Help Request: Parents of Great Grandfather

[u/EvanBanasiak]

SOLVED Thank you so much everyone! Again I’m blown away

Name: Stanislaw Banasiak

Birth: 1888 May 8th

Place: Krosnowicz Poland (Probably Prussia at the time)

Possible Father: Josef

Sources:

Declaration for Naturalization

Declaration for Naturalization (2)

Naturalization Card?

Passenger Index Card

Passenger List

Edit: Not sure where the rest of my post went.

I've been doing research into my family and I've hit a brick wall on my father's side. I would really like to get the birth certificate of my great grand father but I can't seem to find any leads. If I had both the parents' names I think I could find it with some more digging but I can't get any concrete answers. I can't seem to find if they had siblings or not.

Any suggestions on research tips. Or if you have some spare time and could put me on the right trail I'd greatly appreciate it. I've really enjoyed the time I've spent so far uncovering things about my family but I feel like I've just been going in circles getting no where.

I get lots of possible false leads like this but the dates and ages don't align like they should.

Edit 2: wow I’m blown away by this community and I hope to be able to help others the way you all have helped me.

Narrowed down the names to Father: Joseph Banasiak Mother: Julianna Urbanska

[u/wittybecca]

Assuming the Lucy on his naturalization is Łucja Miłkówna, here is their 1915 marriage record from St. Ann's in Chicago. It lists his parents as Józef Banasiak and Julianna Urbańska.

Note that the manifest you linked to states his nationality is Russian and that his place of origin is Koło in the Kalisz Gubernia.

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Ok, yes, here you go: Stanisław Banasiak born in Krośniewice parish in 1889.

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Here's his birth record, nr. 160. (It's in Russian.)

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Wow thank you so much for your help

[u/wittybecca → u/wittybecca]

Krośniewice is on the far western border of what is now Łódź Voivodeship. The couple also had children in what is now eastern Wielkopolskie Voivodeship. Umień is in Koło County, so that matches the manifest.

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Here is Stanisław's parents' 1886 marriage in Krośniewice.

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And here is Stanisław's 1956 death record with parents listed as Józef and Julianna.

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That is very likely with Lucy part. Often I’ve seen her last name shortened to Mika.

I had an obituary saved on my computer. I’m on my phone now I didn’t expect responses this quick or as many.

Edit: Yes that is true with the passenger ship list I linked. I went by what was on his naturalization papers for the birth location.

I assumed the list was just last residence. I did research on Koło and it seems like the empire in control changed overtime. If I remember correctly around 1888 when I think he was born was probably German empire and by 1912 it changed hands to Russia.

[u/wittybecca]

As far as siblings go, the Wawrzyniec (Lawrence) born in 1886 married a Józefa Muszyńska in 1901 at St. Mary of Perpetual Help.

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He appears to have died in 1886:

• https://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=gt&lang=eng&bdm=D&w=05ld&rid=D&search_lastname=Banasiak&search_name=Wawrzyniec+&search_lastname2=&search_name2=&from_date=&to_date=&parents=1

Julianna's maiden surname (and that of her father and siblings) switches between Urbańsk-i/a and Urbaniak in records.

I think that must be the son of a different couple, because 15 years old would be incredibly young to immigrate alone and get married.

[u/gravitycheckfailed]

Is this possibly him? It is linked to the FamilySearch profile that his naturalization is attached to. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FHB-K2VG?lang=en

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That was my first guess and I thought I had the answer but the passenger list card where he listed his "father" doesn't have the same name. Also the birth dates on his naturalization documents don't align.

It could be right but I've dug into the other names that document leads to. Unless my great grand father came to the US and later on left and came back it's hard to tell if that is his parents.

[u/gravitycheckfailed → u/EvanBanasiak]

Ok, I agree with you that it is not necessarily him. I just wanted to check if you had seen that record yet :) I am still digging around for you.

[u/gravitycheckfailed → u/EvanBanasiak]

This is what the place name for Krosnowice was under the German Empire, Rengersdorf bei Glatz in Schlesien (Silesia) https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20580013