Birth & Baptismal Record for Jan Da\u0144ko<\/em><\/p>\n Of the records recorded above, the Birth and Baptismal Record for Jan Da\u0144ko – 1905<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is the only primary record for the date of his birth, since it is the only record made at the time of the event by persons who had direct knowledge of the event .\u00a0 Other records may have been made by people who were present at the birth, but they were recorded much later .\u00a0 The Birth and Baptismal Record was recorded in Latin and states that:<\/p>\n This record lists Jan’s mother as Maria Dziurzy\u0144ska, whose parents were Jan Dziurzy\u0144ski and Magdalena Jara .\u00a0 This is the first record I found that shows that the family was using the name Dziurzy\u0144ski (male)\/ Dziurzy\u0144ska (female) .\u00a0 The fact that the record shows Jan’s mother’s name was Maria is probably due to the fact that the names Maria, Marja, Marianna, and Marjanna were often used interchangeably in Poland.<\/p>\n The name Dziurzy\u0144ski was\u00c2\u00a0repeatedly misspelled\u00c2\u00a0after the family arrived in America .\u00a0 The Birth Records for Michael and Mary Danko’s children who were born in America recorded the nmae Dziurzy\u0144ski as:<\/p>\n I should note, however, that several of these Birth Records were transcriptions, and the errors in spelling may\u00c2\u00a0have occurred during transcription.<\/p>\n As was the case with my aunt Zofia’s Birth and Baptismal Record, several other names on the same\u00c2\u00a0page\u00c2\u00a0as Jan’s Birth and Baptism are prominent in my family history .\u00a0 These names include Sowa, Giergont, G\u0142owacz, Bal, Pilch, Wajda, Kijanka, and Szyma\u0144ski.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My uncle, Jan Da\u0144ko, was born in Nienadowa, Galicia (Austria-Poland) and immigrated to the United States with his mother and older sister, Zofia .\u00a0 After he arrived in America, Jan adopted the English version of his name, John, but was … Continue reading ![\"Baptismal](\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Birth-Jan-Danko.jpg\")
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