{"id":1048,"date":"2007-02-09T11:30:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/09\/the-polish-village-of-piertanie\/"},"modified":"2019-02-16T20:38:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T04:38:11","slug":"the-polish-village-of-piertanie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1048","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of Piertanie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ancestral village of the Izbicki family is Piertanie, a village that was in the Russian Partition of Poland at the time the family emigrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/SLO-Piertanie-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/SLO-Piertanie-R.jpg\" alt=\"Slownik Geograficzny Entry for Piertanie\" width=\"500\" height=\"136\"\/><\/a><figcaption> <br><em>S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for Piertanie<\/em> <br>Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, and Filip Sulimmierski, eds., <em>S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries)<\/em> &#8211; Warsaw 1887, Volume VIII, page 101. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the link for a <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/SGK-Piertanie-1887.pdf\">PDF<\/a>&nbsp;copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for Piertanie.&nbsp; The entry, translated from the Polish,&nbsp;states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p align=\"left\">Piertanie, a village on the small lakes Pierty and Wigry, Suwalki Powiat [District], Hutta Gmina [municipality], Wigry parish.&nbsp; Twelve viersts [1 vierst = 1.0668 km] not far from Suwalki, it has 15 homes, 109 inhabitants, 327 m\u00f3rgs [1 m\u00f3rg in the Russian Partition = 1.388 acres] in territory.&nbsp; Swampy land.&nbsp; In 1827 there were 7 homes, 38 inhabitants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The parish for Piertanie is in Wigry.&nbsp; The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has church records for Wigry from 1808-1882.&nbsp; I may be able to find some relevant records in these microfilms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned the <em>S\u0142ownik Geograficzny<\/em> several times in the past .\u00a0 I use this reference often to discover to which parish a particular village belonged and to learn more about the village .\u00a0 Some entries, like the entry for Piertanie, are very brief .\u00a0 The entry for Wigry, the parish, is much more extensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Copyright \u00a9 2007-2019 by Stephen J. 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