Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2026 8:14 pm
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Hello, I have located this record regarding my great grandmother and I am interested in the names and location of this birth document. Many thanks for your assistance.
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2026 6:02 am
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| susancoles wrote: | | Hello, I have located this record regarding my great grandmother and I am interested in the names and location of this birth document. Many thanks for your assistance. |
Hi Susancoles,
Welcome to the forum!
This record is written in Latin and while I am not the best helper on this forum for Latin records (that would be Dave), I will try to assist you with the names. It would be easier to help you if I knew where this record was from because then I could look at what surnames are common in that parish. It can be helpful, when posting records, to provide a link to where you found the record if it was found online, or else an image of the whole page so it is easier to study how the writer formed their letters when writing.
The person being baptized is Anna Maria and the abbreviation in parentheses following her name is confirming for you that she was given two names. Beneath her name is the abbreviation "Ob" telling you who her midwife was, Maria with a surname that is a little hard to decipher. It could be Danecka, I'm not sure, and it's probably not important to you.
Anna Maria's father's name is written as Joannes, which in Polish is Jan and in English is John. You probably know the surname already. Does it begin with D? Derzanowski? Jan's mother's name was Antonina B. Anna Maria's mother's name looks like Paulina Pleczynska, the daughter of Kajetan Pleczynski and Frederika Krap.
I'd be happy to take a second look if you could give me more to work with.
Best regards,
Sophia
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Posted: Yesterday at 7:33 pm
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Dear Sophia,
Thank you for responding to my question and providing me with the names on the document. Jan's last name is Berczoski aka Brosco. Unfortunately, I too, could not decipher the handwriting.
I did find document on the genteka site with Anna's parents listed. Attached is a photo of my findings. I did try a search on their site to locate more information but was unsuccessful reading the documents. Perhaps you can translate?
Your help is appreciated!
Susan
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Posted: Yesterday at 1:42 pm
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Thanks, Susan, for the info from Geneteka.
Just a quick response for you this afternoon. I've got your place name: Zwarzycze
If you look at the snippet of a map that I am attaching, it is a very small distance northeast of Stryj. If you'd like to look at the entire map, it is here and you'll spot Stryj in the lower left-hand corner:
https://polona.pl/item-view/1c3acf2f-47cd-4df6-90f5-974982198519?page=0
It appears that Stryj (now called Stryi in western Ukraine) enlarged over time and what was Zwarzycze is now just part of Stryi. You can see on the maps Verchany in today's Ukraine was Wierczany on the old map, and Dobryany was Dobrzany. That should help you see where your Zwarzycze would be on today's map.
The record of Anna's birth is from the parish in Stryj, specifically the Roman Catholic parish. Here is a link to birth records from there:
https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/jednostka/-/jednostka/17819707?_Jednostka_delta=20&_Jednostka_resetCur=false&_Jednostka_cur=1&_Jednostka_id_jednostki=17819707
I need additional time to look at surnames. I might then make a suggestion for a small alteration of the spelling you provided.
Sophia
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Posted: 7 hours ago at 6:25 am
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I am following up on my promise to look at the spelling of the surname.
Anna’s birth record shows that her parents Jan and Paulina were married in 1891. This page is from the list of all men whose surname begins with B who were married in the parish of Stryj. You see there is a column for the year of marriage, and you see that in 1891 the only Joannes/Jan who was married that year in that parish was Jan Bozenko:
https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/fac95a9ef19866b295be228ca1013c194d760745e533d275fa588f8b5037db2d
There are other Jans on that page in years close to 1891 but none of them have a surname that could be interpreted as Berczowski. This is not surprising, however, because I believe that what I am seeing in Anna’s record is that her parents were married in Tłuste rather than in Stryj. I know there are at least two places named Tłuste. One is near Ternopil; it seems to be the logical one but it is some distance away. If the records also had the brides indexed, that would have given me a second way of looking for the 1891 marriage just to be sure, but unfortunately only the grooms were indexed.
But I kept looking at the marriage index, and guess what I found? There was a Kajetan Berczowski who married in 1912. You will see him here in the second column:
https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/a765b18cd46809deba744401e0b9124586ecc2c98f7308fb11a89317c04d70cc
It is possible that he was Anna’s brother. Remember that Paulina’s father’s name was Kajetan, so this could well be your relative. I will go look for his baptism record.
Sophia
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Posted: 5 hours ago at 8:34 am
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| Sophia wrote: | I am following up on my promise to look at the spelling of the surname.
Anna’s birth record shows that her parents Jan and Paulina were married in 1891. This page is from the list of all men whose surname begins with B who were married in the parish of Stryj. You see there is a column for the year of marriage, and you see that in 1891 the only Joannes/Jan who was married that year in that parish was Jan Bozenko:
https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/fac95a9ef19866b295be228ca1013c194d760745e533d275fa588f8b5037db2d
There are other Jans on that page in years close to 1891 but none of them have a surname that could be interpreted as Berczowski. This is not surprising, however, because I believe that what I am seeing in Anna’s record is that her parents were married in Tłuste rather than in Stryj. I know there are at least two places named Tłuste. One is near Ternopil; it seems to be the logical one but it is some distance away. If the records also had the brides indexed, that would have given me a second way of looking for the 1891 marriage just to be sure, but unfortunately only the grooms were indexed.
But I kept looking at the marriage index, and guess what I found? There was a Kajetan Berczowski who married in 1912. You will see him here in the second column:
https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/a765b18cd46809deba744401e0b9124586ecc2c98f7308fb11a89317c04d70cc
It is possible that he was Anna’s brother. Remember that Paulina’s father’s name was Kajetan, so this could well be your relative. I will go look for his baptism record.
Sophia |
Hi Sophia and Susan,
I think that the original surname was Berezowski. It is very easy to mistake an “e” for a “c.” I found the marriage record for Jan and Paulina from 1892, and it strengthens my opinion.
Regards,
-Barb
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Posted: 4 hours ago at 9:34 am
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| BarbOslo wrote: |
Hi Sophia and Susan,
I think that the original surname was Berezowski. It is very easy to mistake an “e” for a “c.” I found the marriage record for Jan and Paulina from 1892, and it strengthens my opinion.
Regards,
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Hi Barb,
Thanks for posting their marriage record! Was the record from the Tłuste near Ternopil?
I see how the handwriting of the marriage record supports your reading of it as Berezowski. I will just add that Herby.com does show Berczowski as a surname, although used by far fewer people than Berezowski.
Looking at this marriage record, I need to correct my earlier spelling of the surname of Paulina's mother's maiden name. It is Kropp, not Krap.
Best regards,
Sophia
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