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<\/a><\/p>\nAustrian Military Map of the Niesiob\u0119dy 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 19 May 2010.<\/p>\n S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for Niesiob\u0119dy<\/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) – Warsaw 1886, Volume VII, page 113<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for Niesiob\u0119dy<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n Niesiob\u0119dy,<\/strong>(Stara wie\u015b [Old Village]), a village in Ciechan\u00f3w Powiat, Barto\u0142dy Gmina, and Zielona Parish, about 15 versts [0.66 miles per verst] from Ciechan\u00f3w. It has 7 homes, 62 residents, 262 morgs [in the Russian partition 1 morg = 1.388 acres] of land, and 8 morgs unused.<\/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 Niesiob\u0119dy is significant in my family history because it was the location where some distant Grabowski relatives lived. Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n