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This article presents the problem of the connections between the noble family of Olesnicki, coat of arms Radwan, and the famous Zamoyskis in the 16th and 17th century. The Olesnickis, coat of arms Radwan, not mentioned until then in genealogical literature, entered into closer contacts with the Zamoyskis in the second half of the 16th century. The relationships between the two families were based on the vicinity of their land and political cooperation, most of all, however, on family bounds which were the result of Lukasz Olesnicki’s marriage with chancellor Jan Zamoyski’s daughter. In the 17th century the successive members of the Olesnicki family stayed under the auspices of the Zamoyskis, who would facilitate their court careers and political activity. The article is supplemented with a map of Olesnickis’ manor on the border of the Belz Land and the Chelm Land as well as a genealogical table of this family.
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The article concerns the meaning and functions of genealogy in Jewish tradition within the compass of nearly three thousand years. Having discussed the key notions (especially toldot and jichus), the author presents the following problems: genealogical texts of various functions (from ideological in character constructions to censuses) which appear in the Bible; preserving the purity of the lineage by Levi’s descendants, especially priests, and continuation of this tradition until the present; accepting new values in the post biblical period – learnedness and merits of the ancestors – treated as advantages in the lineage; formation of elite families in European diaspora starting from the 14th century and their tendency to demonstrate that they have outstanding ancestors, which corresponded with an abundant production of lineages, often unreal, dating back to king David and other biblical characters; religious Jewish historiography and its connections with genealogy in the period from the beginning of the 19th century to the holocaust; elements used in traditional inscriptions of personal data and examples inscriptions including extensive lists of ancestors; the character of genealogical investigations after the Second World War, especially an increase in interests, documentation and editorial activity.
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The aim of this article is to reconstruct the genealogy of the Puchala family branch related to the Lublin Region. The Puchalas came from Mazovia and the first member of this family who formed ties with the Lublin Region through marriage and purchase of land was Jozef Puchala. This figure is still relatively poorly known despite of being inter alia the chairman of the Civil Tribunal of the Lublin department and the senator castellan in the Kingdom of Poland. The analysis of this family’s history allows to think that its members were conscious participants of political as well as social and economic life in Poland in the period after the Partitions. Public activity and patriotic attitude during insurrections prove the high moral and intellectual merits of the family members. They married with members of well known and respected families in the Lublin Region: the Suchodolskis, the Wybranowskis, the Szlubowskis, the Rulikowskis, which indicated their growing prestige and position among the manor nobility.
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The article is the first attempt at studying the community of a north Mazovian parish from the turn of the 19th and 20th century not only “comprehensively” but also taking into account the divisions on particular inhabitant categories which can be determined on the basis of the source database. Whereas within the scope of natural population movements distinctions between the social groups are usually minor (if they appear at all), some significant differences can be observed in the sphere of culture and customs. Analyses of birth, marriage and death records books confirms the individual character of the nobility group, which was being preserved in its own customs, avoided mixing with peasants and in its choice of a spouse was led most of all by the affluence and belonging to the same social class as the prospective spouse. Additionally, an attempt to define the relation of Szwelice parishioners with other regions and to determine migration directions of this population was also undertaken in this article.
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The Institute of Archives, Libraries and Church Museums at the Catholic University of Lublin holds in its collections archive materials which can be of use in genealogical investigations. Apart from the basic sources, i.e. birth, marriage and death certificates (mainly from Luck diocese) the Institute also owns other archive materials useful for genealogists which are recorded in the form of microfilms. The files of greater importance include canonical visitations of various Polish dioceses. Church files are also significant and these include the bishops’ (acta episcopalia), general officialss’ and district officials’ files (acta officialia). The court sources also hold information in record books of the country jury courts and town criminal courts. Moreover, important genealogical data can be obtained from the archives of clergy seminaries, monastic files of various types and also from fraternity and guild books.
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The article is an attempt at presenting the content of the files of VC.1 group from the Polish Underground Movement Study Trust in London and evaluation of their usability in genealogical investigation. VC.1 group was formed as a result of the activity of the Home Army’s Main Verification Commission active in years 1945 - 1949 in London, whose aim was to verify the former Polish prisoners of war from German oflags and stalags. The material which has been analyzed is mostly biographical in nature, although it may also be used in genealogical investigation. It can therefore be an interesting additional means of analyzing the lives of chosen representatives of the investigated family history.
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The certificates of the parish of Opole go back to 1635. Death certificates are preserved from 1771. Owing to an analysis of these certificates, the oldest inhabitants of the parish in that era, being 60 and older, were recognized. Many of the long-living parishioners were connected with the family of Masztalerz (Mastalerz) – Tarachowski, an alleged 103-year old woman. The oldest inhabitants of the parish were also descended from the family of Możdżeń, Bernacik, Maciąg, Dulęba, Marczowski, and many other ones. The babtism certificates allowing to verify the age given at death certificate were found for 19 long-living people. Thanks to the data, after comparing birth dates of the dead people, it turned out that the age given in death certificates was higher than it was supposed to be. When it comes to the aforementioned centenarian, it was higher by 27 years, and for some the alleged 90-year olds it was higher by 22 years, and for the alleged 80-year olds higher by 10 years, for 70-year old by 5,16 years, and for 60-year olds by 0,83. The reason for the mistakes is to be sought probably in little knowledge about the age of a dead person among his/her relatives, as well as among the ones who wrote the certificates.
