Head Over to My New Blog!

If you're reading this please head over to my new blog:

http://messman23.wordpress.com/

It's where all the action is!

It's got much more than just family history stuff!

I've Moved!

I guess I've moved in more ways than one since the last post I made here. I'm back in the Midwest, where I went to college, and I've gotten a new family history blog up and running. I completely forgot about his blog until we created a blog for work on this site and I saw this blog. If you come across this blog, please head over to:

http://messman23.wordpress.com/

That's where my new family history posts will be going. I hope to get the new blog running soon and keep it regularly updated. Hope you're having a great day!

Minneapolis

Before jumping into our family's history, I feel that it is very important for me to briefly comment on the tragic collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis. Having been a college student in the Twin Cities, I have traveled across the Mississippi River bridges more times than I can remember. Seeing one of them lying in the river after collapsing was almost surreal as I watched the events unfold on the news. Thankfully as far as I know everyone I know is safe and sound, but my condolences go out to those who lost a loved one in this tragic event. I can only echo the statements of countless people since then: let's hope that this, along with the steam explosion in NY a couple of weeks ago, serves as a wake up call about our aging infrastructure and the need to overhaul or replace large portions of it. Here's a thought... instead of spending billions of dollars a month occupying a foreign country, let's use the money to fix our bridges and roads and pipes... things that literally seem to be falling apart and exploding around us. Just a thought.

Back in the swing!

Hello again!

After more than a year I'm back! I'm going to continue to use this space to post interesting finds about our family, new discoveries, links to other researchers, thanks to those who have helped me, etc. But I am also going to be using this blog as a place to discuss other things as well. Chief among these will be issues that I think are important and the goings on in my very own life. Although I'm not writing for this express purpose, perhaps some day someone researching me will stumble across this blog and be thrilled to have such a record... who knows...

Anyway I'm back and I'm hoping that someone out there finds something here worth reading or responding to. I love to share stories and information about our family so please do not hesitate to comment or write me!

Help with Translation!

Thanks for helping! Below are two copies of the same document that I've had trouble translating. It is a marriage record for Jan Kosinski and Malgorzata Molend/Malend in Bakalrzewo Parish in 1850. The text is in Polish:










































Thanks again for all your help!

Marianna Omilian Birth Record 1852 Bakałarzewo Parish, Suwalki, Poland

Jozef Jan Kosinski and Marianna Omilian Marriage Record from Bakalarzewo Parish, Suwalki, Poland on February 23, 1873

The Pysyk Family of Mikolajowice - About 1750 to 1904

This tree shows the results of my research with the Mikolajowice Roman Catholic Parish records.

It shows the ancestors of my Great-Grandmother Victoria Pysyk. She was born on May 5, 1890 and baptized on May 11, 1890. Her father was Joannes Pysyk and her mother was Marianna Borgenicht. Marianna was born Jewish but converted to Catholicism in order to marry Joannes.

Victoria left Mikolajowice in 1904. She departed from Bremen on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II and arrived at Ellis Island on September 27, 1904.

She married Andrew Kosienski in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Norwich, Connecticut on February 4, 1907.

My grandmother, Emilia Kosienski, daughter of Andrew and Victoria, was born on August 21, 1925 in Meriden, Connecticut and baptized on September 13, 1925 at St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church in Meriden, Connecticut. She married Robert Szymaszek on May 25, 1946 in Meriden, Connecticut.

Thanks!

Thanks to all who helped me decipher the records from Mikolajowice that I found! I will soon be posting the results of my Pysyk Family research.