Cindy, The most authoritative source for Polish geography in the 19th century is the Polish Geographical Atlas which can be viewed on-line at http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/polszczyzna/SGKPi/index.html#indexse2.html It is, as expected, written in Polish. Although current maps spell the village Pęza, the Atlas lists it as you have spelled it, namely, Penza. See Tom 7, page 944. That entry names Piątnica as the location of the Catholic parish serving this village. Roman C White wrote: > Hello, > I am searching for a Catholic parish location for a town called > Penza. I believe this is an old name, as it is no longer used. I have only found it on one map; a 1907 atlas. In that map it is in the Podlaskie province, (in the powiat Kolnenski). It is literally on the southernmost border between Kolnenski and Lomzynski. It sits about 13 miles east of Nowogrod and about 5 miles directly north of Lomza; (just east of the River Narew), but is in Kolnenski on that map. Given the age of the map, and it's proximity, I don't know if it would be in the Maly Plock parish (which is about 8-10 miles slightly northwest) or if records would be located in the Nowogrod or Lomza (or somewhere else for that matter). I guess a question for future reference is, are current parishes defined/delineated by powiat? It would make sense, but given the border changes from that time, I wasn't sure where to look. I am looking for a birth record from about 1879-80. I would like to order microfilm, bu! > t don't know which parish to choose. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Stuck on a fence, or in this case, stuck on a border !!! > Cindy W. > > ------------------------------- > 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 >