Seruca
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2026 10:42 pm
Post subject: Orawski/Boburka/Jarockzo Ancestry
My husband's Grandmother's name is Aline Rocks. This started with me looking for her grandparents. Her Mother's name was Lucie Dulski and her Father's name was Mike Orawski. I have been able to find a lot on Lucie's family, however Mike has been much harder to locate. I'd like to focus on finding Mike's parents. I should mention that Aline is 80, so the information that she provided me with, may not be 100% accurate.
Here is all of the info I have for him. His full name: Michael Basil Orawski. His DOB: November 11, 1921. He was born in Poland (Aline say's "Bitlap Poland," however I don't see that when researching.) After WWII, the border moved and the part of Poland that he was from, became part of Ukraine. I believe* Mike's Dad was Polish, but Aline says that Mike's Mother was Ukrainian. Mike did have at least one sister. Mike's family owned a farm in Poland, before the Soviets invaded. Mike joined the Polish army and became a POW. He was placed in Mauthausen and tried to escape numerous times, but was recaptured. When the Nazi's recaptured him, they would freeze his feet in buckets of water as punishment. (I'm sure amongst a lot of other cruel acts.) At one point, a Nazi had hit Mike in the face with the back of his gun. It created a large "gash" on the side of his face. Mike thought he would be dead the next day because apparently the Nazi's would go in each morning to do roll call and if they saw someone who looked weak, sickly, or had large wounds, they would execute them immediately. Mike was actually boarded with a Jewish Doctor and that Doctor sewed up his wound with a shoelace. (He had a large scar on his face for the rest of his life.) When the same Nazi came in the next morning, thinking he was going to execute Mike, he saw that his injury had been sewn and let him live. The only reason that Mike was not killed is because he was young, strong, and had extensive farming knowledge. George Patton's 11th Armored Division liberated the Mauthausen Concentration Camp on May 5th, 1945.
Upon Mike returning from the war, he returned home to see that his family and his farm were no longer there. The story is that the Soviets went to take over the farm during their invasion of Poland and told Mike's family that they were taking the farm. Apparently, Mike's family told them that they would have to kill them to take their farm...so they were murdered and buried in a mass grave. However, back in the late 90s/early 2000's Mike returned to Poland in search of his sister. He found her home, which was severely dilapidated and knocked on the door. A small old woman came to the door with a walker. Mike greeted her and she actually fainted after realizing that her brother was there and had not died in the war, which is what she previously thought. Her cow had just died, so Mike bought her a new one. I know that is not imperative information, but that is all that we know. We don't know her name or where she lived in Poland.
Following the war, Mike moved to France (Aline says Ste-Marie-Aux-Chenes France and he worked on an iron mine) where he met Lucie Emily Dulski. They became married and gave birth to Aline. Aline said they emigrated to Canada on September, 29th, 1951 on the S.S. Atlantic (she is not certain about this though.)
I was able to find something on the Arolsen Archives that I believe pertains to Mike. I put in a form to get access to those archives, however I understand it can take quite a while before they are able to access the info and send it to me. Aline says she has seen Orawski spelled Orawsky before. Also when doing some research on Ancestry, I had seen some Mike's with the same or similar birthdates with the last name "Boburka." Aline is a match with a Boburka on Ancestry. Also, somehow I came across a few Jaworski's and Yaworsky's. I believe that could be a variant of Orawski.
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TrishPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2026 12:36 pm
Post subject: Re: Orawski/Boburka/Jarockzo Ancestry
| Seruca wrote: | My husband's Grandmother's name is Aline Rocks. This started with me looking for her grandparents. Her Mother's name was Lucie Dulski and her Father's name was Mike Orawski. I have been able to find a lot on Lucie's family, however Mike has been much harder to locate. I'd like to focus on finding Mike's parents. I should mention that Aline is 80, so the information that she provided me with, may not be 100% accurate.
