Reports from reviewing the Public Register Books
arranged by Parishes

Former Diocese of Zamość

(click on the chosen Parish name)

1) a greek-catholic parish during the period from 1740 to about 1873, converted to an orthodox parish after liquidation of the Union by the Russian Car - the Roman-Catholics transferred to a parish in Trzeszczany. Nieledew became an independant roman-catholic parish in 1985.

2) metrical books for the village of Wysokie exist since 1784.

3) the reviewed books probably originate from the Wysokie Lubelskie Parish (postal code 23-145). Our search was stopped after the year 1860.

4) Public Register Books of the Episcopal Curia in Hrubieszów

Commentary from the Dec. 1, 2005 letter from Wlodzimierz Biegunski:

(...) "The Napoleonic Code and Public record keeping were introduced in the territories east of the Vistula river as late as the middle of the year 1810. Earlier, only the Parish Register books were kept. Books of the Roman-Catholic parishes remained in their archives. Books from the liquidated Uniate Parishes, (converted by force to Orthodoxy by the Car) and dating back to before 1810, were deposited in the State Archives."

• See Summary of the above review, which includes brief description of the Parishes and comments regarding the presence (in the past and contemporaneously) of the Wajszczuk Family members in these Parishes.

Parishes of the Diocese of Siedlce (Podlasie )

(click on the chosen Parish name)

• See also a summary of the above review, which includes brief description of the Parishes and our findings concerning the presence in them (in the past and at present) of the Wajszczuk Family members.

Public Records Books of the Drohiczyn Diocese

Parishes				Archives
books	years	reviewed	missing	years	reviewed
Łazówek (since 1919)				Siedlce
births	1920-?	1920-1967	?	none	-
mariages	1920-?	1920-1967	?	none	-
deaths	1920-?	1920-1967	?	none	-
baptisms	1920-?	1920-1967	?	none	-
Sterdyń (since 1518)				Siedlce
births	1617-?	1872	?	1888-1904	1888-1904
mariages	1776-?	1871	?	-	-
deaths	1782-?	-	?	1874-1895	1874-1895
baptisms		1890-1914
Kosów Lacki (since 1425)				Siedlce
baptisms	1673-?	-	?	1885-1904	1885-1904
mariages	1673-?	-	?	1886-1898	1886-1898
deaths	1730-?	-	?	1890-1899	1890-1899
Ceranów (1508)				Siedlce
baptisms	1658-?	-	1877-1896	1886-1896	1886-1896
mariages	1604-?	-	1877-1925	1893-1904	1893-1904
deaths	1723-?	-	1883-1925	1884-1896	1884-1896
Zembrów (XVII c.)				Siedlce
baptisms	1686-?	-	-	1888-1905	1888-1905
mariages	1686-?	-	1877-1925	1852-1895	1852-1895
deaths	1686-?	-	1883-1925	1881-1903	1881-1903
combined	-	-		1825-1830	1825-1830

See also:

• list of the reports

• summary of the review (missing years/books, by parish)

• results of the review in the Archives

Prepared by: Waldemar J Wajszczuk & Paweł Stefaniuk 2008
e-mail: wwajszczuk@comcast.net