How do I locate parish/diocese records 1850-1915. Wolka Piseczna no longer apprears on current Poland maps. I located it with google map. The area is approximately 47 miles northeast of Warsaw. My mother's and grandfather's information on manifest both show they came from Wolka Piaseczna, arriving in Philadelphia on August 21,1912 on the S/S Brandenburg, departed frm Bremen, Germany. dickdoms@aol.com

Dick, Although my Polish Road Atlas fails to mark this village (it's too small, about 88 residents) the Internet map of Poland http://mapa.szukacz.pl/ does, in fact, point it out. Are you sure that this is the village? There are two villages, both about the same size, named Wólka Piaseczna in Poland. One is located about where you indicate about 70km NE of Warsaw, the other is yet another 110km further northeast. If you are not sure, you need to investigate both possibilities. Roman On 1/23/2010 10:15 AM, dickdoms@aol.com wrote: > > How do I locate parish/diocese records 1850-1915. Wolka Piseczna no > longer apprears on current Poland maps. I located it with google > map. The area is approximately 47 miles northeast of Warsaw. My > mother's and grandfather's information on manifest both show they > came from Wolka Piaseczna, arriving in Philadelphia on August 21,1912 > on the S/S Brandenburg, departed frm Bremen, Germany. > > dickdoms@aol.com >

It will help if you give their religion. Catholic? Protestant? Lutheran? Mennonite? Or what? Not all church records are lumped together in one database. On 1/23/10, dickdoms@aol.com <dickdoms@aol.com> wrote: > > How do I locate parish/diocese records 1850-1915. Wolka Piseczna no longer > apprears on current Poland maps. I located it with google map. The area is > approximately 47 miles northeast of Warsaw. ...

Knowing the correct village helps in identifying the correct parish and/or gmina in which religious / civil records would have been recorded. If you can tell us which of the two villages in the correct one, that will help. One of the places named Wolka Piaseczna is on the Biebrza~ River, was in the powiat of Szczuzynski, gmina of Ruda and parish of Bial~aszewo. The other one was in the powiat of Ostrowski, in the parish and gmina of Dl~ugosiodlo. If you have any documents on your ancestor, they may name one of the other places. That may help you identify which place is the correct one for you. Once you know that you can check the LDS online catalog to see if they have films of any records to help you do your research yourself. This is where you can find their catalog: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp This is their site for located a Family History Center near you so you can order, rent, view and copy records: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp You can also check the Polish archives to see if they have records that they can search for you. This is their catalog site: http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en Use the Info and Searching guidelines for help. To me the church is the last resort because priests do not have the time to do your research for you. They do not have a secretary in an office that can do this work, as they seem to in the US. You can use this site to obtain the contact information for the correct parish. You will need to use the correct letters of the alphabet. Maybe you noticed I typed in the ~ symbol. That was to note that that letter of the alphabet had a diacritical (accent) mark, and to you will need the correct one to use the Polish archives and church address book. You can get those correct letters at this site: http://parafie.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=se&file=index&req=search&search=Mszana+Dolne Just click on the button and copy and paste it into the search box on the State archive and parish address book search engines. This is the site to search the parish address book: http://parafie.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=se&file=index&req=search&search=Mszana+Dolne Tina Ellis On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:15 AM, <dickdoms@aol.com> wrote: > > How do I locate parish/diocese records 1850-1915. Wolka Piseczna no > longer apprears on current Poland maps. I located it with google map. The > area is approximately 47 miles northeast of Warsaw. My mother's and > grandfather's information on manifest both show they came from Wolka > Piaseczna, arriving in Philadelphia on August 21,1912 on the S/S > Brandenburg, departed frm Bremen, Germany. > > dickdoms@aol.com > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >