Comments on: Baptism of Jozef Piontkowski http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/baptism-of-jozef-piontkowski/ Adventures in genealogy Wed, 08 May 2013 20:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lisa http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/baptism-of-jozef-piontkowski/#comment-140 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:01:42 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-140 Donna -

I enjoyed reading about your search for this record and information about your Kizoweter and other families. Thanks for taking the time to write it all out.

Just curious – how did you find your Russian translator? I’m really language-challenged over here at 100 Years in America lately. I could use some professional help in this area, too!

Lisa
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]]> By: djpoint http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/baptism-of-jozef-piontkowski/#comment-137 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:45:51 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-137 Thanks to both of you!

Apple, I’m amazed as well when folks can figure out what a foreign language record says. I’d like to take credit for this one, but I had to hire a translator. I’m pretty good at Latin, okay at German, so-so at Polish. But Russian? No way! I even have a Russian co-worker who was stumped by it. She called it a mix of Polish and Russian, or at least an “old fashioned” form of Church Russian. It was no problem for an experienced translator though.

I LOVE the term “searching sideways” – I may have to borrow that!

]]> By: Apple http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/baptism-of-jozef-piontkowski/#comment-135 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:08:26 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-135 Having mostly English ancestors I’m always amazed when somebody not only figures out how to request a record in a foreign language but can figure out what it says. Congrats on a new lead! I’ve always called this type of search, “searching sideways,” and it often pays off.

]]> By: lidian http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/baptism-of-jozef-piontkowski/#comment-131 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:18:05 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-131 What a fabulous find – thank you so much for scanning and translating it for us…I rely on those collateral ancestors too. I read once that really one should trace the whole family, not just the ancestor, and your post really shows how true that is.

That is a really unusual surname – in my Deutsche Namenkunde they mention a Jurgen Kesewedder in Braunschweig (Brunswick) in 1508 with reference to that surname. I can send you the whole entry if you like (mostly it is on derivations of surnames beginningwith Kiese/n.

The book is by Max Gottschald, Deutsche Namenkunde (Berlin 1971).

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