Hello, I’ll continue walking through the Kościeryna Parish records for the remainder of the 1600’s. The parish records that I’ll utilize are births (1670-1693) and marriages (1668-1697). The Stężyca Parish records cover births (1691-1700), but I didn’t find a Wierzba baptism. So, I will focus on the Kościerzyna Parish records. In 1672, the next Wierzba […]

Hello, From the available parish records, the villages of Korne and Owśnice that belong to the Kościerzyna Parish are the furthest back that Wierzba’s can be found in the area of my research. In my previous post titled “The Beginnings….Koscierzyna – Project: My Kashubian Roots Part 1“, I listed out the records for oldest Wierzba […]

Hello, In 1656, Korne was 32 years removed from being granted a representative (or leman) in the county of Kościerzyna. The settlement was on its way to being named a village. Korne belonged to the Kościerzyna Parish. The parish records indicate that the earliest detectable Wierzba family was that of Michał Wierzba and his wife […]

Hello, I’d like to list out the parishes that I am researching and the available records for each parish. I am going to call my Kashubian Wierzba project: My Kashubian Roots Part 1. By no means will this project get completed in the near future. This is an on-going project that should evolve as more […]

Hello, I am back for the moment, due to my maddening quest to connect all the Wierzbas in the lower Kashubian area of Poland (mainly centered around the city of Kościerzyna). This quest is more of an obsession or addiction. Every time I come back to genealogy, this project rears its head with something similar […]