Sierakoski

[gyouhas]

I am looking to find some information about my Grandmother. Her name was Josephine Sierakoski. I know a sister was named Stanislawa Sierakowski. She said she came from a place called Babiak near Kolo.

She and her sister came to the USA in the early 1900's ie 1910 or so, They married two brothers Lawrence Lewandowski and his brother, I am not sure of his first name. I was told, the Lewandowski's might be from near Luthuania.

I am going to Poland in August and hoping to drive to Babiak and at least see the area from whence my grandmother came.

I would be interested if any family still exists in that area.

[Tadeusz_Wysocki]

Hi gyouhas, are you lady? man? )
If you have plan to go to Poland, you deserve to have the best our Polish Genealogical Society forum service. After your query I've researched surname location in Poland, with your family ancestral village Babiak, and the town of Kolo, and here are this search results:
No family surnamed Sierakowski (Sierakoski is Americanized) in this present Babiak, BUT 3 person surnamed Sierakowski in this town Kolo:
1. Marian Sierakowski, Kolo, Poland
2. Teresa Sierakowska, Kolo, Poland
3. Jozef Sierakowski, Kolo, Poland
You can find their phone numbers with Polish phone directory: http://www.ksiazka-telefoniczna.com - somebody with Polish must call them asking full postal address, as Polish strict regulations protecting personal data are not allowing to give it with this database. This would be important, as most immigrants corresponded with family in Poland after immigration for many years, but most contact have been interrupted after WWII, as it was not accepted by communism given to Poland for 45 years by Soviet Union political system.
With a very good luck to you, and have the best family memory tour on the planet.

[gyouhas]

dziękuję

I am male. My grandmother would mention Kolo alot, so it could be they were from Babiak, but moved to Kolo.

Greg Youhas

[Tadeusz_Wysocki]

Proszę bardzo.

And if you plan to spend your huge money to organize family memory tour to Poland, you deserve also this info:

I. You must have the right name of the family ancestral parish, as all civil records from the 19th century and earlier in Europe were preserved by exact church, thus, here you have it from "Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego...; 1880-1902, where you can see also moving description on your family ancestral BABIAK from the 19th century: http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_I/67 - the family parish was not Kolo, but: MAKOLNO

II. You can search family genealogical records with three sources:
1. Parish on-site, and our society member and friend Stan Pieniazek and the team of PTG gave the database with availability on-site at every parish in Poland:
http://parafie.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pr&pid=4977 = some records are at parish, older in Archidiosecan Archive in Wloclawek.
2. State Archives, searching with system "Pradziad": http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradzi ... rch=search - clicking on "more" of every line you have the different archive where the records are located.
3. FHL/LDS Mormons' microfilms ordered by you from their nearest you LDS centre ; searching with engine: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library ... ns=*,180,0 you have confirmation they copied church/civil records from your Makolno from the years 1695-1884 only.

But the best would be meeting with your close or distant relatives maybe survived after 100 years in this town of Kolo, and to share what they have preserved as family mementos and memory, nothing in our short but wonderful life could be compared with such a kind of personal family memory sharings.

Good luck dear Greg in your search and life,