Here is all of the info I have for him. His full name: Michael Basil Orawski. His DOB: November 11, 1921. He was born in Poland (Aline say's "Bitlap Poland," however I don't see that when researching.) After WWII, the border moved and the part of Poland that he was from, became part of Ukraine. I believe* Mike's Dad was Polish, but Aline says that Mike's Mother was Ukrainian. Mike did have at least one sister. Mike's family owned a farm in Poland, before the Soviets invaded. Mike joined the Polish army and became a POW. He was placed in Mauthausen and tried to escape numerous times, but was recaptured. When the Nazi's recaptured him, they would freeze his feet in buckets of water as punishment. (I'm sure amongst a lot of other cruel acts.) At one point, a Nazi had hit Mike in the face with the back of his gun. It created a large "gash" on the side of his face. Mike thought he would be dead the next day because apparently the Nazi's would go in each morning to do roll call and if they saw someone who looked weak, sickly, or had large wounds, they would execute them immediately. Mike was actually boarded with a Jewish Doctor and that Doctor sewed up his wound with a shoelace. (He had a large scar on his face for the rest of his life.) When the same Nazi came in the next morning, thinking he was going to execute Mike, he saw that his injury had been sewn and let him live. The only reason that Mike was not killed is because he was young, strong, and had extensive farming knowledge. George Patton's 11th Armored Division liberated the Mauthausen Concentration Camp on May 5th, 1945.
Upon Mike returning from the war, he returned home to see that his family and his farm were no longer there. The story is that the Soviets went to take over the farm during their invasion of Poland and told Mike's family that they were taking the farm. Apparently, Mike's family told them that they would have to kill them to take their farm...so they were murdered and buried in a mass grave. However, back in the late 90s/early 2000's Mike returned to Poland in search of his sister. He found her home, which was severely dilapidated and knocked on the door. A small old woman came to the door with a walker. Mike greeted her and she actually fainted after realizing that her brother was there and had not died in the war, which is what she previously thought. Her cow had just died, so Mike bought her a new one. I know that is not imperative information, but that is all that we know. We don't know her name or where she lived in Poland.
Following the war, Mike moved to France (Aline says Ste-Marie-Aux-Chenes France and he worked on an iron mine) where he met Lucie Emily Dulski. They became married and gave birth to Aline. Aline said they emigrated to Canada on September, 29th, 1951 on the S.S. Atlantic (she is not certain about this though.)
I was able to find something on the Arolsen Archives that I believe pertains to Mike. I put in a form to get access to those archives, however I understand it can take quite a while before they are able to access the info and send it to me. Aline says she has seen Orawski spelled Orawsky before. Also when doing some research on Ancestry, I had seen some Mike's with the same or similar birthdates with the last name "Boburka." Aline is a match with a Boburka on Ancestry. Also, somehow I came across a few Jaworski's and Yaworsky's. I believe that could be a variant of Orawski. |
Hi!
Welcome to the forum. I am only posting this tidbit of information to let others see the confusion with Michal Orawski on the Arolsen Archives website.
Name Michael Boburka
[Michel;Miesyslaw;Mieczyslaw Orawski]
Birth Date 11 Nov 1921
Notes 0.0
Document Year 1947
Catalog Number 6.3.3.2
Case Number 407632
Reference Number 99245159
Source Citation
Arolsen Archives; Bad Arolsen, Germany; Arolsen Tracing Files
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Index to Tracing and Documentation Files from Arolsen Archives (Formerly ITS), 1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2025.
Just to let you know, I did see an obituary for Lucie as well as a marriage announcement for Aline. If you need them, let me know and I can download them for you.
Regards,
Trish
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2026 8:41 pm
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Hi Seruca and Trish,
There is a lot to figure out, here. I do not know why someone on Ancestry has made that connection between Boburka and Orawski. However, when you look on the Arolsen website, there are records there for a Nikolai Boburka who was from "Bitlop" (I am using quotation marks there because I believe it is not the correct spelling) and this may have seemed so similar to the "Bitlap" that your Aline says her father came from, that they decided there must be a connection. This Nikolai was born in 1918, he was married to a Katharina B. and they had a child. There is also a document on Arolsen that has both Nikolai Boburka (top line of the document) and Michael Boburka (last line of the same document) but it unfortunately does not provide a birth date for this Michael. I am guessing that this is the document that you are inquiring about. There is another document that you may have also seen, which you find by searching for "Orowski" (notice the spelling difference) and selecting "Michal." It is simply an inquiry, with no information at all on it other than the fact that he was Polish.
