Hello This is my first attempt to find my Polish ancestors in Poland. I am attempting to find people with the surname of GlLADYSZ in their family tree. I am in Canada and my great grandfather John (Jan, Jon) Gladysz left Poland for Canada in 1913, arriving here in April. I would like to know if he had brothers and sisters. John was born c1888. He came to Canada as a single man, and it is from his marriage record that I am able to know that his parents were: Adalbert GLADYSZ and Anna BARI. I don't know when or where in Poland (or Austria) Adalbert and Anna married. On John's marriage record he said his place of birth was CRORTKOW, GALICIA, AUSTRIA. When John filled out his Naturalization application he wrote that he was born in the village of SZMOINKOWPE, in the country of POLAND. I am still learning to wrap my head around the dates the borders changed, and parishes, and villages, towns regions, etc. and am still finding it hard to remember facts, and place name changes etc. So I thought I'd start wide by just finding people that had the surname of GLADYSZ in their family tree. Did Adalbert GLADYSZ and Anna BARI have more children than just John GLADYSZ? Are SZMOINKOWPE, Poland, and CRORTKOW, Galicia, Austria, very close together geographically? Does anyone have GLADYSZ in their family tree? Thank you Karen Prytula Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Karen Prytula wrote: > On John's marriage record he said his place of birth was CRORTKOW, GALICIA, > AUSTRIA. > > When John filled out his Naturalization application he wrote that he was > born in the village of SZMOINKOWPE, in the country of POLAND. Karen, You might be looking for Czortków, Galicia which is now Chortkiv, Ukraine. The entry for Czortków in the Słownik Geograficzny (a Polish geographical atlas published in series form in the late 1800s) makes reference to a Szmańkowce and a Szmańkowczyki (vol. 1, p. 874, near the bottom of the right column): "Kasy pozyczkowe gminne istnieja w tym powiecie w nastepujacych gminach: ...Szmańkowce, Szmańkowczyki..." -Marie

Karen, This is one of my favourite webpages for making Polish border changes etc make sense, simply! http://www.polishroots.org/genpoland/polhistory.htm Happy searching, Bronwyn. On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Karen Prytula <karenprytula@sympatico.ca>wrote: > Hello > > This is my first attempt to find my Polish ancestors in Poland. > > I am attempting to find people with the surname of GlLADYSZ in their family > tree. I am in Canada and my great grandfather John (Jan, Jon) Gladysz left > Poland for Canada in 1913, arriving here in April. > > I would like to know if he had brothers and sisters. John was born c1888. > > He came to Canada as a single man, and it is from his marriage record that > I > am able to know that his parents were: Adalbert GLADYSZ and Anna BARI. I > don't know when or where in Poland (or Austria) Adalbert and Anna married. > On John's marriage record he said his place of birth was CRORTKOW, GALICIA, > AUSTRIA. > > When John filled out his Naturalization application he wrote that he was > born in the village of SZMOINKOWPE, in the country of POLAND. > > I am still learning to wrap my head around the dates the borders changed, > and parishes, and villages, towns regions, etc. and am still finding it > hard > to remember facts, and place name changes etc. So I thought I'd start wide > by just finding people that had the surname of GLADYSZ in their family > tree. > > Did Adalbert GLADYSZ and Anna BARI have more children than just John > GLADYSZ? > Are SZMOINKOWPE, Poland, and CRORTKOW, Galicia, Austria, very close > together > geographically? > Does anyone have GLADYSZ in their family tree? > > Thank you > Karen Prytula > Ottawa, Ontario, Canada >

Hello Bronwyn That is a good website you provided for me. I can almost understand it. It does ascertain that I am pretty much out of luck finding any distant relatives still alive over there! They were either murdered by one faction or another, or left the country all together. :( I will persevere! Karen Prytula ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bronwyn Klimach" <bronklimach@gmail.com> To: <poland-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 5:27 AM Subject: Re: [POLAND] GLADYSZ - Does anyone have this surname in theirfamily tree? > Karen, > This is one of my favourite webpages for making Polish border changes etc > make sense, simply! > http://www.polishroots.org/genpoland/polhistory.htm > Happy searching, > Bronwyn. > On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Karen Prytula > <karenprytula@sympatico.ca>wrote: >