Those born in the Austrian Empire in 1897 and before

susanrosefernald

Looking for the surname of Wesolowski. I believe the name was changed after some family members emmigrated to the U.S. at the turn of the century. In America, it was written: Weglowski or Weglowska. I cannot find any Weglowski or Weglowska in the area that my husband's grandmother said she was born in. The cities are Widelka or Zatoka on the south eastern area of Poland. She said she was born in Austria which leads me to believe the Austrian/Hungarian Empire.

Names are: Anilla (Angela) Weglowski/Wenglofska/Wesolowska. b. 1884

Wojciech. b. 9 April 1888

John Andrew. b. 1890

Carolina/Karoline. b. 7 Jan 1893

Helena/Helen. b. 26 Sept 1895

Stephany/Stefania/Stephanie. b. 10 Feb 1897

Father: Maciey/ Matteuse Weglowski/ Weglowska/Wesolowska. b abt 1872 (This date has to be wrong bc it would make him 12 yrs old at the birth of his first child.)

Mother: Justyna Ploch/ Plock/ Ploc. b. 1872 (Again, the date has to be incorrect)

Any help to identify the correct surname would be wonderful. Thank you.

Christopher Kovach_1

Here's a passenger list for Stefania Weglowski, last residence and birthplace Zatowka, leaves father Marcin, coming to Chicago to see sister Karolina:https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9T4-2TYB?i=130&cc=1368704&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AJJGT-S43

Here's Karolina's passenger list:https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9PR-Y4WF?i=362&cc=1368704&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AJFH5-XPP

The Roman Catholic church records for Zatoka are in Rzczawa, aka Rzezawa. FamilySearch has the relevant records, but only on microfilm. https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/8 UI17010?availability=Family%20History%20Library

Julia Szent-Györgyi

The indexes on Geneteka have lots of matches to all of those surnames, although not if you try the exact search.

Using Geneteka and FamilySearch's Places tool, I found a Widełka near Kolbuszowa in the Podkarpackie province, and a Zatoka vaguely near Bochnia (or actually a bit north of the midpoint between that and Brzesko) in the Małopolska province. The places are a good 60 miles apart, as the crow flies, so I doubt they can both be correct, or not for the same people, anyway. As you can see from WikiTree's Poland help pages (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Poland/Resource_Library), it all starts with the location, so figuring out which (if either) of those places is the right one has to be Step Zero.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

@Christopher Kovach_1, the film reel icon in the Catalog no longer indicates "film only", since FS finished digitizing all of its microfilm holdings three years ago. The film reel now indicates "not online", usually due to contractual restrictions. (This is often due to a paywalled site offering the same material, but I can't figure out whether that applies here.)

Christopher Kovach_1

@Julia Szent-Györgyi

Thank you for the clarification.

hehesani63

@susanrosefernald @Christopher Kovach_1

Hi,

There is a website that has a "Galician Town Locator" https:// www. geshergalicia. org/ galician-town-locator / and there it says the "Roman Catholic center" for Widelka was Przewrotne and for Zatoka it was Mikluszowice. But I have no way of knowing how reliable this source is.

Good luck for your search!
Kind regards