy (612-37 8-1739) ........Past President Mary Ellen Bruski (612-588-3301)................Director difterent ways in which you memhers coulcl lend a much- Genny Zak lGeley (672 - 424 -37 47)................Director needed hancl. Margaret Kowalewski (5 07 - 45 4- 6L 49)........... Director The first is in growing somc new leadcrship. Our society came togethcr in early 1992.I ioined that fall, ancl was CommitteeChairs appointecl as secrctary the tbllowing spring. I)uring thosc six years, I have seen that at any given time all of the work of keeping the organization logether has heen dclne hy no more than four t() six peoplc, all of them otlicers or hoard members. This is a rather thin base for a group of 200 to 250 membcrs. F'rom time to time we have hacl to scramble to f ill boarrl ancl committee positions, as people have had tcl leavc clue to health ditficultie's or other commitments to work or t-amily. It's lcti thc whole organization vulnerahle to clisruption. Our past genealogy Po lirt Ge n ea logha / So c i e ty success in promclting Polish-American in Minnesota could be if wer cannot assure some Neansletter .ieoparclized, dMinncmta continuity in lcadership. Simply stated, wc need to increasc the numbcr of people familiar with our activities, involvecl in Newletter Staff our educational and preservation wrlrk, and committed to continuing all of them. Paul Kulas (6t2-427 -4523)..............................Editor As I write these words. the loss of several members of our W. Kornel Contributing Editor Kondy.......... 1998 boarcl has left us shofl at thc top. We have a vacancy in Genny .................Printing Zakl(;:ley... the vice-presidency tklr 1999. We neecl one or more committee Mary Ellen Bruski.......... ..... ......Labels year--most prominently. lbr the Greg Kishel, Barbara Rockman & chairs for the upcoming Genny Zak l{telev... .................Mai1ing Rescarch Committee. F'inally, wc would like to recruit somc members tirr the committees, so the chairs do not encl up doing The Polish Genealogical Society of Minncsota all the work; our most pressing neecl is lbr help on our Newsletter is publishcd quarterly in Spring, Computer Committec, to assist in upclating our wcbpage. Summer, Autumn and Winter. Submission of ln the aggregate, it's a lot of work to lun this organization items for publication is encouraged. Deadlines and to make its offerings availablc to mcmbcrs: managing the for inclusion of submitted material are March 1, money, arranging programming lbr meetings, huilding the June 1, Sept. 1 and f)ec. 1 respectiveiy. All library collection, recruiting new members ancl publicizing the articles, letters, book reviews, queries, news group, and publishing the newsletter. No single part of this is items, advertisements, etc. should be sent to: overwhelming, however; it just requires the wish to help other Paul Kulas, PGS-MN Newsletter, 12008 \Mest members as the Society has helped yc'ru, ancl a commitmc'nt to River Road, Champlin, MN 55316-2745 put in a few hours every month in working with them. And, or to e-mail: klulas@ties. k12.mn.us contrary to what you may think, it's a lot of fun--I will attest to the pleasure ['ve had in promoting our hobby, and the goocl @ 1998 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota triends I've madc' among clur colleagues. In sum, then: we neecl tt'r lill our immecliate vacancies. More Winter 7998-99 Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Page3 impnrtantly, v'c ilced o fe,n' voluntcers u,ith a proiects right hcre in Minnesota. While there is no comrnitmertt to ossunt? solne of the leadcrship of our immediate danger that the clata will disappear if we group in the year 2000. Can we have your help in that don't get involved, there is always the chance. Can we rcgard? I'm glad to discuss it with anybody; just call appeal to the amateur historians among you out there, me at homc (651-690-3329) in the evening. to lend a hancl in this sort of ettort? It may not help Our second neecl, as always. is tbr new content tbr you expand your own family tree, but you'11help build the ncwsletter you hold in your hancls. All of us something much bigger. involved with its production take great pride in the So how about it? Can we ask more of you to get llnishetl procluct. Over its six years of publication, involved? Contact me. or any of the other members of give we'vc huilt up a stablc of a half-dozen regular writers, our board, if you are willing to some time to who hold torrh well and lrequently on topics both keeping the PGS-MN alive--and growing. Polish ancl Polish-American. I have startecl bragging that in some respects we are becoming, de facto, a Polish -Ameri c an I listorical Association of M innesota as well as a genealogical society--on the strength of our newslc-tter oft'erings on the history of Polish- American settlement and institutions in Minnesota as well as clur ellort to collect and preserve source materials in our library collection. But this cloes not mean that we clon't need more, and more variecl, The Bulletin Board submissions for publication. llaving regular submitters YOUR 1999 DUES are now due. Please renew now! gives a tine prot-essional stamp to our publication--but no one has a monopoly on our table of contents, and This spring, we will be experimenting with sending no one should. MEETING NOTICES BY E-MAIL. If you wish to That means that we not only want you to share your receive notices and reminders in this way, make surc to research and your genealogical experiences with our give your e-mail adclress to us when you pay your other members, we need you tcl do so.