Returning to the Arolsen search for Boburka, the other person to look at is Iwan. It gives his place of origin as "Bitla, Polish Ukraine," and on one of his documents it says (in German) "Bitla oder Bitlia" which means they were unsure if the spelling was Bitla or Bitlia. This is very helpful! There is a place named Bitlia Ukraine, with alternative spellings in the Latin alphabet of Butla, Bitlya, Bitlia and Bytlja as well as spellings in Cyrillic of Бітля and Битля. It is my hypothesis that this is what Aline is calling "Bitlap." In the interwar period (that is, between WWI and WWII) this was part of Poland, and it was in the provice of Lwów and the district of Turka according to Gesher Galicia. You can find it on Google maps as Bitlia, Lviv Oblast.
It's getting a bit late for me, but I wanted to post this now so that others have a chance to look at it and add their thoughts.
Best regards,
Sophia
P.S. There is no connection that I know of between the name Nikolai and the name Michael, nor is Mieczyslaw the same as Michael.
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Seruca
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2026 8:54 pm
Post subject: Re: Orawski/Boburka/Jarockzo Ancestry
| Trish wrote: | | Seruca wrote: | My husband's Grandmother's name is Aline Rocks. This started with me looking for her grandparents. Her Mother's name was Lucie Dulski and her Father's name was Mike Orawski. I have been able to find a lot on Lucie's family, however Mike has been much harder to locate. I'd like to focus on finding Mike's parents. I should mention that Aline is 80, so the information that she provided me with, may not be 100% accurate.
Here is all of the info I have for him. His full name: Michael Basil Orawski. His DOB: November 11, 1921. He was born in Poland (Aline say's "Bitlap Poland," however I don't see that when researching.) After WWII, the border moved and the part of Poland that he was from, became part of Ukraine. I believe* Mike's Dad was Polish, but Aline says that Mike's Mother was Ukrainian. Mike did have at least one sister. Mike's family owned a farm in Poland, before the Soviets invaded. Mike joined the Polish army and became a POW. He was placed in Mauthausen and tried to escape numerous times, but was recaptured. When the Nazi's recaptured him, they would freeze his feet in buckets of water as punishment. (I'm sure amongst a lot of other cruel acts.) At one point, a Nazi had hit Mike in the face with the back of his gun. It created a large "gash" on the side of his face. Mike thought he would be dead the next day because apparently the Nazi's would go in each morning to do roll call and if they saw someone who looked weak, sickly, or had large wounds, they would execute them immediately. Mike was actually boarded with a Jewish Doctor and that Doctor sewed up his wound with a shoelace. (He had a large scar on his face for the rest of his life.) When the same Nazi came in the next morning, thinking he was going to execute Mike, he saw that his injury had been sewn and let him live. The only reason that Mike was not killed is because he was young, strong, and had extensive farming knowledge. George Patton's 11th Armored Division liberated the Mauthausen Concentration Camp on May 5th, 1945.
Upon Mike returning from the war, he returned home to see that his family and his farm were no longer there. The story is that the Soviets went to take over the farm during their invasion of Poland and told Mike's family that they were taking the farm. Apparently, Mike's family told them that they would have to kill them to take their farm...so they were murdered and buried in a mass grave. However, back in the late 90s/early 2000's Mike returned to Poland in search of his sister. He found her home, which was severely dilapidated and knocked on the door. A small old woman came to the door with a walker. Mike greeted her and she actually fainted after realizing that her brother was there and had not died in the war, which is what she previously thought. Her cow had just died, so Mike bought her a new one. I know that is not imperative information, but that is all that we know. We don't know her name or where she lived in Poland.