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Alegata, also known as appendices of marital contracts, are rarely used in genealogical studies. This article discusses this kind of sources exemplified by contracts made in the civil registry in Łowicz. In 1808-1815 three such registries operated in the town: two of them connected with the local parishes and one connected with town council. The Napoleonic Code introduced the obligation to prove that marriage could be legally sanctioned. Therefore, the interested parties had to be in possession of: I. Birth certificate; II. Verification of birth certificate; III. Other certificates that verify the fulfillment of legal obligations connected with marriage. The last part of the article is devoted to methods of data archiving in relation with marriage certificates made in hunting civil registries in Łowicz. An analysis of archiving of such documents fosters a better understanding of these phenomena and helps to make use of the sources in genealogical queries.
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The article presents the history of the side, earl’s family line of the Wielopolski margrave in 19th and 20th centuries. Their material situation as land owners is presented, with a reference to their economic difficulties linked with the adaptation to capitalist transformations in Kingdom of Poland and later on in the Second Polish Republic. The article shows various forms of measures taken by the Wielkopolski family to maintain their high social status, e.g. through marriages with wealthy bourgeois families: the Laski and Halpert-Skanderberg family. The example of the Wielkopolski family points to the activation of the landed gentry at the turn of the 19th and 20th century when it comes to their economic activity other than farming. The article also tries to address the issue of the presence of the earl’s family in the political life of Kingdom of Poland (and their significant rile in the local conservative conciliatory environment).
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The article is an edition of specifications of tenements in Lublin (the city inside walls and Krakowskie Przedmieście) complied by the city office in 1738 for tax reasons. The materials presented encompass: the specification of tenements on 3 November 1738, as well as a revitalization of the Old Town on 29 April 1738 and 18 August 1738, and the revitalization of Krakowskie Przedmieście on 20 August 1738. All censuses are kept in a book number 295, which can be found in the State Archive of Lublin. The material presented is the entire list of tenements and other city properties built in Poland in the Saxon period and preserved until today. It is an interesting source of knowledge, crucial for getting to know the Old Polish Lublin, the topography of the city, as well as its social specification. Registries list the owners of particular real estates as well as their residents, show the localization of tenement houses belonging to the clergy (both diocesan and monastic), magnates, nobility, and middle class (patriciate and common people), and the localization of other buildings such as: schools, hospitals, inns, taverns, and business places. This source could be also used in onomastic studies, whether of an anthroponymic or toponymic character, as well as in genealogical studies. The material could be also useful for sociotopographical reconstructions. They are a repository of names and nicknames of the Lublin members of the middle class or real estate owners, the names of streets and squares. Among the owners and residents of tenements one could find very important names (members of the magnates holding the post of a dignitary or senator), representatives of the middle nobility, some influential people in Lublin working in the civil councils, as well as craftsmen, traders, and peddlers. It is also a source of information about the ethnic minorities living in the Lublin of that time, e.g. of a Jewish, German, Armenian, Italian, or French origin.
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At the end of 1788 the Four-Year Sejm passed the law titled “Voluntary donation to burning needs of the homeland”, the motivation for which was the need to collect money for 100,000 army of the republic. Documentation of this money collection burnt down together with the Warsaw archives in 1944. Thanks to AGAD, a modern search query, and its Acquisition Unit I, it was possible to find a copy of the registry of the public collection for the Nur Land in the Masovian Voivodship. The registry provides mostly information about local nobility (names, patronymic, surnames, possessions, posts, payments) and in particular about bourgeois and peasants (collective data on payments) who also participated in the money collection. Therefore, the registry is a valuable source for studies over genealogy of the Nur nobility, and it should be compared with tax rates typical of that region at the end of 18th century. Owing to the voluntary character of the payment, the registry does not cover all the Nur possession owners.
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At the time of partitions, new regulations concerning metrical registration were first introduced in the regions of the Austrian Partition, becoming a pattern for the other partition rulers. The legal regulations in the region of Lublin came into life in 1797. The metrical books were supposed to be columned and homogeneous in size. A detailed instruction in Latin and Polish, informing how to fill in the columns, was attached to the first pages of every volume. The contemporary condition of preservation of the metrical books analysed in the article is presented in Appendix.
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The paper contains six parts, whith examine various concrete cultural, historical and linguistic problems about Proto-Bulgarian. These six Protobulgarica Varia demonstrate the complexity of the connection between ethnic and linguistic identity. The authors of the paper do not accept the firm relation of the Proto-Bulgarian language and culture only towards Turkic or Indo-Iranian languages. Five groups of arguments on problem reactualization about ethnic and linguistic belonging are discussed.
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