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Zdzienciol
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Tom & Glenda Sajwaj
开云体育Irene,Are you still looking for info on Zdzieciol located in Grodno/Nowogrodek provinces? Tom Sajwaj Irene Tomaszewski wrote:
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Tom & Glenda Sajwaj
开云体育Irene,The LDS library has fairly complete Catholic Church records for Zdzieciol and surrounding villages for 1866 to 1890. These are found in the Slonim deanery. The marriage records are especially valuable, since they often give the parents of the bride and groom. If you would like the film numbers, let me know. The records are in handwritten Russian, unfortunately, including family names. My heart sank when I saw the first saw them. They looked like a child's drawing of the ocean. But you can work around that and even translate a bit, including most family names, some villages, and dates, using an alphabet guide to 19th Century Russian and a Langenscheidt pocket Russian dictionary. The indexes are incomplete, but the format for the records makes it easy to scan family names quickly, once you know what the family and village names look like in the Russian alphabet. These records were a goldmine for me for 100+ relatives, and 2-3 generations of two extended families. Excellent photos are available, courtesy of Tomek Wisniewski, at . Excellent inexpensive maps from the 1930s are available from the Library of Congress. Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego has entries, in Polish, for Zdzieciol and surrounding villages from the late 19th Century. Also, Skorowidz Miejscowosci Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej has aggregated census data, in Polish and without individual names, from the early 1920s. It breaks down population data by religion, ethnicity, and village. Both of these sources are available from the LDS Library. The latter is easy to decipher with a Polish dictionary, while the former is tough for those not fluent in Polish. A guide is available, however, from the Polish Genealogical Society of America (). Hope this helps, Tom Sajwaj Irene Tomaszewski wrote:
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