Hi Steve. I come from a neighboring village of your ancestors. The name of Niedzia\u0142kowski is well known in this area and there are still many families probably related to you. The parish you are looking for is called Pa\u0142uki…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
After receiving this welcome message, I found that the Family History Library had microfilmed the church records from Pa\u0142uki including birth, marriage, and death records from 1658-1904 and ordered three films covering the years 1658-1831.<\/p>\n
Last week, the films arrived and, on Saturday, I drove to my local Family History Center to examine those films. In three hours, I made copies of nine records of my ancestors. Those records provided names and dates for two generations further back than I had found previously: my 5th and 6th great grandparents!<\/p>\n
The earliest record I had previously found for my Niedzia\u0142kowski ancestors was the marriage record for my 4th great grandfather, Tomasz Niedzia\u0142kowski, who was married on 15 Nov 1785 in the Krasne parish. That record mentioned that Tomasz was from Klonowo in the Pa\u0142uki parish, but the record listed the name of the village as K\u0142onowe and the parish as Pa\u0142ucene. Agnieszka corrected the spelling of the names of those villages, leading me to the correct location of the records.<\/p>\n
On 20 Dec 1750 my 4th great grandfather, Tomasz Niedzia\u0142kowski, was baptized.<\/p>\n
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Tomasz Niedzia\u0142kowski – 1750<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE: Parafia \u015aw. Gotarda (Pa\u0142uki, Ciechan\u00f3w County, Mazovian Voivodeship, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). Liber Baptisatorum, ab Anno 1740 ad 1754, Ksi\u0119ga III, p. 57, Tomasz Niedzia\u0142kowski baptism (1750); FHL microfilm 1,496,612, item 12.<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF<\/a> copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Tomasz Niedzia\u0142kowski – 1750. Translated from the Latin, the record states:<\/p>\n Klonowo<\/p>\n On the year and day and I, as written above, baptized an infant by the name of Tomasz, son born of Ignace & Zofia Niedzia\u0142kowski, legitimately married. The Godparents in the Sacred Font were Kazimierz Carmowski & Marianna Lagumina.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The record begins: On the year and day and I, as written above, indicating that the reader must find these details in a previous record. That previous record begins:<\/p>\n In the year 1750 on the 20th of December I, Szymon Antoni Lawistowski, P[romotor] Most Holy Rosary…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The maiden name of Tomasz Niedzia\u0142kowski’s mother is not provided in this record; his parents are only listed as Ignace & Zofia Niedzia\u0142kowksi (my 5th great grandparents). Luckily, I was able to find Zofia’s maiden name (Szami\u0144ska) in another record.<\/p>\n I am not certain what the words following the priest’s name mean: P SSmi Rosary<\/em>. I infer from other records written by this priest that P<\/em> is an abbreviation for Promotor<\/em>, a word meaning champion or prosecutor. I’ll have to find out what this term means in the Roman Catholic Church. I also infer that SSmi<\/em> is an abbreviation for sanctissimi<\/em>, meaning most holy, giving the entire phrase the translation of Promotor, most holy Rosary. I assume this is some position within the Church, but I don’t know exactly what that position entails.<\/p>\n The record does not indicate when Tomasz was born but, in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland at this time, children were generally baptized within a few days of their birth.<\/p>\n The record does not state the name of the church, but the header of this section of the microfilm stated that the records were from Pa\u0142uki, Par. \u015aw. Gotarda, Diec. P\u0142ocka<\/em>, translated as Pa\u0142uki, Parish of Saint Gotard, P\u0142ock Diocese.<\/p>\n One final note: On Friday, I received my copy of Elizabeth Shown Mills’ new book: Mills, Elizabeth Shown. 2007. Evidence explained: citing history sources from artifacts to cyberspace<\/em>. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.<\/p>\n The source citation for the record above\u00c2\u00a0was written using the guidelines in Evidence explained<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Way back on February 3rd, 2007, I wrote about my plan to find my Niedzia\u0142kowski ancestors. Then, on June 21st, Agnieszka left a comment on that post, saying: Hi Steve. I come from a neighboring village of your ancestors. The … Continue reading ![\"Baptismal](\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/CRB-Niedzialkowski-Tomasz-1750-C.jpg\")
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