Lorene, Thanks for your offer! St. Catherine is in present-day Golub-Dobrzyn, but back in the 1800's, it was just Golub. I reviewed FHL microfilms for St. Catherine's for births and marriages between 1820 - 1890. I only found the four entries for my family -- marriage for great grandparents and births for three children. I am now interested in searching records from St. Mary Magdalene in Ostrowite for my great grandmother's birth since it served Pocwiardowo. Do you have records for this parish? Message: 6 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:31:32 -0500 From: Lorene Seman <lmseman@wisc.edu> Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] New Member -- Zabinski and Pocwiardowski in Sokoligora To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4E0CCF14.4020904@wisc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Where is St. Catherine's Church? I may have some CDs with church records. On 6/30/2011 1:59 PM, Denise Ney wrote: > Hi, all! > > I apparently was a member of this list a number of years ago, but either > unsubscribed or fell off. When I searched the archives, I found my own > posts. I took a break from my research and have recently returned to it > and have dug up new information. I looking forward to being back on the > list. > > I have identified my immigrant ancestors as Ignacy Zabinski (b abt Dec. > 1847 in Russia) and Marianna nee Pocwiardowska (b abt Nov 1849 in > Germany) from Sokoligora, near Golub-Dobrzyn. They immigrated in 1886, > he in March and, she and the children in November. They married on 27 > January 1873 at St. Catherine in Golub. The children, Marianna (b > 1874), Marta (b 1876), and Jan (b 1879) were all baptized at St. > Catherine. > > Ignacy's NY death certificate names his parents as Andrew Zabinski and > Anna nee Prusiecka. Marianna's NY death certificate names her parents > as Ignacy Pocwiardowski and May nee Hoffman. The 1900 US Census gives > his parents both born in Russia and her parents both born in Germany. > The 1910 Census has all 4 parents born in Austria, and the 1920 census > states just Poland. > > I have researched birth and marriage records at St. Catherine and find > no other entries for my family, but those four -- the marriage and three > births. The next step ion my research is to find the marriages of > Ignacy's and Marianna's parents, and the births of their siblings. > > Since Pocwiardowski is a surname derived from the town, Pocwiardowo, I > have written to the parish serving Pocwiardowo, St. Mary Magdalene in > Ostrowite, and inquired about the family. I mailed the letter > yesterday. Pocwiardowo is quite near Sokoligora, but Sokoligora is > served by St. Catherine. > > Does anyone have suggestions for next steps in my research? Other > sources for records? Thanks! > > Denise Denise