I finished coloring Easter Eggs last night and now, as I’m getting ready for Easter Dinner, I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Easter!
Easter Eggs
SOURCE: Easter Eggs (San Francisco, San Francisco County, California); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 23 April 2011.
Copyright © 2011 by Stephen J. Danko
Mateusz Plona, son of Józef Plona and Maryanna Dymek, was born on 20 September 1862 in Piasutno, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland. He was baptized on 21 September 1862 in the parish church in Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Mateusz Plona – 1862
SOURCE: Parafia pw. Znalezienia Krzyża Św. (Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń 1852-1862 [Records of Births 1852-1862],” folio 257 recto, page 533, entry 235, Józef Plona, 21 September 1857; filmed as Księgi metrykalne, 1771-1863; FHL INTL microfilm 0,948,383.
Click on the image above to view a higher resolution image. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Mateusz Plona. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
235 Piasutno
This happened in the village of Mały Płock on the twenty-first day of September in the year one-thousand eight-hundred sixty-two at the hour of three in the afternoon . There appeared Józef Plona, a peasant farmer residing in Piasutno, forty-five years of age, in the presence of Paweł Plona, forty years of age, together with Jan Kołdys, thirty years of age, both peasant farmers from Piasutno, and he showed Us a child of the male sex, stating that he was born in Piasutno yesterday at the hour of six in the morning of his wife Maryanna née Dymek, thirty years of age . To this child at Holy Baptism performed by Us on this day was given the name Mateusz, and his Godparents were Łukasz Kuzia and Rozalia Plona . This document was read aloud to the illiterate declarant and witnesses and was signed by Us.
[signed] The Reverend Franciszek Sakowicz, Pastor of Mały Płock, maintaining the records of the Civil State
Copyright © 2011 by Stephen J. Danko
Franciszka Dymek, daughter of Adam Dymek and Katarzyna Plona, died on 31 March 1862 in Piasutno, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland . She was buried on 31 March 1862 in Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland.
The Death and Burial Record of Franciszka Dymek – 1862
SOURCE: Parafia pw. Znalezienia Krzyża Św. (Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń 1852-1862 [Records of Deaths 1852-1862],” folio 169/162 verso, entry 80, Franciszka Dymek, 31 March 1862; filmed as Księgi metrykalne, 1771-1863; FHL INTL microfilm 0,948,383.
Click on the image above to view a higher resolution image. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Death and Burial Record of Franciszka Dymek. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
80 Piasutno
This happened in the village of Mały Płock on the thirty-first day of March in the year one-thousand eight-hundred sixty-two at the hour of ten in the morning . There appeared Mateusz Kołdys, thirty years of age, and Ignacy Kołdys, forty years of age, both peasant farmers in Piasutno, and they stated that today at the hour of twelve at night, Franciszka died in Piasutno, three weeks old, the daughter of the married couple Adam and Katarzyna née Plona Dymek, day laborers residing there . After visual confirmation of the death of Dymek, this document was read aloud to the illiterate declarants and was signed by Us.
[signed] The Reverend Franciszek Sakowicz, Pastor of Mały Płock, maintaining the records of the Civil State
Copyright © 2011 by Stephen J. Danko
Franciszka Dymek, daughter of Stanisław Dymek and Anna Milewska, died on 17 September 1862 in Niksowizna, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland. She was buried on 17 September 1862 in Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland.
The Death and Burial Record of Franciszka Dymek – 1862
SOURCE: Parafia pw. Znalezienia Krzyża Św. (Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń 1852-1862 [Records of Deaths 1852-1862],” folio 186/179 recto, entry 179, Franciszka Dymek, 17 Septmeber 1862; filmed as Księgi metrykalne, 1771-1863; FHL INTL microfilm 0,948,383.
Click on the image above to view a higher resolution image. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Death and Burial Record of Franciszka Dymek. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
179 Niksowizna
This happened in the village of Mały Płock on the seventeenth day of September in the year one-thousand eight-hundred sixty-two at the hour of three in the afternoon . There appeared Roch Alicki, fifty years of age, and Łukasz Alicki, sixty years of age, and they stated that today at the hour of five in the morning, Franciszka died in Niksowizna, five years of age, daughter of the married couple Stanisław and Anna née Milewska Dymek . After visual confirmation of the death of Dymek, this document was read aloud to the illiterate declarants and was signed by Us.
[signed] The Reverend Franciszek Sakowicz, Pastor of Mały Płock, maintaining the records of the Civil State
Copyright © 2011 by Stephen J. Danko
Jakób Dymek, son of unknown parents and husband of Ewa Gołaś, died on 13 May 1857 in Piasutno, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland . He was buried on 15 May 1857 in Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland.
