Table of Contents for Rodziny Fall 2017

President’s Column, Chet Szerlag…………………………………………………1

Letters to the Editor………………………………………………………………………..2

Upcoming PGSA Meeting……………………………………………………………..2

From Our Correspondent in Poland: How the Tsar Decimated

the Polish Nobility, Iwona Dakiniewicz………………………………..3

A list of Selected Lublin Gubernia Applicants for

Certification of Nobility………………………………………………………….5

First Year of Schenectadians John and Julia (Polek)

Jakubczak’s Sojourn in Buffalo, New York (1925–1960):

Their Cousins – The Frank Jakubczaks of Its Black Rock

District, Leonard F. Jakubczak, Ph.D.…………………………………….7

Gems of Polish Genealogy at the Newberry Library…………….. 16

Book Review—Polish Immigration to America: When,

Why, How, and Where………………………………………………………….. 17

Remembering Those Who Died in World War I, Richard

Warmowski…………………………………………………………………………… 18

What Exactly Was a “Colony”?, William F. Hoffman………………… 20

“Kronika Bukowsko” on DVD, Debbie Greenlee………………………. 22

Memoirs of a Peasant: From Serfdom to Today, Chapter

Eleven, Part Three, Jan Słomka………………………………………….. 23

From the Słownik Geograficzny…………………………………………………. 27

Articles of Interest……………………………………………………………………….. 31

Index to Surnames Mentioned in This Issue…………………………… 32