I am new to this list and I am also just starting my Polish genealogy in earnest and need some help getting started. My great grandfather was Stanley Bartkowski and he settled in Pulaskifield, Barry County, Missouri along with his father and grandfather in the late 1880's. On my grandmothers baptismal record it states that Stanley was born in Plock, Polonia. On the 1900-1920 federal census' it states they immigrated from Ger. Poland. I have benn trying to determine if Plock is the town he was born in or the Province. I see on maps of Poland that there is a Province Plock on the eastern side of the country and I can find a town called Plock near Warsaw. Which one should I be searching in that would have been in the Ger. Poland sector in 1882-1885? I am also trying to locate where I can find their naturalization papers in hopes that they will narrow my search down. So far I am told Barry County does not keep naturalization records and the sos.mo website has not written back to let me know if they would have them. One last question please, if I can determine where to search for the polish records for my Bartkowski's, i.e. the LDS films, will they be very hard to research? Or will I be able to identify names. I guess I mean, will the names be listed as (Joannes Bartkowski, Michael Bartkowski, Stanislaw or Stanislaus Bartkowski) or will the spellings be such taht I may not recognize it? Thanks, Glen Williams

Hi Glen, Plock which is located 60 miles to the WNW of Warsaw used to be in the part of Poland under the Russian rule in the late 1880's. Plock was the town, the county and the "gubernia" (province) at that time. Vital records from 1869 to 1918 are in Cyrillic. Stanley (Stanisl~w in Polish) could have been born in the town of Plock as well as in the Plock county and in the Plock province. Often, people who left Poland for America stated as a place of birth the biggest town in the area. It would be good if you were able to obtain more the U.S. documents on your family to give us more clue where your family was orginated. Regards, Michal Marciniak Turek, Poland --- GWill65074@aol.com wrote: > I am new to this list and I am also just starting my > Polish genealogy in > earnest and need some help getting started. My great > grandfather was Stanley > Bartkowski and he settled in Pulaskifield, Barry > County, Missouri along with his > father and grandfather in the late 1880's. On my > grandmothers baptismal > record it states that Stanley was born in Plock, > Polonia. On the 1900-1920 federal > census' it states they immigrated from Ger. Poland. > I have benn trying to > determine if Plock is the town he was born in or the > Province. I see on maps of > Poland that there is a Province Plock on the > eastern side of the country and > I can find a town called Plock near Warsaw. Which > one should I be searching > in that would have been in the Ger. Poland sector > in 1882-1885? I am also > trying to locate where I can find their > naturalization papers in hopes that they > will narrow my search down. So far I am told Barry > County does not keep > naturalization records and the sos.mo website has > not written back to let me > know if they would have them. > One last question please, if I can determine where > to search for the polish > records for my Bartkowski's, i.e. the LDS films, > will they be very hard to > research? Or will I be able to identify names. I > guess I mean, will the names be > listed as (Joannes Bartkowski, Michael Bartkowski, > Stanislaw or Stanislaus > Bartkowski) or will the spellings be such taht I may > not recognize it? > Thanks, Glen Williams > > > ==== POL-MAZOWIECKIE Mailing List ==== > Want to browse the mailing list archives? Visit > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/POL-MAZOWIECKIE/ > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and > search for your ancestors at the same time. Share > your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com