I need to reach out for help here. I recently, like last week, discovered that my 2X's Great Grandfather, Jozef Bednarek immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1890's from Inowroclaw, Poland. I have no idea how to go about locating the name and address of the Catholic Church in Inowroclaw. I am hoping that someone can point me in the correct direction. Thank you all, Jack

>From the polish Roots Website Roman Catholic duplicates for the Poznan Archdiocese are usually available in the Poznan State Archive. For the areas in the Gniezno Archdiocese, the archives in Bydgoszcz and Inowroclaw have most of the duplicates from the districts of Bydgoszcz, Inowroclaw and Strzelno. Duplicates from the neighboring districts were often kept in the parishes, and forwarded to the Archdiocesan Archive, along with the originals. The majority of the duplicates from the Western districts are now held in the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv, An der Orangerie 3, D-14469 Potsdam, GERMANY. It's necessary to stress, though, that for some districts the civil duplicates are missing completely, or for some larger periods between 1808-1874. The reason for this is unknown but the only explanation is probably the destruction of the entire set of duplicates at some point in history, most probably in WWII or just afterwards, together with the justice court records. The major portion of existing civil duplicate records have been microfilmed by the LDS. On 4/8/08, John Ruther <chicagojohn@comcast.net> wrote: > I need to reach out for help here. I recently, like last week, discovered that my 2X's Great Grandfather, Jozef Bednarek immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1890's from Inowroclaw, Poland. I have no idea how to go about locating the name and address of the Catholic Church in Inowroclaw. I am hoping that someone can point me in the correct direction. > > Thank you all, > > Jack > ********************************* > 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 >