Cook County marriage licenses at pilot site of familysearch.org do not list birth town. However, there is a birth certificate for Henry Rapacz, son of Joseph and Victoria, which states both Victoria and Joseph were born in Teczyn, Galicia. Cook County Birth Collection: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1462519;p=collectionDetails Cook County Marriage Collection: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1463145;p=collectionDetails Joseph and Victoria marriage license: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#givenName=joseph;collectionId=1463145;surname=rapacz;searchType=standard;p=recordResults Not listed at Cook County Declaration of Intent site: http://198.173.15.34/NR/default.aspx There are several Stojewa and Rapacz names from Teczyn using the Steve Morse search engine for Ellis Island: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html Mary Tina Ellis wrote: > Records cannot be found when you say in or near Krakow. You have to be > specific about where a person was born. This determines the parish in which > they would be baptized. It also determines where civil records would be > recorded. Have you received the application they filled out to get their > marriage license from the City of Chicago or Cook County? Have you tried to > find his ship manifest or other types of US records ... maybe naturalization > papers? > > tina > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:56 PM, bruce rapacz <brucerapacz@comcast.net>wrote: > > >> My catholic grandfather Joseph Rapacz was born in or near Krakow, Poland >> on >> 19 Mar 1878. According to marriage records at St Salomea Parish in Chicago, >> USA; his Parents are Martin Rapacz and Regina Volszenga. Woul like vital >> information on ancestors..He married my grandmother Victoria Stojewa in >> Chicago on 20 Oct 1903. >>