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/574 Message Board Post: Hi. I collect Polish postage stamps and am wondering if anyone out there has any cancelled ones on envelopes that they've received from Poland that they'd not mind sending me. If so, please drop me a note, and I'll inform you of my home mailing address. Thanks. Sincerely, Dave Wilson

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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/572 Message Board Post: Experienced genealogists will be available at the library of the Polish Museum of America from 10 AM - 1 PM to assist you with your family research. The library is in the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America's building at 984 Milwaukee in Chicago (just west of the Kennedy Expressway). There is plenty of free parking west of the builing. The library is at the southwest corner of Milwaukee and Augusta. This is a FREE service. Join us. Also visit us at www.pgsa.org

Hello everyone, I just recieved a copy of a marriage record from 1873. The record is supposed to be a marriage record for Jozef Jan Kosinski and Maryanna Omilian. I believe the marriage took place on Feb 23, 1873. The record is from Bakalarzewo Parish, Suwalki, Poland. I have no idea what the record says, and was hoping someone could help be figure it out. I have posted a picture of the record at: http://messingerszymaszek.blogspot.com/ . Thank you all for your help! ~Michael Messinger~

As far as I know, there was no church in Bronaki Olki. The Parish was Jedwabne (since XV century). Try to get to the church, or to the Lomza Church Archives. Wojtek ----- Original Message ----- From: <rbn37@netzero.com> To: <POL-PODLASKIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 1:59 AM Subject: [PODLASKIE] Bronaki Olki near Jedwabne > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Kosakowska or Kosakowski > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/571 > > Message Board Post: > > My Grandmother was born in Bronaki Olki on Jul 05, 1893. > > I would like to know if there was a Catholic Church in this village or if > the family would of had to go to a Catholic Church in Jedwabne? > > I would like to find out what church would be my best bet on having her > birth certificate. > > Any information on Bronaki Olki and also how to contact contact anyone > that might be able to help me. > > Grandmothers name was: > Benedykta Kosakowska > > Birth Place: > Bronaki Olki, Poland > > Date of Birth: > Jul 05, 1893 > > Thank You for any help you can give > Ron Noga > > > ==== POL-PODLASKIE Mailing List ==== > Researching within the boundaries of woj. Podlaskie? > Visit the Wielkopolski Province site at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~polpodla/index.html - part of PolandGenWeb. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kosakowska or Kosakowski Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/571 Message Board Post: My Grandmother was born in Bronaki Olki on Jul 05, 1893. I would like to know if there was a Catholic Church in this village or if the family would of had to go to a Catholic Church in Jedwabne? I would like to find out what church would be my best bet on having her birth certificate. Any information on Bronaki Olki and also how to contact contact anyone that might be able to help me. Grandmothers name was: Benedykta Kosakowska Birth Place: Bronaki Olki, Poland Date of Birth: Jul 05, 1893 Thank You for any help you can give Ron Noga

----- Original Message ----- From: Debi Kush Waterman To: Jackson, Karen Cc: Kush, Shelia ; Kush, Raymond ; Kush, Mark ; Kush, Linda ; Kush, Jessica ; Kush, C ; Koperski, Larry ; Karen ; Kania, Alan J. ; Jones, Robert ; Jones, Jonathan ; Jensen, Ceil ; Jahn, Debra Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 2:17 PM Subject: Kus Mailing List ----- Original Message ----- From: Debi Kush Waterman To: Crane, Kandace Cc: Humphrey, Linda ; Greenlee, Debbie ; Golus, Ron ; Galvin, Dan ; Foster, Trish ; Ed ; Drager, Barbar ; Donoghue, Irene ; Cris? Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 2:16 PM Subject: Oops Kus Mailing List I have received some interesting Kush and various spelling emails lately and thought I'd pass them along. I need help getting this list going. Yourself or anyone you may know that might have someone interested in family trees, please pass this along . Here's the web address for the mailing list http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/k/kush.html Thank you so much, Debi Kush Waterman

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SWIACKI/SWATSKI Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RdC.2ACI/503.1.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Myrtle, in order to help you, I need more information. Can you send me your grandparent's information - births, deaths & marriages? Possibly the church name in Sugar Notch too. Need as much detail as you can give me to better help you with the SWATSKI surname. Roger roger56chevy@yahoo.com

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/503.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Have you ordered your mother's birth certificate? That may tell you where her mother was born. Another thing is that when your grandparent's married, they would have had to have proven they were Roman Catholic, if they married in a Catholic church, the church should have some kind of record of this. Churches also had registries for members, which gave where a person was born. Try that. Ellis Island may have a ship manifest. That should tell you where they were came from in Poland or Lithuania. http://www.stevemore.org. Use the gray form. Tina Ellis

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/503.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes, It is possible that these were relatives of my mothers family. I think that my grandmother and grandfather came to America abt 1900. I have been told that they met on the ship over from Poland. My mother was born in 1917 in Sugar Notch. Her mother Marianna Swaitski I believe was born sometime in the 1880's in Poland. Does anyone have any ideas of how I can find out more about her? She died when my mother was 7 years old and we really don't know much about her family at all. I cannot find her in the list of passengers from Ellis Island. I don't know how to find her naturalization papers. And I live too far from PA to go to the catholic church and try to find her marriage record or her obituary in the paper in Sugar Notch. Any ideas?

