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).

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