Tokarnia Civil Births, Volume 14, 1868 – 1884; 1910 – 1929; 1931 – 1933, powiat Sanok, gmina Bukowsko, old województwo Krosno

These records will eventually end up in the Rzeszów Civil Archive located in Sanok but at the time of indexing the book was located in the Urząd Stanu Cywilnego in Bukowsko.

Some pages were numbered out of order because the pages were bound or rebound into the book incorrectly.

The pages in this index are numbered in date order. Some pages are written in Ukrainian Cyrillic.

Though this is Volume 14, the number pertains to the volume number when it was in the vital records office (Urząd Stanu Cywilnego) in Bukowsko. This is not Volume 14 in Tokarnia church record volumes. Although these are Greek Catholic baptismal records, they should be treated as civil (birth) records since they were located in the USC in Bukowsko.

Some numbers in the HS# column indicate that the first number refers to the old house number and the second number refers to its new house number. This sort of numbering means the original house was destroyed and a new one built in its place. Houses were numbered according to the order in which they were built and not sequentially on a road.

Given names were translated from Latin into Polish and Ukrainian depending on how the priest spelled the name in Latin. Quite often the priest used nicknames (diminutives) so that's what we listed and he bounced back and forth on this with the same people. Example: Magda, which is the diminutive for Magdalena; Paraska, which is the diminutive for Paraskiewia; Tymko, which is the Ukrainian diminutive for the Polish Tymoteusz and Semko is the diminutive for Siemion.

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 Podubieńska, search for Podubiński/Podubeński/Podubieński; surname Konik, search for Konyk.

Some surnames may not have been spelled the way they are today. Example: Gajdosz/Gaidosz. When searching for the surname, Makara, also try Makar; search both Charitan and Charityn.

If a father is not listed then the infant was considered illegitimate. If "stillborn" appears in the infant's column then the parents did not name the child.

There are several records that indicate the mother was not married at the time she gave birth but did marry later. We did not indicate this in the index, however.

Thank you to Susan Udinsky, Ela Sobota, Dorothy Magyar, Anna Olkin, Cheryl Bock for helping me index these records.

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Footnotes

^*Note the difference in the surnames. This could indicate that the husband/father died before the infant was born and in cases like this the priest would list the infant as illegitimate. On page 181, the mother's husband's name is listed in the record.

^†Though listed as illegitimate, the husband's name is in the record.

^‡This mother's maiden name is in question. It is written in Cyrillic but the priest may not have been fluent in Cyrillic as he slipped in a Polish letter making it difficult to transliterate this name. Here are the possibilities: Kicym, Kicyn, Kicyt, Kicyna, Kicyra or Kiczura.

^§This mother is listed as a widow.

^‖The mother's maiden name is in question. See original record.