The Death and Burial Record of Jakób Dymek – 1857
SOURCE: Parafia pw. Znalezienia Krzyża Św. (Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń 1852-1862 [Records of Deaths 1852-1862],” folio 16/15 recto, entry 91, Jakób Dymek, 13 May 1857; filmed as Księgi metrykalne, 1771-1863; FHL INTL microfilm 0,948,383.
Click on the image above to view a higher resolution image. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Death and Burial Record of Jakób Dymek. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
Piasutno 191
This happened in the village of Mały Płock on the third / fifteenth day of May in the year one-thousand eight-hundred fifty-seven at the hour of eleven before noon . There appeared Jan Szumowski, fifty years of age, and Ignacy Chaberek, forty years of age, and they stated that on the first, thirteenth day of this same month and year at the hour of eleven before noon, Jakób Dymek, a Peasant Farmer, died in Piasutno, having resided there in Piasutno, sixty years of age, son of a family of unknown names, leaving behind his widowed wife Ewa née Gołaś . After visual confirmation of the death of Dymek, this document was read aloud to the declarants and was signed only by Us . The people declaring do not know how to write.
[signed] The Reverend Franciszek Sakowicz, Head of the Parish of Mały Płock
Copyright © 2011 by Stephen J. Danko
Stanisław Dymek, son of the deceased Jakób Dymek and the living Ewa Gołaś, died on 21 June 1857 in Piasutno, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland . He was buried on 22 June 1857 in Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland.
The Death and Burial Record of Stanisław Dymek – 1857
SOURCE: Parafia pw. Znalezienia Krzyża Św. (Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń 1852-1862 [Records of Deaths 1852-1862],” folio 18/17 recto, entry 104, Stanisław Dymek, 22 June 1857; filmed as Księgi metrykalne, 1771-1863; FHL INTL microfilm 0,948,383.
Click on the image above to view a higher resolution image. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Death and Burial Record of Stanisław Dymek. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
Piasutno 104
This happened in the village of Mały Płock on the tenth / twenty-second day of June in the year one-thousand eight-hundred fifty-seven at the hour of one in the afternoon . There appeared Ignacy Chaberek, thirty-five years of age, and Stanisław Cieslak, thirty-two years of age, and they stated that yesterday at the hour of three in the morning, Stanisław Dymek, ten years of age, son of the married couple the deceased Jakób and the living Ewa née Gołaś Dymek, a peasant farmer in Piasutno . After visual confirmation of the death of Dymek, this document was read aloud to the declarants and was signed only by Us . The people declaring do not know how to write.
[signed] The Reverend Franciszek Sakowicz, Head of the Parish of Mały Płock
Copyright © 2011 by Stephen J. Danko
Tadeusz Dymek, son of Jakób and Franciszka Dymek, died on 09 November 1858 in Piasutno, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland . He was buried on 10 November 1858 in Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland.
The Death and Burial Record of Tadeusz Dymek – 1858
SOURCE: Parafia pw. Znalezienia Krzyża Św. (Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń 1852-1862 [Records of Deaths 1852-1862],” folio unknown, entry 143, Tadeusz Dymek, 10 November 1858; filmed as Księgi metrykalne, 1771-1863; FHL INTL microfilm 0,948,383.
Click on the image above to view a higher resolution image. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Death and Burial Record of Tadeusz Dymek. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
143 Piasutno
This happened in the village of Mały Płock on the twenty-ninth day of October / tenth day of November in the year one-thousand eight-hundred fifty-eight at the hour of eleven in the morning . There appeared Jan Jankiewicz, fifty years of age, and Piotr Plona, sixty years of age, both servants of the Church residing in [Mały-] Płock, and they stated that yesterday at the hour of eight in the morning, Tadeusz Dymek, seven weeks old, son of the married couple Jakób and Franciszka Dymek, a peasant farmer in Piasutno . After visual confirmation of the death of Tadeusz Dymek, this document was read aloud to the declarants and was signed by Us . The witnesses do not know how to write.
[signed] The Reverend Franciszek Sakowicz, Pastor of Mały Płock
Copyright © 2011 by Stephen J. Danko
Today is the fifth anniversary of when I started this blog and, as such, is quite an important occasion for me . I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do with this blog when I started it except that I wanted to devote it to genealogy.
At first, I started detailing my genealogy-related research trips, and then I began discussing record types with examples from my own research . One thing, however, that I wanted to do was to publish the genealogies I’ve been researching and link the events in those genealogies with images of the original records . In recent years, most of my efforts on this blog have been in that vein.
This type of personal research blog is not particularly interesting to most people (genealogists included) unless, of course, someone happens to find their own ancestors in what I have written . Luckily for me, several people have, indeed found their own ancestors here and I, in turn, have found previously unknown cousins.
In five years, I have published 1,802 articles, nearly one every day . Since most of the records I discuss on this blog were written in a language other than English, it’s difficult for me to transcribe, translate, and publish more than one record a day, especially because I have a full-time job that requires my attention most of the day.
