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Loufamtree

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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:27 pm Post subject: Birthplace: "Poniket Weelka"

Sorry - I'm still new at this. I accidentally posted the following as a reply to an old topic - oops! Here it is where it should be, as a new topic:

Some of my Polish ancestors were born in the northeast part of Russia-Poland, supposedly not far from Torun. Only one family member ever indicated his exact birthplace on a document - most of them simply wrote "Russia-Poland". This particular person put "Poniket Weelka" as his birthplace on his WWII Draft Registration form. I'm not great at Polish, but it seems like it was probably spelled phonetically. I was wondering if anyone has a guess as to what the real name of this place might be???

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Louise

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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:25 am Post subject:

Louise,
Weelka either is Wielka or Wielki, but there are thousands of places named like that. So your focus must be on something that sounds like Poniket (maybe Pa~niket?). I was not able to find any in KP province, in http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~polkujaw/county.htm

Gilberto

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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:20 am Post subject:

Perhaps Ponikiew Wielka, although it is far from Toruń.
Ponikiew Wielka -population 68; woj. mazowieckie, pow. makowski, gmina Czerwonka (originally Perzanowo). Parish Różan. 50 km north of Warszawa.

Loufamtree

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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:02 pm Post subject:

Thank you so much for the suggestions.

I will look into this Ponikiew Wielka - that sounds like a close match

I appreciate your help

Louise

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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:31 pm Post subject:

P.S. Do you know how I could find out if Rozan was the parish for Ponikiew Wielka back in the 1870's? I'm wondering if i could get records om microfilm from there for that time period

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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:37 pm Post subject:

The 1880s Geographic Dictionary of Poland lists that parish. It was founded in the 11th century.
http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en&miejscowosc=r%F3%BFan&gmina=&wojewodztwo_id=0&wyznanie_id=0&rodzajaktu_id=0&search=search
Polish National Archives has: alegata 1897-1900, 1902-1904, 1906; małżeństwa 1897-1906;
urodzenia 1897-1906; zgony 1897-1906. No LDS records. The Łomża Diocese Archives may have records.
http://genealodzy.pl/modules.php?op=modload&name=Katalog&file=index&req=details&pid=7203&search=rozan
This sites gives access to four other researchers of the parish, with ancesters from that parish. Free registration to send a pm via that site: Anna Czajka, Maciej Markowski, andziulam and Marek Białobrzewski. Try the researchers first.

Loufamtree

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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:37 am Post subject:

Henryk

So much great info - thanks a lot. I'm a big LDS user so - too bad about that! I'm thinking the people you listed are all in Poland. Should i assume that they could communicate with me in English?

Louise

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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:52 pm Post subject:

My guess is that at least one can communicate. If you can't find some one to do Polish letters for you, send both an English version and a google translated Polish version. Give information about your relationship with your ancestors. Perhaps they can find some relatives living there for you.

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Loufamtree

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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:09 pm Post subject:

OK - great. Thanks for the help

Loufamtree

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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:46 pm Post subject: ponikiew wielka

Hi Henryk

Many months ago you posted advice for me to contact some people on a Polish genealogy website (you gave me the link) re the parish for Ponikiew Wielka . Something is not working and I am not able to register on the website and contact those people. Do you know if there is any other way to contact them outside of the website?

Thanks so much
Louise

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:38 pm Post subject:

There is no email address given for any of them. I presume after the first contact an email address will be provided to facilitate communications. Note that Marek Białobrzewski states that he has and is searching for information. Contact him first.
The registration system should be working, as I received a message yesterday that the person had just registered. Here is the English language registration form:
http://genealodzy.pl/user.php?op=register&module=NewUser
The British flag does not consistently convert all screens to English, but using refresh helps.

http://www.kuria.lomza.pl/index.php?wiad=354
Here is the Łomża Diocese Archive address:
Archiwum Diecezjalnym w Łomży
p. o. Archiwariusza - Ks. dr Jerzy Niestępski (Archivist)
Łomżyńska Kuria Diecezjalna
ul. Sadowa 3
18-400 Łomża
Polska
Tel: +48-(086)4734611 fax: +48-(086)-4734604
There is no email address given, but this may work:
•Wicekanclerz - Ks. mgr lic. Sławomir GAWRYŚ (Vice Chancellor)
tel./fax 86/ 473 46 31
e-mail:[email protected]

Loufamtree

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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:32 pm Post subject:

Henryk

You're the best - thanks for the info. I will try all of it!!

Louise

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