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Yesterday, Christine posted a comment under The Church in Dubiecko and What I Found There<\/a> that sparked my interest in a couple of things related to my family history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve, Do you know that Nienadowa had its own parish church starting in 1957? (Did you see it when you were there? It may also have a cemetery starting then.) Before that time, the residents attended Mass in Dubiecko, which is considered the “mother parish”. If you hadn’t already known that your ancestors went to church in Dubiecko, you would probably have contacted the church in Nienadowa only to be told they didn’t have records from the time period you are interested in. They probably would have referred you to Dubiecko eventually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found this out in an article published by PGS-CTNE in Spring 1996. It is called “Finding the Mother Parish” and has a 3-1\/2 page chart showing parishes in Przemysl Diocese that were formed since 1900 and what town\/church each was spun off of. Even though you knew where to go in your case, this is good to know in case you find someone else who doesn’t know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thanks so much for this information, Christine!\u00a0 When I was in Nienadowa, I was asked whether my ancestors were fron Nienadowa-Dolna (Lower Nienadowa) or Nienadowa-G\u00f3rna (Upper Nienadowa).\u00a0 I had no idea there were two and each had its own parish, and until Christine posted her comment I had never heard about Mother\u00a0Parishes!\u00a0 I visited the churches in both villages, although the church in Nienadowa-Dolna (pw. MB Nieustaj\u0105cej Pomocy<\/em>, or\u00a0Our Lady of Perpetual Help<\/a>) was still under construction when I was there in October 2000.\u00a0 The church in Nienadowa-G\u00f3rna (pw. Naj\u015bwi\u0119tszego Serca Pana Jezusa<\/em>, or Most Sacred Heart of Jesus<\/a>)\u00a0had been around for a while, and may be the parish church\u00a0Christine said was\u00a0started in 1957.\u00a0 This parish\u00a0had it’s own cemetery.\u00a0 The pastor of the church in Nienadowa G\u00f3rna said that there were no records for my ancestors in his church; records from that period\u00a0were all at the parish in Dubiecko (pw. Niepokalanego Serca NMP, or\u00a0<\/em>Immaculate Heart of Mary<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MassTimes<\/a> website provides information on churches throughout the world, but doesn’t necessarily have complete information.  The Archdiocese of Przemy\u015bl<\/a> in Poland has its own website with names, addresses, and phone numbers of the other parishes under the Mother Parish.  To find a parish in the Archdiocese of Przemy\u015bl from the main page (Strona G\u0142\u00f3wna<\/em>), just click on the link Parafie <\/em>(parishes).  The Dubiecko Parish<\/a> page shows several other churches in Babice, Bach\u00f3rz, Bach\u00f3rzec, Drohobyczka, Krzywcza, Nienadowa Dolna, Nienadowa G\u00f3rna, and Tarnawka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been trying to find records for my paternal grandmother, Maryanna Dziurzy\u0144ska, in Poland, but I only found one record for her family.  A few months ago, I found a lead that indicated that her family may have been from Sielnica, in the Dyl\u0105gowa parish (pw. \u015bw Zofii<\/em>, or Saint Sophy).  Information on the Dyl\u0105gowa parish is listed on the Dyn\u00f3w (pw. \u015bw. Wawrzy\u0144ca<\/em>, or Saint Lawrence) Mother Parish page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point, I should mention that the parish names in polish often include abbreviations.\u00a0 Some of those abbreviations are defined in Lidia Mullerowa and Zofia \u017buchowska’s book, Roman Catholic Parishes in The Polish People’s Republic in 1984, published in Chicago in 1995 by the Polish Genealogical Society of America<\/a>. The book is available through the Polish Art Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n