2017 Rodziny – Fall 2017 – Electronic version

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

2015 Rodziny – Winter 2015 – Electronic version

Table of Contents for Rodziny Winter 2015

News and Notes from the President………………………….1

Letters to the Editor………………………………………………..1

The Fourth Partition, Czwarta Dzielnica…………………….2

From Our Correspondent in Poland—Time for the

Nobles, Iwona Dakiniewicz………………………………..3

Meet the 2015–2106 Board Members……………………….5

We Need You!………………………………………………………..8

Notebook Subscribers…………………………………………….8

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!…………………………………8

A Review of the Cloud-Based Course: The Guide to

Documentation and Source Citation, Leonard

F. Jakubczak, Ph.D…………………………………………..9

Comments on the Surname Dymek, William F.

Hoffman……………………………………………………….. 11

From the Library—Did They Come to Chicago?,

Virginia Witucke……………………………………………..13

Memoirs of a Peasant: From Serfdom to Today,

Chapter Three, Jan Słomka……………………………..14

From the Słownik Geograficzny: Chotowa, Łączki

Kucharskie, Ropczyce, Sędziszów Małopolski……25

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

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

2014 Rodziny – Winter 2014 – Electronic version

Table of Contents for Rodziny Winter 2014

News and Notes from the President…………………………………..1

Letters to the Editor…………………………………………………………1

From Our Correspondent in Poland—The Wandering Archive

of Archbishop Baziak, Iwona Dakiniewicz…………………….3

PGSA Wants You! Become a Board Candidate, Rosalie

Lindberg………………………………………………………………….6

A Project Worth Supporting, Ola Heska……………………………..7

PGSA’s February Meeting………………………………………………..7

Salt Lake City—Spring into Research, Rosalie Lindberg………8

From the Library—Donating Genealogies, Virginia Witucke….8

Academic Corporations and “Lechia”, Ed Rozylowicz…………..9

Tips from Eric Basir, Author of “Ask the Retoucher”……………15

Genealogist’s Bookshelf: An Important Tool to Finding

Your Polish Roots, Rosalie Lindberg………………………….16

In Their Words … Volume III: Latin, Andrew Podraza…………17

Cremation—A Worrisome Problem for Genealogy, Len

Kurdek…………………………………………………………………..18

Peasant Uprising in Tajno in 1853: Using Parish and Civil

Records to Flesh Out a Village Story, Jay Orbik………….20

More on Record Entries “Bez Nazwiska,” Without a

Surname, William F. Hoffman……………………………………25

From the Słownik Geograficzny………………………………………29

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

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