[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Villages of Petrikau

[Rose Ingram]

Karla,

Skiernowicz may be Skierniewice - between Lodz and Warsaw. 
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/LocTown.asp is a good place finder.

"Swirchinitz, Kr. Petrikau" and "Wierzinetz, Petrikau" could be a 
mis-pronounciation and misspelling of the same place.  The Shtetlseeker 
shows a Zwierzyniec about  16 miles/28 Kilometers NW of Piotrkow 
Trybunalski.
If this is the right place, it is difficult to say whether a birth record 
would be found in Piotrkow church records, or in a closer parish such as 
Pabianice about 9 miles north.  The LDS Library Catalog shows filmed records 
for Pabianice from 1827 to 1876.

The LDS Library Catalog only has birth records from 1879 to 1887 for 
Piotrkow. The Polish State Archives have some records beyond 1888.   If 
records pre-1878 survived, they may be in a Lutheran church archive 
somewhere, not yet microfilmed.  Others on this list may be able to shed 
some light on this.

Rose Ingram


>I found the birthplace of an ancestor in the Rozischtsche/Rozyszcze 
>Kirchenbuch listed variously in confirmation and marriage records as 
>Swirchinitz, Kr. Petrikau, and as Wierzinetz, Petrikau, and also as 
>Skiernowicz. Might these be different names for the same place? How do I 
>find them? How can I learn whether Lutheran church records exist for 
>Petrikau in the 1860's?
>
> Karla Walters