Meeting Information
| Date: | March 9, 2024 |
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| Pre-Meeting: | 9:00 AM |
| Presentation: | 10:00 AM |
| Location: | Zoom |
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Presentation Description:
The Austrian Cadastral Maps created in the late 1700s and mid-1800s were created for the purposes of taxation, but are a wonderful resource for genealogists today. The objectives of this lecture are to summarize the history of cadastral records in the Austrian Empire (also referred to as the Empire) between the late 1700s and mid-1800s with a special emphasis on areas that were once Polish but were taken over by the Austrians in the early 1770s. Also, it presents examples of documents that can be of value in genealogical research and provides hints helpful in tracking down the exact location where one’s ancestors lived.
Meeting Schedule: (Central Time)
09:00-09:50 AM - Members Helping Members Pre-meeting
09:50-09:55 AM - Break
09:55-10:00 AM - Society Announcement
10:00-11:15 AM - Presentation and Q&A
Lucjan Cichocki:
Lucjan’s adventure with tracing family histories started in 2013 with a visit to the Diocesan Archives in Przemyśl. A friend of his showed him what old nineteenth-century vital records looked like and what information they contained. Gradually he became more and more accustomed to various kinds of longhand and was able to maximize the results of his work while minimizing the time needed to complete it. Now, genealogy research is his full-time occupation and he is honored to have discovered the roots of many. Lucjan’s work involves searching for records at Diocesan and State Archives, searching for records at parishes, finding living relatives, driving people to the villages that their ancestors lived in, and translating vital records. His areas of expertise include southeastern and southern Poland (excluding southwestern Poland), central, eastern, and northeastern Poland, Slovakia, and westernmost Ukraine. His website is Polish Ancestry Research.