Płonna Civil Births 1831 - 1844 (Powiat Sanok, Poland)

The following records were compiled by Debbie Greenlee. She is the owner and author of this page.

There are other Płonna records on this site.

The Urząd Stanu Cywilnego (USC) in Bukowsko, the gmina for Płonna, originally kept these civil birth records. These records can now be found in the Przemyśl Civil Archives. However, images of the records can be obtained from Debbie Greenlee .

These records are written in Latin and Łemko, which indicates that the Płonna church/cerkiew copied these records for the USC in compliance with the law at the time. The whereabouts of the actual church/cerkiew records are unknown.

Some of the given names in these records reflect the Łemko ancestry. If the priest used the Łemko name, that’s what we recorded. If the priest used the Latin or Polish given name, then we used the Polish spelling. However, sometimes the priests wrote the Łemko given name and then in another record the Polish given name was listed for the same person; Iwan vs Jan; Jacko vs Jakub and so on.

You will have to be flexible when searching for names in this index. Because these were originally Greek Catholic records the names may be spelled differently than what is common today.

Usinski and Osinski were used interchangeably. Ksiądz will be found Xiądz, which appears to be a combination of Ukrainian (Łemko) and Polish spelling. Pradka can be found as Pratka. Warchola can be found as Warchoła. Some surnames seemed to have several variants: Korenko, Korinko, Korynko, Kurenko, Kurynko. I don’t know if these are just variant spellings of the same surname or if they are actually different surnames. You’ll have to do the research.

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 Calinska, search on Calinski. Also, a few women were married twice and this is indicated in the record. These women are listed by their first husband’s surname. Her maiden name is in the record, however.

If a father is not listed this indicates the infant was considered illegitimate.

Thank you to Janet George, Susan Udinsky, Val Bell, Becky Vingo, Jaime Saranczak, Carol Prorok, Justin Houser and Roman Kaluzniacki for their help indexing these records.

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

Footnotes

^*The surnames for this family are spelled two different way in the record. You might do better searching for records in house # 122.

^†The maiden name is incorrect in the record; verified by researching other records for this family.

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