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<\/a><\/p>\nAustrian Military Map of the Podo\u015b Area – 1910<\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE: Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary, Sheet 39-53, Ostrolecka. Online http:\/\/lazarus.elte.hu\/hun\/digkonyv\/topo\/200e\/39-53.jpg<\/a>; downloaded 07 May 2010.<\/p>\n S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for Podo\u015b<\/em><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0 Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, and Filip Sulimierski, eds., S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries)<\/em> – Warsaw 1887, Volume VIII, page 463.<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for Podo\u015b<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n Podo\u015b, <\/strong>a village and grange [large manorial farmstead] on the Orzyc River in the Mak\u00f3w Powiat, P\u0142oniawy Gmina and Parish, about 11 versts [0.66 miles per verst] from Mak\u00f3w; located there is a pitch burner with three stoves and a sawmill. In the year 1827 there were 27 homes and 188 residents. It is the old \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nest’ of the Podoski family, mentioned in documents from the year 1440 (Gloger, \u0141om\u017ca Ziemia). In the year 1606 the owner of Podo\u015b was Petronela Podoska; she made a very significant endowment to the Bernardines in Przasnysz. In the year 1885 the Podo\u015b grange, with the villages of Podo\u015b and Go\u0142oniwy, had a wide domain with 1978 morgs [in the Russian partition 1 morg = 1.388 acres]: 777 morgs of arable land and gardens, 177 morgs of meadows, 50 morgs of pastures, 877 morgs of forests, and 97 morgs of unused land; there were 3 stone buildings and 23 wooden buildings; the forest is unsettled. The village of Podo\u015b has 40 residents with 94 morgs of land; the village of Go\u0142oniwy has 11 residents and 220 morgs of land .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Bronis\u0142aw Chlebowski<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The maps of the Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary and the entries in the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny were prepared at about the same time and make a good pair for studying places in and around the Congress Kingdom of Poland at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, a time period when the Eastern European ancestors of present-day Americans left their homelands for the United States.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The village of Podo\u015b is significant in my family history because\u00c2\u00a0Podo\u015b was the parish for the village of Chodkowo, the location in Poland in which many of my\u00c2\u00a0Chodkowski ancestors lived. The church in Podo\u015b is very small and, as a … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n