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From: "Paul Tomasko" <>
Subject: Re: [POLISH-PA] Finding Civil Records in Pennsylvania
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:51:11 -0500
In-Reply-To: <c05.10c57891.330e71b2@aol.com>


If you go to www.NARA.gov they have a link to the form to order military
records. On the right hand side of their webpage has a link to
genealogists/family historians, click on that then go down to popular
searchs and you will find military records.

Paul


>From:
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>To:
>Subject: [POLISH-PA] Finding Civil Records in Pennsylvania
>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:10:26 EST
>
>Dear All; This summer I started to help an elderly friend, who has since
>died, located where in Poland her family came from. Her grandfather,
>Mateusz
>Dec, came to the U.S. about 1903 and worked in the coal mines in
>Pennsylvania,
>living in a town called California. Her grandmother, father, and aunt came
>over about 1907. Her father experienced discrimination because he was
>Slavic so
>he never told her anything about where he came from (he was about 14 years
>old
>when he emigrated) and her mother's family was very "Anglo" and discouraged
>contact with her grandparents.
>I've found the family in census records from 1910 on, in WWI draft records,
>etc. but it never says where in Poland they came from. I even tried the
>Immigration Service since Mateusz was naturalized in 1918. The central
>office,
>which should have the records, doesn't, so I guess I need to try the
>Western
>District Court in Pittsburgh? Her father served in WWI and is buried at
>Gettysburg. Does anyone know how to get military records? I'd appreciate
>any help you
>can give. The grandfather's last name was Decz. The grandmother's maiden
>name was Franciszkiewicz. The father changed his name to Dietz when he was
>naturalized.
>Regards, Mary Rose Brandt
>
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