Thankyou to Chris, Debbie and Ruth for their replies. I had already considered that the hoi poloi might travel by a different route/method to the upper or diplomatic classes. However, since I know nothing about any possible routes during war time the question was a general one about routes during the conflict. What a shame there is no central registry of BMDs in Poland as such. I can see how it would be necessary to know where Marie came from but this is exactly the sort of information we were hoping to glean from a birth record. We do know her fathers name, Jan Pizlock, occupation upholsterer. Many thanks Ruth for all the info that you extracted. Marie did sometimes spell her name as Pizlak rather than Pizlock. At least we now know that the name is Polish as it stands rather than being shortened or adapted from a longer, harder to pronounce, version. Since Marie arrived during the war years I had hoped to find her on some kind of Aliens Register. Sadly, it was apparantly only required to register with the local police on arrival at the final address (rather than port of entry) and these records were not considered important enough to be kept for posterity. Poland was of course under the control of Russia at the time rather than a nation in its own right, with some areas being controlled by Germany and the Austro Hungarian empire. So, depending exactly where she came from in Poland she might have been considered an enemy alien. We know that Marie was in domestic service before her marriage but unfortunately we do not know if she was in service in Poland and then travelled with that family to UK or if she travelled alone and entered service on arrival in UK. The question of religion is an interesting one. Maries grand daughter was brought up by her grandparents as her own mother died very young from cancer. Apparantly the impression that our cousin always had was that Marie was a staunch catholic. However, she never attended church on a regular basis, and there was a Catholic church locally. She was married in Church of England. All her children were baptised and later married in Church of England and when she died she was buried in the Church of England. So, some confusion there. Thankyou for the list of LDS films. I have never had any luck trying to access Polish LDS data online and assumed that it was not available online. I believe that the films can be rented but I only have a fiche reader not a film reader. There is an LDS contact about 40 mins from here. I do not know if they have research facilities as there is no open access. It is necessary to phone for an appointment. So, I am not sure if they can help in regard to the films and viewing them. So, for the time being, the search goes on. regards, Chris

>Thankyou to Chris, Debbie and Ruth for their replies. > >I had already considered that the hoi poloi might travel by a different  >route/method to the upper or diplomatic classes. >However, since I know nothing  >about any possible routes during war time the >question was a general one about  >routes during the conflict. > >What a shame there is no central registry of BMDs in Poland as such. I can  >see how it would be necessary to know where >Marie came from but this is exactly > the sort of information we were hoping to glean from a birth record. We do >know her fathers name, Jan Pizlock, occupation upholsterer. > Does her death record provide any details on her place of birth? -- --- Chris Smolinski Black Cat Systems http://www.blackcatsystems.com

Hi Chris, When you order films from the FHC they keep them there for you to read using their readers. It also means that if someone else is interested in your film they can also look at it until it is returned. Some images of records have been put online and can be found here: http://labs.familysearch.org/ Kind regards, Bronwyn Klimach. On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM, <Csgen50@aol.com> wrote: > Thankyou to Chris, Debbie and Ruth for their replies. > > Thankyou for the list of LDS films. I have never had any luck trying to > access Polish LDS data online and assumed that it was not available > online. I > believe that the films can be rented but I only have a fiche reader not a > film > reader. There is an LDS contact about 40 mins from here. I do not know if > they > have research facilities as there is no open access. It is necessary to > phone for an appointment. So, I am not sure if they can help in regard to > the > films and viewing them. > > So, for the time being, the search goes on. > regards, > Chris >