Following the war, Mike moved to France (Aline says Ste-Marie-Aux-Chenes France and he worked on an iron mine) where he met Lucie Emily Dulski. They became married and gave birth to Aline. Aline said they emigrated to Canada on September, 29th, 1951 on the S.S. Atlantic (she is not certain about this though.)
I was able to find something on the Arolsen Archives that I believe pertains to Mike. I put in a form to get access to those archives, however I understand it can take quite a while before they are able to access the info and send it to me. Aline says she has seen Orawski spelled Orawsky before. Also when doing some research on Ancestry, I had seen some Mike's with the same or similar birthdates with the last name "Boburka." Aline is a match with a Boburka on Ancestry. Also, somehow I came across a few Jaworski's and Yaworsky's. I believe that could be a variant of Orawski. |
Hi!
Welcome to the forum. I am only posting this tidbit of information to let others see the confusion with Michal Orawski on the Arolsen Archives website.
Name Michael Boburka
[Michel;Miesyslaw;Mieczyslaw Orawski]
Birth Date 11 Nov 1921
Notes 0.0
Document Year 1947
Catalog Number 6.3.3.2
Case Number 407632
Reference Number 99245159
Source Citation
Arolsen Archives; Bad Arolsen, Germany; Arolsen Tracing Files
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Index to Tracing and Documentation Files from Arolsen Archives (Formerly ITS), 1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2025.
Just to let you know, I did see an obituary for Lucie as well as a marriage announcement for Aline. If you need them, let me know and I can download them for you.
Regards,
Trish |
Hi Trish, I am obviously new here. Please correct me if I am incorrectly replying. Lol.
Yes! That is exactly what I was referring to. Thank you for providing that info with the sources, as I struggled with the words to explain how I got to that conclusion.
Thank you Trish! So sweet of you to offer. Fortunately Aline has kept EVERYTHING from her past, unfortunately, that did not include her parent's documents. 
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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Hi Seruca and Trish,
I followed up this morning on what I had written here last night by looking at records online on Family Search for the town of Bitlia (they are using the spelling Butla but it is the same place). While at first glance it looks like these records for the Greek Catholic church in Bitlia are only for 1928, there is more to it. Here is a link to those records:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/koha:2018419
It begins with records written in Latin, and I can see at least two instances of Orawski family members.
There was a birth, record #26 in 1928 for Catharina Orawska (in Polish, Katarzyna), daughter of Jan Orawski and Maria Chreptacz (unsure of spelling):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9X-K92R-T?cat=koha%3A2018419&i=693&lang=en
There was also a marriage, record #9 in 1928 for Anna Orawska, daughter of Georg Orawski and Eudosia Stefanyszyn (unsure of spelling):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9X-K9GL-6?cat=koha%3A2018419&i=700&lang=en
After the Latin section is done, there are many pages written in Cyrillic and even though I cannot read it, this appears to be quite valuable. It looks as though what is being recorded is family groups, seemingly with birth dates for the individuals. If you can find someone who is able to read this, please have them look for the Orawski family. There are notations on these pages that go much farther in time than 1928.
Sophia
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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Can someone who is able to read Cyrillic please tell me if this is the Orawski family. I think I am seeing the family that matches the birth record I listed above for Katarzyna, daughter of Jan and Maria, in 1928. If it is, then I am not seeing Michal/Michael, born either 1918 or 1921, as part of this family. However, on the subsequent pages there are several other Orawski families.
I found it here:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9X-K9LD-8?cat=koha%3A2018419&i=774&lang=en
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| Sophia wrote: | Can someone who is able to read Cyrillic please tell me if this is the Orawski family. I think I am seeing the family that matches the birth record I listed above for Katarzyna, daughter of Jan and Maria, in 1928. If it is, then I am not seeing Michal/Michael, born either 1918 or 1921, as part of this family. However, on the subsequent pages there are several other Orawski families.
I found it here:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9X-K9LD-8?cat=koha%3A2018419&i=774&lang=en
Thanks! |
Hi,
Correct, Sophia. This is a list of parishioners. Jan Orawski is at the top of the list, followed by his wife and the children. Michael is not mentioned. First comes the date of birth, then the date of marriage, and finally the date of death.
