My grandfather was Polish and want to know more about his life in Poland and who his mother and father was, planning to go to Poland soon but not sure where to start when I get there, don't know much about his life at all and really want to know what happened to him during the war and after, he was from wisla so please help if you can. Thank you
BARANOWSKI: root-word baran (ram - male sheep); nearly all surnames ending in -owski are of toponymic origin. This one arose to indicate an inhabitant of Baranów or Baranowo. Those place-names may be roughly translated as Ramston, Ramsville, Ramsfield, etc. Unfortunately Baranowski is an extremely popular surname in Poland, making it much harder to track down ancestors than in the case of less common or rare ones. There are some 25,000 Baranowskis in Poland and perhaps another 8,000 or so world-wide with the largest concentrations in Greater Warsaw in and around the Baltic Port of Gdańsk. There were nobles amongst the bearers of the Baranowski surname with coats of arms to prove it. For more information please contact me.
Merged: Marriage records of Józef Baranowski and Waleria Nowaczik (1870-1900 area)
I am wondering if anyone knows where I can obtain marriage /birth records of the Torun/ Grudziądz Kujawsko pomorskie area from 1870-1900 area. Yes I know it was West Prussia but perhaps the records are still in one of these towns/ cities? I am specifically looking for the marriage between Józef Baranowski and Waleria Nowaczik but birth records of them are fine too. I tried the geneteka website but not getting anything.
