This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/484.1.1 Message Board Post: Pawel- Thanks for contact. My paternal grandfather was Jan Zaniewski.He immigrated to America in 1891. He probably returned to congress Poland some time later as my father was born there in 1895 or 96. The family came to the U.S. in stages. Probably the last being my father John(Jan) and his mother around 1908. His mother's name was Antonina Chituk. This family was from Perstun and Soposhkin which are now in Belarus. My mother was Franciska Cituk. According to the manifest for the passenger ship she arrived on in December 1912, she was from Bogaty, Suwalki. Where this village is today in Poland I do not know. Do you? My father's family were farmers on eastern Long Island, New York. Do we have a connection? Joan Zaniskey

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Betke Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/493 Message Board Post: Hello, I am looking for information on the Betke family. In various records, my great grandmother referred to her birth pace as either Lomza or Makow. She also listed on her immigration ship registry that she was born in Lahimje. Does anyone know of a town/region with that name or a close phonetic? Thanks, Jarrod

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/491.1.1 Message Board Post: Virginia, thank you for all your help! I appreciate it! Sandi

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/492.1 Message Board Post: THere is a parish in Wasosz. You can check this site to see if they are the years you may need so you can begin your research: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localityhitlist&columns=*%2C180%2C0&PLACE=Wasosz&PARTOF=&prePLACE=Wasosz&prePARTOF= The site is functioning very slow. You can use this site to find the address of the church, so you can request records: http://maxpages.com/provinces. You can use the PGSA site to compose your letter in Polish: http://www.pgsa.org. This is the Polish Genealogical Society of America.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/491.1 Message Board Post: The parish for Bagny is possibly one of three: Grodzisk Zierzyniec Wielkie Dabrow Gialostocka You can check this site to see what records the LDS have microfilmed: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,180,0

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/492 Message Board Post: Looking for anyone researching KOMUSZYNSKI & DARDZINSKI-Wasosz, Podlaskie. Went to Jersey City, NJ then settled in Batavia, Genesee Co., NY. Also, TORNAZKI family related. Thank you! Sandi

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/491 Message Board Post: Looking for anyone researching ZAK from Bagny, Podlaskie. Went to Philadelphia area for awhile then Kent Co. & Muskegon Co., Michigan. Part of the family settled in Milwaukee, WI and kept the name spelling of ZAK. The line in Michigan changed the name to Zack. Thank you! Sandi

Have you checked the Dziennik Chicagoski Death Notice Index databases at www.pgsa.org for a death for Maciej? There is a Maciej Sawicki shown on the 1890-1929 database, date of death 15 May 1921, one of the names mentioned in the obit is Czeslaw Kochanski. Info on how to order a copy of the obit can be found on the website. This may not be your Maciej Sawicki, but I thought is was worth looking at. If this is your Maciej, you can obtain a copy of his death certificate through the Cook County Clerk's Office. Information can be found on the website: http://www.cookctyclerk.com/sub/vital_records.asp Catherine In a message dated 5/10/04 11:44:00 PM Central Daylight Time, gervasejn@yahoo.com writes: "Katarzyna Sawicka" came to America on the SS Blucher which left Hamburg on July 29, 1908 and arrived in NYC on August 8, 1908. She was 30, female, and married. Her last residence was Bialystok. She left behind her mother, Urszula Cylwik, residing in Krypno. Her destination was her husband Maciej Sawicki in Chicago, IL. She traveled with her children, Jadwiga, age 4 and Jan, age 2. I could not find Maciej in the ship records. Ellisislandrecords.org may have mistranscribed his last name. Do you know anything more? When did Maciej die? I know he was alive in 1920 but dead by 1930. I have Katarszyna's death date as October 16, 1954. Were there any other relatives that I didn't list above? Do you know who Harriet married? It wasn't Richard as that was her son's name. You can reach me at gervasejn@yahoo.com if that would be easier for you. Thank you, Jason

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sawicki, Kochanski, Cilwik, Cylwik Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/243.344.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Patricia: No, I am not a relative but I am doing this research for my friend who is the great-granddaughter of Jadwiga "Harriet" Sawicki Kochanski. I barely know anything about Maciej, Katarszyna, Katarszyna's brother Waclaw Cylwik (or Cilwik) and their mother Urszula. I found this info from the ship records. Here's the info: "Katarzyna Sawicka" came to America on the SS Blucher which left Hamburg on July 29, 1908 and arrived in NYC on August 8, 1908. She was 30, female, and married. Her last residence was Bialystok. She left behind her mother, Urszula Cylwik, residing in Krypno. Her destination was her husband Maciej Sawicki in Chicago, IL. She traveled with her children, Jadwiga, age 4 and Jan, age 2. I could not find Maciej in the ship records. Ellisislandrecords.org may have mistranscribed his last name. Do you know anything more? When did Maciej die? I know he was alive in 1920 but dead by 1930. I have Katarszyna's death date as October 16, 1954. Were there any other relatives that I didn't list above? Do you know who Harriet married? It wasn't Richard as that was her son's name. You can reach me at gervasejn@yahoo.com if that would be easier for you. Thank you, Jason

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RdC.2ACI/243.344.1.2 Message Board Post: Thank you for the information. How did you find it? Government, church or family documents? Are you a relative? Do you have dates of birth, marriages, etc..? Also, I thought that Bialystok is in Poland. (except when Poland was occupied by Germany and Russia).