-Barb
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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| BarbOslo wrote: |
Hi,
Correct, Sophia. This is a list of parishioners. Jan Orawski is at the top of the list, followed by his wife and the children. Michael is not mentioned. First comes the date of birth, then the date of marriage, and finally the date of death.
-Barb |
Thanks, Barb! So, with this couple having a marriage date in 1925, they are not likely to be Michael's parents. Could still be relatives. Let's just keep this one in a file of "maybe useful" items.
Sophia
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Seruca
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2026 11:52 am
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| Sophia wrote: | Hi Seruca and Trish,
There is a lot to figure out, here. I do not know why someone on Ancestry has made that connection between Boburka and Orawski. However, when you look on the Arolsen website, there are records there for a Nikolai Boburka who was from "Bitlop" (I am using quotation marks there because I believe it is not the correct spelling) and this may have seemed so similar to the "Bitlap" that your Aline says her father came from, that they decided there must be a connection. This Nikolai was born in 1918, he was married to a Katharina B. and they had a child. There is also a document on Arolsen that has both Nikolai Boburka (top line of the document) and Michael Boburka (last line of the same document) but it unfortunately does not provide a birth date for this Michael. I am guessing that this is the document that you are inquiring about. There is another document that you may have also seen, which you find by searching for "Orowski" (notice the spelling difference) and selecting "Michal." It is simply an inquiry, with no information at all on it other than the fact that he was Polish.
Returning to the Arolsen search for Boburka, the other person to look at is Iwan. It gives his place of origin as "Bitla, Polish Ukraine," and on one of his documents it says (in German) "Bitla oder Bitlia" which means they were unsure if the spelling was Bitla or Bitlia. This is very helpful! There is a place named Bitlia Ukraine, with alternative spellings in the Latin alphabet of Butla, Bitlya, Bitlia and Bytlja as well as spellings in Cyrillic of Бітля and Битля. It is my hypothesis that this is what Aline is calling "Bitlap." In the interwar period (that is, between WWI and WWII) this was part of Poland, and it was in the provice of Lwów and the district of Turka according to Gesher Galicia. You can find it on Google maps as Bitlia, Lviv Oblast.
It's getting a bit late for me, but I wanted to post this now so that others have a chance to look at it and add their thoughts.
Best regards,
Sophia
P.S. There is no connection that I know of between the name Nikolai and the name Michael, nor is Mieczyslaw the same as Michael. |
Hi Sophia, I replied to Trish's comment earlier regarding how the connection was made via Ancestry/Arolsen Archives. Hopefully that helps clear up the confusion. When requesting information from Arolsen Archives, I believe it said there were multiple pages of documents, but can't quite remember. I hope that I am able to figure this out before hearing back from them since I know it takes a while to receive the records.
On Aline's Ancestry, she shares DNA with a John Baburka (unassigned match) and also a Michael Boburka (paternal match.) That is also another reason that I mentioned the surname Boburka. When researching (hunches) on Ancestry, I have seen Galicia come up multiple times. The info you provided regarding "Bitlap"/other locations, is VERY helpful. Thank you!
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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| Seruca wrote: |
Hi Sophia, I replied to Trish's comment earlier regarding how the connection was made via Ancestry/Arolsen Archives. Hopefully that helps clear up the confusion. When requesting information from Arolsen Archives, I believe it said there were multiple pages of documents, but can't quite remember. I hope that I am able to figure this out before hearing back from them since I know it takes a while to receive the records.
On Aline's Ancestry, she shares DNA with a John Baburka (unassigned match) and also a Michael Boburka (paternal match.) That is also another reason that I mentioned the surname Boburka. When researching (hunches) on Ancestry, I have seen Galicia come up multiple times. The info you provided regarding "Bitlap"/other locations, is VERY helpful. Thank you! |
Hi Seruca,
Sure, this makes perfect sense as to why you mentioned the surname Boburka. My worry was that someone saw the birthdate of 11/11/1928 and the town "Bitlop" and decided that names like Mieczyslaw or Nikolai were close enough to Michael that this Boburka must be a surname that Michael used instead of his own name and that therefore these Arolsen records are your Michael's records. You are wise to have asked Arolsen for the underlying documents which we cannot see online, so that you can make your own determination. That's the best approach.
