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#52Ancestors – No. 38 – Boleslaw Borucki
Posted by Caroll in Genealogy, Polish Genealogy on September 28, 2014
This post is number 38 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
I recently moved and have been waiting for the cable provider to give me “FIRE” aka, the internet. I am a week late with post number 38. So lets make this quick as post 39 needs to be written tomorrow to keep on track.
Records can provide clues to other possible family members. The birth record for Feliks Budny, No. 26, gives the names of two witnesses to his birth. They are Ksawery Borucki and Julianna Budna. I do not know how they are related to my great grandparents, Adam Budny and Marianna (Mary) Borucka. There was not any info passed down regarding Adam’s siblings. The family was told that Mary has a sister named Josephine who remained in Poland. Her brother, Ignacy, immigrated to the States before Adam and Mary and the families lived near each other. I suspect there may have been more Borucki siblings.
I did some research at http://geneteka.genealodzy.pl It is a site run by volunteers indexing Poland’s parish records. I found a 1900 birth record for Ksawery Borucki and Julianna Budna, son, Boleslaw Borucki. I still need to translate the birth date and see if any witnesses are listed.
Polish birth record for Boleslaw Borucki
On the left margin the priest has entered a marriage date for Boleslaw. The date is 18 February 1925. I am not able to read the bride, Marianna, last name. It looks like Sypiewicz. I think I will post the photo below on Facebook and see if someone from the Polish Genealogy group can help. I was not able to find a record on genetaka.
9/30/2014 Update
The brides last name is Maminska. The city they were married in is Sypniewie.
1925 Marriage date written on side margin of 1900 birth record
#52Ancestors – No. 37 – Monsignor John A. Naja
Posted by Caroll in Genealogy, Polish Genealogy on September 15, 2014
This post is number 37 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
Monsignor John A. Naja
A leaf hint appeared on my tree that caused me to scamper up the family tree of my mother’s first husband. I was delighted to finally find a passport application for someone that was in my (extended) family. In reviewing the passport, I discovered that the person attended the SS. Cyril & Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, MI, in the 1921. This past August 2014, I attended the Polish Genealogy course as part of Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) at the Polish Mission on the seminary campus.
My mother’s father-in-law, Stanley Gaber, had a sister named Caroline Gaber. Caroline married Frank Naja. Frank’s brother, John Antony Naja (1901-1980) became a priest. The Naja’s were saloon keepers and possibly an Undertaker back in the day. In the early part of the 1900’s, the Gaber’s and Naja’s families resided in Shenandoah, PA. John went to study for the priesthood at the Michigan campus in his mid teens.
In 1921, John decided he wanted to travel and go to school in Europe and applied for a passport. The application includes his photo and a follow up letter to correct the spelling of his name. His last name was incorrectly spelled at Maja.
Source:
Passport Applications, January 2, 1906–March 31, 1925. NARA Microfilm Publication M1490, 2740 rolls. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Photo: http://www.poles.org/db/pol_parish/stladislaus_philpa/st.ladislaus_01.html
#52Ancestors – No. 34 – Just A Photo In A Box – Ervin & May King
This post is number 34 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
During a scavenger hunt in my sister’s attic, I found a box of photos that originally belong to my grandmother, Olive. The box was most likely put there after my mom and her sisters cleaned out Olive’s apartment when she went into a nursing home.
I found a couple of photos that had names I didn’t recognize and set about to see if they were related. There were a set of photos that named three Roll sisters and one identifying two children as Ewin and May King. My great grandfather Ollie C. Roll had four sisters. Researching marriage records for my great aunts, I found that Addie (Ada) Yvonne Roll married a man named Ewin O. King.
Both Ewin, Sr and Addie died in their early forties. They had three children, Ewin, Jr., born 1912; Mae (May), born 1913; and a son James, born 1921. The children looked to be about five and four years old in this photo. There is no date on the photo. Based on the approximate ages, I would say the photo was taken between 1917-1918.
A Photo in a Box
Ewin, Jr; served in WWII and married Jeslyn Fiddler of Chicago, IL. They ended up living in Casper, Wyoming. I was not able to find information on Mae or James King.
#52Ancestors – No. 31 – Onah Golda Howes
Howes Siblings circa 1950
This post is number 31 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
I chose Onah for this edition because of her name. It is an old fashion name that you know came from a different time period. Onah is the sister of my grandfather Hugh A. Howes. She may be one of eleven children of which two of her siblings died in infancy. Born in 1894 to Louis Lafayette Howes and Martha Isabelle Hunter. The 1910 Census states that Martha Hunter Howes gave birth to 11 children and 9 survived.
She married Owen Francis Coburn (date not known) in Union County, Kentucky. She and Owen may have had 10 children. I have in my possession a set of photos taken at a reunion circa 1950 in Evansville, IN. Her father, Louis, is still alive at that time.
I can only identify my grandparents , my mother, and Great Grandpa Louis Howes is the following photos.
Children of Louis L. Howes at reunion circa 1950
Group photo at Howes Family Reunion
#52Ancestors – No. 30 – Isaac N Pittman
This post is number 30 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
This week’s ancestor is Isaac N. Pittman, father of John Thomas Pittman in post #52 Ancestors No. 9. Isaac is the son of Thomas A. Pittman and Susan Lawson. Born March 1838 in Todd County, Kentucky. There is an unsourced death date of 1904 in Wabash, Indiana.
I located a Civil War Draft Registration for Isaac that I have included below. I could not find a pension recorded that could be attributed to this Isaac. There was an Isaac Pittman from Indiana who served in the Civil War and had a pension record. I will have to add this research task to my ever growing list of topics to follow-up.
Isaac Pittman’s name on the draft list
Source: Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registrations, 1863-1865. NM-65, entry 172, 620 volumes. ARC ID: 4213514. Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War), Record Group 110. National Archives at Washington D.C.
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