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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 7:36 am Post subject:

Hi Pam and Barb and Diane,

There are online records from Rowne. If you go here and ask your browser to translate the Ukrainian to English, you will see a list of files:

https://uk.m.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B2:%D0%94%D0%90%D0%A0%D0%9E/%D0%A0-740

If you open them, you will see very nice images and an easy way to move forward a page and back a page. Some of the records are in Russian, others in Polish. There are some Roman Catholic church records in this but the way I came across this resource was through a recent thread here on the forum, where Kris (user name "Iskou") was trying to trace his Jewish ancestors in Rowne. It's a long thread but I will take you to the end of it:

https://forum.polishorigins.com/viewtopic.php?t=23663&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30

You will see in this thread that Kris' post caught the attention of Walter who hired a professional genealogist and had success. Perhaps you would consider contacting him to see what you can learn.

In my (admittedly random) hunt through the Rowne records, the closest thing I could find was reference to a "Tereszko" and I include an image here. Look at the third column, third name, and you will see it. This image is from a book of inhabitants from Rowne in 1921. No way of knowing if there is any connection to your family. The given names on this page are Jewish, but not every name in the book is.

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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 8:08 am Post subject:

Wow Sophia you have been busy. Great news that we have at least some Tereskos in the right area for Platon. I'm full of hope lol. I will look thru the records now can't wit.

Yes I did contact a researcher many years ago for Piot's birth but he had no luck either. Maybe platon may be an easier option. As I have a lot of info on Piotr etc the birrth record may not be of any help anyway.
Well off to start searching ...going to be a long night lol

Thanks Sophia for trying sso hard to help

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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2025 5:32 am Post subject: Piotr's family

Sophia, Barb & Diana
Have come to conclusion that Piotr wasn't born in Mlawa despite what he said. Maybe went there as a baby/child etc.

I have 3 options, Platon's Birth, Marriage or death, as I can see based on what Piotr said. Maybe Birth as we have a place?

a] Piotr was an only child and his father died when he was a baby. -Not sure his definition of baby, under 2?? so Platon died between 1924-1929 [Piotr aged 0-5.] Think 5 must be cut off point as he would be classed as a child rather than a baby
b] His father was born in Rowno/Rivne - Working on Piotr's d.o.b I think earliest d.o.b would be approx 1908 [aged 16] onwards
c] His father married Marja [Maria] Szyszko - only child - Marriage between 1919 - 1924 ??

What are your views on which route or option would be easiest to try please.
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2025 5:16 pm Post subject: Re: Piotr's family

pam56 wrote:

Hi everyone,

The difficult part about finding Platon's death record is the uncertainty of where the family lived at that time. They may have already been in Poland.

My suggestion is to find a researcher who is familiar with the records from Rowne/Rivne, and say you are looking for any trace of Platon, be it a birth record, a marriage record, a military record, a record from resident lists, whatever is available. And see what they say.

We don't have a solid sense of where the paths of Maria Szyszko and Platon Teresko intersected. Did he leave the Rowne area, come to some part of Poland and meet Maria there? Did Maria then migrate to Mlawa after his untimely death, to raise her child Piotr where some cousin of hers resided? So this part of the research is still very vague regarding location. You would need to find an area where Szysko and Teresko (or Tereszko) are both present, to start looking for a marriage to Maria and a birth of Piotr.

For what it's worth, I am also seeing Ciereszko in Bialorus on Geneteka, with the note that the name might be in a sense interchangeable with Tereszko:

https://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=gt&lang=pol&search_lastname=Ciereszko&search_lastname2=&from_date=&to_date=&exac=&rid=B&bdm=B&w=22br&ordertable=[[0,%22desc%22]]&searchtable=&rpp1=0&rpp2=50

Anyway, one does not want to send a professional genealogist off on a vague chase ("the geese went that way...") so my vote is to start in Rowne.

I do support your idea of providing ranges of years to help focus the Platon search, with the latest possible year of Platon's birth being around 1908. When would you start that range? 1880s?

Anyone else want to share their thoughts?
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2025 4:58 am Post subject:

Additional note: In that Geneteka index that I posted, there is a birth record in 1924 for a Piotr Ciereszko, which interested me. However, the parents' names don't match, and the indexer has added the birth date as 03.02.1924 (hover your mouse over the icon "i" to see it) and this does not match with the birth date Piotr Teresko you are looking for. I am unable to find the records for that church, to see it myself.

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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2025 5:11 am Post subject:

Thanks Sophia

I have found a researcher based in Britain who specializes in Polish records so I might ask him to search for Platon around Rowne like you suggested.

Didn't realise but after speaking to grandaughter last night she had written to the archives previously re Piotr. Seems no luck with the search request Crying or Very sad

Any luck with those early war dates or am I reading it wrong [that wouldn't be surprising lol]

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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2025 7:52 am Post subject:

Hi Pam,

Out of curiosity, I went back to Geneteka to take a look at the baptisms indexed for Mlawa during the year 1924. Here:

https://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=gt&lang=pol&bdm=B&w=07mz&rid=1974&search_lastname=&search_name=&search_lastname2=&search_name2=&from_date=1924&to_date=1924&ordertable=[[0,%22asc%22],[1,%22asc%22],[2,%22asc%22]]&searchtable=&rpp1=0&rpp2=50

If you look at the last column, "Uwagi," you will notice that a number of them have the icon "i" in that column. If you hover over an individual's "i" you will see that the indexer has added the person's date of birth.

For the first few people on the page, it all seems quite logical. Those babies were born in September through December of 1923 and then baptized early in 1924. This should give you hope that your Piotr, born in October 1924, could still show up in the baptism records for 1925. So make sure to check when they become available.

If you keep looking, you will see that out of the total 425 baptisms in 1924, fully 56 of them were for people born in a year other than 1924. Some of them go back a few years, others more than a decade. I find it very interesting.

I hope the researcher you found is able to help!

Sophia

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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2025 12:00 pm Post subject:

Oh wow Sophia that is very interesting.I'll be waiting with bated breath.

Waited yars for the 1924 so this'll be a short wait for me hopefully, lol

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