Adding Clusters

 

A little here (at this website), a little there (at another website), and pretty soon I'm adding clusters of relatives to the family tree. Admittedly, each of those clusters makes its own floating tree in my newest project to seek and record all Laskowski family members from the 1800s in Żerków, the Polish town which once was part of Prussia.

This time, I started with the 1878 death record of seventy one year old Antonina Markiewicz, who was listed as a daughter of Paul Laskowski and Marianna at the Polish website BaSIA. Checking my chart of all Laskowski entries I had harvested from the database at BaSIA, I then noticed I already had a few other entries for Antonina. I had found the 1826 marriage entry for Antonina and her husband, Franciszek Markiewicz, and two baptismal records.

From that point, same as I had done yesterday, I moved from the BaSIA website to FamilySearch.org, where in the same Żerków record set I had used previously, I now searched for any baptismal records containing the names of these parents. There, along with the couple's marriage record, I found an entry for their daughter Maryanna, born on December 6, 1838. In addition, I found subsequent baptismal records for two sons, Franciszek and Ignatius, whose much later birth dates caused me to look twice to make sure the estimated year of birth for their mother would still sustain believability that these were Antonina's sons.

Pleased with the continued progress on my experiment, I began holding out hope that perhaps there would be a way to see how all these Laskowskis connect in tiny Żerków. It may all depend on whether I can uncover further resources for documentation during that time period.