Hello, Does anyone know how I could get a photocopy of my grandmother's birth record from Grabino without taking our a major loan? I just received her and my grandfather's marriage record from Leoncin. I could not believe it when the city of Leoncin sent the copy of the record to the Consulate of Poland in Chicago instead of me. I had to pay 39 U.S. dollars for a record that did not have much information in it. I am stumped...there has to be a better way to get the information without it being so costly! Kathy
Kathy & Bob Hillebrand wrote: > Does anyone know how I could get a photocopy of my grandmother's > birth record from Grabino without taking our a major loan? Kathy, Which Grabina is the one where your grandmother was born? According to www.mapa.szukacz.pl, there are currently 9 towns named Grabina and 2 in with Grabina as part of the name in woj. mazowieckie: 1 - pow. pl~ocki, gmina L~a~ck 2 - pow. radomski, gmina Kowala 3 - pow. min~ski, gmina Halino~w 4 - pow. min~ski, gmina Min~sk Mazowiecki 5 - pow. garwolin~ski, gmina L~askarzew 6 - pow. kozienicki, gmina Grabo~w nad Pilica~ 7 - pow. gro~jecki, gmina Chyno~w 8 - pow. radomski, gmina Skaryszew 9 - Michal~o~w-Grabina, pow. legionowski, gmina Niepore~t 10 - Grabina Radziwil~owska, pow. z~yrardowski, gmina Puszcza Marian~ska 11 - Grabina (osiedle/dzielnica), pow. Warszawa, gmina Warszawa There are 22 towns with Grabina as all or part of its name currently in Poland. According to the Sl~ownik Geograficzny Kro~lestwa Polskiego (a Polish geographical dictionary published in 1881), there were 34 towns with Grabina as all or part of its name at that time. In order to write to Poland for records, you'll need to know which Grabina is the correct one. Question: have you checked the LDS online catalog to see if records from Leoncin and "your" Grabina have been microfilmed? Accessing the microfilms at your local Family History Center (if the records have been microfilmed) is temendously less expensive than writing to a state or diocesan archive - or even a local Civil Records Office - for records. There are several good online aids to help you translate the records. Marie