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zolkie

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:59 pm Post subject: Looking for a Researcher Recommendation

I'm trying to trace my Gr.Grandmother's line and I've been stymied up to now. All the documents that I have indicate that she was born in Zloczow, (Galicia), Austria/Poland in the 1880s. With the changes in borders, that town (Zolochiv) is now in the Ukraine.

I'm looking for a researcher with experience in locating records from this area, and would like to get a recommendation from someone who may have used a researcher.

Thanks,
Jeff

Zenon
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:45 am Post subject:

Jeff,

Plenty of records from Złoczów are stored in Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, click here to see what kind of records and from what dates are there: http://bit.ly/aM6mvJ (mojżeszowe means Jewish, ormiańskie means armenian, rzymskokatolickie means roman catholic, urodzenia - births, małżeństwa - marriages, zgony - deaths). Unfortunately it seems that there is big gap in the roman catholic records between 1855 and 1900..

Do you have in your documents any information about your great-grandmother parents names? If you had any I think you could try by yourself the research by contacting the Archives: http://www.agad.archiwa.gov.pl/eng/index.html and ask them for performing research for you among records from 1855 and older. You can use hints from the Article: "Remote" research in Polish State Archives - practical hints.

zolkie

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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:03 pm Post subject:

Hi Zenon,

I looked at the link that for the Central Archives, and unfortaunately the sources that I have put my Gr-Grandmother's year of birth as either 1883 or 1877 (depending on which is correct). Neither of those years appears in the Roman Catholic archives.

I do have a document which gives the names of her parents, so assuming it is correct, I suppose I could try and search marriage records instead...

I'm finding that Polish research can be quite challenging compared to researching my Italian ancestry!

zolkie

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Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 5:00 pm Post subject:

Still in search of a professional researcher to do some on site searches in Galicia. Recommendations welcome. I have sent queries to 3 different online companies, and gotten only one response thus far.

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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:44 pm Post subject:

Złoczów parish used separate record books for the town and the villages belonging to the parish. Perhaps your ancesters lived in one of these villsges and not in the town. Also the village of Biały Kamień was in a separate parish of Złoczów, and the Polish Archives hold the records of that Złoczów parish under the name Biały Kamień. Biały Kamień and some of the other villages do have records for 1883 and 1877. Check this out in the Family History Library: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localityhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&PLACE=Z%C5%82ocz%C3%B3w+&PARTOF=&prePLACE=Z%C5%82ocz%C3%B3w+&prePARTOF=

zolkie

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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:28 pm Post subject:

Hi Henryk,

Thanks for the information. I had known about 6 or 7 towns that were listed in the Zloczow parish, but didn't realize there were so many! My gr-grandmother listed 'Zloczow' as her place of birth on all naturalization and immigration documents. Wouldn't she have used the specific name of the town if she was from one of the outlying towns?

Henryk
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:02 pm Post subject:

It would be expected that the information on naturalization and naturalization records would be derived from formal documents from Poland. Yet a common complaint is that place names, and even surnames, are mis-spelled. I have heard of a few cases where the exact birthplace was not recorded. Certainly in other records, such as census records, the name of a larger place is often used in place of the correct place.

Zenon
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:12 am Post subject:

zolkie wrote:

Jeff, haven't you considered going to Złoczów personally when you are in Poland and to do research on site there Question

If you are still planning your ancestry trip this year we could drive together from Rzeszow area there and not only visit the places of your GGrandparents but also try to find out anything more about them on the spot. It is only about than 3.5 hours drive from Rzeszow, click here for the map: http://goo.gl/gbnY9 .

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