Dear Marie and Group:   In response to your question -- I have the certificates and copies of the entries from the church baptismal record.  All they tell me is that the father and mother were born in "Poland."  Alas, no more definitive information.    The only place I have ever found notations of place of births have been from the parish church my father's family was connected with.  That was in NY, NY and the priest was so precise I say a prayer for him everytime I have to use those documents.    I have one more avenue here and that is for my two aunts.  Records seem to indicate they were born in NJ.  I have tried churches in the area and have had no luck.  I intend to go back and look for other Catholic churches going in the other direction from were they were living or contact the archdiocese and see if there are churches that have been closed.  If that is the case I will try to access the records for those closed churches.   If you or anyone else has any suggestions, please send them to me.  Thank you.   ________________________________ From: MJDallas <rwlistsboards@comcast.net> To: poland-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [POLAND] Gajtkowski Penny Ruckle wrote: > As for the info about where Franz and my grandmom were married, I have > all that info, their children's baptismal info... Penny, Do you have baptismal certificates or photocopies of the complete entries as written in the church books?  I ask because certificates are issued to prove the event took place and may not contain *all* of the info recorded in the church register.  (The same is true for marriage records.)  In most church records I've found a birthplace for the child's parents.  Sometimes the priest wrote down just the country or region where they were born and sometimes he wrote the exact village name - which is why it's important to obtain the records for *all* children. -Marie ********************************* Need to contact the list manager?  Write to Marie at Poland-Roots-admin@rootsweb.com ---------------------------------- Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. ---------------------------------- Browse the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots Search the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLAND-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message