{"id":129,"date":"2006-05-18T23:56:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T06:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/19\/marriage-records-in-galicia\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T22:22:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T05:22:24","slug":"marriage-records-in-galicia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/129","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Records in Galicia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just about everyone who visits Krak\u00f3w<\/a> stops at the Mariacki Church<\/a> near Cloth Hall<\/a> .\u00a0 Every hour, in tribute to a trumpeter who was sounding the Hejnal<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0from one of the church towers warning of the invading Tatars<\/a>, the Hejnal is played from the taller of the two towers of the church .\u00a0 According to legend, the trumpeter’s warning call was cut short when he was struck in the throat by a Tatar arrow .\u00a0 Today, the Hejnal is played on the hour four times, once from each side of the tower, and ends abruptly on the same note the legendary trumpeter’s call .\u00a0 The story is\u00c2\u00a0fictionalized in Eric P. Kelly’s children book The Trumpeter of Krakow<\/em>, a book that won the Newbery Medal in 1929.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

During much of the time of the partitions of Poland<\/a>, Krak\u00f3w existed as the Free City of Krak\u00f3w, separate from the occupying powers of Russia, Prussia, and Austria .\u00a0 After an uprising in Krak\u00f3w in 1846, the Free City was annexed by Austria and closely associated with the Austrian partition, known as Galicia .\u00a0 Records of births\/baptisms, marriages, and deaths in Galicia were kept by the Roman Catholic Church, and people of all faiths were required to register births, marriages, and deaths with the local parish .\u00a0 For that reason, all Catholic Church records indicated whether the subject of the record was “Catholic” or “Other”.<\/p>\n

The marriage record for my great great grandparents, Pawel Da\u0144ko and Zofia Szyma\u0144ska, is typical of marriage records in this part of Poland .\u00a0 The record was recorded by the parish priest in a pre-printed record book in which the information was recorded in columns .\u00a0 Most of the record was recorded in Latin, although annotations were often made in Polish.<\/p>\n

\"Danko-Szymanska<\/a><\/p>\n

The column headings were:<\/p>\n