Hello, I’d like to give a quick update on the Złotow Parish indexing project that I have been working on for the past few months. I have completed indexing the marriage, baptismal, and death records for selected surnames of Kobs, Bankiet, Kowalski, Włoszczyński, Glisz, Jeszke, and Bonk. The record dates for this parish are 1799, […]

Hello, My last post provided information about a website that I had recently come across that offers viewable maps of areas in Poland. Below is a map of Złotowo (in German Flatow): Source: Archiwum Map WIG. Map of Złotowo (Flatow), Poland. 1936. Retreived from http://www.mapywig.org/m/wig100k/P35_S24_LOBZENICA_i_ZLOTOW_(FLATOW).jpg To see the map in better detail either save the […]

Hello, Today I have received a few maps that I had ordered online from Polart Poland by Mail, http://www.polandbymail.com/. These are maps of the current Voivodeships in Poland, each Voivodeships is similar to a state in the U.S. I had ordered: 1) Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie Administracyjno–Drogowe Skala 1: 175 0002) Województwo Pomorskie Administracyjno–Drogowe Skala 1: 200 […]

Hello, I have found the entry for the village of Stawnica in the Slownik Geograficzny. Below is my attempt to translate the Polish text to English. I have left out a section on the history that did not seem relevant to my family research. I have utilized these two books: Nowy Slownik – New Dictionary […]

Hello, As I index the Zlotow Parish records, I plan to change the German names of the villages to their Polish names and the Latin names of the parishioners to Polish (ex: Paulus = Pawel). I have a guide for the German-to-Polish towns that I intend to use, listed below: German Names – Polish Names […]

Hello, Below is a map of Wielkopolskie, Greater Poland Voidship. Powiat Zlotowski (Zlotow County) is located at the northern tip of the Voidship. After Poland was divided by Prussia, Austria, and Russia, Zlotow was incorporated into the Prussian empire. At this time Zlotow was known as Flatow. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Woj_wielkopolskie_adm.png Some websites that I have found […]

Hello, I have taken the entry below from the PolishRoots.org website, you can access the webpage directly through this link: http://www.polishroots.org/slownik/zlotowo.htm. The original source for this information is: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego – Warsaw [1895, vol. 14, pp.646-647, 648]. This gives excellent background information on the area that my Kobs ancestors came from. Slownik Geograficzny […]