Wow! Mike, you really took my question seriously. Thank you for all your effort. I thought maybe Galacia was mostly represented in the area, but I wasn't sure. My family was Jarecki (Prussia) and Maslonka (Galacia). Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas E. Lassek" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 11:48 PM Subject: Re: [NEPLATTE] Galacia and Prussia > Mike - > > I think you did a real good job on this. Your breakdown seems > conclusive. Again, statistics don't lie, all said and done. Any > misclassification has no bearing on the ultimate result of somewhere > around 87% of Poles being of Galician extraction in Platte County as of > 1900. > > Again, I have to say, I would not have thought that the end results > are as indicated. I would have expected most from the Prussian sector. > However, it is as it is. > > Tomasz > > > On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Mike Korgie wrote: > >> Probably more than you ever wanted to know ... and I'm not sure it >> answers >> Karen's question! Mike >> >> I looked at the Platte County 1900 census available by enumeration >> district >> available from the Platte County Genealogy website at: >> >> http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/platte/census.html I believe the >> census transcript was completed by Ted and Carole Miller and their work >> remains very faithful to whatever the census taker wrote. I placed the >> enumeration districts together in an excel spreadsheet and standardized >> many >> of the abbreviations the census takers. There are lots of >> inconsistencies >> subject to the accuracy of the person providing the census information, >> the >> census taker, the transcription process, and now my "standardization." >> So >> please take it for what it's worth! >> >> Counting foreign-born individuals in the Platte County 1900 census . I >> see >> 629 "Polish-born" individuals with 552/87% from the Austrian (Galicia) >> partition. >> >> Poland (Austria) - 552 . 30% of which lived in Butler/Loup (Duncan), 30% >> in >> Columbus and 25% in Burrows(Tarnov) >> >> Poland (Germany) - 54 . 70% lived in Butler (Duncan) . including Martha >> and >> Rosa Lasek >> >> Poland (Prussia) - 4 . John & Barbara Krzycki, Minnie Schachtschneider >> (Columbus), John Kontor (Monroe) . Karen, was one of these families your >> relative? >> >> Poland (Russia) - 10 . W. Schachtschneider (Minnie's husband from above), >> John & Mary Montfield, John Brezynski, Mathew Allison, Joseph and Lizzie >> Metzory (all in Columbus), Frank Molak and John Jaworski (Burrows / >> Tarnov), >> Minnie Baumgart (Grandville) >> >> Poland (No Partition Given) - 9 . Joseph, John and Mike Wilcinski, John >> and >> Mary Hamater (all Columbus), Charles and Annie Brundy, James Shamak >> (Grand >> Prairie), Joseph Kros (Burrows / Tarnov) >> >> There may have been other Polish families that listed just "Austria" >> without >> specifying the Polish partition. 229 individuals listed Austria >> (without >> Poland) with big groups (91) in Columbus and Humphrey (52) >> >> The highest concentrations of Polish-born individuals (compared to other >> foreign-born nationalities) were in: Loup - 59%, Butler - 46%, >> Burrows/Tarnov - 49%, Columbus Ward 3 - 28%. So if you wanted to visit >> "Little Poland" you'd go to Duncan, Tarnov or the Southside of Columbus! >> >> By comparison the highest concentrations of German-born individuals: >> Sherman - 79%, Grandville - 76%, Bismarck - 71%, Shell Creek - 71%, >> Creston >> - 68% . Germans had much larger and more concentrated immigrant >> communities >> in 1900 Platte County. Although the foreign-born in Walker Township >> were >> 86% Scandinavian! (62% Swedish and 24% Norwegian). >> >> There were very few Prussian and Russian families: Russia - 51 with a >> big >> group (18) in Monroe, and Prussia - 22 with half (10) in St. Bernard. >> >> I only see four families where the father is Poland(Austria) and the >> Mother >> is Poland (Germany) . Bogas in Butler (Duncan), Nicholaskie and Tworek in >> Columbus, and Les in Burrows (Tarnov). Going the other direction . I see >> three families where the father is Poland (Germany) and the Mother is >> Poland >> (Austria) . Teresinski and Tworek in Columbus, Nowitzki in Butler >> (Duncan). >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message