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/543.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Ann, Would you believe it is I told you that what you just sent pinpointed the exact location of your Jalowka. It was in the powiat of Wol~kowyski. Today that is in Belarus, and the new name is Vaukavysk. It has had the names of Wol~kowysk and Volkovysk also. Your Jalowka is in Poland, and can be found on this map: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=53.0167&longitude=23.9000&size=big. It's very close to the Belarusyn border. I'm going to type what the Slownik Geograficzny says about it. The ~ marks mean that the letters before the ~ have a diacritical mark. Jal~o~wka, mko, powiat wol~kowyski, o 12 wiorst od Swisl~oczy, przy drodze bial~ostocko-min~skiej, o 82 wiorst od Grodna, od Wol~kowyska, okr. Adm. S~wisl~ocki, ma zarga~d gminy szymkowskiej, 2 cerkwie, 1091 mk., w tem 668 izrael. (1878), przewaz~nie cies~le i kotlarze. Byl~a to parafia katol. Dekanatu wol~kyskiego z filia~ w Narewce, i kaplicami w Krasnej i Da~browie. Okolica go~rzysta. Starostwo niegrodowe jal~owskie posiadali r. 1866 Jan i Monika Horajnowie, kasztelanostwo brzescy, kto~rzy opl~acali z niego kwarty zl~p. 3751 gr. 28. Na sejmie jednak warszawskim r 1773 – 75 stany Rzpltej przez oddzielna~ konstytucya~, nadal~y toz~stotwo Michal~owi Bul~harynowi, pisarzowi ziemskiemu i posl~owi wol~kowyskiemn w posiadanie emfiteutyczne na lat 50, z warunkiem opl~acania z niego rocznie zl~p. 15,000 w dwo ratach do skarbu w. Ks litewskiego. I'm not able to read all of this. I have a limited command of the Polish language. Perhaps someone can tell us where the gmina for Jalowka was located. When you know the name of the gmina, you will know where the records would be for his birth in 1919. I used http://www.poltran.com to translate it, and this is what it gave me: Jałówka, mko, Administrative district wołkowyski, about 12 from wiorst Swisłoczy, at way białostocko-mińskiej, about 82 from wiorst Grodna, from Wołkowyska, okr. Adm. Świsłocki, Has gminas zargąd szymkowskiej, orthodox churches 2, 1091 mk. It in (to) 668 israel. 1878 ( ), Carpenters principally and kotlarze. There was parish katol. With branch in (to) decanate wołkyskiego Narewce, and in (to) chapels Krasnej and oak forest. Mountainous region. They owned starosty 1866 yan niegrodowe jałowskie and monika Horajnowie, kasztelanostwo brzescy, which (who) paid quarts from it (him) złp. 3751 gr. 28. However, on sejm by separate warsaw 1773 – 75 state (condition) Rzpltej konstytucyą, they have transmitted tożstotwo Michałowi Bułharynowi, terrestrial writer and to property on lat representative (envoy) 50 wołkowyskiemn emfiteutyczne, with condition of payment from it (him) a year z� 2p. In (to) for treasure 15,000 instalment priest lithuanian dwo w.. Sorry ... it does not give a correct word by word translation. If I am correct, the gmina for Jalowka was in Swislocz, which is now in Belarus. Today it is called Svislac. The LDS only have records for 1824: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=1118468&disp=Metrical+books%20%20&columns=*,180,0 The archives in Poland have no records for Swislocz/Svislac. I have a friend, who lives in Russia, who helps me with matters in Belarus. He's on vacation at this time. I will send you a letter in private with his email address. He will do his best to help you, if he can. Maybe he will help you write a letter in Russian to this gmina office. Tina Ellis