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RdC.2ACI/243.344.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for that information! How did you find it? Are there census or church or government documents that have this information? Are you a relative? Also, I thought that Bialystok was in Poland. (Except perhaps when Poland was occupied by Germany and Russia). Do you have dates of birth, marriages, etc...

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/484.1 Message Board Post: Sorry for my english language. Hi, my name is Paweł Zaniewski. My family kaming from Zaniewicze. Now Zaniewicze ar in Bielarus. I supouse, Batycze was near Zaniewicze. My father Zbigniew (2 bruthers - Krzysztof and Bogdan), my grand father Mieczysław (10 bruthers - Wacław, Leon, Zygmunt and Henryk (they was in USA) Marian - and 1 sister Janina. Every mans die. Janina live i Poland. My grand, grand father named Franciszek. who ar before I don know jet. Plese write to me what You know ebaut yours family. Regards Paweł

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/243.344.1 Message Board Post: Jan (John Matthew) and Jadwiga (Harriet) Sawicki were the children of Maciej Sawicki and Katarszyna Cylwik of Kyprno, Bialystok, Russia. Katarszyna had a brother named Waclaw Cylwik who came to America. Katarszyna and Waclaw's mother was Urszula who remained in Krypno. Jason

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RdC.2ACI/490.1 Message Board Post: Hi, maybe it is first track, check in Ellis Island database manifest for; Pianka Ester, Bailystok, Poland 1920 33 second track - a lot of information for Pianka in Bialystok; http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/jriplweb.htm Wladyslaw

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vinovich, Pianko, Vopniltski, Kozloff Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RdC.2ACI/490 Message Board Post: I am researching my grandparents who are all from Poland, and most probably Bialystok. My g-grandfather was Simon Isha Pianko. He had at least a brother or sister, but their name is unknown. Simon Isha Pianko married Cecile Tillie Vinovich and had Ida, Tillie b. 1889, Frieda (Frances - my grandmother) b. 1890, Abraham b. 1900, and Morris b. 1908. Simon's brother or sister married unknown and had Ida, Jenny, Eva, Abe, Louis, Jeanette, Esther, and Lillian* b. 1913. Cecile Tillie Vinovich (my g-grandmother on my mom's mom side) had a brother Samuel Vinovich (my g-grandfather on my mom's dad's side). Samuel Vinovich married Nasha (Edna) Vopniltski d. 1925 and had Moshe, Louis, and Max (my grandfather). Simon Pianko's daughter Ida was killed in the Holocaust with her husband and sons. Tillie married Samuel Kozloff, Frances married Max Vinovich (my grandparents), Abe never got married, and Morris married Lillian Pianko*, his first cousin. From what I have been told, my grandmother Frances Pianko was born 19 April 1890, and she and her family were either from Bialystok or Czevitcha, Poland. Since I have never found Czevitcha even on an older map, I am wondering if it is possible that it could be Bialystok or Czestochowa? My grandfather Max Vinovich was born 16 March 1887 in Lomza, Russia-Poland. Any help would be greatly appreciated... my email address is mark.rosenblum@juno.com. Thank you!

The woman that owns the laundermat is Polish but was raised in Brazil.She told me the town of Comtenda in Brazil is all Polish people.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/483.2 Message Board Post: my great-grandfather Boleslaw (Benjamin) came from Poland to Brooklyn around the same time.. He Married a woman named Valeria Skowronski at St. Stanislaus Parish in Brooklyn. They has children there in Brooklyn and moved to pennsylvania a while after that.. I have a little more info, if you'd like to mail me. Also my great-aunt is still here in town with us who might know a little more than me if i ask her..

Did you check these names on Ellis Island? What was your mother's first name? The name Comenetz or Keminetz are rather not Polish and not from White Russia. Another name that you mentioned is probably STANKIEWICZ. Stankiewicz is a name very popular now in Bialystok. What is your mother's maiden name Comenetz or Stankiewicz? How old was she when she came to USA? Regards, Ewa Turzynska ----- Original Message ----- From: <amdejd@bak.rr.com> To: <POL-PODLASKIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 7:28 PM Subject: [POL-PODLASKIE] Looking for my maternal grandmother's family > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/489 > > Message Board Post: > > My grandmother and mother came to the U.S. around 1914. Her married name was Comenetz or Keminetz. Her maiden name was Stankiecwicz (sp??) In the U.S. it is also down as Stancazick. I believe she lived in or near Bialystok. This is all the infomration I have. Any help would be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/489 Message Board Post: My grandmother and mother came to the U.S. around 1914. Her married name was Comenetz or Keminetz. Her maiden name was Stankiecwicz (sp??) In the U.S. it is also down as Stancazick. I believe she lived in or near Bialystok. This is all the infomration I have. Any help would be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Comenetz;Keminetz Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/488 Message Board Post: My mother always told me she was from Bialystok. She spelled her maiden name Keminetz but I have found a Census record dated 1920 tatke states her maiden name was spelled Comenetz and her place of birth was Russia. She did say she was a "White Russian". My husband and I are planning a trip to Poland and will stop in Bilaystok. I would like to know whether my information on her birth place was correct. Unfortuantely she has passed on so infomration is limited. Any help would be appreciated.