Re: Schuylkill County PA Archives
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Siecienska or Siecienski or Siecinski Poland to Shanendoah Pennsylvania
carolyn craig 2/16/12
Hi Carolyn,
As you probably know by now, there is not a very good digitized on-line paper trail of genealogy information for the early Polish immigrants.Information for the early immigrants requires contacting the churches or local government to manually research their paper records.
A good place to start would be your great grandparent’s marriage documents.
Here is a link to the Schuylkill County PA web site:
http://www.co.schuylkill.pa.us/http://www.co.schuylkill.pa.us/
The “Row Office” responsible for marriage APPLICATIONS (and licenses) is the Register of Wills.Here is a link to their web site:
http://www.co.schuylkill.pa.us/Offices/RegisterOfWills/index.asphttp://www.co.schuylkill.pa.us/Offices/RegisterOfWills/index.asp
The Schuylkill County Register of Wills has a searchable database for the marriages that took place in their county.
http://www.co.schuylkill.pa.us/info/Offices/Archives/MarriageDockets.csphttp://www.co.schuylkill.pa.us/info/Offices/Archives/MarriageDockets.csp
The following result is the closest match I could come to your great grandparent’s names.
Marriage Docket List
5-7454
1885-1910
Secenszka, Antonyna (Female)
Cheronius, Joseph (Male)
Schuylkill County has an Archives Department.Here is link to their web site:
http://www.co.schuylkill.pa.us/Offices/Archives/archives.asphttp://www.co.schuylkill.pa.us/Offices/Archives/archives.asp
Archives
Schuylkill County Courthouse
401 N. 2nd St.
Pottsville, PA 17901-2528
(570) 628-1145
[email protected]
Colleen Ryan, Director
Then of course, there is the church register where your great grandparents were married, that will also have a record of their marriage.The priest would record in the marriage register, the names of the bride and groom’s parents and where the bride and groom were baptized.
From the census records, we know that Joseph and Antonina were married around 1891.There were two (2) (Polish) Roman Catholic parishes in Shenandoah PA: St. Casimir established in 1872 and St. Stanislaus established in 1898.
St Casimir Catholic Church
108 W Cherry St
Shenandoah, PA 17976
Phone: (570) 462-1968 Fax: (570) 462-1388
A Parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown PA
St. Casimir is no longer an active parish and its records were transferred to St. Stanislaus:
St. Stanislaus Catholic Church
108 West Cherry Street
Shenandoah, PA17976-2299
(570) 462-1968
The other document would be the U.S. Naturalization records for Joseph Jeromin/Yeromin.From the census records, it is unclear if Joseph ever completed his naturalization process.He indicated in the 1910 census (while still living in Schuylkill County), that he at least filed his first naturalization papers.You should contact the Schuylkill County to see if they have a copy of those documents.
Again, in Schuylkill County, the County Archives Department appears to be the official record keeper for those records too.
Finally, There is a May 20, 1891 New York (Castle Garden) Arrival Record for an Antonia “Scheschenska”.She sailed from Bremen Germany on the S.S. Spree.She was from Russia (no other information).The date of immigration and date of birth seems to match with the information on the census records for your family.
Best regards,
Norbert
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Re: Schuylkill County PA Archives
carolyn craig 2/17/12