Karlików Greek Catholic Births 1784 - 1843 (Powiat Sanok, Poland)

These records were digitized and placed online by the Polish Civil Archive in Przemyśl Civil Archive.

These are copies of the church records, which were originally submitted to the Bukowsko Urząd Stanu Cywilnego for their civil records. Because of that, these are considered civil records and that is why these ended up in the civil archive.

The priest seemed to have a real problem with spelling names. Either he was not a good speller or he wrote surnames using Latin phonetics which we changed using Polish phonetics. If we had not done that, you'd never find an ancestor in this index. You have to be flexible and creative in searching for some surnames.

Polish diacriticals were used in order to spell the names correctly and you will need to use them in your search terms. Surname spellings changed a bit through the years so you should be flexible when searching. The letter ‘j’ will show up as a letter ‘i’ in many surnames such as Dryja being spelled Dryia in these records. If you expect to have the letter 'j' or 'i' in a surname, try substituting 'y'; Gayda/Gajda, Goyda/Gojda, Barylak/Barilak, Sywy/Siwy. The surname Worotyła may be found spelled as Worotyło. Duduś may be found spelled Dódus and Dódós. Węgrzyn can be found as Wegrin, Węgryn and Wengryn. Tymcio may be found as Thymcio or Tymcio. If your surname has a ‘w’ in it such as Kutkowski, it probably didn’t have one in the 1820s. It is probably spelled, Kutkoski. That also goes for other surnames that today end with –owski. You may need to be creative when searching for a surname.

If you are trying to locate someone with the given name Szymon, search on Siemion. It was often difficult to read the Latin writing for this name. The priest liked to record the nicknames of people, which is unusual. We indexed what the priest wrote. For Bazyli you will find Wasyl, and so on.

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 Jakubowska, search on Jakubowski.

If a name does not appear in the Father column this means the child was listed as illegitimate in the record. Sometimes the mother was a widow, in which case the priest would list the child as illegitimate. In that situation we recorded the maiden name of the mother for her and the infant. The mother's married name is in the record.

At the beginning of this book the priest did not include the mother's maiden name. This continued until 1799. In some cases the mother's father's given name was included in later records.

Thank you to Susan Udinsky, Val Bell, Jaime Saranczak, Dorothea Magyar, Julie Macleavey, Renee Sokolowsky, Rich DeCecco, and Roman Kaluzniacki, all members of the Bukowsko Triangle email list. A special thank you to Ela Sobota, also a member of Bukowsko Triangle, for proof-reading my proofreading.

For more information on how to obtain record images contact Debbie Greenlee.

Footnotes

^*Page 8: Surname could be Kiryk.

^†Page 51, 53: Record indicates the parents are cygan/gypsy/Roma

^‡Page 45, 47, 84, 88: Mother had been married. Her married name or maiden name is in the record.

^§Pages 71 & 80: Mother's maiden name is different.

^‖Page 43: Priest indicates infant is illegitimate but lists the date the mother and her husband married, which means the baby was born six months later.

^¶Page 70: This record is crossed out in the book.

^#Page 22, 27, 32, 46: This surname could be Fecio.

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