Previously published in PGS-CA Bulletin (Issue #75, July 2005)
Kupienin
Translated from the Słownik Geograficzny (1880-1902)
by Helen C. Bienick
Kupienin, a village in the county of Dąbrowa Tarnowska, belonged to the Roman Catholic Parish in Bolesław. Its postal district was in Szczucin. It is situated on the left bank of the Wisła river (Vistula). It is on the road which leads from Tarnów to Dąbrowa, near the border of what once was the Kingdom Congress which was established by the Russians. It has a level terrain, and it is 173 meters above sea level. In the late 1800s, there were 691 Roman Catholics, 11 of whom resided on the estate of Count Arthur Potocki. This estate covered 38 morgen [1] of farmland and 101 morgen of forests. The village area covered a total of 685 morgen of farmland in total. Kupienin is somewhat encircled by the Wisła river on the north and west. On the south, in a straight line of two kilometers lies Mędrzechów, and on the east about three kilometers distant, lies the village of Odmęt.
Kupienin - Catholic Church Records 1785-1901 by John Walter Dudek
Kupienin is listed as a neighboring town of Mędrzechów (Dąbrowa Tarnowska), Kraków, Poland; formerly in Galicia, Austria. The records were extracted from films obtained from the LDS Film Library in Salt Lake City (film # 1895996 & 1895997); and contained marriage, birth and death records. As is the case of most records of this era the text was in Latin. Most given names were Latinized and surnames were kept intact.
A great resource for understanding Poland Catholic Microfilm Records is an article that was written by Peter Gwozdz. It is thirty pages long and can be accessed by going online and addressing Poland GenWeb. It is a valuable asset to anyone considering extracting any microfilm records.
Previously, this author had extracted records for the same period of the parish of Mędrzechów in trying to find information on my maternal grandfather. Finding his birth records led to the discovery of an additional four generations of my family. This led to my tracing the names of all the individuals on my pedigree. It became easier to simply extract all the records from beginning to the end. Using the PAF (Personal Ancestral File) program, the huge task of assembling all individuals into families became the task of my wife. Dona Christensen Dudek is an accredited K-12 Librarian and a person that enjoys picture puzzles. Using these skills she was able to place hundreds of people into families.
I cannot guarantee the spelling of the surnames. Having been born into a family that spoke Polish in the home, I still have some ability to speak and read the language. Because of the poor quality of a great number of the records and the penmanship of the various record writers many of the names were indecipherable. I then had to rely on name recognition much like when a child learns to read. When they are told C A T spells cat and shown a picture of a cat, they then quickly associate that word as cat the very next time they see it. After having seen the names repeatedly, I was able to recognize names without actually being able to decipher each letter in the name when it was poorly written. What was interesting to me was that I was familiar with a great number of these surnames. These were names of actual people I went to school with, whom I went to church with, and who labored in the mills with my parents. The city of Utica, New York and the outlying villages of Yorkville, and New York Mills, New York had a great number of immigrants from Poland.
This work has been gratifying, interesting, exhausting, expensive and at times emotional, encountering records of a person being born, married, having children, and dying. Seeing children dying at birth because of diseases which no longer exist or are controlled by life saving medical procedures can be a tight tug on the heart. Finding additional ancestors make all the long hours of work worth the effort. I am grateful for the availability of the films from the LDS Library in Salt Lake City. Also for the facilities of local Family History Centers and the staff of the many volunteers who are friendly and helpful. These facilities are open to all who need assistance in doing personal research. Another resource which I found valuable is the LDS Church site on the internet, (Familysearch.org). Again, the family history centers have computers and can assist with the use of the computers and use of the web site. It is available on home computers.
If there is anything I can be of assistance to anyone concerning the two parishes of Kupienin and Mędrzechów, I can be reached on the internet at jododudek@.aol.com
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Terms Requiring Further Explanation:
- ↑ [1] morgen - a land measure equivalent to ~ 2.1 acres
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