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<\/a><\/p>\nAustrian Military Map of the Zbiki 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 22 May 2010.<\/p>\n S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for Zbiki<\/em><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0 Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw, J\u00f3zef Krzywicki, Filip Sulimierski, and W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, 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 1895, Volume XIV, page 518.<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for Zbiki<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n Zbiki<\/strong> 1.) in the 16th century, Zdbiki<\/em>, a village in the \u017begocin Parish (Kalisz Powiat), see \u017bbiki<\/em>. 2.) Zbiki<\/strong>, in the 16th century Zdbyki<\/em>, the name of an area in the Ciechan\u00f3w Powiat, Zalesie Gmina, and Krasne Parish, 24 versts [0.66 miles per verst] from Ciechan\u00f3w. In this area the following villages and granges [large manorial farmsteads] are found:\u00a0 Zbiki Antosy<\/em>, a village that has 6 homes, 54 residents, and 185 morgs [in the Russian partition 1 morg = 1.388 acres]. A few nobles live here. In the year 1827 there were 8 homes and 61 residents. Zbiki Gawronki<\/em>, a village that has 8 homes, 82 residents, and 210 morgs. A few nobles live here. In the year 1827 there were 11 homes and 66 residents. Zbiki Kierzki<\/em>, a village that has 12 homes, 91 residents, and 308 morgs. A few nobles live here. In the year 1827 there were 8 homes and 54 residents. Zbiki Starki<\/em>, a grange that has 2 homes, 22 residents, and 140 morgs. It belongs to the property of Krasne. In the year 1827 there were 2 homes, 11 residents. Zbiki Wielkie<\/em>, a grange and village that had 14 homes, 63 residents, and 910 morgs in the grange, 41 morgs in the manor. The grange belongs to the property of August\u00f3w in the domain of Krasne. In the year 1827 there were 20 homes and 150 residents. In the year 1567 Zdbyki Antoni had 4 w\u0142\u00f3ki [1 w\u0142\u00f3ka = 16.8 hectares]; Zbiki Gawronki had 5 divisions of \u00c2\u00bd w\u0142\u00f3ka, 10 morgs, and 1 garden; Zbiki Janusze has 1 w\u0142\u00f3ka, 6 morgs, and 2 parts of \u00c2\u00bc w\u0142\u00f3ka; Zbiki Stara Wie\u015b had 3 w\u0142\u00f3ki, 3 divisions of \u00c2\u00bd w\u0142oka, 7 parts of 1 w\u0142\u00f3ka, 10 craftsmen, 3 w\u0142\u00f3ki, 9 craftsmen; Zbiki Karpieta (Wielkie) \u00c2\u00bd w\u0142\u00f3ka and 2 parts of 3\/8 w\u0142\u00f3ka (Pawi\u0144ski, Mazowsze, 345).The place labeled as 2.) in this entry is the one in which my cousins resided.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The\u00c2\u00a0notation (Pawi\u0144ski, Mazowsze, 345) refers to:<\/p>\n Pawi\u0144ski, Adolf. 1892. Mazowsze. Polska XVI wieku pod wzgl\u0119dem geograficzno-statystycznym, t. 5. Warszawa: sk\u0142. g\u0142. w Ksi\u0119garni Gebethnera i Wolffa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This publication is available online at the Digital Library of Wielkopolska<\/a>.<\/p>\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 Zbiki is significant in my family history because it was the location where some of my Chodkowski cousins were born. Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n