{"id":41,"date":"2006-05-02T22:39:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T05:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/02\/gazeteers-maps-and-morgs\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:20:29","slug":"gazeteers-maps-and-morgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/41","title":{"rendered":"Gazetteers, Maps, and Morgs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I know my grandfather, Michael Danko,\u00a0lived in Nienadowa, Galicia, Austria-Poland, and I know that the church maintained the vital records. How do I find out where the church was? The answer is to consult a gazetteer, such as the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i innych kraj\u00f3w s\u0142owianskich (The Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other slavonic countries)<\/em> and is available online.\u00a0 The S\u0142ownik is a massive reference work, consisting of 16 volumes. It was written between 1880-1902, which just happens to be the time period when my grandparents were living in the old country.\u00a0 The S\u0142ownik<\/em> provides descriptions of the villages, regions, mountains, and rivers in the area and provides rich geographical and historical information about the areas my ancestors lived, at the time they lived there.\u00a0 It also tells where the parish was for each village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look at the S\u0142ownik<\/em> entry for Nienadowa<\/a>.\u00a0 Unfortunately, everything is in Polish! Because most people reading this blog can’t read Polish, I’ve provided the translations below .\u00a0 There are actually two entries for Nienadowa, one for the mountain\u00a0near the village, and one for the village itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nienadowa<\/strong>, mountain top under a village of the same name, Przemy\u015bl county, see Nienadowa village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nienadowa<\/strong>, Ruthenian Nenadowa<\/em>, village, Przemy\u015bl county, 28 kilometers northwest of the county court in Przemy\u015bl, 3 kilometers east of the post office in Dubiecko.\u00a0 To the east lie Babice, Skop\u00f3w, Kramarz\u00f3wka (in Jaros\u0142aw county), to the northwest Hucisko Nienadowskie, to the west \u015aliwnica, Dubiecko, and Ruska Wie\u015b (in Brzoz\u00f3w county), to the south Iska\u0144 (in Dobromil county) .\u00a0 Along the southwest and south borders the San River flows from the northwest to the southeast; first\u00a0it turns to the southwest and finally to the east.\u00a0 From the left shore it flows into the San within the limits of the village:\u00a0 then Kamieniec, flowing from the north in Hucisko Nienadowskie, carrying off numerous streams from both banks then \u015awinka, flowing from the north to the southwest.\u00a0 Country buildings lie in the Kamie\u0144ca valley (306 meters to the north, 284 meters to the south).\u00a0 A forest “The Jod\u0142owski Section\u201d occupies the northern part (378 meters), and the forest “S\u0142oniec\u201d occupies the southeast corner.\u00a0Between the lower course of the Kamie\u0144ca and \u015awinki it rises to the left bank of the San “The Hill of \u015awinki\u201d; in the western part on the boundary of Dubiecko “Gabi\u0144ski Hill\u201d (361 meters), and in the northeastern part at the Kramarz\u00f3wski border “Nienadowa\u201d (up to 443 meters; triangulation mark) .\u00a0 Through the southern part of the village goes the leading track in Przemy\u015bl, by way of the picturesque valley of the San River through Dubiecko to Dyn\u00f3w.\u00a0 The greater property has 675 m\u00f3rgs (1 m\u00f3rg = 1.422 acres) of arable land, 72 m\u00f3rgs of meadows and gardens, 49 m\u00f3rgs of pastures, 818 m\u00f3rgs of forests; the lesser property has 1452 m\u00f3rgs of arable land, 153 m\u00f3rgs of meadows and gardens, 312 m\u00f3rgs of pastures, 184 m\u00f3rgs of forests.\u00a0 In 1880 there were 1823 inhabitants in the community, 109 manorial landowners (among them, 1625 are on the Roman Catholic shore).\u00a0 The Roman and Greek Catholic parishes are in Dubiecko.\u00a0 In the village there is a full-time, one-room school, a manor, a farm, a distillery, a mill, and a ranger’s house.\u00a0 About old landowners, several details serve the village Siarczy\u0144ski (Rkp. Ossolineum, No. 1826).\u00a0 In 1588, Stanis\u0142aw Stadnicki ceded Nienadowa in exchange for \u0141a\u0144cut to Anna Pilecka from Sienna, she passed the result of her claim on to Sieni\u0144ski; afterwards the Derszniaks, the Krasiecs, and the Dembi\u0144skis held the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, and Filip Sulimierski, 1886, S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego<\/em>, Warsaw, Volume 7, page 101<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

One term that may be unfamiliar is\u00a0m\u00f3rg<\/em> .\u00a0 A m\u00f3rg is a measure of area – theoretically the amount of land one man could plow in the morning.\u00a0 The actual size of a m\u00f3rg varied between the partitions: 1 m\u00f3rg in the Russian partition was 1.388 acres, in the Prussian partition a m\u00f3rg was 0.631 acres, and in the Austrian partition a m\u00f3rg was 1.422 acres.\u00a0 If a m\u00f3rg was the amount of land one man could plow in a morning, I suppose this means that the farmers in the Prussian Partition were less industrious than those in the other partitions! To round out today’s discussion, Take a look at a 1910 Military Map<\/a> of the area.\u00a0 A whole set of these 1910 military maps of central Europe<\/a> is available.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll notice how close Nienadowa is to the parish church in Dubiecko, and you’ll notice how close Nienadowa is to Babice.\u00a0 You may recall from a previous post<\/a> that my grandfather stayed with Isaac Flichtenfeld, the umbrella maker, when he first came to America, and you may also recall that I discovered that most Flichtenfeld immigrants in the Ellis Island records<\/a> were from Przemy\u015bl (Nienadowa is in Przemy\u015bl county) and one was from Babice, the next village down the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hmmm… things are starting to connect!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2006-2025 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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