Kamienne Births 1890 - 1941, powiat Sanok, gmina Bukowsko, old województwo Krosno

These Greek Catholic records should be considered civil records as they were kept at the Bukowsko Urząd Stanu Cywilnego. The Greek Catholic parish for the village of Kamienne was in Płonna. Eventually the original book will be transferred to the Rzeszów civil archives in Sanok.

Two pages were not filmed by mistake, pages 58 and 59 covering some of 1929 and 1930. If in the future I can gain access to this book, I will photograph the pages and update this index.

In some cases it was very difficult to determine the birth year because of the way some of the pages were bound.

People in these records lived in the villages of Kamienne, Karlików, Kulaszne, Mokre, Morochów, Płonna, Przybyszów, Ratnawica, Szczawne, Tokarnia, Wysoczany and Zawadka.

There are a lot of BOCHNAKs in this book.

Polish diacriticals were used in order to spell the names correctly and you will need to use them in your search terms.

Sometimes the priest wrote the given names in Ukrainian rather than Latin and I have preserved that spelling. Sometimes the priest used the diminutive forms of given names and that is what you will find here. Given names in the record written in Latin or Polish are listed here in Polish. Surnames were written as found in the records.

If the Name column is blank then the child was stillborn and not given a name.

If the Father column is blank then the child was considered illegitimate. In many of these situations the priest listed a mother’s maiden name and married name, often giving the child the mother’s maiden name as his/her surname. In cases where the baby was born shortly after the husband has died, the infant was usually given the mother’s maiden name as the child was still considered illegitimate. I have listed the mother with her married name and “aka” her maiden name if both are in the record. The child is listed with whatever surname is first listed in the record for the mother. Of course, there are cases where the husband died long before the child would have been conceived. That’s a different situation. You would have to search death records (when available) in order to determine whether a husband was in all probability the father of the child.

One record lists the father’s name but does not list the mother’s name.

There is an issue with the mother’s maiden name listed in most of the Michał Bochnak children’s births, house #17. In most of the birth records the mother is listed as Katarzyna Kicyna Steciak yet her marriage record states her maiden name was Kicyna so that is how she is listed in this index except for the record on pages 4 and 17 where she listed as Katarzyna Steciak because Kicyna is not mentioned in the record at all. If you are related to these people I strongly suggest that you order the records so you can determine why this situation exists.

In some cases the priest listed middle names. We did not transcribe them however, because doing so would make it difficult for you to search for that person.

Women’s surnames were spelled using the nominative masculine endings; -ska is -ski and -cka is -cki. So if you are looking for a woman with the surname Barycka, search on Barycki or Baryckyj. There were many surnames we were not familiar with and they may be spelled wrong in the index. Please let me know if you find errors so they can be corrected.

If you are accustomed to ending a surname with –ki (Usiński or Romański) or –wy (Siwy/Sywy) search with the ending, -kij and –wyj; Usińskij, Romańskij, Sywyj.

Most records include the grandparents’ names. Also keep in mind that if a parent was originally from another village, that will be in the record.

Oftentimes the priest went back to the birth record and recorded a death date or a marriage date. You will need to order the record to find this information.

Pages 44 through 46 were written in Ukrainian Cyrillic and were transliterated and indexed by Larry Bell.

Thank you to Sharon Turnas for transcribing and indexing the rest of this book.

If you would like information on obtaining copies of the original image of a record, please contact Debbie Greenlee.