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<\/a><\/p>\nAustrian Military Map of the Mierz\u0119cin 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 23 May 2010.<\/p>\n S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for Mierz\u0119cin<\/em><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0 Sulimierski, Filip, Bronis\u0142aw Chlebowski, 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 1885, Volume VI, page 355.<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for Mierz\u0119cin<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n Mierz\u0119cin<\/strong>1.) a village in the Pu\u0142tusk Powiat, Zatory Gmina, and Pniewo Parish. In the year 1827 there were 6 homes and 75 residents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The place described in this entry is only one of at least 5 places in Poland called Mierz\u0119cin.<\/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 Mierz\u0119cin is significant in my family history because it was the location where I believe some of my Wi\u015bniewski cousins were born. Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n