The Slownik shows that the Wola Zelichowska Roman Catholic parish was in Gręboszów: http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_II/808. It says the church was established before 1326. The LDS have microfilmed records from 1651 through 1979 for this parish: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp. You can locate an LDS Family History Center near you, by using this website: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp. There you will be able to order the microfilm from Salt Lake City, so that you can view it and copy any records you wish to have. If you are only interested in finding relatives, you can write to the church. The address is listed at this site: http://parafie.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pr&pid=2361 Tina On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Debbie Greenlee <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter, > > You might write to the parish priest asking if there is anyone with > your surname still in his parish. You could include another letter > (both in Polish) with your email address explaining who you are, etc. > and stating that you are only looking for family and nothing else. Ask > the priest to pass along the second letter. > > You might also include a short hand drawn tree showing your connection > to your grandfather and any other relatives who were born in Poland. > > I am out of town and using dial-up service so I can't search for the > parish name for you. Perhaps someone else can do that or maybe you > could wait until sometime next week when I'm home. > > Debbie > > Peter J. Samiec wrote: > > I'm hoping to correspond with any Samiecs with relatives or descendants > from the Krakow area. My grandfather came here from the village of Wola > Zelichowska, Stopnica (county), Kiellce (province) (papers in Russian) > although passenger manifests list the village of Solec as his home. It > appears that his village is approximately 50 km from Krakow. > > > > He traveled with three others: Domial Ydzik, Piotr Bos, Marcin Kaprol > and Jakob Osin; leaving Hamburg Germany on May 8, 1913 on the ship Pretoria. > They arrived at Ellis Island on May 22, 1913. > > > > Records indicate they traveled to Clifton Springs, NY, then Piotr Samiec > and Domial Ydzik moved to the Batavia, NY area where work was apparently > readily available. > > > > If any of these names are familiar to you, please contact me, I'd love to > hear from you. > > > > Thanks for reading my message. > > > > Peter Samiec > > [email protected] > > > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at > [email protected] > ---------------------------------- > 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >