I spent a couple of hours this evening at my local Family History Center, searching the parish records from Pa\u0142uki.<\/p>\n
Previously, I found the baptismal records for my 4th great grandfather, Tomasz<\/a> Niedzia\u0142kowski, and his sister, Martina Anna<\/a> Niedzia\u0142kowska. From those records I discovered that my 5th great grandparents were Ignace Niedzia\u0142kowski and Zofia Szami\u0144ska.<\/p>\n I then found the marriage record<\/a> for Ignace and Zofia and the baptismal and\u00c2\u00a0death record<\/a> for Ignace.<\/p>\n From Ignace’s baptismal record<\/a> I learned that my 6th great grandparents were Krzysztof Niedzia\u0142kowski and Konstancja \u017baboklicka.<\/p>\n The\u00c2\u00a0children of Krzysztof Niedzia\u0142kowski and Konstancja \u017baboklicka were:<\/p>\n There records raise some questions, though. First, the mother of all these children (except Kazimierz and the two Katarzynas)\u00c2\u00a0is listed as Konstancja \u017baboklicka or simply as Konstancja.<\/p>\n The mother of Kazimierz is listed as Konstancja Anna \u017baboklicka. No real problem there. The mother of the first Katarzyna is listed as Katarzyna. Did the priest just make a mistake here, or is this the wrong person? The mother of the second Katarzyna is listed as Anna. This may be a problem, but a previous record listed the mother as Konstancja Anna, and this record may just\u00c2\u00a0identify the mother\u00c2\u00a0by her middle name, Anna.<\/p>\n A further question\u00c2\u00a0revolves around the two Katarzynas. The re-use of a given name in a single family usually indicates that the first child born with that name died young. There may be a death record for the first Katarzyna.<\/p>\n So, today I returned to the Family History Center to look for a death record for a Katarzyna\u00c2\u00a0Niedzia\u0142kowska, and to look for marriage records for Ignace’s siblings.<\/p>\n I found\u00c2\u00a0eight Niedzia\u0142kowskis\/Niedzia\u0142kowskas in the death index, but the index only covers the period 1781-1820. Katarzyna would have died between 1729 and 1734. I’ll have to search the death records manually .\u00a0<\/p>\n I then looked for marriage records naming a Niedzia\u0142kowski\/Niedzia\u0142kowska as groom\/bride. Of the 19 records I found, only one that looked like it was a good match. That match was for Katarzyna Niedzia\u0142kowska who married J\u00f3zef Obidzi\u0144ski on 22 Nov 1751. I then looked for children of this couple and found six:<\/p>\n I didn’t have time to make copies of these records, but I can do so the next time I visit the Family History Center.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent a couple of hours this evening at my local Family History Center, searching the parish records from Pa\u0142uki. Previously, I found the baptismal records for my 4th great grandfather, Tomasz Niedzia\u0142kowski, and his sister, Martina Anna Niedzia\u0142kowska. From … Continue reading \n
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