While in Salt Lake City at the National Genealogical Society’s Family History Conference last week, I seized the opportunity to conduct some research in the Family History Library. My\u00c2\u00a0primary research objective was to\u00c2\u00a0identify the administrative divisions\u00c2\u00a0for parishes in the area north of Warsaw where my Burski, Chodkowski,\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Czarzasty,Kami\u0144ski, Klonowski,Krzyczkowski, Milewski,\u00a0Mossakowski, Niedzia\u0142kowski, Rembowski, Skierbowski,Smole\u0144ski, \u015alaski, and Zaboklicki ancestors lived.<\/p>\n
The Family History Library catalog classifies places according to the administrative divisions at the beginning of the 20th century, a time when most of our Polish ancestors immigrated to the United States. One advantage of this classification system is that it corresponds to the time when the S\u0142ownik Geograficzy Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego<\/em> was written and when the 1907 Map of the Kingdom of Poland<\/em> was drawn.<\/p>\n My goal in the Family History Library was to examine the civil registration records\u00c2\u00a0 in these parishes in order to identify the administrative divisions to which the parishes belonged in\u00c2\u00a0five time periods: 1807-1815, 1815-1816, 1816-1837, 1837-1844, and 1844-1867. To do this, I really only needed to look at the records for the year 1808, since the administrative divisions for this part of Poland in all these time periods can be deduced\u00c2\u00a0fairly easily from the administrative structure in 1808.<\/p>\n Typically, only the civil registration records from 1808-1825 included the names of the administrative divisions in the records themselves. During this time, the names of the administrative divisions changed from powiats and departments to obw\u00f3ds and voivodeships, and so I checked the registers for a number of years throughout this time period just to verify that my conclusions about the names were correct.<\/p>\n While in Salt Lake City, I was able to examine\u00c2\u00a0at least some\u00c2\u00a0parishes in each of the following powiats:<\/p>\n Coming up: the results of my research.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While in Salt Lake City at the National Genealogical Society’s Family History Conference last week, I seized the opportunity to conduct some research in the Family History Library. My primary research objective was to identify the administrative divisions for parishes in the area north of Warsaw where my Burski, Chodkowski, Czarzasty, Kami\u0144ski, Klonowski, Krzyczkowski, Milewski, Mossakowski, Niedzia\u0142kowski, Rembowski, Skierbowski, Smole\u0144ski, \u015alaski, and Zaboklicki ancestors lived. Continue reading \n