In five years, there have been 1,734 comments posted to this blog, some of which are pingbacks, so I suppose those really don’t count as legitimate comments . Interestingly enough, most of those comments have been posted to a relatively small number of posts . The very nature of this blog means that very few people will have comments about a particular record, so most of the comments are on posts that aren’t record related.
I’m a bit unsure about the readership . I don’t subscribe to some of the site counters that other people use that might give me a more detailed understanding of the readers, but WordPress Site Stats tells me that in 2011 there have been an average of 291 views per day . The Count per Day Plugin, however, tells me that I have an average of 565 visitors per day . So, every day, I have 565 visitors who each view one-half of a post . Go figure.
The top ten posts and pages since I installed WordPress Site Stats a few years ago are:
The Vincentian Institute in Albany, New York
Bearded IrisÂ
A New Look at Immigrant Passenger Manifests
Kodak’s Brownie Hawkeye Camera
The Angel Raphael
Jesus Blessing the Children
The Old Town Marketplace in Warsaw (Rynek Starego Miasta)
Halloween 1962 at the Vincentian Institute, Albany, New York
Izbicki Documents
Photos of the Vincentian Institute in Albany
The Church in Dubiecko and What I Found There
Relatively few people visit my blog regularly (a few relatives and friends are the exceptions) . Most find my blog through search engines such as Google where the top ten search terms have been:
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You will notice that the top search terms will lead the reader to several of the top posts . Who’d have guessed? But, wait a second here, how come more people find my blog by searching for Sharon Murphy than by searching for my name?Â
I’ve also had visitors who have found my blog using the following search terms:
complete birth record -obama (sorry, I don’t have a copy)
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what is juskiw mean in ukrainian (I’m sure I don’t know)
croked house (did you mean crooked or crocked?)
OK, that’s enough . Thanks so much for your support over the past five years whether you are a friend, relative, or stranger who finds something interesting or useful here, or even if you just found yourself here by mistake . Here’s to the next five years!
Copyright © 2011 by Stephen J. Danko
Rozalia Dymek, daughter of Paweł Dymek and Maryanna Kaczmarczyk, died on 02 March 1859 in Piasutno, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland . She was buried on 04 March 1859 in Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland.
The Death and Burial Record of Rozalia Dymek – 1859
SOURCE: Parafia pw. Znalezienia Krzyża Św. (Mały Płock, Kolno Powiat, Łomża Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń 1852-1862 [Records of Deaths 1852-1862],” folio 59/56 recto, entry 145, Maryanna Dymek, 18 November 1858; filmed as Księgi metrykalne, 1771-1863; FHL INTL microfilm 0,948,383.
Click on the image above to view a higher resolution image. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Death and Burial Record of Rozalia Dymek. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
41 Piasutno
This happened in the village of Mały Płock on the twentieth day of February / fourth day of March in the year one-thousand eight-hundred fifty-nine at the hour of ten in the morning . There appeared Paweł Dymek, father of the deceased, forty years of age, and Ignacy Dymek, paternal uncle, thirty years of age, both peasant farmers residing in Piasutno, and they stated that on the day before yesterday at the hour of ten in the morning, Rozalia died in Piasutno, ten years of age, born in this village, daughter of the married couple, the afore-mentioned Paweł and Maryanna née Kaczmarczyk Dymek, a peasant farmer residing in Piasutno . After visual confirmation of the death of Rozalia, this document was read aloud to the illiterate declarants and was signed only by Us.
[signed] The Reverend Franciszek Sakowicz, Pastor of Mały Płock, Maintaining the Records of the Civil State
Copyright © 2011 by Stephen J. Danko
The final photos from my Caribbean Vacation include a photo of La Coca Falls and vistas of the El Yunque Rainforest in Puerto Rico . Unfortunately, few of the pictures I took in the afternoon were properly exposed and, basically, unusable . Personally, I blame the problem on the weather . Who would have guessed it would rain so much in the Rainforest? Of those poorly exposed pictures, I have decided end this travelogue with one: the national flower of Puerto Rico, the Flor de Maga (Thespesia grandiflora), shown here as a highly-photoshopped abstract image.
La Coca Falls
SOURCE:  La Coca Falls (Río Grande Municipo, Puerto Rico); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 April 2011.
Vista of El Yunque Rainforest – 1
SOURCE: Â Vista of El Yunque Rainforest – 1 (Río Grande Municipo, Puerto Rico); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 April 2011.
Vista of El Yunque Rainforest – 2
SOURCE: Â Vista of El Yunque Rainforest -Â 2 (Río Grande Municipo, Puerto Rico); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 April 2011.
Flor de Maga (Thespesia grandiflora)
SOURCE: Â Flor de Maga (Thespesia grandiflora) (Río Grande Municipo, Puerto Rico); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 April 2011.
Copyright © 2011 by Stephen J. Danko
