Cindy, I had an additional thought on your quest ... what surnames are you searching for? When faced with the misspelling of my grandfather's village, it helped me in my first step to locate the area by tracking down people with the same surname. Doing so was instrumental to my success. If you let the list know, perhaps someone will have an idea or knowledge of the surname. Barbara On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Barbara Karwowski wrote: > Cindy, > Try this site: http://www.kuria.lomza.pl/index.php?wiad=240 > > I believe the parish is Piątnica, as Pęza is only 5 kilometers away. > I located it by searching for "Pęza". > www.kuria.lomza.pl is the site for the diocese of Lomza. You may find > it useful in your research of this area. This is yet another > wonderful area of Poland. There is a lovely skansen in nearby > Novogród. The Lomza archive staff has been very accommodating and > welcoming to me on both occasions that I have been there asking for > help. You may want to email them to see if they have the record for > which you are searching. I noticed on my last visit (in April) that > the collections have been catalogued on their computer, so it is easy > for them to locate their holdings. They have always answered my > emails. > Barbara > > On Aug 14, 2007, at 9:20 AM, 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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