I would like to offer a helpful tip for navigating this forum. When you receive an email notification that someone has replied to you, be sure to read not only that one post but any additional ones that have been added because you will not receive a notification for every single reply. Also, for some unexplained reason there sometimes is no notification, so it can be useful to come back from time to time just to see if the conversation is still going on.
Going back to your original post, you mentioned the names Jaworski and Yaworsky. I do not see any connection between those names and Orawski. My best guess is that your family had its roots in the town of Orawa, which is just a bit east of the town of Bitlia, currently Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
Let's see what else we can find!
Sophia
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Seruca
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2026 2:36 pm
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Sophia,
Thank you for the tip. I'm young, but not very tech savvy lol. A bit of info about me is that my Mother was adopted. I found both sides of her family and became a little obsessed with helping others find their family members. Since October of 2025, I have been able to locate quite a few family members for others searching. However, searching for Aline's family has proven to be much more difficult because I have never researched outside of North America or outside of English speaking European countries. It is also more difficult because so much Polish history was destroyed in the wars. I have reached out to a Polish genealogist, Daniel Bucko. I am currently paying for his services. He is trying to locate Mike and Lucie's marriage record from France. Hopefully he is able to locate it and can provide us with Mike's parent's names. I think that will help a lot! Hopefully he is able to find that info. If he does, I will share it to the forum.
Absolutely, I understand! I appreciate you clarifying any confusion if others look into it. The Arolsen Archives document that I requested does have Mike's DOB of 11/11/21. So I hope this is the Mike Orawski that we are researching.
The town Orawa is great info! I was just going off of a hunch when following Jaworski and Yaworsky. I know from research I have previously conducted, that last names can change over time. I was trying to research those names because I thought they could be a variant of Orawski.
Thanks for all your help!
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2026 6:49 am
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Hi Seruca,
Good to know that you help others with their genealogy! That makes it all the nicer for me to share a tidbit of good news with you this morning. You know the link I posted yesterday for the wedding of Anna Orawska? I looked at it again this morning and realized that, despite the tear in the page, I can deduce that the name of one of the witnesses to her marriage was a Michael Boburka! See the second image, below. So, there may be a connection between the Boburka and Orawska families.
I found this because I decided to go through all of the Latin birth and marriage records of 1928 in Bitlia again, this time to see what I could find for the Boburka family. They were certainly active as godparents/witnesses in 1928, I think I'm up to 7 instances, involving Michael Boburka (in Polish, Michal), Eudoxia Boburka (in Polish, Eudoksja), Anastasia Boburka (in Polish, Anastazja) and Lucas Boburka (in Polish, Lukasz). For comparison, I am adding an image that shows Michael Boburka as a witness for a wedding (see first image, below).
I am still going through those records and if I find anything else of interest, I will let you know.
I am really glad to know you have a professional genealogist tracking down the marriage record from France because that will surely contain the names of Mike's parents as you said, but hopefully also confirm Bitlia as his place of birth.
Sophia
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| BarbOslo wrote: | | Sophia wrote: | Can someone who is able to read Cyrillic please tell me if this is the Orawski family. I think I am seeing the family that matches the birth record I listed above for Katarzyna, daughter of Jan and Maria, in 1928. If it is, then I am not seeing Michal/Michael, born either 1918 or 1921, as part of this family. However, on the subsequent pages there are several other Orawski families.
I found it here:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9X-K9LD-8?cat=koha%3A2018419&i=774&lang=en
Thanks! |
Hi,
Correct, Sophia. This is a list of parishioners. Jan Orawski is at the top of the list, followed by his wife and the children. Michael is not mentioned. First comes the date of birth, then the date of marriage, and finally the date of death.
-Barb |
Barb, Thank you for translating!
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