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/569.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The place you want is Bielsk Podlaski. It is just south of Bialystok. It used to be in the gubnerii of Grodzienskiej. In Polish it would have been Grodno. This place has been call Bielsk and Podlaski. It is now a combination of both old names. There are two places in Belarus with similar names, but they are too far south to have been in the same province (gubnerii in Russian). I have the history of it in Polish. If you would like a copy of it, let me know, and I'll send it to you. I just did a new search using only Kruk for telephone numbers in Podlaskie. Maybe the name was Kruk. There are several of them in Bielsk Podlaski and a few Krukowska and Kurkowski. You can use this site to fidn them: http://www.telefony.arteq.org/exe/podlaskie.cgi This is a list of all the churches in the powiat of Bielsk Podlaski, for which the LDS have microfilmed records: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localityhitlist&columns=*%2C180%2C0&PLACE=Bielsk+Podlaski&PARTOF=&prePLACE=Bielsk+Podlaski&prePARTOF= I would start with the one in Bielsk Podlaski first. Problem with that is that you need to get back to 1874 before you can go back any further in your research. The archives in Bialystok has a lot of Jewish, Protestant and Roman Catholic records: http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.eng.php?miejscowosc=bielsk+podlaski&gmina=&wojewodztwo_id=&wyznanie_id=&rodzajaktu_id=&search=search. You can write to them. They charge about $20.00 and hour to do research and about $5.00 for each document you request. You need to be explicit in what you want. First you have to know exactly where he was born, the name of the parish and when born. If you do not find any family in the Bielsk Podlaski records, I would try all the other parishes one at a time until you get the right one. Each has records for different years. At this site you can find the current address of the oldest Roman Catholic church in Bielsk Podlaski. This is the oldest parish in Bielsk Podlaskie: http://www.genpol.com/Katalog_Zasobow_Metrykalnych-parafia_300.html When you write to parishes, letters need to be in Polish. It's okay to write to the archives in English. They have translators. Replies from the archives will be in Polish. Churches do not translators. That's why you need to write to them in Polish. this helps you with your research. Happy New Year. Tina Ellis

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Krukov Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/569.1.1 Message Board Post: The info I was given,by his daughters, wa that his name was Aelecsy Krukov-born Dec 23, 1896-99 -Bilsk (variety of spellings) in Grodno near Bialystock,Poland, Of course, it was Russian then. I don't know if he dropped the ski but in the States he used the name Petroskie.

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/569.1 Message Board Post: What makes you think he was from the Podlaskie area on NE Poland? Have you found a document giving the family's location? I have checked a telephone directory. There are no people in this province named KRUKOW, who have a phone number. There are many people listed with the names KRUKOWSKA and KRUKOWSKI, but not KRUKOW or KRUKOV, as you have spelled it. Do you think maybe he dropped the -SKI from his name? People did that. There is a village named Krukowszczyzna in Podlaskie. Tina Ellis

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/503.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You need to remember that Lithuania was part of Poland. This could be a relative of your ancestor. Many times I see people bounce between Poland and Lithania when I'm helping others research. Tina

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Krukov Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/569 Message Board Post: I am looking for Sylvester Krukov, who apparently had a job (menial) at one of the palaces in the area. He had two sons and a set of twin girls. This would have been in the 1890s. before the boys left for the states. They were Greek Catholic.

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/568 Message Board Post: Experienced genealogists will be available at the library of the Polish Museum of America from 10 AM - 1 PM to assist you with your family research. The library is in the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America's building at 984 Milwaukee in Chicago (just west of the Kennedy Expressway). There is plenty of free parking west of the building. The library is at the southwest corner of Milwaukee and Augusta. This is a FREE service. Join us. Also, visit us at www.pgsa.org

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/503.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Tina, I do not think these were relatives. My Mother's family was polish. Her Fathers siblings were Anthony, Andrew, Mary, Frank, Nellie, and Joseph Kukis (Kukish, Cookish, Cook).. Her grandparents were Frank and Aniela Kordowski Kukis. Her mothers name was Marrianna Swiatski. Thank You for your help.

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/503.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Do you think this may be your family? Anthony Skucas Sugar Notch, Luzerne, PA abt 1885 Lithuania Head Josephine Skucas AnSugar Notch, Luzerne, PA abt 1891 Wife Anthony Skucas Sugar Notch, Luzerne, PA abt 1916 Son Joseph Skucas Sugar Notch, Luzerne, PA abt 1917 Son John Skucas Sugar Notch, Luzerne, PA abt 1923 Son Mary Skucas Sugar Notch, Luzerne, PA abt 1925 Daughter Tina

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Leszczynski Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/437.7.1.3.3.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, I'm not actually researching the name Leszczynski--it is merely the name of the parents of a friend of my son, so I thought I'd throw it out there. Sorry!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Leszczynski, Luroblewski, Zarzycki Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RdC.2ACI/437.7.1.3.3.2.1 Message Board Post: I think Susno may now be located outside of Poland and changed names. My g-uncle, Gabriel Leszczynski (b. 1886), listed Susno as being in the Suwalki region on his WWI draft card. I'm also certain that his sister, Maryanna (Leszczynski) Zarzycki (b. 1880) emigrated from Debszczyzna near Filipow. Gabriel and Maryanna had two cousins Matzei and Ignac also immigrate to the US. Gabriel and Maryanna's parents were Vincent and Ludwiga (Luroblewski) Leszczynski. Kaletnik appears to be nearby. Any chance there is a connection?