{"id":128,"date":"2006-05-17T23:55:42","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T06:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/17\/birth-and-bapatismal-records-in-galicia\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:53:59","slug":"birth-and-bapatismal-records-in-galicia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/128","title":{"rendered":"Birth and Baptismal Records in Galicia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the year 2000, I visited Poland with two friends.\u00a0 We flew into <a title=\"Krak\u00f3w\" href=\"http:\/\/www.krakow.pl\/en\/\">Krak\u00f3w<\/a> where we spent a few days sightseeing.\u00a0 Then we drove to <a title=\"Tarn\u00f3w\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tarnow.pl\/\">Tarn\u00f3w<\/a> where we stayed two nights and toured the <a title=\"Castle at \u0141a\u0144cut\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zamek-lancut.pl\/en\/\">Castle at \u0141a\u0144cut<\/a>. During our stay in \u0141a\u0144cut, we drove down to Dubiecko and Nienadowa, the village where my Da\u0144ko ancestors lived.\u00a0 I previously described the <a title=\"Church in Dubiecko\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/04\/the-church-in-dubiecko-and-what-i-found-there\/\">Church in Dubiecko<\/a>, and what I found there.\u00a0 In short, I found the record for my great grandfather&#8217;s second marriage to Zofia G\u0142owacz, but that was all.\u00a0 Because time was short, we had to leave <a title=\"Dubiecko\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dubiecko.pl\/\">Dubiecko<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nienadowa.eu\/index.html\">Nienadowa<\/a>, knowing that there were a large number of church records we didn&#8217;t have the time to examine.\u00a0 We drove to the village of <a title=\"Kazimierz Dolny\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kazimierz-news.com.pl\/wersjaa.html\">Kazimierz Dolny<\/a> and then to <a title=\"Warsaw\" href=\"http:\/\/www.explore-warsaw.com\/\">Warszawa<\/a> .\u00a0 The trip was exciting and beautiful, and I look forward to the opportunity to return one day.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"The Cathedral at Wawel Castle\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Wawel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image124\" style=\"width: 453px; height: 328px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Wawel.jpg\" alt=\"The Cathedral at Wawel Castle\" width=\"453\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Wawel Castle in Krak\u00f3w<\/p>\n<p>Not long after my trip to Poland, I hired a professional genealogist in Poland to go to the church in Dubiecko and search for more records about my family.\u00a0 He spent a week there, and was able to take digital pictures of about 50 baptismal, marriage, and death records for my ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>The church records in the former <a title=\"Galicia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galicia_(Central_Europe)\">Galicia<\/a> used a set of preprinted pages where the information was entered in columns, many records to a page.\u00a0 In general, there were separate books for baptisms, marriages, and deaths, and within any given book, the records for a single village within the parish were grouped together.\u00a0 The entries for a particular village were made sequentially during the year and are written in Latin, although annotations are sometimes made in Polish.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Baptismal Record from Galicia\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Birth-Michal-Danko-entire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image125\" style=\"width: 462px; height: 358px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Birth-Michal-Danko-entire.jpg\" alt=\"Baptismal Record from Galicia\" width=\"462\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The birth and baptismal records include the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The year<\/li>\n<li>Nrus serialis &#8211; Sequential number<\/li>\n<li>Mensis &#8211; Month<\/li>\n<li>Natus &#8211; (Day of) birth<\/li>\n<li>Baptisatus &#8211; (Day of) baptism<\/li>\n<li>Numerus domus &#8211; House number<\/li>\n<li>Nomen Infantis &#8211; Given name of the Infant<\/li>\n<li>Religio &#8211; Religion<\/li>\n<li>Sexus (Puer, Puella) &#8211; Sex (Boy, Girl)<\/li>\n<li>Thori (Legitimi, Illegitimi) &#8211; Bed (Legitimate, Illegitimate)<\/li>\n<li>Parentes &#8211; Parents<\/li>\n<li>Patris (ac parentum suorem nomen, cognomen et conditio ejus) &#8211; Father (and also the given name, surname and status of the parent)<\/li>\n<li>Matris (ac parentum suorem nomen, cognomen et conditio) &#8211; Mother (and also the given name, surname and status of the parent)<\/li>\n<li>Patrini (eorum Nomen et Conditio) &#8211; Godparents (their Name and Status)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In order to display the birth and baptismal records for my ancestors, I cut the appropriate parts of the page and pasted the header and the relevant record into a new document.\u00a0 I then converted the record into a PDF file.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/CRB-Danko-Michael-1877.pdf\">birth and baptismal record for Micha\u0142 Da\u0144ko<\/a>, my paternal grandfather, provides the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was born on September 22, 1877 and was baptized on September 23, 1877.<\/li>\n<li>His birth was the 48th birth in Nienadowa for the year 1877<\/li>\n<li>His family lived in house number 196<\/li>\n<li>His name was Micha\u0142 [the document gives the names in Latin]<\/li>\n<li>He was a Catholic boy and his birth was legitimate<\/li>\n<li>His father was Jakub Da\u0144ko, a farmer whose parents were the married couple Pawel Da\u0144ko and Zofia Szyma\u0144ska<\/li>\n<li>His mother was Agnieszka Sowa, the daughter of the married couple Maciej Sowa and Katarzyna Jach<\/li>\n<li>His Godparents were Andrzej Giergont, a farmer, and Marianna, the widow of Kazimierz [Funali?]<\/li>\n<li>He was baptised by Father [Arkanakielski?]<\/li>\n<li>The midwife was Agnieszka Pilch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Genealogical Trivia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ellis Island operated from 1892 to 1954, during which time nearly twelve million immigrants arrived at Ellis Island, seeking a new life in America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. 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