Chapter 4 of 4
The American half of the story is the half most families start with, and the half that points back to Poland. Several US records were designed to ask exactly where a person was born, and a few were filled in by the immigrant personally. Here they are, in roughly the order a life produced them.
Several American records were designed to ask exactly where a person was born, and a few were filled in by the immigrant personally. These articles cover them in roughly the order a life produced them.
Records in this chapter
Social Security SS-5
Social Security Applications (Form SS-5)
Parents’ names and birthplace in the applicant’s hand
Death & obituaries
US Death Records, Obituaries and Cemeteries
The last records, and the Polish press
Fraternals & US passports
Fraternal Society and US Passport Records
PNA, PRCUA and the trip back home
Research guide
The American documents that name a Polish village
What we do with these records
These are the records that Ancestral Village Identification reads to establish the parish, and that Immigration & Passenger Records assembles into a documented account of the American side of the family.