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<\/a><\/p>\nBaptismal Index for Szwelice, Poland – 1893 – “N”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n SOURCE: Parafia Podwy\u017cszenia \u015aw. Jana Chrzciciela (Szwelice, Mak\u00f3w Powiat, \u0141om\u017ca Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland). Index of Baptisms 1893-1902,\u00a0Damjan Niedzia\u0142kowski\u00c2\u00a0(1893); FHL microfilm 2103625.<\/p>\n In 1893, only two infants were baptized in Szwelice with surnames beginning with the letter “N”. These two were:<\/p>\n 1893<\/p>\n Niedzia\u0142kowski Damjan 47 I have ordered the relevant microfilm to find the baptismal record for Damjan Niedzia\u0142kowski through my local Family History Center. As I recall, the indexes for Szwelice cover more recent events than do the actual microfilmed records, and so I don’t have high hopes that I will find the baptismal record for Damjan on microfilm.<\/p>\n On the positive side, a birth\/baptism of 1893 corresponds to the information I already have on Damjan from the Alien Passenger Manifest and the 1930 US Federal Census.<\/p>\n It’s looking more and more like Damjan may be related to me. However,\u00a0I don’t recall anyone in the family ever talking about him.<\/p>\n While at the California Genealogical Society’s library on Saturday, I visited Steve Harris’ collection of City and Telephone Directories. The most recent City Directory Steve had for Worcester was 1930, but he had a Telephone Directory for 1951. Damjan was not listed.<\/p>\n The second baptism in the index, Beniamin Napierkowski, is also of interest. My grandfather provided two different maiden surnames for his mother: Napierkowska and Zygmuntowicz. I have found other records that indicate that the mother of my grandfather’s siblings was Ksawera Zygmuntowicz, but I haven’t found my grandfather’s baptismal record to verify the name of his mother. It’s possible he had a different mother than did his siblings if his own mother died young and his father remarried. I keeping my mind open to the\u00c2\u00a0possibility that his mother’s surname may have been Napierkowska and his stepmother’s surname may have been Zygmuntowicz.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been searching for\u00c2\u00a0information about Damjan Niedzia\u0142kowski ever since I found him in the Ellis Island Alien Passenger Manifests and various records in Worcester, Massachusetts. Damjan was from Pomaski, the same Polish village as my grandfather, Konstanty Niedzia\u0142kowski. Furthermore, Damjan\u00c2\u00a0settled … Continue reading \n
\nNapierkowski Beniamin 53<\/p><\/blockquote>\n