Just saw on another list that the 1940 US Census will be released on April 2, 2012. I should be noted on this one. Gloria [Non-text portions of this message...
Debbie, I'm trying to follow you on this. Pawel's father was a Marcin Pituch (1806-1864), according to a partial family tree provided by a distant cousin back...
Gloria, Several web sites will have the census available for free however, keep in mind that there won't be an index right away. Stephen Morse has mad...
If you have been following you family on earlier census forms, the enumeration district is listed at the top of the form. Gloria ... [Non-text portions of this...
David, No, that's not it. The change from Hujsak to Pituch was done by Jozef Hujsak. Everyone before Jozef had/kept the surname Hujsak. In the marriage record...
Debbie,  Sorry I'm late in replying....been off the computer for past few days. The marriage record I have for Joannes Zydka and Anastasia Lisowski does...
Debbie,  The oldest in my husband's line is Joannes Zydka (b, 1883) and Anastasia Lisowski Zydka. (b, 1885).  Jan was the son of Pawel and Marianna Pituch...
Debbie and David, Â The name Pituch vel Hujsak has been incurred in many records....vel in Latin mean "or". I still don't have a clear vision of why they used...
Well, I think we will have this rehashing of this identy crisis again and again until we find the oldest record of where Huysak, Hujsak became a "or"...
... Remember, the usage of surnames was relatively new at this time. The Slavs didn't use surnames much before about 1550. Peasants were the last to have...
Debbie, David, Â Not disputing the fact that Pituch could have been Ukrainian or for that matter, Hujsak. As explainded by the Polish Language Instytut they...
David,  The explanation helps me feel more at ease with the name as well. Looking down at my email, I see a lot of "A's" that found their way into my...
Hi group, I have taken a little break from trying to find records re: my great grandfather, Symko Olanish (Olianicz/Olenycz?) from Jawornik. We actually...
Hi Amy,  I travelled to southeast Poland in 1998 andwas researching my Grandmother's village Kulaszne. I visited the near by village of Komanczy and ...
Ann et al, Thanks for "reprinting" your information from the Instytut. Dawid Hojsak has ordered quite a few ancestral records. If he thinks he's confused now ....
... Hi Ann, It's a technical problem that is most likely beyond your (and my) control. The problem is that some part of the email chain (David's email program,...
... Hi Jim, I've been curious about this for some time, and I'm glad to hear something concrete about it. Can you cite a reference for these facts so I can...
Philip, Guess I know what to get you for Christmas. William F. Hoffman's book, _Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings_, talks about how and approximately when...
Debbie, David, Fred, and group,  Well, this is all very fascinating and frustrating as we continue to say, so I am going to contact the Instytut again and...
Philip, Â Thanks for the explanation; it crossed my mind that maybe I got hit by a virus or something, so it is a relief to my old brain to know there is an...
The bulk of my understanding of this history came from discussions with the chairwoman of Slavic studies at Upsala University, while she was in Tucson. She...
... That was enough detail on the surname thing, but now I am very intrigued by the fact that you were able to trace your family into England and then into...
... Hi Amy, According to Lenuis' Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia, Jawornik belonged to the Roman Cath. parish of Bukowsko and was its own the Greek Catholic...
... I would love to share. I've had the extremely fortuitous luck to slip into "cracks" that appear to avoid all "brick walls". The information is more...
I picked up on Jim's comment about relatives rolling their eyes when the topic is family history. I had a lot of that when I first started searching 10 years...
