Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:42 pm
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I am attaching a screenshot from another website (rootsweb) where I was reading posts about "Sierpc and neighboring villages & parishes-Plock diocese" I came across the name Aneila Lewandowska. Is she my Aneila "Belak" Lewandowski. Could she have been widowed and remarried? Would she be referred to as a Belak or a Lewandowski in the marriage records?
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 7:39 pm
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| lorrir wrote: | | I am attaching a screenshot from another website (rootsweb) where I was reading posts about "Sierpc and neighboring villages & parishes-Plock diocese" I came across the name Aneila Lewandowska. Is she my Aneila "Belak" Lewandowski. Could she have been widowed and remarried? Would she be referred to as a Belak or a Lewandowski in the marriage records? |
Hi Lorri~ In my opinion this Aniela Lewandowska is not your Aniela Belak. This record says Aniela Lewandowska is the daughter of Szymon Lewandowski and she is age 20, not likely to be a widow although it is possible. I don't know if is usual, but my great gfather was a widower when he married my great gmother and that was so noted in the church marriage record (as well as the name of his deceased wife). ~PL
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:45 pm
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I have finally received my GGrandfathers SS Application. I'm very confused as he is using a very different spelling of his name. This is the Jozef I have been looking for for sure. I have spent the past two hours looking on the http://stevemorse.org/ellis2/ellisgold.html website and can't find him. I am very excited I have found his place of birth and confirmed his parents names. His information, in his handwriting, in a period of this life that I can count on it to be semi correct.
Need help finding his enterance to America.
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:09 am
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Hi, I'm sure that you know not to count on the birth date of the Social Security application when you have found so many birth years! I had the same with my grandmother. Glad to see that Joseph's village was on his application. Both my grandparent's applications only said Poland. Good news, the LDS has filmed church records for Goworowo: http://tinyurl.com/cgrufnw
I understand your frustration with not finding Joseph at Ellis Island. I spent endless hours over ten years looking for my grandmother Aniela Lenart. When I found her home village was Zaluczne, I went to Ellis Island gold with just intials, etc. A for a first name, L for her surname (I also tried S because I found that the cursive L could look like an S to an indexer, and a Z for the village, and still came up with nothing. When I got too many names, I'd narrow them down by adding a range of years for arrival, a range of birth years, and adding Polish for Ethnicity. It turned out she was indexed as Anieta Seuard from Telngger. I could tell that it said Zaluczne, but probably only because I knew where she was from at that point. Have you searched other ports besides Ellis Island?
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 2:42 pm
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Would anyone have these records in their collection already?
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:06 pm
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Hi Lorri~ As you can see from the title of this record, the church records go to 1889, so you're probably not going to find Jozef's baptism (you're pretty sure he was born 1890-1893, right?). But you might be able to find Jozef's parents marriage and perhaps births of other older siblings if there were any. Certainly worth a try.
This record is for 14 rolls of microfilm so no one here is going to have it in their collection. If you click on the View Film Notes button in the upper right hand corner, it will take you to a list of the 14 rolls with what years are on each roll & a roll number for each. I think I'd choose to look at the marriages from 1882-89 first and maybe births 1888-1889. You order (& pay) online by the film number to have them sent to the the Family History Center closest to you. Then go into the center and look at the film on the center's equipment.
As for the SS document, again Joe probably didn't fill in the document but gave the info to the govt person and then signed that the info. was correct. As to the spelling of his name, obviously that is the way he was spelling it then, but the spelling is more like a phonetic spelling of what it sounds like. And I see what you mean about being a common name. There are a whole bunch of Jozef Lewandowski's born between 1890 and 1893 and arriving in the US around 1912-1913. I believe this village would have been part of the Russian partition at the time so that gives you another limiter - speaks Polish but from Russia. Cheri gives you some ideas of how to start broad and slowly narrow the results down. Good luck. ~PL
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