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                                        <title>Re: Jan Swiderski/Swidierski from Krakow</title>
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                                      Author: &lt;a href='https://forum.polishorigins.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&amp;u=4956'&gt;lidis023&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
                                      Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 9:49 am&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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                                      Thank you, Gilberto, I will send mails to this organisations. Maybe Jan Swiderek who was born in 1861 in Ksiaz Wielki is real my greatgrandfather.</description>
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                                        <author>lidis023</author>
                                        <pubDate>Tue May 19, 2015 9:49 am</pubDate>
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                                        <title>Re: Jan Swiderski/Swidierski from Krakow</title>
                                        <link>https://forum.polishorigins.com/viewtopic.php?p=21645#21645</link>
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                                      Author: &lt;a href='https://forum.polishorigins.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&amp;u=-1'&gt;Anonymous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
                                      Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 1:07 pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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                                      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;table width=&quot;90%&quot; cellspacing=&quot;1&quot; cellpadding=&quot;3&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;tr&gt; 	  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;genmed&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;lidis023 wrote:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;	&lt;/tr&gt;	&lt;tr&gt;	  &lt;td class=&quot;quote&quot;&gt;Hello, &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
my 2d great-grandfather are Polish immigrant who arrived to the Russian Empire in the late 1890-1900's . The surname sounds in Russian language like «Свидерский», but in Polish it could be spells  like «Swiderski» or «Swidierski». In Russia my forefather named «Иван Петрович», in Polish his name spells like «Jan» and his father was Piotr. Jan Swiderski/Swidierski was born in Krakow, Poland in 1855-1870. I know that he was a policeman and also had a cousin which owned a steamboat named «Swiderski».  My forefather immigrated to Vladivostok (today is Primorskiy krai, Russian Federation) where he marriage on Russian girl and had 8 children. &lt;br /&gt;
Does anybody have any suggestions on where I can found a birth certificate or any information and documentation about Jan and Piotr Swiderski/Swidierski?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Thank you,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lidiya.&lt;/td&gt;	&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;postbody&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lidiya,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Geneteka shows many Swiderski in Ksiaz Wielki, about 30 miles north of Kraków.&lt;br /&gt;
It shows a Jan born in 1861 but no parents names are mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?rid=B&amp;amp;from_date=&amp;amp;to_date=&amp;amp;search_lastname=swiderski&amp;amp;search_lastname2=&amp;amp;rpp2=50&amp;amp;rpp1=0&amp;amp;bdm=50&amp;amp;w=06mp&amp;amp;op=gt&amp;amp;exac=&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?rid=B&amp;amp;from_date=&amp;amp;to_date=&amp;amp;search_lastname=swiderski&amp;amp;search_lastname2=&amp;amp;rpp2=50&amp;amp;rpp1=0&amp;amp;bdm=50&amp;amp;w=06mp&amp;amp;op=gt&amp;amp;exac=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If he was roman-catholic:&lt;br /&gt;
Archiwum Państwowe w Kielcach&lt;br /&gt;
25-045 Kielce, ul. Kusocińskiego 57&lt;br /&gt;
tel: (41) 260 53 12&lt;br /&gt;
fax: 260 53 10&lt;br /&gt;
email: &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:kancelaria@kielce.ap.gov.pl&quot;&gt;kancelaria@kielce.ap.gov.pl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kielce.ap.gov.pl&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.kielce.ap.gov.pl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and also:&lt;br /&gt;
Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie&lt;br /&gt;
30-960 Kraków, ul. Sienna 16&lt;br /&gt;
tel: (12) 422-40-94, 421-37-33&lt;br /&gt;
fax: 421-35-44&lt;br /&gt;
email: &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:sekretariat@archiwum.krakow.pl&quot;&gt;sekretariat@archiwum.krakow.pl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archiwum.krakow.pl&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.archiwum.krakow.pl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=pl&amp;amp;miejscowosc=ksiaz+wielki&amp;amp;gmina=&amp;amp;wojewodztwo_id=0&amp;amp;wyznanie_id=0&amp;amp;rodzajaktu_id=20&amp;amp;search=szukaj&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=pl&amp;amp;miejscowosc=ksiaz+wielki&amp;amp;gmina=&amp;amp;wojewodztwo_id=0&amp;amp;wyznanie_id=0&amp;amp;rodzajaktu_id=20&amp;amp;search=szukaj&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gilberto</description>
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                                        <author>Anonymous</author>
                                        <pubDate>Mon May 18, 2015 1:07 pm</pubDate>
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                                        <title>Jan Swiderski/Swidierski from Krakow</title>
                                        <link>https://forum.polishorigins.com/viewtopic.php?p=21642#21642</link>
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                                      Author: &lt;a href='https://forum.polishorigins.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&amp;u=4956'&gt;lidis023&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
                                      Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 9:54 am&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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                                      Hello, &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
my 2d great-grandfather are Polish immigrant who arrived to the Russian Empire in the late 1890-1900's . The surname sounds in Russian language like «Свидерский», but in Polish it could be spells  like «Swiderski» or «Swidierski». In Russia my forefather named «Иван Петрович», in Polish his name spells like «Jan» and his father was Piotr. Jan Swiderski/Swidierski was born in Krakow, Poland in 1855-1870. I know that he was a policeman and also had a cousin which owned a steamboat named «Swiderski».  My forefather immigrated to Vladivostok (today is Primorskiy krai, Russian Federation) where he marriage on Russian girl and had 8 children. &lt;br /&gt;
Does anybody have any suggestions on where I can found a birth certificate or any information and documentation about Jan and Piotr Swiderski/Swidierski?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Thank you,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lidiya.</description>
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                                        <author>lidis023</author>
                                        <pubDate>Mon May 18, 2015 9:54 am</pubDate>
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