Tina, I just used Google Maps and found a Bialousy, Poland. It is about 20 miles north of Bialystok and 30 miles southwest of Hrodna. _http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&tab=wl&q_ (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&tab=wl&q) = Perhaps this is the one. An ESL teacher I have worked with thought that his Polish would be closer to that spoken in this area after reading some of his letters and writings. His Polish was self taught while hiding in a cellar. The Tsar said that only Russian could be taught in the schools. This was in the 1890s. Phil **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010)

You did great finding this place. The Slownik does not give the name of a parish for Bialousy. The Slownik does say that it was in the gmina of Janow and powiat of Sokolski. http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_I/195 Many times the gmina and parish are in the same town/village. Today there is a parish in Janow, which has been there since 1740. If that yield any information, than try Sokolka, today's gmina. They have two parishes. The oldest one has been there since 1631, the newer one since 1987. LDS Catalog site for microfilm: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp My grandmother told me the same story. Her father would not let her go to school. He pulled her out. They lived across the road from the school in their tiny village. Her father taught her at home. Tina On 12/6/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Tina, > I just used Google Maps and found a Bialousy, Poland. It is about 20 miles > north of Bialystok and 30 miles southwest of Hrodna. > _http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&tab=wl&q_ > (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&tab=wl&q) = > Perhaps this is the one. > An ESL teacher I have worked with thought that his Polish would be closer to > that spoken in this area after reading some of his letters and writings. His > Polish was self taught while hiding in a cellar. The Tsar said that only > Russian could be taught in the schools. This was in the 1890s. > > Phil > **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and > favorite sites in one place. Try it now. > (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >