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    Tuesday 07/28/2009 3:35:32pm
    Name: Joanna i Stanislaw NISIEWICZ
    E-Mail: joannanisiewicz@yahoo.com
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    Where are you from: Sanok-Dobra-Vienna
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    Comments: Nazywam sie Stanislaw Nisiewicz i pochodze z Dobrej.Od dluzszego czasu mieszkam w Austrii.Dobra to moja rodzinna wioska do ktorej lubie przyjezdzac.
    Dziekujemy serdecznie za zaproszenie na zjazd.Pozdrawiamy.




     

    Tuesday 07/28/2009 11:02:33am
    Name: Ewa Demkowicz
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    Comments: Dobra to bardzo piękna wieś.




     

    Tuesday 07/28/2009 9:26:02am
    Name: Jan Czekajewski
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    Comments: Mój Demjanjuk

    W listopadzie 1942 roku, maj¹c 8 lat, niemrawo zmierza³em w kierunku centrum Czêstochowy, gdzie moi rodzice zapisali mnie na nielegalne „komplety”, jako ze polskie szko³y by³y zamkniête od szeregu miesiêcy i zamienione na niemieckie koszary lub wojskowe szpitale. By³ to ju¿ trzeci rok gnêbi¹cej nas g³odem niemieckiej okupacji. Polskie nielegalne szko³y, nazywane „kompletami” by³y prowadzone w prywatnych mieszkaniach w których uczono nas miedzy innymi polskiej historii. Moja szko³a nie trwa³a d³ugo. Nastêpnego roku Gestapo aresztowa³o mych nauczycieli i wys³ano ich do Auschwitz ( Oœwiêcimia).
    Niemcy uwa¿ali, ¿e polskie szko³y nie s¹ Polakom potrzebne, gdy¿ Polaków przeznaczeniem by³a praca niewolnicza dla Rzeszy Niemieckiej nie wymagaj¹ca innego wykszta³cenia, poza zawodowym.
    Komplety, na które zapisali mnie rodzice, mia³y miejsce w odleg³oœci oko³o dwu kilometrów od miejsca mego zamieszkania na ul Œniadeckich i aby do nich dotrzeæ winem przejœæ ulica Handlow¹. W czasie mej podro¿y zauwa¿y³em grupê oko³o 100 jeñców sowieckich eskortowanych przez dwu ¿o³nierzy niemieckich udaj¹cych siê na jakieœ roboty poza miejscem ich uwiezienia. Po lewej stronie ulicy Handlowej znajdowa³o siê doœæ du¿e pole na którym zasadzano wczeœniej kapustê. Z tej kapusty, w listopadzie, pozosta³y tylko „g³êby”, ju¿ w tym czasie zmarzniête przez mróz.
    Sowieckim jeñcom uda³o siê przekonaæ niemieckich wartowników, aby im zezwolili poszukaæ na tym polu szcz¹tków kapusty. Kiedy Niemcy przychylili siê do proœby i pozwolili rosyjskim wiêŸniom wybiec na pole, zauwa¿y³em ¿e ci rzucili siê na ziemie i jedli zmarzniête g³¹by po kapuœcie tak jakby by³y to delicje. Jeden z Rosjan, a mo¿e by³ to Ukrainiec, gestami komunikowa³ mi ¿e jest bardzo g³odny i gdybym da³ mu coœ do jedzenia to w zamian dostanê zabawkê, która wystruga³ scyzorykiem w obozie. Nie mog¹c znieœæ widoku doros³ego cz³owieka ¿ebrz¹cego o kawa³ek chleba d¹³em mu dwie kromki czarnego chleba posmarowane margaryn¹, jakie dali mi rodzice na drugie œniadanie w szkole. W szkole dawano nam gor¹ce, tak zwane. odci¹gane (bez t³uszczu) mleko, ale chleb mieliœmy przynieœæ w³asny.
    W zamian, sowiecki jeniec, da³ mi drewnian¹ zabawkê w postaci krokodyla.
    Kiedy nauczycielka zapyta³a mnie w szkole, gdzie mam chleb jaka winni daæ mi rodzice na drugie œniadanie, przyzna³em ¿e odda³em go g³odnemu Rosjaninowi.
    Nauczycielka postawi³a mnie przed klas¹ i powiedzia³a, ¿e moje zachowanie winno byæ wzorem dla innych, gdy¿ mimo, ¿e Sowieci s¹ naszymi wrogami, to jednak g³oduj¹cemu cz³owiekowi nale¿ pomóc, niezale¿nie czy on wróg czy przyjaciel.
    O ile sobie przypominam by³ to jedyny przypadek w mym szkolnym ¿yciu, kiedy dosta³em publiczna pochwa³ê do nauczycielki.
    Po wojnie dowiedzieliœmy siê, ¿e w Czêstochowie, w stosunkowo ma³ym obozie dla jeñców sowieckich, zag³odzono kilkadziesi¹t tysiêcy Rosjan, Ukraiñców, Ka³muków itp.
    Na polskim i niemieckim terytorium by³o setki takich obozów dla jeñców sowieckich w których Niemcy zag³odzili setki tysiêcy jeœli nie miliony jeñców. Tych ludzi nie zabijano gazem, jak to mia³o miejsce z ¯ydami. Ich zag³odzono na œmieræ. Szanse dla sowieckiego jeñca, aby prze¿y³ okres uwiezienia, by³y podobne do szansy ¯yda prze¿ycia obozu w Oœwiêcimiu.
    Wiele lat potem , w latach 1980 tych przyjecha³ do mnie do Stanów Zjednoczonych przyjaciel z Polski, który przywióz³ zabawkê dla mej kilkuletniej córki. Ku memu zdumieniu by³ to drewniany krokodyl identyczny z zabawk¹, któr¹ otrzyma³em od sowieckiego jeñca w roku 1942 za dwie kromki chleba. Zabawkê od mego przyjaciela zatrzyma³em dla siebie samego i mam j¹ do dzisiaj. Jej widok wywo³a³ u mnie dramatyczne wspomnienia z mego dzieciñstwa w czasie wojny. Co siê sta³o z oryginalnym krokodylem, jaki otrzyma³em od sowieckiego ¿o³nierza, nie wiem, jako ¿e od tego czasu po wielekroæ zmienia³em kraje i miejsca zamieszkania.

    Dzisiaj 67 lat póŸniej, 14 kwietnia 2009 roku, widzê w amerykañskiej telewizji 89-cio letniego Iwana Demjaniuka, zamieszka³ego w pobliskim mieœcie Cleveland, w stanie Ohio, wynoszonego na noszach w celu ekstradycji do Niemiec, gdzie jest podejrzany za udzia³ w zbrodniach hitlerowskich, jako stra¿nik w obozie koncentracyjnym w Sobiborze. Byæ mo¿e, ¿e to by³ w³aœnie Iwan Demjanjuk od którego dosta³em drewnianego krokodyla, który w obliczu œmierci g³odowej zgodzi³ siê na pozycjê niemieckiego stra¿nika. Tacy ludzie w obliczu œmierci g³odowej zapisywali siê do kampanii wartowniczych albo do armii rosyjskiego genera³a W³asowa, walcz¹cej po stronie niemieckiej w okresie II Wojny Œwiatowej.
    Trudno mi powiedzieæ, czy Iwan Demjanjuk by³ stra¿nikiem w obozie w Sobiborze, gdy¿ on sam temu zaprzecza. Jeœli jednak nim by³, kto z nas, w obliczu œmierci g³odowej, zachowa³ by siê inaczej. Mo¿e my w³aœnie staralibyœmy siê przed³u¿yæ swe ¿ycie o kilka miesiêcy, podobnie jak robili to ¿ydowscy policjanci w ¯ydowskich Gettach.
    Tych policjantów, którzy aresztowali swych braci i zaganiali ich do wagonów bydlêcych zmierzaj¹cych do komór gazowych Treblinki i Auschwitz, nie szukamy i sadzimy, maj¹c na uwadze specjaln¹ sytuacja, w jakiej siê znaleŸli. Dlaczego wiêc Iwan Demjanjuk jest teraz taki wazny? Pmietajmy, ¿e ju¿ raz s¹d w Izraelu skaza³ go na œmieræ i nastêpnie uniewinni³, gdy siê okaza³o ¿e Iwan Demjanjuk nie jest szukanym zbrodniczym „Iwanem GroŸnym” z Treblinki, który zgin¹³ w roku 1945. W tamtym czasie, w Izraelu, czekaj¹c na egzekucjê, Iwan Demjanjuk spêdzi³ 5 lat w celi œmierci.

    Ekstradycja Demjanjuka do Niemiec jest ironia, jako ¿e kraj z które pochodzili jego mocodawcy i oprawcy bêdzie teraz wymierza³ wyrok za jego dzia³alnoœæ. Czy¿by Niemcy starali siê odwróciæ uwagê od w³asnej winy w morderstwie milionów ¯ydów i S³owian. Ju¿ dzisiaj m³oda generacja w Ameryce obci¹¿a win¹ za Holocaust jak¹œ nieznan¹ grupê etniczn¹ zwana „Nazistami”. Wymienianie Niemców i Niemiec w kontekœcie zbrodni pope³nionych w czasie II Wojny Œwiatowej jest , mo¿na by powiedzieæ, niemile widziane.

    Nie mogê oprzeæ siê wra¿eniu, ¿e cala afera z Demjaniukiem nie wiele ma wspólnego z jego win¹ albo nawet z jego osob¹. Sta³ siê on koz³em ofiarnym i narzêdziem propagandowym pewnej grupy w Amerykañskim Ministerstwie Sprawiedliwoœci, która desperacko szuka powodów dla swej dalszej egzystencji. Maj¹ oni powa¿ny problem do zgryzienia. Ludzie tacy jak Demjanjuk po prostu wymieraj¹.

    Jan Czekajewski

    Czekajewski autorze:
    Jan Czekajewski urodzi³ siê w Czêstochowie, studiowa³ na Politechnice Wroc³awskiej i na Uniwersytecie w Uppsali, gdzie siê doktoryzowa³. Od roku 1968 przebywa w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Jest cz³onkiem Polskiego Instytutu Naukowego Nowym Jorku (PIASA). W roku 1989 uzyska³ nagrodê Stanu Ohio na najlepszego przedsiêbiorcê w dziedzinie wysokiej technologii. W roku 2007 Jan Czekajewski opublikowa³ pamiêtniki swego ojca, Franciszka Czekajewskiego opisuj¹ce ¿ycie w Czêstochowie okresie okupacji niemieckiej. Pamiêtnik ten zosta³ uznany przez ¯ydowski Instytut Yad Vashem, za dokument o du¿ej wartoœci historycznej.




     

    Monday 07/27/2009 9:48:13pm
    Name: Jan Czekajewski
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    Where are you from: Czestochowa
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    Comments: My Demjaniuk

    It was November 1942. I was 8 years old walking to the illegal, underground school in Czestochowa, Poland at the time when my town was already 3 years under oppressive Nazi German yoke.
    School was illegal, because Nazi Germans forbade the teaching of history. Nevertheless my parents decided to send me to illegal courses run in a private apartment. My school did not last long. The following year the clandestine school was raided by German Gestapo and teachers were sent to Auschwitz.
    Nazi Germans determined that the Poles should become slave laborers and as such they would not need a high school education or knowledge of history. Courses were held about 2 miles walking from my home to the apartment where courses took place. Along the way, on the Handlowa Ulica ( Commerce Street), I noticed a group of about a hundred Russian POWs walking under an escort of two German soldiers. On the left side of the street there was a field of cabbage planted that year, with cabbage heads already harvested., but from the frozen soil there were sticking up remnants of the cabbage stems. Prisoners asked the German guards for permission to explore this field, and when a compassionate German soldier agreed , they ran into the field devouring these stems as if it were a rare delicacy. One Russian or maybe a Ukrainian POW, begged me for something to eat.
    My parents gave me two slices of bread with margarine for my school lunch. I could not resist this man’s misery and I gave him my lunch bread.
    In exchange he gave me a toy, a hand carved alligator, which he made at the POW camp.
    In school at lunch time my teacher asked me where I had my sandwich. I had no choice but to tell the truth, that I gave it to the starving Soviet soldier (POW). To my surprise the teacher took me in the front of the class and said that in spite that the Soviets are our enemies ( they invaded Poland as allies of Hitler in 1939), it was the Christian thing to help a starving human being, enemy or friend. That was the only one instance when I ever got a compliment from a teacher in my school years.

    After the war we learned that in the small German POW camp in my home town Czestochowa, many thousands Soviet POWs were starved to death. There were hundreds such camps on Polish and German territory where millions of Soviet POWs were sentenced to death by starvation. Chances of Soviet a POW surviving imprisonment were equivalent to Jews surviving a concentration camp in Auschwitz. They did not gas them. They were just starved to death.

    Many years later, in the 1980s, a friend from Poland came for a visit to Columbus, Ohio and brought with him a present for my daughter, a wooden alligator. It was an alligator of the same size and look which I got from the starving Soviet soldier. I did not pass this alligator to my daughter, I kept it for myself. It was too dear for me to part with it. I do not know what happened to the original gift that I got from the Soviet POW, as I have changed my residence many times in a few countries.

    67years later, April 14, 2009 I saw on American TV Ivan Demjaniuk, the former Soviet soldier, POW of Germans, 89 years old, being taken on the stretcher to the detention center from where he will be deported to Germany to be tried for his alleged World War II crimes as a Concentration Camp guard.
    May be it was Ivan Demjaniuk who gave me the wooden alligator in exchange for two slices of bread. Maybe it was he, who when confronted with the possibility of death by starvation decided to become a Nazi German guard. Some of these people guarded fuel or food depots and some maybe were assigned to guard concentration camps. I do not know if Ivan Demjaniuk from Cleveland was a guard in a concentration camp, because he denies such involvement. But if he was, who of us would behaved differently if confronted with imminent death by starvation. We may have chosen to extend our life for a few more months or weeks. We do not blame Jewish Policemen in the Jewish Ghettos, who herded their own people to the trains taking them to the concentration camps of Auschwitz or Treblinka.
    What is ironic is that now Germans, who were instrumental in Demjaniuk’s wartime tribulation, as well as in murdering millions of Jews and Slavs, assume to be the judges of his perceived crimes. Are they trying to divert attention from their own’s people responsibility?
    I can not resist the thought that this affair with Ivan Demjaniuk has nothing to do with justice, his guilt or even his identity. It is a propaganda tool which serves a particular group of Justice Department officials desperately proving that their office is still needed.
    They have a “pressing problem”! Such people as Demjaniuk are just dying off.

    Jan Czekajewski




     

    Monday 07/27/2009 5:26:24pm
    Name: Jadwiga Czebieniak
    E-Mail: jadzia122c@interia.pl
    What is your age: 37
    Where are you from: Krosno
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    Comments: Pochodzę z Dobrej, moi rodzice to Stanisław i Katarzyna Krowiak z domu Demkowicz. Pozdrawiam Jana Popiela.

     

    Monday 07/27/2009 12:51:21am
    Name: Hieronim Anonim
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    Comments: DOBRA SZLACHECKA (gm. Sanok)
    Zespó³ cerkiewny. Cerkiew greckokatolicka pw. Podwy¿szenia Krzy¿a Œwiêtego (wczeœniej Œw. Miko³aja), obecnie koœció³ rzymskokatolicki. Cerkiew bramna pw. Podwy¿szenia Krzy¿a Œwiêtego (?), z dzwonnic¹ w izbicy, obecnie dzwonnica koœcio³a rzymskokatolickiego

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    opis obiektu

    Zespó³ cerkiewny usytuowany w centrum wsi, po po³udniowej stronie drogi lokalnej, odchodz¹cej w kierunku wschodnim od szosy H³omcza – Ulucz, na wzniesieniu, otoczony starodrzewem. Teren cerkiewny ogrodzony murem z dzikiego kamienia. Obie œwi¹tynie orientowane. Cerkiew bramna w ogrodzeniu od strony wschodniej, na osi cerkwi usytuowanej w centrum zespo³u. Opodal zespo³u cerkiewnego, od po³udnia XIX-wieczna plebania.
    1) Cerkiew p.w. Œwiêtego Miko³aja (póŸniej Podwy¿szenia Krzy¿a Œwiêtego) drewniana, trójdzielna, z sanktuarium zamkniêtym trójbocznie, konstrukcji zrêbowej, na kamiennym podmurowaniu. Nawa i babiniec na planie zbli¿onym do kwadratu. Nawa obszerniejsza od przylegaj¹cych do niej pomieszczeñ sanktuarium i babiñca. Zr¹b œcian sanktuarium, nawy i babiñca równej wysokoœci. Dachy kalenicowe: nad sanktuarium piêciopo³aciowy; nad naw¹ czteropo³aciowy; nad babiñcem dwuspadowy. Kalenice dachów sanktuarium i babiñca za³o¿one poni¿ej poziomu kalenicy dachu nawy. Na kalenicy ponad ka¿dym z pomieszczeñ du¿a baniasta pseudolatarnia na oœmiobocznym tamburze (nad naw¹ nie zosta³a zrekonstruowana po zniszczeniu w 1944 roku). Podobna, mniejsza w szczycie dachu sanktuarium. Podwalina os³oniêta daszkiem okapowym. Wszystkie zewnêtrzne powierzchnie œcian odeskowane pionowo. Po³acie dachowe pod blach¹. Wewn¹trz stropy p³askie. Polichromia œcienna z XIX/XX . Z tego okresu m.in. wielostrefowy ikonostas.
    2) Cerkiew bramna drewniana, konstrukcji mieszanej. Zasadnicz¹, noœn¹ czêœci¹ budynku jest trzykondygnacyjna wie¿a s³upowo – ramowa. Podwaliny usuniête. Cokó³ z dzikiego kamienia. Pomiêdzy s³upy noœne w pierwszej kondygnacji wbudowana kamienna brama. W drugiej kondygnacji, oparta na ramie, cerkiew dwudzielna, zrêbowa. Nawa na planie zbli¿onym do kwadratu, sklepiona zrêbow¹ kopu³¹ czteropolow¹, z z³omem i stê¿eniem krzy¿owym, ponad którym deskowy strop. Sanktuarium prostok¹tne, wê¿sze i ni¿sze od nawy, sklepione kolebkowo. Œciana ikonostasowa pe³na, pierwotnie z dwoma przejœciami, wtórnie przeciêta. Oœcie¿owy portal w zachodniej œcianie nawy . Oœcie¿owe podwójne okno w pó³nocnej œcianie nawy. Prostok¹tne oscie¿owe okno we wschodniej œcianie sanktuarium. Pod³ogi deskowe. Wokó³ cerkwi obejœcie. W najwy¿szej kondygnacji izbica dla pomieszczenia dzwonów. Dach namiotowy, zwieñczony glinian¹, wypalon¹ bani¹ garncarskiej roboty. Œrodkowa kondygnacja najobszerniejsza, obejœcie cerkwi pod opasaniem. Œciany odeskowane pionowo. Po³acie dachowe pobite gontem.
    Cerkiew bramna w Dobrej (b³êdnie okreœlana w przedmiotowej literaturze dzwonnic¹ b¹dŸ dzwonnic¹ bramn¹) jest jedynym tego typu zabytkiem w Polsce, reliktem œredniowiecznej tradycji budowlanej sytuuj¹cej œwi¹tyniê ponad bram¹ w fortyfikacji. W takiej cerkwi umieszczano zazwyczaj ikonê lub relikwie bêd¹ce palladium grodu.

    historia obiektu

    Wieœ za³o¿ona w 1402 roku. Król W³adys³aw Jagie³³o nada³ wówczas pole zwane Dobre trzem stryjecznym braciom: Jurowi, Zanowi i Dymitrowi. W 1467 Jan Koczan – mieszczanin sanocki, kupi³ czêœæ wsi. W XVII wieku wieœ sta³a siê w³asnoœci¹ Chyleñskich; w XIX I XX wieku w posiadaniu Cieszanowskich. Istniej¹cy do 1948 roku podzia³ wsi na Szlacheck¹ i Rustykaln¹ ma swoje korzenie jeszcze w XV-wiecznym rozdzieleniu praw w³asnoœci. Pierwsza cerkiew wzmiankowana w 1433 roku. Obecnie istnieje w Dobrej zespó³ z³o¿ony z dwóch cerkwi (jedna z nich bramna z dzwonnic¹). Data powstania obu budynków nie zosta³a dot¹d precyzyjnie ustalona. Cerkiew bramna jest œwi¹tyni¹ co najmniej XVII-wieczn¹ (w 2002 roku Muzeum Zamek w £añcucie i Muzeum Budownictwa Ludowego w Sanoku, opublikuj¹ wyniki aktualnie prowadzonych badañ zabytku, m.in. datowanie metod¹ dendrochronologiczn¹). W XIX wieku usuniêto podwaliny s³upowo-ramowej wie¿y, opieraj¹c jej konstrukcjê noœn¹ bezpoœrednio na cokole z dzikiego kamienia i wznosz¹c w dolnej kondygnacji kamienn¹ bramê. Œwi¹tynia p.w. Podwy¿szenia Krzy¿a Œwiêtego datowana jest na 1879 rok, jednak istniej¹ powa¿ne przes³anki aby przypuszczaæ, ¿e jest to obiekt znacznie starszy, jedynie przebudowany w tym¿e roku. Wówczas zapewne zosta³ rekonsekrowany, przyjmuj¹c nowe wezwanie (przeniesione z cerkwi bramnej, która przesta³a pe³niæ funkcjê kultow¹ /?/) W cerkwi bramnej, tu¿ przed II wojn¹ sk³adowany by³ XVII-wieczny ikonostas (nie wiadomo czy stanowi³ on jej wyposa¿enie, czy te¿ zosta³ przeniesiony z drugiej cerkwi po ufundowaniu do niej nowego wyposa¿enia, które w latach 1899-1904 wykonali bracia Antoni i Miko³aj Bogdañscy i Miko³aj Demkowycz). W izbicy, ponad cerkwi¹ bramn¹, dwa dzwony (jeden z nich z dat¹ 1625 i herbem Sas). Parafia w Dobrej wchodzi³a w sk³ad dekanatu birczañskiego, a po I wojnie dekanatu dynowskiego. W 1934 roku w³¹czono j¹ w sk³ad Apostolskiego Administratorstwa £emkowszczyzny. W 1785 roku odnotowano wœród mieszkañców wsi 540 grekokatolików, 65 rzymokatolików i 27 ¯ydów. Liczba mieszkañców do 1936 roku znacznie wzros³a. Wówczas w Dobrej zamieszkiwa³o 1712 grekokatolików, 190 rzymokatolików i 60 ¯ydów. W 1944 roku w wyniku dzia³añ wojennych uszkodzeniu uleg³o sklepienie nawy cerkwi trójdzielnej . Po wysiedleniu ludnoœci ukraiñskiej cerkiew przejêta zosta³a przez koœció³ rzymsko-katolicki. Dzisiaj jest fili¹ parafii w Mrzyg³odzie.

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    Dokumentacja fotograficzna, PP PKZ Warszawa, 1964-1968

    Archiwum Dzia³u Sztuki Cerkiewnej Muzeum Zamku w £añcucie Dokumentacja wizytacyjna z lat 1960-2000, T. I-IV. Dzia³ Sztuki Cerkiewnej Muzeum Zamku w £añcucie




     

    Monday 07/27/2009 5:40:40am
    Name: Jason Richard Popiel
    E-Mail: jpopi83@yahoo.com
    What is your age: 26
    Where are you from: Oregon, USA
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: Hey there. I am 26 yrs old. I've never met another Popiel since growing up in Oregon. All I know is my great grandfather came to America and then passed early on in my grandfathers childhood, his wife also. I was just wondering if there is any way to find out my heritage. I have researched for so long, and only gotten so far. I just want to know where I come from, whos family I am a part of. I am absoultely becoming fascinated with this website. Thank you so so so so much for this. Thank you.




     

    Friday 07/17/2009 3:29:19pm
    Name: Jan Hnatusko
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    Comments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Lublin

    The Union of Lublin was superseded by the Constitution of May 3, 1791 from 1791, when the federal Commonwealth was to be transformed into a unitary state by King Stanis³aw August Poniatowski. However, the constitution was not fully implemented and the Commonwealth was ended by the late 18th century partitions of Poland, with the last one in 1795

    In culture and social life, both the Polish language and Catholicism became dominant for the Ruthenian nobility, most of whom were initially Ruthenian speaking and Eastern Orthodox by religion (see Polonization). However the commoners, especially the peasants, continued to speak their own languages and to practise the Orthodox religion. This eventually created a significant rift between the lower social classes and the nobility in the Lithuanian and Ruthenian areas of the Commonwealth. Some Ruthenian magnates resisted Polonization (see, e.g., Ostrogski) by adhering to Orthodox Christianity, giving generously to the Ruthenian Orthodox Churches and to the Ruthenian schools. However, the pressure of Polonization was harder to resist with each subsequent generation and eventually almost all of the Ruthenian nobility was Polonized.




     

    Monday 07/06/2009 0:52:59am
    Name: Katherine Neswick
    E-Mail: kathneswick@msn.com
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    Where are you from: Chicago
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: Sorry about the repeat email but I left off the names and information of the relatives that I'm looking for that I've lost touch with since my grandmother died. I have an old letter but it doesn't have a lot of information written in it. I don't have a last name of my relatives (only first names). I know that my grandmother, Katarzyna Nesiewicz, was an Aunt to Nadiya, an engineer geologist at the Ukraine Research Institute and she's married to Yevgen (a professor - I think) and their daughter is Olga, a computer engineer. It also mentions my Grandmother's cousin, Francishka Tchaikovska who died in 1994, who was also born in Dobra. It doesn't mention the name of the town where they live only that the town is famous for its ancient architecture and monuments and it was founded in the XIIIth century.

    My grandparents were Jozef Nesiewicz (born 1896) and my grandmother Katarzyna Nesiewicz (born 1908)in Dobra. My grandmother's maiden name was Czajkowski. My grandfather's father was Andrez Nisiewicz.




     

    Sunday 07/05/2009 11:51:21pm
    Name: Katherine Neswick
    E-Mail: kathneswick@msn.com
    What is your age: 49
    Where are you from: Chicago
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: I'm still looking for my family relatives that I have lost touch with since my grandmother died...where are you? My grandparents were Jozef Nesiewicz (born 1896) and my grandmother Katarzyna Nesiewicz (born 1908)in Dobra. My grandmother's maiden name was Czajkowski. My grandfather's father was Andrez Nisiewicz. Please feel free to contact me with any information concerning our ancestry. I have very little information on my grandfather's side of the family.

     

    Sunday 05/31/2009 8:57:47pm
    Name: Tadeusz Kobylarski
    E-Mail: tadeuszusa@yahoo.com
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Nowy Jork
    Homepage: http://thefaceofnewyork.net
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    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: Najciekawsze dla mnie na stronie Dobrej sa nazwiska ludzi, ktorzy mieszkali w Dobrej w sredniowieczu, nazwiska powtorzone za AGZ, Wojciechem Hejnoszem, Adamem Fastnachtem.
    Czego na stronie nie ma: nie ma wielu rzeczy, mnie najbardziej interesuje zycie codzienne w Dobrej, np. w pierwszej polowie XIX wieku. Chcialbym wiedziec, gdzie sie dobrzanie ubierali, ilu bylo kowali w Dobrej? Gdzie dobrzanie sprzedawali swoje produkty? Czy w Dynowie, czy na targu w Sanoku, czy tylko w Mrzyglodzie? Jakie mieli stroje, jak sie ubierali od swieta? I am looking for the information about my uncle Jan Kobylarski who died in an acident in a a coal mine in Pitsburgh aeria in 1942.




     

    Saturday 05/30/2009 9:28:54pm
    Name: Teresa Majewska
    E-Mail: terma8@att.net
    What is your age: 54
    Where are you from: Warszawa
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    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments:




     

    Thursday 05/28/2009 4:55:21pm
    Name: Brian Cunningham
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    Comments:
    From: Brian Cunningham
    Subject: UKRAINE/POLAND/GALICIA - PRE WW I
    Date: 05 Jan 97 16:54:44 EST


    I would like to correspond with anyone doing Eastern European research as
    follows:

    Villages:

    Dobra (Dobra Szlachecka, on the San River, just north of Sanok,
    Diocese of Przemysl , Sambor, and Sanok, a Greek-Catholic
    Uniate (Ruthenian or Ukrainian) diocese of Western Galicia,
    Austria-Hungary) This is now in southeastern Poland.

    Surnames:

    Stalony (Dobrzanski Hryckiewicz-Stalony, Stolony, Staleny),
    Hynko (Hinko). Allied lines include Sroka (Soroka), Bialas,
    Demkowicz, Fedczak, Niesiewicz, Warik, Kaptan (Kapitan),
    and any combinations of Dobrzanski (nobility conferred
    by King Jagiello in 1402)

    Settled in:

    My grandfather, Nicholas Staleny, son of Alex and Julia (Sroka) came to
    America in the late 1890's or early 1900's. He may have been
    accompanied by his brother, Michael. He settled in Olyphant, PA working
    first as a miner, later as a farmer. My grandmother, Anna Hinko,
    daughter of Onuphrey and Anastasia (Bialas) came to America in 1905.
    She had a step-brother in Jersey City, but she eventually went to
    Endicott, NY to work in the show factory. They were married in Olyphant
    in June 1908. They had five children; Stephania and Michael died as
    infants and were survived by Maria (Mary), Julia, and Anna (my mother).
    They moved to Jersey City, Yonkers (NY), and settled in Bayonne (NJ).
    I have been able to acquire some birth, marriage, and death records
    concerning all the above surnames through LDS and through correspondence
    with the diocesean archivist in Przemysl. I would like to share the
    information I have with anyone researching these lines or who has
    interest in or knowledge of Dobra.

    Brian Cunningham
    76340.2117@compuserve.com
    1/5/97




     

    Thursday 05/28/2009 4:31:50pm
    Name: Jan Dobrzañski
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    Comments: Wzmianki o Leliwie mo¿na spotkaæ w epopei narodowej, jak¹ jest "Pan Tadeusz" Adama Mickiewicza w ksiêdze XI znajdujemy:

    ...U napierœnika wisi ksiê¿yc w kszta³cie Leliwy, To jest w kszta³t nowiu. Ca³y ten sprzêt osobliwy, Zdobyty (jako wieœæ niesie) w boju podhajeckim. Na jakimœ bardzo znacznym szlachcicu tureckim...

    a w ksiêdze XII przeczytaæ mo¿na: Uszlachciæ i og³osiæ, ¿e im herb nasz dajem. Pani udzieli jednym wioskom Pó³kozica, Drugim niech sw¹ Leliwê nada Pan Soplica

    W filmie "Krzy¿acy" w re¿yserii Aleksandra Forda (film z 1960 roku) mo¿e przy uwa¿nym œledzeniu akcji filmu zaobserwowaæ, ¿e herb ten mo¿na zobaczyæ w trakcie pierwszych scen rozpoczynaj¹cych bitwê pod Grunwaldem. Przez kilka sekund pokazano jeŸdŸca z chor¹gwi¹ symbolizuj¹c¹ Leliwê




     

    Thursday 05/28/2009 3:18:44pm
    Name: Jan Demkowicz Dobrzañski
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    Where are you from: Ziemie Odzyskane
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: Nazwa jednostki OBUiAD Kraków
    Aktotwórca Wojskowa Prokuratura Rejonowa w Krakowie
    Sygnatura IPN Kr 111/184
    Dawna sygnatura II Pr 558/47
    Tytu³ teczki Akta Wojskowej Prokuratury Rejonowej w Krakowie dot. Józef Nisiewicz
    Opis zawartoœci Józef Nisiewicz s. Leona, Ukrainiec zam. Dobra Szlachecka pow. Sanok, podejrzany o przynale¿noœæ do UPA
    Daty skrajne 1947-1948
    Uwagi

    Nazwa jednostki OBUiAD Kraków
    Aktotwórca Wojskowa Prokuratura Rejonowa w Krakowie
    Sygnatura IPN Kr 111/228
    Dawna sygnatura II Pr 882/47
    Tytu³ teczki Akta Wojskowej Prokuratury Rejonowej w Krakowie dot. W³odzimierz Pañkiewicz s. Micha³a
    Opis zawartoœci W³odzimierz Pañkiewicz s. Micha³a, Ukrainiec zam. Dobra Szlachecka pow. Sanok, podejrzany o przynale¿noœæ do UPA
    Daty skrajne 1947-1948
    Uwagi

    Nazwa jednostki OBUiAD Kraków
    Aktotwórca Wojskowa Prokuratura Rejonowa w Krakowie
    Sygnatura IPN Kr 111/263
    Dawna sygnatura II Pr 1094/47
    Tytu³ teczki Akta Wojskowej Prokuratury Rejonowej w Krakowie dot. Anna Chreceniak c. Wasyla
    Opis zawartoœci Anna Chreceniak c. Wasyla, Ukrainka zam. Dobra Szlachecka, podejrzana o przynale¿noœæ do UPA
    Daty skrajne 1947-1948
    Uwagi

    Nazwa jednostki OBUiAD Kraków
    Aktotwórca Wojskowa Prokuratura Rejonowa w Krakowie
    Sygnatura IPN Kr 111/767
    Dawna sygnatura Pr 1686/47
    Tytu³ teczki Akta Wojskowej Prokuratury Rejonowej w Krakowie dot. Micha³ Nisiewicz s. Miko³aja
    Opis zawartoœci Micha³ Nisiewicz s. Miko³aja, Ukrainiec zam. Dobra Szlachecka pow. Sanok, oskar¿ony o dzia³alnoœæ antypolsk¹, przynale¿noœæ do UPA, nielegalne posiadanie broni
    Daty skrajne 1947

     

    Thursday 05/28/2009 3:10:15pm
    Name: Jan Demkowicz Dobrzanski
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    Where are you from: Ziemie Odzyskane
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: http://ipn.gov.pl/portal.php?serwis=pl&dzial=import&id=31&ile=10&page=16
    „Ukraiñcy w Polsce 1944-1956” - archiwum w Krakowie

    Nazwa jednostki OBUiAD Kraków
    Aktotwórca Wojskowa Prokuratura Rejonowa w Krakowie
    Sygnatura IPN Kr 111/182
    Dawna sygnatura II Pr 551/47
    Tytu³ teczki Akta Wojskowej Prokuratury Rejonowej w Krakowie dot. Józef Nisiewicz
    Opis zawartoœci Józef Nisiewicz s. Andrzeja, Ukrainiec zam. Dobra Szlachecka pow. Sanok, podejrzany o przynale¿noœæ do UPA
    Daty skrajne 1947
    Uwagi

    Nazwa jednostki OBUiAD Kraków
    Aktotwórca Wojskowa Prokuratura Rejonowa w Krakowie
    Sygnatura IPN Kr 111/213
    Dawna sygnatura II Pr 784/47
    Tytu³ teczki Akta Wojskowej Prokuratury Rejonowej w Krakowie dot. Andrzej Demkowicz
    Opis zawartoœci Andrzej Demkowicz s. Dymitra, Ukrainiec zam. Dobra Szlachecka pow. Sanok, podejrzany o przynale¿noœæ do UPA
    Daty skrajne 1947-1948
    Uwagi
    Nazwa jednostki OBUiAD Kraków
    Aktotwórca Wojskowa Prokuratura Rejonowa w Krakowie
    Sygnatura IPN Kr 111/171
    Dawna sygnatura II Pr 471/47
    Tytu³ teczki Akta Wojskowej Prokuratury Rejonowej w Krakowie dot. Miko³aj Stalony
    Opis zawartoœci Miko³aj Stalony s. Józefa, Ukrainiec zam. Dobra Szlachecka pow. Sanok, podejrzany o przynale¿noœæ do UPA
    Daty skrajne 1947-1948
    Uwagi
    Nazwa jednostki OBUiAD Kraków
    Aktotwórca Wojskowa Prokuratura Rejonowa w Krakowie
    Sygnatura IPN Kr 111/127
    Dawna sygnatura II Pr 277/47
    Tytu³ teczki Akta Wojskowej Prokuratury Rejonowej w Krakowie dot. Miko³aj Dobrzañski
    Opis zawartoœci Miko³aj Dobrzañski s. Bazylego, Ukrainiec zam. Tyskowa pow. Lesko, podejrzany o przynale¿noœæ do UPA
    Daty skrajne 1947
    Uwagi




     

    Thursday 05/28/2009 3:46:14am
    Name: Ken Stafford
    E-Mail: sff2020@yahoo.com
    What is your age: 54
    Where are you from: Phoenix, AZ
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    How did you find our website: Mike Demkowicz
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: Demkowick's from Scranton, PA and around Dobromyl, Ukraine...

    Michael Demkowich(?) came to Scranton and had my grandfather Frank Belles b. Aug 1900....in Scranto.




     

    Wednesday 05/20/2009 10:38:27am
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandmother is
    Comments: http://wyborcza.pl/1,86758,5240814,Zapomnijcie_o_Giedroyciu__Polacy__Ukraincy__IPN.html
    W liœcie z 2 kwietnia 1976 r. Jerzy Giedroyc pisa³ do ukraiñskiego polityka i dziennikarza Iwana Kedryna-Rudnyckiego: "Du¿o jest spraw miêdzy Polakami i Ukraiñcami - spraw przykrych czy bardzo ciê¿kich. Nie s¹dzê jednak, by nale¿a³o operowaæ informacjami nieœcis³ymi. W interesie chyba naszych narodów le¿y znormalizowanie stosunków, co wymaga powiedzenia sobie w oczy ca³ej prawdy - ale tylko prawdy".

    Prawda, jaka by nie by³a, jest zawsze piêkna! Czyni œwiat jasnym i otwartym, porz¹dkuje nasz¹ pamiêæ, a rzeczywistoœæ otaczaj¹c¹ czyni bardziej strawn¹.

    Opublikujmy na internecie kazdy skrawek informacji na temat przeszlosci Dobrej.




     

    Saturday 05/09/2009 7:11:44pm
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    Comments: Cerkiew greckokatolicka p.w. Podwy¿szenia Krzy¿a Œwiêtego (wczeœniej Œw. Miko³aja); obecnie koœció³ rzymsko-katolicki. Cerkiew bramna p.w. Podwy¿szenia Krzy¿a Œwiêtego, z dzwonnic¹ w izbicy; obecnie dzwonnica koœcio³a. Pierwsza wzmianka o cerkwi w Dobrej pochodzi z 1433 roku. Obecnie istnieje w Dobrej zespó³ z³o¿ony z dwóch cerkwi. Data powstania obu budynków nie zosta³a dot¹d precyzyjnie ustalona. Cerkiew bramna jest œwi¹tyni¹ co najmniej XVII-wieczn¹. W XIX wieku usuniêto podwaliny s³upowo-ramowej wie¿y, opieraj¹c jej konstrukcjê noœn¹ bezpoœrednio na cokole z dzikiego kamienia i wznosz¹c w dolnej kondygnacji kamienn¹ bramê. Œwi¹tynia p.w. Podwy¿szenia Krzy¿a Œwiêtego datowana jest na 1879 rok, jednak istniej¹ powa¿ne przes³anki aby przypuszczaæ, ¿e jest to obiekt znacznie starszy, jedynie przebudowany w tym¿e roku. Wówczas zapewne zosta³ rekonsekrowany, przyjmuj¹c nowe wezwanie. W cerkwi bramnej, tu¿ przed II wojn¹ sk³adowany by³ XVII-wieczny ikonostas (nie wiadomo czy stanowi³ on jej wyposa¿enie, czy te¿ zosta³ przeniesiony z drugiej cerkwi po ufundowaniu do niej nowego wyposa¿enia, które w latach 1899-1904 wykonali bracia Antoni i Miko³aj Bogdañscy i Miko³aj Demkowycz). W izbicy, ponad cerkwi¹ bramn¹, dwa dzwony.






     

    Saturday 05/09/2009 6:33:37pm
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    Where are you from: Zelazna Gora
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My parents are
    Comments: Pan Krycinski Stanislaw Krycinski w swoich rozszerzanych co jakis czas ksiazeczkach krajoznawczych o Pogorzu Przemyskim z uporem maniaka podaje, ze z Dobrej "niemal wszystkich mieszkancow wywieziono na Ukraine w 1946 r." podczas , gdy jest to nieprawda. Czy miejscowemu historykowi tak trudno ustalic i opublikowac ile osob z Dobrej Szlacheckiej i Dobrej Rustykalnej wywieziono na Ukraine, a ile wysiedlono na ziemie poniemieckei w czasie Akcji "Wisla"? Czemu to sluzy panie Krycinski? Chodzi o to, zeby nam wmowic, ze z Dobrej nie jestesmy? Czy o lasy chodzi?
    Przemyœl i Pogórze Przemyskie: przewodnik
    By Stanis³aw Kryciñski, Piotr Antoniak
    Published by Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", 2007
    ISBN 8389188643, 9788389188649

     

    Saturday 05/09/2009 10:35:49am
    Name: Michael Buryk (Gburyk)
    E-Mail: michael.buryk@verizon.net
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: New Jersey
    Homepage: http://www.buryk.com/our_patch
    Title of homepage: The Buryk Family Website
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: As always, your Dobra web site is an extremely valuable resource not only for people with ancestors from there, but also for anyone interested in the history of the Sanok lands. For those of us with Ukrainian ancestry, your site gives us a solid historical perspective on how the Sanok lands evolved under the Polish empire and later. The family documents for the Gbur family were particularly of interest to me as a Gbur/Gburyk descendant. Keep up the great work!




     

    Wednesday 05/06/2009 2:36:18pm
    Name: Michelle D. Hrycko
    E-Mail: michelle@alumni.ilstu.edu
    What is your age: 23
    Where are you from: Chicago IL
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments:




     

    Saturday 05/02/2009 5:10:31pm
    Name: Elzbieta Pisarek
    E-Mail: elapisarek@wp.pl
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    Where are you from: Germany
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    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Gratuluje tak wspanialego pomyslu. Strona DOBRA SZLACHECKA jest bardzo ciekawa i podoba mi sie. Pozdrawiam




     

    Wednesday 04/29/2009 5:26:53am
    Name: Iryna Demkovych
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    What is your age: 23
    Where are you from: Ukraine
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
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    Tuesday 04/28/2009 5:26:56pm
    Name: Jan Popiel
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    Where are you from: Dobra
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    Comments: Dzisiaj 62 rocznica Akcji "Wisla"

    http://www.rzeczpospolita.pl/dodatki/plus_minus_070428/plus_minus_a_14.html

    Akcja "Wis³a" - nieuzasadniona represja


    To, ¿e ucierpia³y tysi¹ce niewinnych ludzi, dla w³adz powszechnie stosuj¹cych terror wobec ca³ego spo³eczeñstwa nie mia³o ¿adnego znaczenia




    Wczesnym rankiem 28 kwietnia 1947 r. ok. 20 tysiêcy ¿o³nierzy Wojska Polskiego i Korpusu Bezpieczeñstwa Wewnêtrznego przyst¹pi³o do przymusowego wysiedlania ludnoœci ukraiñskiej i rodzin mieszanych z po³udniowo-wschodniej Polski. Zaskoczonym mieszkañcom dawano kilka godzin na spakowanie najbardziej potrzebnych rzeczy, po czym kierowano ich do punktów zbiorczych. St¹d, po selekcji prowadzonej przez funkcjonariuszy UB, byli wysy³ani na ziemie zachodniej i pó³nocnej Polski, gdzie osiedlano ich w rozproszeniu. Od kwietnia do 31 lipca 1947 r. wysiedlono ponad 140 tysiêcy Ukraiñców. Czêœæ inteligencji ukraiñskiej bez wyroku s¹du zosta³a skierowana do obozu w Jaworznie. Spoœród 3873 wiêzionych tam do pocz¹tku 1948 r. zmar³o ok. 160 osób. Jednoczeœnie z wysiedleniami prowadzono akcjê przeciwko oddzia³om Ukraiñskiej Powstañczej Armii, które wykrwawiono i zmuszono do przebicia siê na Ukrainê lub do zachodnich Niemiec.

    Akcja "Wis³a", taki bowiem kryptonim nadano operacji wysiedleñczej, mimo up³ywu lat wci¹¿ budzi emocje. W okresie PRL mówiono o niej dobrze lub nie mówiono wcale. Wed³ug w³adz by³a to ewakuacja ludnoœci zagro¿onej dzia³alnoœci¹ "ukraiñskich band", a wiêc niemal akcja humanitarna, wiêcej maj¹ca wspólnego z misjami ONZ ni¿ stalinowsk¹ polityk¹ narodowoœciow¹. Odmienne pogl¹dy mo¿na by³o przedstawiaæ jedynie w prasie drugiego obiegu lub na emigracji. Dopiero w 1990 r. wybrany w wolnych wyborach Senat RP w specjalnej uchwale potêpi³ akcjê "Wis³a", uznaj¹c, ¿e w jej trakcie "zastosowano w³aœciw¹ dla systemów totalitarnych zasadê odpowiedzialnoœci zbiorowej".

    Wydawa³oby siê, ¿e w s³owach tych nie ma nic kontrowersyjnego, ale uchwa³a Senatu do dziœ jest przedmiotem ostrego ataku nie tylko ze strony œrodowisk postkomunistycznych (prym wiod¹ tutaj "Przegl¹d" i "Trybuna"), ale i ultranarodowych (na czele z "Myœl¹ Polsk¹"), a sama akcja "Wis³a" znajduje licznych obroñców. Ich zdaniem wysiedlenie Ukraiñców by³o nie tylko usprawiedliwione, ale wrêcz konieczne. Jednym z najczêstszych argumentów na rzecz takiego stanowiska jest twierdzenie, i¿ operacja "Wis³a" by³a "decyzj¹ obronn¹ chroni¹c¹ terytorium Polski" przed UPA, której nie mo¿na by³o zlikwidowaæ inaczej ni¿ przez przymusowe wysiedlenia ludnoœci. Ponadto akcja "Wis³a" mia³a zahamowaæ rozlew krwi, a przeprowadzaj¹cy j¹ polscy komuniœci reprezentowali polsk¹ racjê stanu. Niektórzy zwolennicy wysiedleñ twierdz¹ nawet, ¿e by³y one dla polskich Ukraiñców b³ogos³awieñstwem, poniewa¿ za biedne cha³upy otrzymywali dobre poniemieckie gospodarstwa (sic!).

    Trudno siê zgodziæ z tak sformu³owanymi opiniami. Jeœli bowiem komuniœci uwa¿ali ukraiñskie podziemie za tak niebezpieczne dla integralnoœci terytorialnej pañstwa, dlaczego rozprawili siê z nim na szarym koñcu, dopiero po rozgromieniu polskiej partyzantki i PSL Stanis³awa Miko³ajczyka? OdpowiedŸ jest oczywista: dla polskich komunistów g³ównym wrogiem nie by³a UPA, ale polskie podziemie i opozycja. W specjalnym raporcie sporz¹dzonym wiosn¹ 1946 r. w Naczelnym Dowództwie Wojska Polskiego oddzia³y UPA okreœlono jako maj¹ce "charakter raczej przejœciowy". "Wiêcej sta³y charakter - czytamy dalej - ma dzia³alnoœæ band reakcyjnych NSZ i AK. Tworz¹ one najwiêksze zagêszczenie band i stanowi¹ g³ówne niebezpieczeñstwo". Minister bezpieczeñstwa publicznego Stanis³aw Radkiewicz w 1946 r. w odpowiedzi na wniosek PSL, by powo³aæ komisjê poselsk¹ dla zbadania sytuacji na terenach objêtych dzia³alnoœci¹ UPA, wprost stwierdzi³: "Dla nas, dla obozu demokratycznego, wa¿ne jest oczyszczenie terenu z band wszelkiego rodzaju reakcji, niezale¿nie czy ukraiñskiej, czy polskiej".

    Akcjê "Wis³a" przeprowadza³o ³¹cznie 21 tysiêcy ¿o³nierzy i milicjantów. Tymczasem do fa³szowania wyników referendum w 1946 r. u¿yto 36 tys. ¿o³nierzy WP i prawie 8 tys. KBW, nie licz¹c MO, ORMO i UB. Przeciwko polskiej opozycji kierowano bardzo czêsto tak¿e teoddzia³y, które mia³y za zadanie zwalczaæ UPA. Tak by³o np. z 9. Dywizj¹ Piechoty, któr¹ wykorzystano do "zabezpieczania" wyborów do Sejmu w styczniu 1947 r. W wyniku dzia³alnoœci tej jednostki 51 kó³ PSL Miko³ajczyka "rozwi¹za³o siê", a 2092 cz³onków tej partii opuœci³o jej szeregi. To tragiczne, ¿e dowództwo WP nie mia³o si³ na stworzenie garnizonów w miejscowoœciach nara¿onych na ataki UPA, natomiast zawsze je znajdowa³o na prowadzenie operacji maj¹cych na celu umocnienie totalitarnej w³adzy.

    W argumentacji obroñców akcji "Wis³a" uderza uto¿samianie z UPA ca³ej ludnoœci ukraiñskiej. Wed³ug nich ka¿da grupa Ukraiñców pozostawiona w tym regionie by³aby dalej "baz¹ dla podziemia" i Ÿród³em "niekoñcz¹cych siê terrorystycznych dzia³añ". St¹d ju¿ tylko krok do stwierdzenia, ¿e ca³a ludnoœæ ukraiñska wspó³pracowa³a z podziemiem. Nic bardziej b³êdnego. Na przyk³ad wœród £emków zamieszkuj¹cych Beskid Niski poparcie dla UPA by³o minimalne. WyraŸnie silniejsze by³y tam sympatie lewicowe, w dodatku du¿a czêœæ z nich nie uwa¿a³a siê za Ukraiñców. Bardzo czêsto £emkowie uwa¿ali za swój obowi¹zek informowanie w³adzy o pojawiaj¹cych siê u nich "ludziach z lasu". W sprawozdaniu UPA pisano: "Ludnoœæ nie zwraca uwagi na nasz ruch. Nie wierzy w nasz sukces i [...] odnosi siê do nas z lekcewa¿eniem". Mimo takiego stosunku do UPA ludnoœæ tê wysiedlono! Dodatkowe wysiedlenia mia³y miejsce wœród £emków jeszcze w 1950 r., trzy lata po likwidacji oddzia³ów UPA, nie mia³o to wiêc nic wspólnego ze zwalczaniem ukraiñskiego podziemia.

    Ju¿ na pocz¹tku akcji "Wis³a", planuj¹c dalsze wysiedlenia na jesieñ, w³adze nie ukrywa³y, ¿e nale¿y nimi obj¹æ tak¿e tych Ukraiñców, którzy "wykazali swoj¹ lojalnoœæ wobec Polski Demokratycznej". Takie osoby zalecano wysiedlaæ "starannie [czytaj? uprzejmie - B.B. i G.M.]" i pozwalaæ im zabraæ wiêkszoœæ dobytku. A by³ych ¿o³nierzy Wojska Polskiego zalecano wywoziæ "osobnymi transportami na najlepsze dzia³ki na Œl¹sku".

    Niew¹tpliwie UPA d¹¿y³a do okrojenia terytorium Polski i w³adze musia³y j¹ zwalczaæ, ale nie mo¿e to usprawiedliwiaæ zastosowania odpowiedzialnoœci zbiorowej. Partyzantka ukraiñska w Polsce dzia³a³a w doœæ w¹skim pasie granicznym rozci¹gniêtym od W³odawy po Krynicê i nie mia³a szans w walce z silnymi jednostkami wojska. Skoncentrowanie odpowiednich si³ mog³o doprowadziæ do likwidacji oddzia³ów UPA. Przymusowe wysiedlenia przeprowadzono nie dlatego, ¿e by³y koniecznym sposobem zwalczenia UPA, ale najprostszym i naj³atwiejszym. To, ¿e w tej operacji ucierpia³y tysi¹ce niewinnych ludzi dla w³adz powszechnie stosuj¹cych terror wobec ca³ego spo³eczeñstwa nie mia³o ¿adnego znaczenia.

    Rzeczywistym problemem utrudniaj¹cym wielu osobom uznanie akcji "Wis³a" za niemoraln¹ i niekonieczn¹ jest kwestia zbrodni pope³nionych przez UPA w latach 1943 - 1945 na Wo³yniu, Podolu i w Galicji. W wyniku okrutnych akcji ukraiñskiej partyzantki tylko na Wo³yniu pad³o 40 - 60 tys. ofiar. Przez ca³e lata o losach polskiej ludnoœci na wschodzie milczano (swoistym substytutem rzezi wo³yñskiej w propagandzie PRL by³y "£uny w Bieszczadach" Jana Gerharda, które sta³y siê kanw¹ popularnego filmu Ewy i Czes³awa Petelskich "Ogniomistrz Kaleñ"). Komunistyczne w³adze nie pozwala³y nawet na policzenie pomordowanych ani tym bardziej ich jakiekolwiek upamiêtnienie. Trudno siê w tym kontekœcie dziwiæ osobom, które obawiaj¹ siê, ¿e potêpienie akcji "Wis³a" przys³oni cierpienia Polaków. Czy jednak rzeczywiœcie w imiê pamiêci o tragedii Polaków na Kresach nale¿y zaprzeczaæ dramatowi wysiedlanych Ukraiñców? W naszym przekonaniu nie. Inna rzecz, ¿e nie mo¿e to oznaczaæ stawiania znaku równoœci miêdzy eksterminacj¹ Polaków na Wo³yniu i w Galicji a przymusowymi wysiedleniami Ukraiñców z po³udniowo-wschodniej Polski.

    Za pocz¹tek akcji "Wis³a" nale¿y uznaæ nie uchwa³ê Prezydium Rady Ministrów z 24 kwietnia 1947 r., ale o miesi¹c wczeœniejsz¹ decyzjê Biura Politycznego Polskiej Partii Robotniczej. 29 marca 1947 r. (dzieñ po œmierci gen. Karola Œwierczewskiego) Biuro Polityczne PPR postanowi³o "w ramach akcji represyjnej wobec ludnoœci ukraiñskiej [...] w szybkim tempie przesiedliæ Ukraiñców i rodziny mieszane". W posiedzeniu Biura Politycznego uczestniczyli m.in. Boles³aw Bierut, Stanis³aw Radkiewicz, Jakub Berman i W³adys³aw Gomu³ka. Wszyscy konsekwentnie i brutalnie dzia³ali na rzecz stalinizacji Polski. W tym kontekœcie widaæ, ¿e uchwa³a Senatu i wszystkie wypowiedzi potêpiaj¹ce akcjê "Wis³a" s³u¿¹ zerwaniu z peerelowsk¹ przesz³oœci¹. I odwrotnie - ci, którzy dziœ próbuj¹ usprawiedliwiaæ przymusowe wysiedlenia z 1947 r., niebezpiecznie zbli¿aj¹ siê do granicy relatywizacji komunistycznych zbrodni.

    Bogumi³a Berdychowska, Grzegorz Motyka
    Grzegorz Motyka - historyk z Instytutu Studiów Politycznych PAN. Ostatnio wyda³ ksi¹¿kê "Ukraiñska partyzantka 1941 - 1960"., Bogumi³a Berdychowska - ekspert ds. ukraiñskich, edytorka korespondencji Jerzego Giedroycia z przedstawicielami ukraiñskiej emigracji. Ostatnio wyda³a "Ukraina? ludzie i ksi¹¿ki"

     

    Friday 04/24/2009 11:14:15pm
    Name: Jan Popiel
    E-Mail: SasPopiel@aol.com
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    Where are you from: Brooklyn, New York
    Homepage: http://kingpopiel.tripod.com
    Title of homepage: www.dobra.org
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: Mr.and Ms. Frances and Seferin Pulis whom I met today in West Nyack, NY, shared a book on Mr. Pulis ancestry: The Zabriskie Family. A Three Hundred and one Year History of the descendants of Albrecht Zaborowskij (Ca 1638-1711) of Bergen County, New Jersey Compiled by George Olin Zabriskie.

    The progenitor of the Zabriskie Family (Albrecht Zaborowskij) came to New Amsterdam (New York City) in the ship d'Vos (The Fox), sailing from Amsterdam, Holland (p.1)

    The history has been compiled from what is assumed would be the point of view of Albrecht Zaborowskij and his wife, Matchtelt Vanderlinde, founders of the Zabriskie Family in America. Had they begun a family record similar to this, to be carried on by their descendants, they would have included all descendants and would not have dropped (as is done in many family histories) all female descendants from the record at the time of assumptions of another surname through marriage.(from the introduction)

    The book opens the poem:

    OUR ANCESTORS
    Ancestors are folks that we hold dear,
    Somone we think of in passing years.
    The places they filled while they were living,
    Were done with a great deal of giving.
    All that they did and all that they were,
    Is to us now like the balm of myrrh.

    The shortest life links its own with others,
    Yet short or long they walk together.
    A parting must come from those who grieve.
    But grief is not all that life has in store,
    There are happiness, joy and dreams galore.

    We who follow must pick up the threads,
    To weave a longer path ahead.
    Weaving and living takes a new rapture,
    And days bring forth their share of laughter.
    Colors are woven in the path we trod,
    Well is our honor to walk it with God.

    Some threads are strong, some taut with care,
    Others are worn with the load they bear.
    Some threads are broken, some glisten like gold,
    Some sparkle with silver, when days grow old.
    Rose for the morning, yellow for the day,
    Blue for the evening, night bring its gray.

    God chooseth the pattern, He makes the dye.
    We choose the colors for the pattern called "I".
    'Tis not ours to gumble or refuse the choice,
    When God makes the pattern; take time to rejoice.

    ....Vivian Genvieve Young Wehmyer
    (7796)- 1960




     

    Friday 04/24/2009 10:57:40am
    Name:
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    Where are you from: Winnipeg, Manitoba
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    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: The museum in Sanok is worth of visiting while traveling to Dobra. The museum is housed in the Sanok castle at 2 Zamkowa street. A Ruthenian stronghold was originally situated in this place, replaced in times of King Kazimierz the Great by a Gothic castle, which was later rebuilt in years 1523-48, in Renaissance style. Of the 700 icons owned by the museum 106 are presently displayed in some of its chambers. The remainder will be displayed after the renovation of the castle is completed. The collection owned by Sanok's museum is the biggest one in Poland. Other items which are exhibited in this museum include many paintings by Zdzisław Beksiński, other paintings of contemporary artists, as well as archaeological and historical exhibits connected with the region.




     

    Wednesday 04/22/2009 12:36:00am
    Name: Jan Popiel
    E-Mail: saspopiel@aol.com
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: New York
    Homepage: http://www.dobra.org
    Title of homepage: The Dobra Foundation
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: Dr. Ludwik Finkel, Dr. Stanislaw Starzynski. Historya Uniwersytetu Lwowskiego. Lwow 1894


    Jan de Dobra Dobrzanski, dr. prof. rektor 1834/5

    s.138 " Z wielkiej masy zaledwie kilku celujacych wybilo sie ponad zwykla, przecietna miare i pozostawilo jakis slad po sobie, jak...Jan de Dobra Dobrzanski (...).

    Do roku 1805 bylo 58 doktorow czlonkami fakultetu prawa; w 1806 dolaczyl Jan de Dobra Dobrzanski.

    s.168 "Do konkursu na profesora prawa koscielnego stanal jeszcze w r. 1806 J. Ch. Mochnacki i Jan Dobrzanski, ktory wtedy katedry nie dostal, ale elaborat jego byl o wiele lepszy niz Mochnackiego, skrytykowanego bardzo ostro przez dyrektora studyum.

    s. 187. Profesorem prawa polskiego, z ktorym polaczono wekslowe i handlowe i praktyka prawna zostal zamianowany Jan de Dobra Dobrzanski (Proth.com 1810 Nr 271), profesor prawa koscielnego i adwokat krajowy (...).

    Jan de Dobra Dobrzanski zostal dziekanem w 1820 r.

    s. 261 Pierwszy profesor Jan de Dobra Dobrzanski, uczen lwowskiego Jozefinskiego Uniwersytetu, dotrwal na katedrze az do r. 1836. Rownoczesnie zas byl adwokatem krajowym.

    Jan de Dobra Dobrzanski urodzil sie okolo 1780 r., zmarl we Lwowie 2 sierpnia 1836. Doktorat zdal w r. 1805. Tezy jego sa w aktach personalnych. Zona Elzbieta dostala po smierci 333 fl. 20 kr. pensji rocznej.
    Dobrzanski nie wykladal w wieksze swieta Rusinskie, zas wykladal w mniej wazne (s. 290).
    Na uniwersytecie swietowalo okolo 15 procent studentow, Rusinow.

    W latach 1834/5 Jan de Dobra Dobrzanski byle rektorem uniwersytetu.




     

    Monday 04/20/2009 10:34:29am
    Name: Jan Popiel
    E-Mail: saspopiel@aol.com
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: New York
    Homepage: http://kingpopiel.tripod.com
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My parents are
    Comments: Skorowidz wszystkich miejscowosci polozonych w Krolestwie Galicyi i Lodomeryi jakotez w Wielkim Ksiestwie Krakowskim i Ksiestwie Bukowinskim, pod wzgledem politycznej i sadowej organizacji kraju wraz z dokladnym oznaczeniem parafii, poczt i wlascicieli tabularnych ulozony porzadkiem abecadlowym. Lwow 1855

    s.45
    Dobra, wies, obwod Sanok, urzad powiatowy Bircza, parafia Mrzyglod rzymsko-kat, greko-katolicka w Dobrej, urzad pocztowy Sanok.
    Wlasciciel posiadlosci tabularnej Izabela Dobrzanska, Gracya Bogusz, Ciszanowski, spadkob. i wspol.



     

    03/22/2009 01:33:12
    Name: Aleksandra Zawadzka
    E-Mail: azawadzka@gren-living.ca
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My parents are
    Comments: Dear Michael & Jan, Thank you so much for creating this website. Few years back, you sent me photocopies of my ancestors\' church (Cerkva) records from Dobra. I value these very much. Would you also happen to have the records (marriage and their children born in Dobra) for: Helena (Olena) Nisiewicz (born 9. 12. 1921, daughter of Anna Nisiewicz and Jozef) and Michal Bilas (born 03.11.1914 son of Michal Bilas and Maria Demkowicz). Their wedding date was 20. 09. 1942 in Dobra, but they lived in Pleszawa, house number 51. My grandparents had three kids born in Dobra: Anna (born in 1943, died 1943/1944), Jan (born in 1945) and Zofia (born in 1946 died 1946/1947). We don’t have any records of the deceased babies – their exact dates of birth and death. I would appreciate your help in finding the missing information. Thank you very much. Best regards, Aleksandra Zawadzka Azawadzka@green-living.ca





     

    Sunday 03/01/2009 11:20:38am
    Name: Aleksandra Pieszczota-Wasyl
    E-Mail: ewasyl@o2.pl
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Krakow/Polska
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Witam, z prawdziwa przyjemnoscia znalazlam dzisiaj Pana witryne.
    Moja babcia, Julia z d. Hryckiewicz pochodzila z Dobrej Szlecheckiej, z
    ktorej wyjechala do Krakowa ok. r. 1908 (sama urodzila sie w 1892).
    Opowiadala zawsze o swym miejscu lat dziecinnych z wielka sympatia: o
    promie, o kontaktach katolikow z prawoslawnymi. Czy wspomniane zjazdy
    mieszkancow Dobrej Szlacheckiej jeszcze sie odbywaja? Zbliza sie przeciez
    okragla rocznica bitwy pod Grunwaldem, wypada uczcic naszego krolewskiego
    dobrodzieja.
    Pozdrawiam serdecznie

     

    Wednesday 01/21/2009 3:15:12pm
    Name: Dzhura Galina
    E-Mail: dzura@bk.ru
    What is your age: 38
    Where are you from: Moscow, Russia
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My Mother is
    Comments: I am looking for relatives of my mother. My mother Jaroslava Demkowicz was born in Dobra Szlachecka in 1945. My grandmother's name was Josepha, and my grandfather's name was Stepan. He was killed in Dobra Szlachecka just before the birth of my mother. Shortly after that, my grandmother and mother were relocated in Ukraine (Ternopil region, Kozova district). My grandmother died in 1989 and my mother lives in Lviv now. My grandfather Stepan had three brothers, who moved to the USA before Second World War. They lived in Jersey City. Their father, my great-grandfather's name was Michael. I would be grateful for any information.




     

    Sunday 01/11/2009 10:42:44am
    Name: Bogdan
    E-Mail: dan_mail@ukr.net
    What is your age: 30
    Where are you from: Ukraine
    Homepage:
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    How did you find our website: Mike Demkowicz
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandmother is
    Comments: My great grandmother name Cicilia Demkowicz.
    She was born in in Dobra Szlachecka but I don't know when.
    She had several children. Her daughter Jaroslava Demkowicz (my grandmother) also was born in 1931 in Dobra Szlachecka.

    Cicilia Demkowicz and her children were refugees from Poland (operation Wisla) and lived in Ukraine (Ternopil region, Kozova district).

    I try to find more information about Cicilia Demkowicz and Jaroslava Demkowicz ancestors.
    I would be very much obliged to everyone for help.




     

    Saturday 12/27/2008 5:26:27am
    Name: Ksenia Demkowicz
    E-Mail: ksenia28@op.pl
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    Where are you from:
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    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments:




     

    Thursday 12/18/2008 3:48:26am
    Name: Agnieszka Nisiewicz
    E-Mail: agusia2@wp.pl
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Rañsko
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    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My father is
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    Wednesday 12/17/2008 7:51:38am
    Name: Jan Popiel
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    Comments: Re. Martin Luther King Jr.: "The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice."

     

    Sunday 12/14/2008 5:46:56pm
    Name: Olga Misilo
    E-Mail: misilka@wp.pl
    What is your age: 21
    Where are you from: Orneta
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    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments:




     

    Friday 12/12/2008 3:29:52pm
    Name: Roman Demkowicz
    E-Mail: dino-1972@o2.pl
    What is your age: 36
    Where are you from: Wyrębiska , Londyn
    Homepage:
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    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My father is
    Comments:




     

    Friday 12/12/2008 1:27:19pm
    Name: Dariusz Demkowicz
    E-Mail: dario75@wp.pl
    What is your age: 33
    Where are you from: Gdańsk/Polska
    Homepage:
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My father is
    Comments: Dzień dobry. Bardzo dziękuje za info o stronie dotyczącej miejscowości Dobra Szlachecka, z której pochodzi mój tata Mikolaj Demkowicz. Moim zdaniem jednak strona prowadzona w języku angielskim jest mało zrozumiała dla ludzi, którzy większość swojego życia była "karmiona" językiem rosyjskim. Pozdrawiam Dariusz Demkowicz




     

    Friday 12/12/2008 12:12:25am
    Name: Marta Demkowicz
    E-Mail: martade@poczta.onet.pl
    What is your age: 23
    Where are you from: Żyrardów/Poland
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    Friday 12/12/2008 9:40:49am
    Name: Marta
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    Tuesday 12/02/2008 3:22:39pm
    Name: Mike Dmytrasz
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    What is your age: 65
    Where are you from: Denver, Colorado
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
    Comments: I have visited this site many times since I found it. It has provided the stimulus to try to trace my ancestry back through their immigration. My One grandfater was from Dobra and my other grandfather was from Bolestraszyce a little further east. I would like to communicate with anyone who could shed light on this quest.




     

    Sunday 11/23/2008 5:55:10pm
    Name: Saul Spigler
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    Comments: I am trying to locate the family of Michael and Stanislawa Nisiewicz (Kapustynska). I know they had at least one child named Jan born about 1926 and I am trying to find other family members. I believe the family lived in Dobra Szlachecka until World War II. I would be most grateful if I could put me in touch with anyone that knows something about this family.




     

    Wednesday 10/15/2008 8:22:16pm
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    Comments: Dobra (do 1949 r. Dobra Szlachecka i Dobra Rustykalna) – wieú w Polsce poùoýona w województwie podkarpackim, w powiecie sanockim, w gminie Sanok, nad rzekà San.

    W latach 1975-1998 miejscowoúã naleýaùa administracyjnie do województwa kroúnieñskiego.

    Wieú lokowana w 1402 r. W 1870 r. liczyùa 1275 mieszkañców oraz 254 domy. Parafia rzymskokatolicka w Mrzygùodzie, parafia greckokatolicka w miejscu do roku 1947. Do roku 1772 wieú znajdowaùa siæ w starostwie mrzygùodzkim, w ekonomii samborskiej, klucz ulucki. Do roku 1882 w powiecie dobromilskim, nastæpnie w powiecie brzozowskim w austriackiej prowincji Galicja.

    W okresie I Rzeczypospolitej naleýaùa do dóbr królewskich. W roku 1772 zostaùa sprzedana Piotrowi Starzyñskiemu, po roku 1785 zostaùa ponownie reinkamerowana. Od roku 1828 wùasnoúã Kaliksta Dobrzañskiego i Teodora Tergonde.

    Obecnie wieú jest najwiækszym soùectwem w gminie sanockiej. Caùkowita pow. wsi wynosi 23 km², w tym obszar leúny zajmuje pow. 700 ha. Podczas Akcji Wisùa w 1947 oraz w okresie poprzedzajàcym w 1946 r. przesiedlono znacznà czæúã ludnoúci pochodzenia ukraiñsko-rusiñskiego.




     

    Wednesday 10/15/2008 8:17:09pm
    Name: Anthony Walter Harold Buffery
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    Comments: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner




     

    Monday 10/13/2008 12:08:57am
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    Comments: Jasiu, dzia³alnoœæ cz³owieka oceniaæ nale¿y raczej nie wed³ug intencji i celów stanowi¹cych jej punkt wyjœcia, lecz wed³ug jej skutków. Odrestaurowana cerkiew, nieodrestaurowana plebania, niewielkie zapewne zmiany w œwiadomoœci mieszkanców, i tych, którzy przyjechali na spotkania dobrzan, strona internetowa, op³acona przez ciebie ok³adka planu Sanoka, dwie stronice o Dobrej w ksiazce historyka z uniwersytetu Yale, tyle?

     

    Sunday 10/05/2008 11:08:36am
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    Comments: "Jeœlibym o nich zapomnia³, Ty Bo¿e, zapomnij o mnie".




     

    Monday 08/25/2008 6:46:46pm
    Name: jane poczatek
    E-Mail: janepoczatek@hotmail.com
    What is your age: 65
    Where are you from: flint michigan
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    Comments: My Aunt, which is 90 years old is looking for her cousin. His name is Walter Burdick. I believe he came from Dobra than to Austra and than to Canada. Is there anyone who might know him or his family?




     

    Friday 07/18/2008 8:37:49am
    Name: Bogdan Denkowicz
    E-Mail: bob.demkowicz@hotmail.com
    What is your age: 40
    Where are you from: Komancza-Mississauga
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    Tuesday 07/15/2008 4:19:59pm
    Name: Michael Dmytrasz
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    What is your age: 65
    Where are you from: Denver, Colorado
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
    Comments: Are any additional Records available for the time of 1880 to 1910? I am researching my grandfather who came from Dobra to Chicago in 1905? or there abouts. His father was Martin Gbur and his brother who stayed in Dobra was Kost Gbur.




     

    Monday 07/14/2008 7:21:16pm
    Name: MOSKOVITCH
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    Tuesday 05/20/2008 5:19:36pm
    Name: Susan Szwed
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    What is your age: 49
    Where are you from: Connecticut USA
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    Comments: I am trying to find the city of origin of my husband's grandfather- Anton Szwed born about 1889 came to the US about 1910 He married Mary (I don't know her maiden name. It would be wonderful to find some info out as my husband's father is ill and is unable to recall alot. Anton settled in Enfield CT I contacted a Judith on Ancestors.com and she pointed me in the Dobra direction. Szwed is listed as a name living in the town. I couldn't access the geneology portion of the website Thanks Susan




     

    Tuesday 03/18/2008 8:34:27am
    Name: sdf
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    What is your age: 123
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    Comments: i co tu takiego ciekawego??




     

    Monday 12/17/2007 10:01:53am
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    Comments: Hruszewski, M. Zerela II s. 32 i 33

    Dobra wyesz, o ktorei szie napisalo doszicz szeroko przi starostwie sanockiem, w ktorej czesc pewna roliey, y ossiadlosczi nieczo, y gaie wshitkie nalieza ku zuppie szolskiej. Thamze w tey czesczi yest kmiecz yeden osziadli na czwierczi roliey, ktori dawa czinszu dorocznego y z roboczizna zloti yeden y gr. dweanasczie, kur dwoie, iaecz trzydziesci, omnia valor ut immediate supra; tho uczini zloti ieden groszi pietnaszczie u d. dwanasczie. Karczmarz z karczmi i obszaru dawa czinszu zlotich czteri y gr, dwadziescia i czteri. Summa wszithkich pozithkow z Dobrego czini zlotich sescz y gr. dwadziescia i ieden y d. dwanascie.

    o folwarku w Uliczu...

    lasow tam jest dobrich niemalo, w ktorych bukowini najwiecej a yodlowego drzewa do budowania komiag, y urobiono lyatoz za pana lwowoskieo komiag osiemdziesiat a wskazoz yest po czesci trudnoszczi z granicznemi szasziadzi, ktorzy sobie nyemalo propter incertum limitem przywlaszczaja gruntu i.k.m, a zwlaszcza sliachta, albo sluzkowie z Dobrego, ktorzy ut fertur maja przywileyem szobie nadane polye, a przywlaszczaja sobie lyassow y dombrow nyemalo.




     

    Friday 12/14/2007 8:33:26pm
    Name: Jan Popiel
    E-Mail: saspopiel@aol.com
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    Homepage: http://www.dobra.org
    Title of homepage: http://kingpopiel.tripod.com
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    Comments: Polski Slownik Biograficzny, s. 265

    Dobrzanski (Dobrianski) Antoni (1810-1877), ksiadz unicki, proboszcz, historyk. Urodzony 26 I w Bunowie (pow. Jaworow) jako najstarszy syn ksiedza Michala i Marii z Fedorowiczow. Lata dziecinne spedzil w Moloszkowicach. Nauki pobieral w Jaworowie, nastepnie we Lwowie (gimnazjalne i filiozoficzne). Na teologie wyslal go Bp. Snigurski do Wiednia, gdzie w konwikcie zblizyl sie zupelnie do Polakow. Zmienilo go powstanie polskie 1830, a bedac wowczas pod silnym wplywem B. Kopitarza zabral sie usilnie do studium dziejow unii, historii powszechnej i literatury. Po ukonczeniu teologii powrocil do kraju, nie przyjal propozycji swego biskupa doktoryzowania sie i objecia profesury, lecz ozenil sie z Julianna Zelechowska i wyswiecony zostal 29 III 1835 na kaplana. Administrowal parafia Malkowice, a jednoczesnie byl dojezdzajacym nauczycielem jezyka staroslowianskiego dla klerykow w Przemyslu. W r 1836 zostal administartorem, w nastepnym zas proboszczem Walawy. Mianowal go tez biskup kaznodzieja katedralnym. Piastowal rozne urzedy i godnosci.
    (...)Oprocz tego na dlugo przed 1848 r. byl wyjatkowo czynnym i goracym patriota ruskim, a po tym roku jednym z tych ktorzy staneli na czele narodowego odrodzenia Rusinow. Byl czlonkiem Rady Ruskiej w Przemyslu, Matycy Ruskiej i Domu Narodowoego we Lwowie, uczestniczyl w soborze uczonych ruskich. W 1861 r. zostal wybrany poslem na sejm karjowy we Lwowie. W parze z tym rozwijal szeroka prace naukowa i pismiennna. Pisal po rusku i po polsku. Przez siedem lat redagowal "Peremyszlanyna", od 1861 pisywal do "Slowa" lwowskiego. W rekopisie zostawil najcenniejsze swe dzielo Istorija epyskopow (Lwow 1893) a takze Zapysky z l. 1831-48. Znal jezykk ruski, polski, lacinski, niemiecki, francuski.Przede wszystkim odznaczyl sie Dobrzanski jako pobozny kaplan i gorliwy duszpaszterz, zdolny kaznodzieja i nieprzecietny mowca, dobry gospodarz i wzorowy malzonek. Umarl 22 VI 1877 w Walawie. Ks Jozefat Skruten ZSBW




     

    Friday 12/14/2007 8:02:44pm
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    Comments: Polski Slownik Biograficzny, s. 105

    Demkowicz Leon (1747-1824) ksiadz, bazylianin prowincji ruskiej. Urodzil sie z ojca Hieronima i matki Anny 6 XI w wolynskim. Uroczyste sluby w zakonie bazylianskim zlozyl w r . 1771. Od 17 XI 1771 studiowal teologie w Brunsberdzie. Do swej prowincji powrocil 4 XI 1774, zostal wyswiecony na kaplana i zamieszkal w klasztorze niskienickim. W r. 1775/6 byl profesorem retoryki i prefektem szkoly klasztornej tudziez spowiednikiem w Hoszczy, od nastepnego roku byl spowiednikiem i nauczal w szkole bazylianskiej w Humaniu wymowy i poezji, filozofii nade wszystko odznaczyl sie jako prefekt szkol tamze. (...) Najwazniejszym dzielem Demkowicza bylo jego posrednictwo i pertraktacje z T. Czackim w sprawie reformy zakonu bazylianskiego. Calym sercem oddany Komisji Edukacyjnej pragnal przepisy i ducha jej wcielic w szkolu owczesne zakonu. Byl jednym z 16 bazylianow ktorzy funmkcje kaplanskie odprawiali wg obrzadku lacinskiego; jednakowoz z zakonu nie wystapil i obrzadku wschodniego nie porzucil jak tylu innych. Korespondowal po polsku. Po r 1812 przenisol sie do Krakowa tam tez zycie zakonczyl w r. 1824. Ks. Jozefat Skruten ZSBW

     

    Sunday 12/02/2007 12:22:31am
    Name: MARZENA UHRYN
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    What is your age: 23
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    Comments: Again me:) sorry for my english is not so good. I found more information about my family, I looking all whom can be conected with them.My great-grandfather name's Hrycyniak my great-grandmother name's Kobylarski, my second great-grandfather name's Uhryn my second great-grandmother name's Burdziak. I would to find close relatives & if someone have some informations about my family please contact me on my email. It's very important for me. Greetings




     

    Thursday 11/29/2007 11:32:51am
    Name: Iryna Demkovych
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    Comments: Witam!Poszukuje przedstawicieli rodu Demkowiczów-Dobrzañskich z Dobrej Szlacheckiej, która znajduje sie na podkarpaciu. Moj dziadek urodzil sie tam,ale po operacji "Wisla" mieszkal na Ukrainie i utracil wszystkie kontakty z swoja rodzina




     

    Sunday 11/25/2007 11:57:15am
    Name: Marzena Uhryn
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    What is your age: 23
    Where are you from: Krzyżewo WARMIA I MAZURY Poland
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    Comments: I looking my family and friend my family.




     

    Sunday 11/11/2007 10:55:51am
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    Comments: Elektorowie krolow Wladyslawa IV.MichalaKorybuta, Stanislawa Leszczynskiego i spis stronnikow Augusta III.
    Jerzy Hr.Dunin-Borkowski i dr M.Dunin Wasowicz.Lwow 1910

    Pozycja ta wymienia szereg Dobrzanskich, m. in. Dobrzanksiego Mikolaja Stalonego, ktory bral udzial w elekcji Stanislawa Leszczynskiego i reprezentowal woj.ruskie




     

    Sunday 11/11/2007 10:37:18am
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    Comments: Gerhard, Luny w Bieszczadach. Gehrard zamiescil opis dzialan wojennych w Dobrej.

    W.Schramm.Lasy i zwierzyna Gor Sanockich. Poznan 1858

    Lobodowski,Zeszyty historyczne.Przeciw upioromprzeszlosci

     

    Sunday 11/11/2007 10:30:49am
    Name: Jan Popiel
    E-Mail: saspopiel@aol.com
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Dzierzazno Wielkie i Dobra Szlachecka
    Homepage: http://www.dobra.org
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    Comments: Adam Fastnacht, Osadnictwo w ziemi sanockiej, s. 107 i n.:
    "Dobra zawdziecza swoj poczatek przywilejowi Wladyslawa Jagielly, ktory w r 1402 nadal trzem barciom stryjecznym Juremu, Zanowi i Dymitrowi oraz innym nie wymienionym z imienia sluzkom z Ulucza pole zwane Dobre. AGZ VII s 445. W zamian mieli oni pelnic pewne powinnosci na rzecz zamku sanockiego. Opierajac sie na przywileju krolewskim wyrobili oni sobie z czasem przynalezniosc do stanu szlacheckiego jako szlachta zagrodowa. Hejnosz, Zerela II s. 29
    Wies obecnie zwie sie D. Szlachecka, a obok niej jest druga wies Dobra Rustykalna. Zapiski sadowe z XV w. nie wyrozniaja tej drugiej wsi, ale lustracja z 1565 traktuje odrebnie od Dobrej " w ktorej wshitko ziemianie mieszkaja" rowniez czesc tej wsi nalezaca od dawna do zupy solskiej, zamieszkala przez kmiecia, zagrodnika i karczmarza- Zerela II s. 29, 32, 288. Takze i rejestry podatkowe z drugiej polowy XVII w. odrozniaja od Dobrej Szlacheckiej czesc bedaca uposazeniem starosty. Dobra tak od osob Nobilium w tey wsi iako tez z czesci IMC Pana Starosty Sanockiego" w r. 1676 w Castrensia Sanocensia Acta w Arch. Panstw. w e Lwowie.
    Wspomniany przywilej Jagielly z r. 1402, okreslajac rozmiar nadania Dobrej wspomina, ze siega ono od brodu zwanego Brud Chlumcense". Nazwa pochodzi od wsi Hlomczy na lewym brzegu Sanu, zwanej w XV w. Hlumcza, Hlumpcza lub Hlomyecz, a poraz pierwszy wymienionej w 1429. Byla to wies na prawie ruskimliczaca w 1439 r. 18 rodzin
    a przeniesiona na prawo niemieckie dokumentem krolewskim z 28 V 1468. Sasiednia Lodzina pojawia sie w r. 1442 przy czym data ta nie oznacza poczatku jej istnienia-AGZ XI 1752.
    W pierwszej polowie XV wieku powstala trzecia miejscowosc tej nazwy, Mrzyglod obecny polozony na lewym brzegi Sanu naprzeciw Tyrawy Solnej i ujscia potoka Tyrawa. Krol Wladyslaw Jagiello w przywileju wydanym 28 VI 1431 mowi o niedawnym zamienieniu wsi Tyrawy na miasto i nadaje temu miastu dwa jarmarki rocznie.




     

    Sunday 11/11/2007 10:02:54am
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    Comments: Lustracja wojewodztwa ruskiego 1661-1665 Cz I Ziemia Przemyska i Sanocka. BUW 34953 i 349529

    s.286 w rozdz "wsie nalezace do folwarku zasanskiego" Ta wies iuxta lustrationem a. 1616 et 1627 opisana jest tak, iz w niej mieszka szlachta, ktorzy wedle lustracyjej powinni byli sluzyc na zamku.
    Dawali jednak wszyscy czynszu dorocznego na sw Marcina wedle lustracyjej a 1601 fl 16 ktorego podatku teraz i ab antiquo nie wiedziec qua negligentia aut conniventia nie daja i nie dawali, przeto tegoz w komput nie kladziemy. Wolno jednak bedzie JMP staroscie czynic o ten prowent prawnie.

    Lustracje zarzadzono uchwala Sejmu z 1659 r. sporzadzono w 1665.
    Lustrratorzy powtarzali za dawniejsza lustracja caly opis posesji.
    Oryginal to dzial XVIII Metryki Koronnej sygn. 48, 49, 50, i 52, Arch G.A.D. w Warszawie

    Wykaz urzedowych nazw miejscowosci w Polsce.Warszawa 1980 :
    Dobra /miejscowosc solecka/, wies, gmina Sanok, woj. krosnienskie, poczta
    Mrzyglod,stacja Sanok


    Chanderysz Sz. Kompletny skorowidz miejscowosci w Galicji i Bukowinie. Lwowo 1909

    Szkoly powszechne Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej. Warszawa 1925-1926

    Skorowidz gmin Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej.Ludnosc i budynki na podstawie tymczasowych wynikow drugiego powszechnego spisu ludnosci z dn. 9 XII 1931 R. oraz powierzchnia ogolna i uzytki Rolne. Cz IV Warszawa 1933. GUS




     

    Saturday 11/10/2007 9:36:20pm
    Name: KARINA BURDIAK
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    What is your age: 34
    Where are you from: Argentina
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    Comments: Hello Iam Karina Burdiak , your page is excellent! Iam the last Burdiak in my country , I have document very old of my grandfather and grand mother i SAW IN YOUR PAGE a CENSUS , but i cant read it because its not clear , I saw one Burdiak. Could you be so kind to send my this , i want to know everythig about them. THANKS! i WILL SEND YOU ALL I HAVE !!! THANKS !!!




     

    Saturday 11/10/2007 7:21:01pm
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    Comments: 1903 Schematyzm, dekanat birczanski, DOBRA

    1836 wizytacja biskupa Snichurskiego, proboszcz Ilja Makowej, ur 1857, wyswiec. 1885, zonaty

    ilosc osob 1595 unitow, lacinnikow 175, zydow 74
    15 morgow, trzy laki, nieuzytkow 2 morgi, czysty dochod 66 koron, dodatek z kasy 1115 koron, 36 koron podatku, 12 sagow drewna, plebania 1903 murowana, szkola 1klasowa, 4 nauczycieli z tego 3 grekokatolikow, dzieci gr. kat. 381, towarzystwo Sokol- 28 czlonkow, kolo gospodyn wiejskich (kruzok silsk gosp 17 czlonkow) kasa Rajfajzena, Diak S. Krajnik, telefon Dydnia 20 km, poczta w Mrzyglodzie, 5 km, do Sanoka 21 km




     

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    Comments: Skorowidz wszystkich miejscowosci polozonych w Krolestwie Galicji i Lodomeryi wraz z Wielkim Ksiestwem Krakowskim. Lwow 1868

    Dobra, wies, urzad powiatowy Bircza, u pocztowy Bircza, parafia rz-kat Mrzyglod, gr-kat loco

    ludnosc wg spisu z 1857 r. 1170 osob

    grunta orne
    wiekszej wlasnosci 164; mniejszej 1549, laki i ogrody wiekszej 15; mniejszej 164; pastwiska 20 wiekszej, 321 mniejszej; lasy 43 oraz 1351; ogolem 3627.
    Wlasciciel tabularny Marya Cieszanowska i Cecylia Eminowicz

     

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    Comments: Waclaw Tkarz, Galicja w poczatkach ery jozefinskiej w swietle ankiety urzedowej z roku 1783. Krakow 1909 s. 398

    Dabkowski: Stosunki koscielne ziemi sanockiej w XV s. Lwow 1921

    Jablonowski A., Zrodla do dziejow Polski, T XVIII Warszawa 1903

    Dabkowski, Palestra i ksiegi sadowe sanockie w dawnej Polsce.Lwow1925 (Pamietnik hist-prawny T1 z6)

    s.6 w r.1679 mieszkal w Sanoku mieszczanin i szewc Andrzej Dobrzanski

    2.27 Dobrzanski byl w latach 1691-1701 palestrantem




     

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    Comments: F. Bujak, Galicja, T. I. Lwowo 1908

    s. 67
    Donarodowosci polskiej czyli do uzywajacego jezyka jako towarzyskiego przyznalosie w czasie ostatniegospisu 1900 roku 3,989.000 osob, tj 54.8 procent ogolu mieszkancow kraju (1890 r. 3,509.000 tj 53,3procent) a w 1880 tylko 51.5 procent. Do narodowosci ruskiej przyznalo sie 3,074.000 tj 42,2 procent (1890- 2,836.000 tj 43.1 proc.)

    Znaczna czesc nizszych warstw ludowych swoja przynaleznosc narodowq reguluje jeszcze wg przynaleznosci do wyznania. Okolo 30 000 wloscian rz-kat przyznalo sie do narodowosci ruskiej a 83 000 wyznawcow unii zalicza sie do narodowosci polskiej.

    W porownaniu z 1880 wzajemna sila asymilacyjna Polakow i Rusinow zmniejszyla sie, a odpornosc narodowa wzrosla. Do Rusinow zalicza sie tez pewna ilosc osob wyznania mojzeszowego (35 tysiecy)

    W wieku powyzej 60 lat bylo w 1990 r. 5.32 proc. Polakow a 4.17 proc. Rusinow.

    Galicja jest terenem walki dwoch narodow slowianskich.

    Rusini sa zdaje sie plemieniem antropologicznie pierwotniejszym i jednolitszem i dlatego fizycznie biora oni gore nad plemionami pochodnymi, a wiec zlozonymi jakimi sa Polacy.

    s.82 "Ludowa kultura ruska jest obecnie bogatsza i silniej skrystalizowana niz polska.

    Asymilacji na rzecz kultury polskiej ulegaly przewaznie warstwy bardziej oswiecone i wyrosle juz z pierwotnej kultury ludowej, gdy przeciwnie lud ruski asymilowal kolonistow polskich. Stad wynikl rozdzial narodowy wg warts spolecznych, ktory obecnie po uplywie dluzszego czasu od wstrzymania sie dalszej asymilacji wyzszych warstw ruskich stal sie zrodlem poglebienia przeciwienstw narodowych.

    To, ze chlopstal sie synonimemRusina, a Polak pana stalosie dla nas fatalne.

    Rusini doszli az do zastosowania masowych strajkow rolnych (1902, 1903) jako srodka walki narodowej.




     

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    Comments: Abraham, Powstanie organizacji kosciola lacinskiego na Rusi, 218 i nastepne.

    I.Szaraniewicz, Rzut oka na beneficja kosciola ruskiego za czasow Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej pod wzgledem historii pw o stosunku duchowienstwa ruskiego w Galicji do ziemi w tym okresie. Lwowo 1975

    Szaraniewicz, Patriarchat wschodni wobec kosciola ruskiego i Rzplitej z zrodel wspolczesnych.

    Teresa Chynczewska -Henczel, Swiadomosc narodowa szlachty ukrainskiej i kozaczyzny od schylku XVI do pol. XVII wieku. Warszawa 1985

    Szaraniewicz, Rys wewnetrzny Galicji wschodniej. s 71

    Bujak F., Galicja. Tom I Lwow 1908 (BUW 64983)




     

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    Comments: Kolberg, Dziela wszystkie.Sanockie, krosnienskie, T51 BUW 238874 T 50

    O.Balzer, Regestr zloczyncow grodu sanockiego 1554-1638 Lwow 1891

    Archiwum spoleczno-historyczne Muzeum Okregowego w Rzeszowie

    Ksiega pamiatkowa ku czci Wladyslawa Abrahama, t II Dzialalnosc koscielna Katarzyny Wapowskiej w ziemi sanockiej




     

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    Comments: Rieger: Imiennictwo ludnosci wiejskiej w ziemi sanockiej i przemyskiej w XV w. (BUW s. 7082/26/


    Imiennictwo ludnosci wiejskiej przekazane przez dokumenty skladalo sie w zasadzie z dwoch elementow: imienia (chrzestnego) oraz czlonu wyrozniajacego. Ten ostatni mogl byc wyrazony przezwiskiem, patroninicum (lub okresleniem filius XY), drugim imieniem (pelniacym funkcje "nazwiska" przezwiska, patronicznym okresleniem zawodu, etnonimem funkcjonujacym zapewne jako przezwisko.
    Wsrod okreslen osob stosowanych w zapiskach mozna wyroznic
    1.odnoszace sie do ludnosci niechlopskiej: advocatus, civis-concivis, dominus, familiari, famosus, generosus, heres, ministerialis, nobilis, procurator, providus, scultetus, streneus, tenuterius, terrigena, venerabilis
    2.odnoszace sie do ludnosci chlopskiej

    Imie Jan odpowiada lacinskiemu Iohannes i jest imieniem lacinsko-polskim: Iwan, Iwanko, Iwaszko, Iwanek, Iwaniec, Iwanowicz, Januch, Jassek, Jasko, Iashonem, Janusz, Jasko-nie sa to warianty jednego imienia.

     

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    Comments: Hrusevskyj (Hruszewski) Zerela II, s. 288 Lustracja z 1565 r.

    Magierowski: Wzrost ludnosci wpowiecie sanockim. Krakow 1900. Materialy antropol-arch i etnograf. T IV (znajduje sie w muzeum ziemi sanockiej)




     

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    Comments: Wiadomosci niektore do dziejow kosciola katolickiego w polsko rosyjskich prowincjach od rozbioru Polski az do najnowszych czasow przez ksiedza Marcelego Sleczkowskiego plebana Szarzynskiego z Diecezji Przemyskiej.Jaslo 1861

    6 X 1596 Unici w Brzesciu litewskim. Uniwersalemz 15 XVII 1596 uznal krol Zygmunt ten synod za wazny.




     

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    Comments: Most of our family spells our last name DEMKOWICZ, we spell it DEMCOVITZ as per my father Edward, he said his father changed it so it sounded American. My grand father was Phillip Demcovitz from Scranton, PA.




     

    Tuesday 10/02/2007 8:13:12pm
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    Comments: Jan Wiktor, Blogoslawiony Chleb Ziemi Czarnej. Ksiaznica Atlas.Lwow- Warszawa

    s.246 (...)
    Ci, ktorych Tracimy

    W czasie zwiedzania muzeum ziemi sanockiej, w cizbie ludnosci wsi okolicznych , zwracala uwage gromada chlopow, wyrozniajaca sie od reszty wygladem zewnetrznym, zachowaniem i czyms odrebnym. Pochylali sie nad gablotkami, kryjacymi pergaminy, ogladali pieczecie, powoli sylabizowali splowiale pismo i obwieszcali wielka nowine.
    - U nas sa takie same.
    - Ej starsze, bo jeszcze Wladyslaw Jagiello obdarzyl naszych przodkow za czyny "klejnotem szlachcekim".
    Chodzilem za nimi krok w krok, bacznie nadsluchujac, lowiac urywki rozmow.
    - Wyscie skad, panowie?
    - My z Dobrej Szlachckiej.
    - Slyszalem, ze sa u was takie dokumenty.
    - A sa, bo my rod stary i slawny. Ruskie szlachcice, ale przez polskich krolow klejnotem obdarzeni.
    - My sa Polacy greckokatolickiego wyznania- wmieszal sie do rozmowy zywy chlopak- ale teraz nie mozna sie do tego przznac, bo...no...reka wykonal ruch wiele mowiacy, majacy go usprawiedliwic- Niech panstwo przyjada do nas, pokazemy, pogawedzimy. W czasach wolnej Rzeczpospolitej mysmy odgrywali wazna role w bojach, krwawilismy sie i to pamietamy.
    -Sercem zapraszamy w progi nasze- dodal obok stojacy starszy gospodarz.
    Jakze nie skorzystac z nadarzajacej sie sposobnosci i nie skoczyc do wsi, ktora kryje wspomnienia swej rycerskiej chwaly, dume wspomnien wydartych z pobojowisk, ze skrzepow krwi. Jakze nie spojrzec na zycie tego"stanu szlacheckiego" i nie posluchac ich opowiadan. Wlasciwie wszyscy bylismy pchani ciekawoscia; i dr Przeworska, historyczka sztuki, i dr Seweryn, znawca folkloru sztuki i badacz ich wytrawny, i Pieniazek, artysta malarz wciaz zbierajacy material do swych tak bogatych i barwnych obrazow. Totez z wdziecznoscia przyjelismy pomoc dyr. Skwarczynskiego, ulatwiajaca nam wycieczke w te okolice.
    Jechalismy przez tzw Szwajcarie Sanocka. Droga wspinala sie mozolnie pod gore, abysmy z jej wierzcholka mogli spojrzec na rownine zalana zlotem sciernisk, na osiedla zamglone oddaleniem, na dachy kosciolow i cerkwi, skupiajacych siedziby dwoch narodowosci, zespolonych od wiekow, a tak wrogich. Wpadamy w cienisty wawoz lasow, pedzimy goscincem przypietym do skalistego urwiska, u podnoza ktorego San sciele swoje wody, to burzy sie, pieni, bijac falami o zapore i omija ja, rozsiewajac szum i blask (...)
    San zagrodzil nam droge. Trzeba bylo wolac na przewoznikow, a potem przeskakiwac przez struge, ostroznie isc po oslizglym bierwionie, aby dostac sie na prom. Na drugiej stronie, tuz przed wsia, sliczna kapliczka, wyrozniajaca sie odrebnym kasztaltem zrebu, rysunkiem drzwi i podcieniem.

    - To juz Dobra Szlachecka, odwieczna siedziba Demkowiczow-Dobrzanskich herbu Leliwa.

    Podworza jakby we dworze, nie szanujacym miejsca, nie skapiacym ziemi pod zabudowania, a obok domki liche podszyte strzecha. Wstapilismy do izby obszernej, czystej, jasnej, patrzacej na poludnie wielkimi oknami. Sprzety, obrazy, urzadzenia niczym sie nie roznia od miejskiej tandety, z wyjatkiem ciekawego stolka. Zniknal gospodarz, za chwile przyniosl narecz dokumentow, przywilejow, nadan krolweskich, wyrokow, aktow procesu ciagnacego sie dziesiatki lat o tysiace morg lasu, pastwiska. Skad przyniosl? Po co daremnie pytac? Nie zdradzi tajemnicy. Ta swietosc, mowiaca o chwale rodu, o roznych jego kolejach, ukryta jest w spichlerzu, na strychu, czy moze w piwnicy, moze w skrzyni mocno okutej.
    -Aby zly czlowiek nie ukradl, ogien nie spalil, to nasz skarb. Chcielibysmy aby ktos z Dobrej ksiazke o nas napisal. Byloby duzo do pisania, az nadto.
    Rozwijamy zniszczone a podklejane pergaminy, przywileje trzem braciom nadane, ogladamy pieczecie wykruszone, z trudem rozeznajemy rysy i usilujemy przeczytac pismo wyblakle, jakby zarem ocz spalone, to znow jakby splukane lzami ludzkimi.
    Rok 1402, 1591, 1564, az do roku 1778. A pozniejsze poswiadczenia glosza po polsku: "Przodkowie ich przez Najjasniejszego Wladyslawa Jagielle, krola polskiego i krolewska malzonke, wiekopomnej pamieci Najjasniejsza krolowa Jadwige, w koncu wieku XIV na generalnym Zgromadzeniu panow za wazne ojczyznie publicznie czynione uslugi"... A pozniej strzeliscie skryba stwierdza: "Znajduje sie plemie szlacheckie stanu rycerskiego z jednej starozytnej, znakomitej, na dworze Najjasniejszych Piastow niegdys mieszczacych, szczegolna laska tych krolow zaszczyconej rodziny, licznie juz rozrodzone, zbyt juz teraz zdrobniale".
    Ledwo strzep mozna przeczytac ze sterty szpargalow. Zebrani milczeli duma wspomnien historycznych rozparci. Jeden sposrod nich przemowil, jakby rzucil szkarlat i plomien:
    -Takesmy byli w dawniejszych czasach. Z krolami chodzilismy na kraj swiata, z krolami bylismy rowni w boju, jednako mezni. Teraz zbiednielismy. Krolowie obdarowlai naszych przodkow lasami, polem. Wszystko nalezalo do nas- zakreslil szeroki krag reka- wypracowali te majetnosci nasi przodkowie mieczem., nie oszczedzali krwi. Bylo trzech braci a teraz jest 240 rodzin. Dawniej wszyscy Polacy, a potem dopiero poprzechodzili i pozmieniali dusze i mowe. Zawsze pisali sie "Dobrzanski" od wiek wiekow, dzisiaj ksiadz zmienia i przerabia na Dobrianskij. (...) A to nasz herb-piec pior pawich, gwiazda pod polksiezycem-Leliwa.

    Dawniej mozni, dzisiaj rozdrobnieni, siedzacy na zagonach, zbiednieli, a przeciez mimo wszystko o honorze, o klejnocie z duma mowiacy: My szlachta polska rowna wojewodzie.
    Na wiesc o naszym przybyciu zbiegli sie sasiedzi. Przyczlapali starzy, wpadli mlodzi, obsiedli lawy, stolki, stawali pod sciana. Rozpoczela sie gaweda o wszystkim, a nie skamlali, a nie plakali, a nie mowili o krzywdach, ale slowa ich blyskaly jak migot miecza w rekach wojownika walczacego w sloncu. Inni mowili o tym, jak bywalo na Boze Narodzenie, na weselu, opisywali zwyczaje, obrzedy, ktore tak bardzo roznily sie od chlopskich, i znow mielismy wrazenie, ze ten zwyczaj przerzucowny jest ze wsi podkrakowskiej, czy z rownin nadwislanskich. Prof. Pieniazek zapelnial kartki opisem strojow szlachty, tak bardzo roznioacych sie od ludowych. Szlachcice glowe okrywali czpka rogata, rogatywka, odziewali sie czamarka, szlachcianki nosily zawoje, zupanije.
    -Czyscie chlopow prosili na wesele?
    -My szlachta? -zapytano ze zdumieniem. To pytanie mialo wytlumaczyc, jak olbrzymia, niczym nie zasypana przepasc dzielila od wiekow i dzieli te dwa stany.- Chlop przyszedl, trudno go bylo wygnac, ale nie zdarzylo sie, aby szlachcianka chciala z nim zatanczyc. Bylby wstyd i hanba.

    Ciasno nam teraz. Dawniej ojcowie szli w dalekie kraje, nie mogli usiedziec w miejscu, tak i nami rzuca. I za to nas gnebia i do kryminalow zamykaja. Zylka szlachecka sie odzywa i dlatego klusownictwo uprawiamy. Nigdzie nie ma tak dobrych strzelcow jak w naszej osadzie. Niektorzy ida w dalekie lasy az nad granice czesko-slowacka i tam tygodniami poluja. A potem sady, kryminaly. Co my winni, ze nam ciasno we wsi, ze w nas sie krew burzy.
    Ktos opowiada:
    -Znalezlismy miecz w ziemi, zardzewialy, ale napis polski mozna bylo odczytac. Ojcowie walczyli, a my plugiem wyorali.
    Opisywali ow miecz, ktory wysunal sie ze spracowanych dloni ojcow i padl w glab ziemi, pod skiby, aby byc wspomnieniem przeszlosci, aby byc zabytkiem muzealnym, przechowywanym ze czcia.
    Sluchamy opowiesci przechodzacych z pokolenia na pokolenie, legend okrywajacych szkarlatem ich rod, czyny ich przodkow.
    -Mysmy sa szlachta polska wyznania greckokatolickiego, mysmy ramieniem i mieczem Rzeczpospolitej byli ongis- a dzisiaj...- mlody wykrzyknal i umilkl, jakby zawstydzony, czy zgaszony milczeniem innych.
    Patrze w jego oczy, szukam niedawnego wyrazu, chce go podjac, zapamietac, ale juz zrenice poszarzaly, ale juz wargi milcza.

    Odprowadzili nas ku granicom wsi.
    -Mysmy Dobrzanscy herbu Leliwa, rod starozytny a szlachetny.
    Ich ojcowie wywalczyli klejnot, legende, pamiec czynow, ktora przetrwala przez tyle wiekow, aby dzisiaj byla duma, z dnia na dzien coraz bardziej sie rozsypujaca, kruszejaca, aby byc garscia piachu grzebiaca dawne nazwisko. Inna reka utrwala w latach wolnej Polski w dokumentach i duszach:
    -Dobriañœkij




     

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    Comments: Winiarz A..: Ziemia Sanocka. w: Kwartalnik Historyczny. 1896
    (BUW 015748;
    015813 czytelnia zeszyt II 286-306)

    -jest to omowienie XVI tomu AGZ obejmujacego lata 1463-1552

    s.292 (...) Obok kmieci natrafiamy na slad istnienia ludnosci zajmujacej posrednie niejako stanowisko miedzy kmieciami a szlachta, tem do tej ostatniej zblizony, ze swobodnie rozporzadzala nieruchoma wlasnoscia. Wsrod tej ludnosci uderzaja nas przede wszystkim mieszkancy wsi Dobra. Nie sa oni niczyimi poddanymi i siedza na bardzo malych niekiedy dzialkach, ktorymi dowolnie rozporzadzaja. Cale dziedzictwo niektorych mieszkancow tej wsi stanowia kawalki pol, ktore za 7, nawet za 3 grzywny sprzedaja. Na 1/3 czesci tej wsi gospodaruje az 14 wlascicieli. Sa oni Rusinami i uwazaja sie za szlachte. Czesci swoje sprzedaja razem za 60 grzywien staroscie sanockiemu. Na innej znow czesci wsi Dobra siedzial Iwan z Dobrej, ktory, choc sam 8 kmieci mial, nie jest nazywany w aktach szlachcicem. Inny znow z tej wsi, Wasyl, czesc swa w Dobrej sprzedal za 20 grzywien.(...)
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    Wednesday 09/26/2007 8:52:40am
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    Comments: Giordano, Ralph: Ostpreussen ade! Reise durch ein melancholisches Land. Koeln 1994 (Seiten 169-205)

    (...)
    Noerdlich von Barciany (Barten) geht es rechts ab, die Strasse wird schlechter und schlechter, ein Hauch von Abgeschiedenheit wird spurbar, die Warnzeichen einer nahen und undurchdringlichen von Mo³tajny (Molteinen) auf, maechtig, risssig, verfallen. Dahinter streckt sich aus dem Ort heraus eine Art Rollbahn, gepflastert mit kuenstlichen Steinen, behelfsmaesig, eine ruckelnde Trasse, auf der ich nach drei Kilometern, am Rande einer Ansammlung geduckter Haueser, meinen alten Ford stoppen muss- vier Enten bleiben unbeeindruckt da liegen, wo sie sich breitgemacht haben, am Eingang von Asuny.
    ich steige aus, blicke auf die tief doerfliche Idylle vor mir und weiss doch, dass es keine ist.
    Hier leben Ukrainer, die vor 46 Jahren aus der angestammten Heimat vetrieben worden sind, von einem Tag auf den anderen, oft sogar von einer Stunde auf die naechste- im Rahmen den kommunistischen Machthabern Polens angeordneten Gewalttat, die an Rigorositaet alles ueberbot, was zuvor schon Menschen wie die Pepols and Synlewskis etwurzelt hatte. Sie traf einenk nur der Staatsburgerschaft nach polnische, also ohnehin ungeliebte Minderheit, wurde begrundet mit der Unterstutzung der weiterhin aktiven UPA- Partisanten durch die ukrainische Bevolkerung und erhielt einen Namen, der sich bis in unsere Tage in Herzen und Hirne der Betroffenen eingebrannt hat: "Aktion Weichsel"!

    Sie began schlagartig am 28. April 1947, vier Uhr morgens, mit Hilfe von 17000 Soldaten, drei Infanteriedivisionen der polnischen Armee. (....)




     

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    Comments: Dobrzanski Antoni /1810-1877/: Gramatyka jezyka staroslowianskiego iakiego Slowianie obrzadek grecki wyznajacy w ksiegach swych cerkiewnych uzywaja. Przemysl 1837 (BUW 5.7.9.145)
    Dobriansky, Antin (Dobrjans'kyj), 1810-77. Galician church writer, Greek Catholic priest in Valiava, Peremyshl county. He wrote an Old Slavonic grammar, numerous historical articles, and sermons. His "Istoria episkopov trekh soedinnykh eparkhii, peremyshl'skoi, samborskoi i sianotskoi, ot naidavnishykh vremen do 1794 (History of the Bishops of Three United Eparchies, Peremyshl, Sambir, and Sianok, from Earliest Times to 1794, 1893) was published posthumously.

    Demkowicz-Dobrzanski M., Legenda czy prawda o grobie hetmana Karola Chodkiewicza w Jaroslawiu w swietle historycznych badan. 1936 (BUW 34709)

    Nisiewicz Dobrzanski T., vide: Naudin, sledztwo kryminalne. 1932 (BUW 512)




     

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    Comments: Grekow B.D., Chlopi na Rusi od czasow najdawniejszych do XVII wieku. Warszawa. 1955
    (BUW II4798 oraz 168323)

    W Dobrej mieszkancy mieli calkowite prawo testamentowego przekazywania swego majatku kobietom. "Wlodek de Dobra omnia bona sua hereditaria resuguavit post mortem suam fillie sue vliana". (AGZXV158). (...)
    Oprocz wsi Dobra nadanej przez Jagielle sluzkom z Ulicza, wszystkie pozostale wsie to stare wsie ruskie istniejace od czasow stanowej niezaleznej Rusi Halickiej.
    -sprawdzic: Bujak, Studia historyczne i spoleczne. Lwow, Warszawa, Krakow 1924




     

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    Comments: Kwerende w Archiwum Spoleczno-Historycznym Mizeum Okregowego w Rzeszowie...




     

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    Comments: Cholodecki Bialynia Jozef, Lista osob pochodzenia szlacheckiego zasadzonych w Galicji za udzial w tajnych stowarzyszeniach, pracach rewolucyjnych w latach 1833-1846. Lwow 1905

    -Demkowicz Julian,
    wyrok 4 lutego 1848

     

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    Comments: Akta konsystorza gr.kat.
    Wojewodzkie archiwum Panstwowe w Przemyslu, ul.PCK
    (dwa egzemplarze)
    lac. w Archiwum Kurii Biskupiej




     

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    Comments: W. Kaput, Materialy zrodlowe do dziejow Rzeszowszczyzny. Przemysl 1960

    Informator o materialach archiwalnych przechowywanych w archiwach panstwowych woj. rzeszowskiego. 1968 Rzeszow. Ar³amowski, Kaput. (BUW 310157)

    PRZEMYSL:

    1.C.K. starostwo w Sanoku 1879-1918, 35
    2.Starostwo powiatowe w Sanoku
    3. Starosta powiatowy w Sanoku 1939-44
    4. Powiatowy Urzad Repatriacyjny. Oddzial wojewodzki w Rzeszowie 1945-1950, 141
    5. PUR 1945, 1940-200
    6. Akta notariuszy 1860-1941, 4484
    7. Archiwum greko-kat. biskupstwa w Przemyslu 1296-1946, 9416 (Akta sadu malzenskiego).
    8. Parafia gr. kat. woj. rzeszowskiego 1728-1945, 379
    9. Akta Sadu powiatowego w Sanoku 1870-1936-98
    Dobra 1784-1867

    SANOK:

    1. Starostwo powiatowe w Sanoku 1944-1950-978
    - ewakuacja do ZSRR
    - oczyszczanie powiatu z band
    - meldunki o napadach UPA
    - spisy ludnosci
    - parcelacja majatku kosciola w Dobrej
    - zabezpieczenie zabytkow cerkiewnych
    2. Wiezienie sledcze w Sanoku- 1915-1944, 115
    -ewidencja odbywajacych kare
    3. Akta gminy powiat Sanok 1931-54, 434
    -akta gminy Mrzyglod




     

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    Comments: Encyklopedia powszechna. T. IV. Warszawa: naklad druk i wlasnosc Samuela Orgelbranda, 1859-1868. s. 405. Jagiellonian Library Call Number: Czytelnia Glowna, sygn. A 53. 2nd edition. 12 vols, Warszawa, 1872-1876. In Jagiellonian Library: Oddzial Informacji Naukowej, sygn. A 51. 3rd edition 13 vols. + 3 vols. of supplement. Warszawa: 1892-1912



    Dobrzañski Andrzej, syn ksiêdza greckounickiego z Rusi Czerwonej, przyj¹wszy wyznanie ewangelicko-reformowane, sprawowa³ obowi¹zki duchowne w rozmaitych zborach ma³opolskich w pierwszej po³owie XVII w. Ostatecznie by³ senjorem dystryktu wileñskiego. Przygotowa³ do druku "Bibliê Brzesk¹", czyli Radziwi³³owsk¹.




     

    Friday 07/20/2007 5:57:34pm
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    Comments: S³ownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów s³owiañskich, wyd. pod red. F. Sulimierskiego, B. Chlebowskiego, J. Krzywickiego i W. Walewskiego . T. II Warszawa 1881. s. 67



    Dobra, wieœ pow. dobromilski, o 3.5 kil. na p³n zach od Dobromila, o 5 kil. na pó³. w. od st. p. i parafii rzymsko-kat. w Mrzyg³odzie; parafia greko-katolicka w miejscu. Dymow 254, mieszkancow 1275. Obszar dworski ma roli ornej 164, ³ak i ogrodów 15, pastwisk 20, lasu 23 m, w³oœcianie roli ornej 1549, ³¹k i ogrodów 164, pastwisk 321, lasu 1351 m. We wsi szko³a etat. jednoklasowa.
    http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82ownik_geograficzny_Kr%C3%B3lestwa_Polskiego




     

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    Comments: Dobriansky- Demkovych, Mykhailo (Dobrjans'kyj Demkovyc, Myxajlo), b. 7 November 1907 in the village of Lahodiv, Peremyshliany county, Galicia. Journalist, civic leader. In 1933-9 Dobriansky-Demkovych served as a co-editor of the monthly Dzvony and the weeklies Meta and Khrystos nasha syla. He was a member of the presidium of the Ukrainian Central Committee in Cracow. In 1945 he emigrated to Germany and than Britain. In Munich he edited the journal Problemy (1947-8) and in London the weekly Ukrains'ka dumka (1949-50). In 1956-72 he served as director of the Ukrainian broadcast of the Radio Liberty in Munich. Since 1972 he has been a regular contributor to Nash holos and Ukrains'ki visti. He has represented the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance in the Ukrainian National Council. Dobriansky-Demkovych is the author of Ukrains'ko-pol's'ki stosunky v XiX storichchi (Ukrainian-Polish Relations in the 19th Century, 1969).

     

    Monday 07/16/2007 8:56:59pm
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    Comments: I was so excited to find this site. I grew up on the South Side of Chicago in Burnside and all of my neighbors and classmates surnames are listed here. I would love to contact someone, maybe who attended Perry School or Our Lady of Hungary Church. I have the 1938 graduation photo from Perry School and the familiar names of all the pupils. My father was born near Sanok and I have been searching in vain for information. Please contact me! Thank you, Elaine Skopes, now Elaine Petersen




     

    Sunday 07/15/2007 12:38:19am
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    Comments: Witam poszukuje wszelkich sladów dotyczacych moich dziadkow i pradziadkow mieszkajacych przed wojna w miejscowosci Dobra Szlachecka a po akcji Wisla przesiedlonych w okolice Braniewa a dokladniej do Strubna (gmina Ploskinia).
    Moja babcia Zofia Gizycka (z domu Fedczak)
    Moja prababcia Aniela Fedczak
    Moj dziadek Jan Gizycki
    Moj pradziadek Andrzej Gizycki
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    Sunday 07/15/2007 12:20:40am
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    Comments: Witam poszukujê wszelkich œladów dotycz¹cych moich dziadków i pradziadków mieszkaj¹cych przed wojn¹ w miejscowoœci Dobra Szlachecka a po akcji Wis³a przesiedlonych w okolice Braniewa a dok³adniej do Strubna (gmina P³oskinia).
    Moja babcia Zofia Gi¿ycka (z domu Fedczak)
    Moja prababcia Aniela Fedczak
    Mój dziadek Jan Gi¿ycki
    Mój pradziadek Andrzej Gi¿ycki
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    Comments: Wanda L. Dobrzanski Nisiewicz M.D.– Pediatrician Specialized in Pediatric Infectious Diseases - "Argentine Society of Pediatrics" Member - "Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases" Member - Fogarty Research Fellow in the Division of Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami, School of Medicine - 1998. Pediatric AIDS Reference Center Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutiérrez, from 1997 to January 2000 - Clinical Research Associate, Ingenix International. (04/05/2000)




     

    Friday 07/06/2007 5:32:11pm
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    Comments: Akta Grodzkie i Ziemskie z czasow Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej z Archiwum tzw Bernardynskiego we Lwówie (Town and County Records from so-called Bernardin Archives). Lwów 1935

    Malachowski, Zbior nazwisk szlachty z opisem herbow wlasnych familiom zostajacym w krolestwie Polskim i Wielkim Ksiestwie Litewskim przez Piotra Nalecza Malachowskiego. Lublin 1805

    Siwicki Mikolaj, Dzieje Konfliktow Polsko Ukrainskich. (Polish-Ukrainian conflicts). Tom trzeci. s.249, Warszawa 1994

     

    Friday 07/06/2007 2:38:57pm
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    Comments: Shimatism wsiego klira russkowo-katoliczeskogo Eparhii peremyszlskoj na god ot rozd Chr. 1879

    s. 88
    Dobra, kapel. cerk. sw. O. Nikolaja Czudotwor. kapelan: Sylwester Kopystianskyj, r. 1848




     

    Friday 07/06/2007 1:08:48pm
    Name: Jan Popiel
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    Where are you from: Smolensk, Lithuania, Dobra, Dzierzazno W
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    Comments: Kucharski W., Ludnoœæ ziemi sanockiej na schy³ku XVIII w. (na podstawie urzêdowego protoko³u Magistratu sanockiego). Przyczynek do historii Sanoka, Sanok 1907.

    s. 17

    (...) Mieszkancy Dobry ca³y szereg spraw maj¹tkowych, dokonanych w obecnoœci swego prawnego wójta i przysiê¿nych, w akta sanockiego magistratu wnosili i niejednokrotnie taki dekret wpisany w ksiêgi protokolarne sanockie by³ dla dobrzan prawn¹ podstaw¹ rozlicznych interesów maj¹tkowych.

    (...)
    ... ciekawym jest zapis ostatniej woli Antoniego Dobrzañskiego, ktory jako "chrzescijanski Czlowiek zawsze na pamieæ mai¹c Dekret nieœmiertelny Sprawiedliwego Sêdziego Boga, ze kazdy Czlowiek, ktory siê rodzi, umieraæ musi...na umyœle y na Duszy zdrowy, na ciele zaœ s³aby spodziewaj¹c siê z tym œwiatem po¿egnaæ, ...ostatni¹ wolê y testament uczyni³, i Duszê w Rece Przenajœwiêtszej Trojcy Boga Wszechmogocego oddaje, któr¹ sam stworzy³, Cia³o zaœ iako z Ziemi jest, tak przy Swiêtnicy (?) Boskiej w ziemi aby by³o pochowane, przy tym wzywaj¹c przyczyny Matki Boskiey i Wszystkich Swiêtych do Mi³osierdzia Boskiego za (...)

    Po tym poboznym choæ nieco chropawym pod wzgledem gramatycznym wstepie, nastêpuje zapis maj¹tku, œwiadcz¹cy ¿e szczera mi³oœæ i przywi¹zanie i pod biekiesz¹ mieszczañsk¹i w skromnej zagrodzie szlachty z Dobry przybytek swój mia³y. Fortun¹ swoj¹ bowiem "w³aœnie Dekretem Boskim" tak umieraj¹cy pan Antoni dysponuje: "A nayprzód ¿onie moiey ulubioney za Jey wniosek y Posag w Dom moy na z³otych polskich Dwiscie No 200 y za Jey Affekt ku mnie czyniony, ktory miedzy nami bez noty zostawa³, aze Ja Zwoli Boskiey bez potomnie z tego swiata schodze, iednak z mi³osci pos³u¿nej Zonie moiey wszystek Grunt, Domostwo, Ruchomoœci y Byd³o tym testamentem Wiecznemi czasy czynie, leguje i zapisujê (...).

    Testament ten ods³ania ciekawy szczegó³ i pod wzglêdem prawnym widzimy tu, ¿e wniosek, tj. p osag w dom mê¿a wniesiony przez ¿one stawa³ siê jego w³asnoœcia, kiedy on umieraj¹c rozporz¹dza³ tym posagiem wedle swego upodobania, w tym wypadku zapisuj¹c ¿onie caly swój maj¹tek w do¿ywocie, po jej zaœ smierci, swemu rodzonemu bratu Miko³ajowi Nisiewiczowi Dobrzañskiemu z pominiêciem innych braci, do których czu³ ¿al za to, ¿e ¿aden nie poratowa³ go w niczem i on sam w³asnym kosztem musia³ pochowac matke, co go kosztowa³o 32 z³. p.
    I ten testament wpisano w akta sanockie w r. 1793 "in libro Magistratum Sanocensis", chocia¿ jak mo¿na wnosiæ z podpisów obecnych, testament sam sporz¹dzono w Dobry w r. 1792. Swiadkami tego testamentu sa bowiem sami Dobrzañscy: Antoni Demkowicz Dobrzañski, Jan Dobrzañski rowniez zprzydomkiem Demkowicz, Bazyli Hubal Dobrzañski i Piotr Demkowicz Dobrzañski. Z tych Demkowicze s¹ braæmi, Hubal zaœ wystêpuje tylko jako przyjaciel.(...) j.p. I am from Brooklyn, you do not need to quate me as a researcher, no credits, thank you.Jan




     

    Thursday 07/05/2007 2:29:45pm
    Name: Michal Niemirowski
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    Comments: Ziemia sanocka, czêœæ 1. Rejestr poborowy ziemi sanockiej z 1640 roku, wyd. Z. Budzyñski, K. Przyboœ, Przemyœl-Rzeszów 1998; czêœæ 2. Rejestr poborowy ziemi sanockiej z 1655 roku, wyd. Z. Budzyñski, K. Przyboœ, Przemyœl-Rzeszów 1999.

    Trzyna E., Ziemia Sanocka i struktura jej w³asnoœci feudalnej od po³owy XVI do drugiej po³owy XVII wieku, „Rocznik Województwa Rzeszowskiego", 9, 1978.

    Trzecieski J., Pamiêtniki i wspomnienia z sanockiej ziemi. Cz. I. Krosno 1907.

    Œlusarek K., Drobna szlachta w Galicji 1772-1848, Kraków 1994.

    Stekert A., Przydomki polskie, litewskie i rusiñskie, Kraków 1899

    Prochaska A., Ze Ÿróde³ do genealogii szlachty województwa ruskiego, [w:] Miesiêcznik Heraldyczny, R. 6, 1913.

    Polaczkówna H., Fundacje dla potomków szlachty galicyjskiej, [w:] Miesiêcznik Heraldyczny, R. 14, 1935

    Kucharski W., Ludnoœæ ziemi sanockiej na schy³ku XVIII w. (na podstawie urzêdowego protoko³u Magistratu sanockiego). Przyczynek do historii Sanoka, Sanok 1907.
    Gawroñski F. R., Stare rusko-polskie rody na Rusi do koñca XVI w., Przew. Nauk.-Liter., 1918.

    Dobrzañski-Demkowicz B., Szlachta zagrodowa Ziemi Czerwieñskiej. Jej pochodzenie i przesz³oœæ, Stanis³awów 1938. (propagandowa rzecz bez wartosci).

    D¹bkowski P., Szkice z ¿ycia szlachty sanockiej w XV stuleciu, [w:] Rocznik Heraldyczny, VI, 1923




     

    Monday 07/02/2007 7:49:06pm
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    Comments: Dmytro Blazejowskyj: HISTORICAL SEMATISM OF THE EPARCHY OF PEREMYSL including THE APOSTOLIC ADMINISTRATION OF LEMKIVήYNA (1828-1939)

    Published in commemoration of the 400 anniversary of the Uninion of Berestja. Lviv. Kamenyar 1995

    DOBRA ŒLJAXOC'KA (Dobra Szlachecka), povit Dobromyl'

    ST. NICHOLAS
    CIRCUMCISION OF JESUS CHRIST

    Historical Data: Biræanskyj Deanery, then Dynivs'kyj Deanery after World War I. The wooden church (Circumcision) was built in 1879, replacing an older wooden church (St. Nicholas) which existed at least as early as 1828 and was visited in 1836 by Bishop Snihurs'kyj. It is now being used by Latin rite Catholics.
    The village was founded 1402. In 1828 it was independent parish, then from 1830 until 1866 it was a filial church of Uljuæ. In 1866 it became an independent church again.
    next to the church is a large bell tower of architectural interest, dating from the 17th century, and in the village there is a roadside shrine.
    Tha parish was incorporated into the Administration of LemkivϾyna in 1934.

    Administartors of the chapel

    Josyf Vyœovs'kyj 1866-1870+
    Kornylij Ferencevyæ 1870-1873
    Syl'vester Kopyscjans'kyj 1873-1879
    Myxajlo Mudrak 1879-1886

    Pastors

    Stefan Hronzevyæ 1828
    Myxajlo Mudrak 1886-1887
    Volodymyr Xomyc'kyj 1887-1888 adm.
    Illja Oleksyn 1888-1897
    Josyf Œandrovs'kyj 1897-1899 adm.
    Illja Makovej 1899-1900 adm.
    Illja Makovej 1900-19003
    Konstantn Poljans'kyj 1903-1905 adm.
    Konstantyn Polyans'kyj 1905-1911
    Petro Galjanka 1911-1913 ad.
    Mykola Sikora 1913-1918
    Ivan Hajdukevyæ 1918-1924 adm.
    Ivan Hajdukevyæ 1924- 1946

    Number of Ukrainian Catholics

    1840 See: Uljuæ
    1859 See Uljuc
    1879: 1,136
    1899: 1, 497
    1926: 2, 215
    1936: 1, 712




     

    Thursday 06/28/2007 8:46:13am
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    Comments: Dmytro Blazejowskyj, UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CLERGY IN DIASPORA (1751-1988)
    Annotated List of Priests Who Served Outside of Ukraine. Rome 1988

    http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9065696/Sapieha-Family

    Rowniez informacja o ksiezach pochodzacych z Dobrej Szlacheckiej w:

    Martirologia Ukrainskich Cerkow w Czotiroch Tomach. TOM I Ukrainska Prawoslawna Cerkwa. Osip Zinkevycz i Olekander Woronin. Toronto. Baltimore 1987

     

    Thursday 06/28/2007 7:24:09am
    Name: Jan Popiel
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    Comments: Dmytro Blazejowskyj, Historical Œematism...p.143

    In 1785 there were 21.68 sq. km, 540 Ukrainian Catholics, 65 Latin rite Catholics and 27 Jews in the area.
    In 1938 there were 190 Latin Catholics and 60 Jews in the area.




     

    Wednesday 06/27/2007 8:59:25pm
    Name: Stefan Szczurko
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    Comments: Adam Fastnacht, Osadnictwo Ziemi Sanockiej. 1340-1650. Wroclaw 1962

    Dobra Szlachecka nasiedlona w latach 1401-1450, Ulucz przed 1400 r., Dobra Rustykalna 1551-1600; Dobrzanka-1601-1650
    Dobra Szlachecka by³a osad¹ prawa ruskiego, Mrzyglod prawa niemieckiego, Trepcza- niemieckiego i ruskiego jednoczesnie, Dobra byla wsi¹ królewsk¹.

    Borzemski A.; Powiat Sanocki w cyfrach (studium statystyczne), Sanok 1904

    Holodecki, Bialynia, Sanockie w roku 1846. Lwow 1906

    D¹bkowski P.: Szkice z zycia szlachty sanockiej w XV w. Lwow 1923

    Skorowidz powiatu sanoockiego wydany na podstawie dat zebranych w r. 1911:
    -Dobra Szlachecka i Dobra Rustykalna: jedna gmina katastralna, 746 ha gminy obie, 1505 ha wloscianie obu gmin.

    Ludnosc:

    rzym.-kat. -D. Rust. 54, D. Szlach. 197
    greko-kat.-D. Rust. 379 D. Szlach. 1013
    izraelici: .-D. Rust. 36;D. Szlach.-35

    Ludnosc obecna:D. Rusat. 469; nieobecna 62 (Rustykalna)
    D. Szlachecka; obecna 1245, nieobecna -109




     

    Saturday 06/23/2007 10:58:12am
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    Comments: wikipedia: Grupa Operacyjna Wisla

    wikipedia: Centralny Oboz Pracy w Jaworznie




     

    Saturday 06/23/2007 9:29:01am
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    Comments: http://www.tygodnik.com.pl/numer/275719/snyder.html


    Piêæ wieków i osiem lat

    Timothy Snyder
    Akcja „Wis³a” by³a dope³nieniem trwaj¹cego od roku 1939 procesu niszczenia pewnej to¿samoœci, tradycji i myœlenia, które w tej czêœci Europy trwa³y przez kilkaset lat. Tak¿e dlatego stworzenie wywa¿onego opisu historycznego akcji „Wis³a” – i stosunków ukraiñsko-polskich w XX wieku – jest szans¹, aby Polacy i Ukraiñcy zwrócili wzrok na inne okresy historyczne.

    (...)
    HISTORIA JEDNEJ WSI

    Tezê o homogenizacji dobrze pokazuje historia jednej galicyjskiej wsi.
    W Dobrej Szlacheckiej uszlachcono w pocz¹tkach XV w. trzech prawos³awnych braci. Ich potomkowie zostali wci¹gniêci do polskich spisów herbowych i utrzymali swoj¹ pozycjê w XIX-wiecznej austriackiej Galicji. Tak¿e w Polsce miêdzywojennej ukraiñskojêzyczna szlachta z Dobrej zachowa³a status i maj¹tek. Polacy z tej wioski chodzili na nabo¿eñstwa grekokatolickie i mówili po ukraiñsku w miejscach publicznych. Przedstawiciele rodzin ¿ydowskich prowadzili tu karczmê i handel.
    I tak, po piêciu wiekach istnienia jako wyodrêbniona spo³ecznoœæ lokalna i po dziesiêcioleciach wzglêdnej obojêtnoœci wobec nowoczesnych koncepcji narodu, w latach 1939-47 Dobra zmieni³a siê nie do poznania. W latach 1939-1941 Sowieci deportowali Ukraiñców, których oskar¿yli o „kolaboracjê” z przedwojennym pañstwem polskim. W latach 1942-43 Niemcy wymordowali ¯ydów i wys³ali do Oœwiêcimia ukraiñskich dzia³aczy narodowych oraz komunistów. W latach 1944-45 UPA wymordowa³a tych Ukraiñców, których uzna³a za niesk³onnych do wspó³pracy i Polaków, podejrzanych o „kolaboracjê” z now¹ w³adz¹. 6 stycznia 1945 r. batalion wojska polskiego dopad³ w Dobrej oddzia³ UPA, którego tropem pod¹¿a³: ¿o³nierze UPA uciekli, wojsko natomiast zabi³o (wedle niepewnych danych) 26 mieszkañców. Potem, w 1946 r., Sowieci wysiedlili po³owê tych, co prze¿yli. A rz¹d polski pozosta³¹ po³owê podczas akcji „Wis³a”: 80 mieszkañców Dobrej trafi³o do obozu w Jaworznie; mieszkanka Dobrej urodzi³a tam dziecko.
    Podobnie jak w dziesi¹tkach innych miejscowoœci, w Dobrej Szlacheckiej akcja „Wis³a” zakoñczy³a proces homogenizacji, który przekszta³ci³ regiony i wsie w coœ, czym nigdy wczeœniej nie by³y: w polskie regiony i wsie w naszym wspó³czesnym, „narodowoœciowym” rozumieniu tego s³owa. Tym, co uderza, kiedy czyta siê wspomnienia przesiedlonych w ramach akcji Wis³a – a tak¿e wspomnienia Polaków wypêdzonych z Wo³ynia w trakcie czystek etnicznych – jest fakt, ¿e ich autorzy czêsto dookreœlaj¹ swoje u¿ycie terminów „Polak” i „Ukrainiec”. Nawet jeœli póŸniejsza historia zapomina o z³o¿onoœci przedwojennych to¿samoœci narodowoœciowych, to jednostki czêsto o niej pamiêtaj¹ – i staraj¹ siê wyjaœniæ, ¿e kategorie narodowe, którymi zmuszone s¹ pos³ugiwaæ siê, aby wyjaœniæ swe prze¿ycia, nie zawsze przystawa³y do realiów sprzed 1939 r.
    Przymusowe przesiedlenia nie tylko usunê³y tradycyjn¹ z³o¿onoœæ; dostarczy³y te¿ prostych wyjaœnieñ tego, co siê sta³o: odrzucana przed wojn¹ identyfikacja z t¹ czy inn¹ narodowoœci¹ niejednokrotnie nastêpowa³a w miarê postêpu przymusowych przesiedleñ.

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    Saturday 06/23/2007 9:00:52am
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    Comments: W Dobrej Szlacheckiej na Sanie most (saperski) na drodze do Mrzyg³odu, za nim resztki starej k³adki wisz¹cej dla pieszych; po prawej góra Magura (506,0 m n.p.m.). Obok mostu na lewym brzegu kopalnia ¿wiru powstala w latach 60-tych. Zwirownia na terenie wsi, ale mieszkancom nigdy nie zrekompensowano zeszpecenia okolicy i ekploatacji zwiru, z ktorego przez kilkadziesiat lat korzystalo cale wojewodztwo.
    Na prawym brzegu bar piwny. W g³êbi wsi 1 km od brzegu rzeki dwie drewniane cerkwie, warte odwiedzenia.

    Cerkiew bramna w Dobrej Szlacheckiej wybudowana zosta³a w XVII stuleciu. Nosi³a wówczas wezwanie Podwy¿szenia Krzy¿a Œwiêtego.

    Cerkiew bramna w Dobrej jest jedynym tego typu zabytkiem w Polsce. Zgodnie ze œredniowieczn¹ tradycj¹ usytuowana zosta³a ponad bram¹ fortyfikacji.

    Budowla drewniana, konstrukcji mieszanej, z zasadnicz¹ czêœci¹ w postaci trzykondygnacyjnej wie¿y s³upowo-ramowej. Pomiêdzy s³upy noœne w pierwszej kondygnacji wbudowana zosta³a kamienna brama.

    W drugiej kondygnacji znajduje siê dwudzielna cerkiew z naw¹ na rzucie kwadratu, sklepiona czteropolow¹, zrêbow¹ kopu³¹.

    Sanktuarium na planie prostok¹ta, nieco wê¿sze i ni¿sze od nawy, ze sklepieniem kolebkowym.

    Tu¿ przed II wojn¹ œwiatow¹ w cerkwi przechowywany by³ ikonostas z XVII wieku. Znaajdowal sie tam takze po wojnie, gdzie znajduje sie teraz, w 2007 r.? W prywatnym mieszkaniu? WWarszawie? Krakowie? Ktos moze pomoc ustalic, sfotografowac?

    W izbicy, ponad cerkwi¹, znajduj¹ siê dwa dzwony (równie¿ XVII-wieczne).

    Cerkiew greckokatolicka Œwiêtego Miko³aja (póŸniej Podwy¿szenia Krzy¿a Œwiêtego) w Dobrej Szlacheckiej powsta³a oko³o 1879 r.

    Prawdopodobnie budowla jest znacznie starsza, a w 1879 r. zosta³a tylko przebudowana. Tak¿e wtedy cerkiew zosta³a rekonsekrowana i przyjê³a nowe wezwanie, przeniesione z cerkwi bramnej.

    Drewniana, trójdzielna œwi¹tynia, z sanktuarium zamkniêtym trójbocznie, konstrukcji zrêbowej, na kamiennej podmurówce. Nawa i babiniec powsta³y na planie zbli¿onym do kwadratu. Nawa jest obszerniejsza od sanktuarium i babiñca.

    Wewn¹trz p³askie stropy.

    Polichromia œcienna pochodzi z XIX/XX. Z tego okresu m.in. wielostrefowy ikonostas.

     

    Saturday 06/23/2007 7:59:49am
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    Comments: Henryk Dobrzañski (ur. 22 czerwca 1897 w Jaœle, zm. 30 kwietnia 1940 pod Anielinem k. Opoczna)– pu³kownik Wojska Polskiego, sportowiec, jeden z pierwszych dowódców partyzanckich w czasie II wojny œwiatowej, ps. "Hubal".

    Urodzi³ siê w rodzinie szlacheckiej pieczêtuj¹cej siê herbem Leliwa, jako syn Henryka Hubala Dobrzañskiego i Marii z Lubienieckich. Jego ojciec pochodzi³ z zaœcianka szlacheckiego Dobra Szlachecka.
    http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Dobrza%C5%84ski




     

    Thursday 06/21/2007 6:03:08am
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    Comments: Kucharski W.: Ludnosc ziemi sanockiej u schylku XVIII wieku (na podstawie urzedowego protokolu magistratu sanockiego). Przyczynek do historii Sanoka.

    stronica 39
    "Osobna wzmianka nalezy sie ludnosci zydowskiej Sanoka, ktora w tym czasie dokonuje licznych transkacji finansowych, ruchliwa i czynna, i mimo surowych edyktow Jozefa II rosnaca w liczbe i znaczenie".
    s.41
    Wciagnieto w akta sanockie kontrakt kupna zawarty w Dobrej dnia 15 listopada 1791 w obecnosci Wincentego Choynackiego i przt³umaczony z polskiego na ³acine w obecnoœci sanockiego starosty obwodowego barona Langenmantla, a odnoszacy siê do sprzedazy gruntu, cha³upy i browaru Zelikowi Purecowi za 1000 zl.p.
    Rowniez do aktów sanockich wniesiono kupno gruntu w Dobrej, pod cerkwia, za rzek¹, ktory nabyl od dziedzica Dobrej Choynackiego starozakonny Deim Judkiewicz i caly szereg spraw podobnych.




     

    Thursday 06/07/2007 11:31:13am
    Name: Michele Rigilano
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    Comments: Love the site. I am trying to search for family history in Poland for the surname TRZASKOWSKI. Grandparents came to the USA in 1951.




     

    Thursday 05/10/2007 10:39:52am
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    Comments: SCHEMATISM OF THE UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH a Survey of the Church in Diaspora by Dmytro Blazejowskyj commisioned by the Synod of Ukrainian Catholic Bishops in commemoration of the Millenium of Christianity in Ukraine. Rome 1988


    NESEVITCH, JOSEPH, Rev. Pastor of St. Vladimir Church in Arnold, Pennsylvania, 1606 Kenneth Ave., Arnold, PA 15068
    Born: December 26, 1925 in Olyphant, Pennsylvainia.
    Studied: at St. Basil's Preparatory School, Stamford, CT (- 1947), at St. Basil's College, Stamford, CT ( 1947- 1949) where he received a BA degree (1949), and at Catholic University of America, Washington, DC (1949-1951).
    Ordained: by Bishop Constantine Bohachevsky at Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Philadelphia on June 18, 1951
    Service: Assistant pastor at St. Michael's, Yonkers, NY (1951- 1954) and pastor of St. Vladimir's, Arnold, PA (New Kensington) since May 18, 1954.
    Former vice protopresbyter of the Western Deanery and spiritual director for the League of Ukrainian Catholic Youth.
    Member of the eparchial administrative council, of the cathetical commision and of the commision for eparchial convocation.


    CHOMKO, STEPHEN, Rt. Rev. Mitr. Pastor of St. Michael's Church in Hartford, and administrator of St. John the Baptist Mission Church in Glastonbury, Connecticut. 125 Wethersfield Ave., Hartford, CT 06114
    Born: January 6, 1922 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
    Studied: at St. Basil's Seminary, Stamford (1939- 1942) where he received a BS degree (1942), and at Catholic University of America, Washington, DC (1942- 1946).
    Ordained: by Bishop Constantine Bohachevsky in Philadelphia on July 12, 1946.
    Service: Assistant pastor of Immaculate Conception, Hamtramck, MI (1946- 1947), of St. John's, Syracuse (1947- 1948, 1951-1952), of Sts. Peter and Paul, Auburn, NY (1948- 1949), of St. Peter and Paul, Cleveland, OH (1949- 1950), of Immaculate Conception Cathedral (1950- 1952), pastor of St. Michael's, New Heaven, CT (1953- 1962), of St. Josaphat, Rochester, NY (1962-1967), of Christ the King, Boston MA (1968- 1973), of St. Nicholas, Elmira Heights, NY (1973- 1980) and of St. Michael's, Hartford, CT since May 14, 1980.
    Former eparchial consultor and econome (1979- 1982) and president of the Providence Association for Ukrainian Catholics in America (1982- 1996).
    Eparchial consultor, public relation director, Diocesian Corporation, eparchial econome (reapointed on January 12, 1987) and member of the Harvard Ukrainian Studies Foundation. Protopresbyter of the Hartford Deanery since January 1, 1987 and of the Boston Deanery since September 1, 1987.
    Ecclesiastical Dignities: The title of Papal Chamberlain was conferred on him by Pope John Paul II on August 10, 1980, and the title of Mitred Archpriest by His Beatitude, Josyf Cardinal Slipyj in 1976.




     

    Friday 04/27/2007 8:08:19pm
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    Tuesday 04/24/2007 9:57:26am
    Name: Jim Young
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    Comments: A truly fascinating website. Much information on Rusyn families and surnames that is of interest to me. I'd heard of "noble villages" but this is the first I've encountered. I'll be back.




     

    Sunday 04/15/2007 4:56:17am
    Name: SHIRLEY D. ALPERT-LEWIS
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    Comments: thank for allowing me to view your web. the information found has been very infrimative.




     

    Sunday 04/08/2007 3:20:44am
    Name: Alice Gosak Gary
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    Comments: Congratulations on the excellent site. I hope to visit it frequently. My grandmother's older brothers and sisters were born in Dobra.




     

    Saturday 04/07/2007 11:46:00am
    Name: Jan Popiel
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    What is your age: Nr zespo³u: 1361 / 0
    Where are you from: S¹d Grodzki w Sanoku
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    Title of homepage: Seria: Akta spraw spadkowych
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    Comments: 56/1361/0/314Akta sprawy spadkowej po Janie Demkowiczu z Dobrej Szlacheckiej zmar³ym w 1929 roku; 1930-1932; poszyt; stan dobry; ; pol.; s.14; B 4; ; A 17/30; ; ; ; ; has³a indeksu: Dobra Szlachecka; Demkowicz Jan;
    56/1361/0/315Akta sprawy spadkowej po Józefie z Gi¿yckich Hnatuœko z Dobrej Szlacheckiej zmar³ej w 1929 roku; 1930-1932; poszyt; stan dobry; ; pol.; s.48; B 4; ; A 19/30; ; ; ; ; has³a indeksu: Dobra Szlachecka; Hnatuœko z Gi¿yckich Józefa;
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    56/1361/0/317Akta sprawy spadkowej po Janie Demkowiczu z Dobrej Szlacheckiej zmar³ym w 1929 roku; 1930-1933; poszyt; stan dobry; ; pol.; s.18; B 4; ; A 22/30; ; ; ; ; has³a indeksu: Dobra Szlachecka; Demkowicz Jan;
    56/1361/0/318Akta sprawy spadkowej po Janie Uhryn z Dobrej Rustykalnej zmar³ym w 1929 roku; 1930; poszyt; stan dobry; ; pol.; s.13; B 4; ; A 24/30; ; ; ; ; has³a indeksu: Dobra Rustykalna; Uhryn Jan;




     

    Friday 04/06/2007 8:28:27pm
    Name: Teresa Issakiewicz
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    Comments: Wierzba
    Zapomnia³a o swoich korzeniach
    W bujnej trawie.

    Issa (1763-1827)

     

    Wednesday 03/21/2007 4:55:55am
    Name: Slawomir Demkowicz - Dobrzanski
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    Comments: Great site. It has given me a lot to think of, and the opportunity to investigate the family history.




     

    Friday 03/09/2007 8:23:36pm
    Name: LYDIA LEBED
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    Comments: DMYTRO KRAYNIK IS MY GRANDFATHER.




     

    Saturday 02/24/2007 8:36:11pm
    Name: Katherine Neswick
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    Comments: What a wonderful website this is and it's absolutely fascinating. My grandparents were Jozef Nesiewicz (born 1896) and my grandmother Katarzyna Nesiewicz (born 1908)in Dobra. My grandmother's maiden name was Czajkowski. My grandfather's father was Andrez Nisiewicz. Please feel free to contact me with any information concerning our ancestry. I have very little information on my grandfather's side of the family.




     

    Wednesday 02/07/2007 2:37:03pm
    Name: Fred Korczak
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    What is your age: 59
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    Comments: looking for Michael-Anna Korczak from
    Stale living there in 1898 the son are my grandad goin to Denmark as 17 yers old deed 1964 in Denmark korczaks kontakt me.




     

    Tuesday 02/06/2007 6:16:01am
    Name: Dariusz Kocimski
    E-Mail: inwenmet@poczta.onet.pl
    What is your age: 45
    Where are you from: Sochaczew-Poland
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    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My Mother is
    Comments: Czeœc!Moja Mama z domu Kuszman,Babcia Demkowicz,Prababcia Nisiewicz.Pozdrawiam wszystkich Dobrzan!

     

    Sunday 02/04/2007 5:33:47pm
    Name: James Dobrzanski
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    What is your age: 26
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    Tuesday 01/30/2007 8:13:07am
    Name: christopher swaryczewski
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    Comments: if any one has any knowledge of any of my family history please get in touch uk 01482 569220 please leave message and i will get straight back to you




     

    Wednesday 01/24/2007 4:35:16am
    Name: Aleksei Klisevits
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    Comments: Inhabitants of Goods I search the ancestors with Surname Klishevits. I know that, in 1469 one of inhabitants of Goods Grits Klishevits has sold the possession in Goods. Grits Klishevits concerned to clan Kelbovits if not difficultly send me though what нибуть the information on this clan and all that is known about Klishevits




     

    Thursday 01/18/2007 10:25:08pm
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    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: My grandfather immigrated to Canada in 1904 from the village of Bordulaki, Brody Area, L'viv Oblast. His name was Jan Zrobek, aka Iwan Zrobok, aka John Zroback born 29 Aug 1878. I have Demkowicz and Pankiewicz in our tree which are Dobra surnames.




     

    Wednesday 12/13/2006 9:22:42am
    Name: Sandra Blackburn
    E-Mail: rgblackburn@worldnet.att.net
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Melbourne FL
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: I would like to correspond with anyone doing research on the Gbur family.

     

    Friday 11/24/2006 8:29:54pm
    Name: Helen Prokocki
    E-Mail: aspenleafloans@aol.com
    What is your age: 95
    Where are you from: Dobra/Illinois
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My Mother is
    Comments: My Mother and her grandparents are from Dobra




     

    Friday 11/24/2006 7:01:05pm
    Name: Mary Stahl
    E-Mail: aspenleafloans@aol.com
    What is your age: 43
    Where are you from: Houston
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandmother is
    Comments:




     

    Sunday 10/15/2006 7:15:12pm
    Name: Jaroslaw Demkowicz Dobrzanski
    E-Mail:
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Osteno, leszczynskie urodzony w Dobrej
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Bohdan Stalony Dobrzanski (1907-1987):
    http://www.pan-ol.lublin.pl/biul_1/dobrzanski.htm
    Andrzej Stalony Dobrzanski, scenarzysta i rezyser, Teatr Profilaktyczny w Krakowie, Teatr im. Keona Kruczkowskiego w Zielonej Gorze, (Powtorka z czerwonego kapturka).
    Feliks Stalony Dobrzanski, polemista;
    Adam Stalony Dobrzanski, Krakow, witrazysta;
    M. Dobrianskyj-Demkowycz- wspolzalozyciel SUMN;
    Marguerite von Demkowicz-Dobrzanski, daughter of Dr. Joseph, Ritter von Demkowicz-Dobrzanski and Ludmilla Moldauer,Born 1 November 1889 Montreux




     

    Friday 09/08/2006 6:38:15am
    Name: Adam Mickiewicz
    E-Mail:
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Zaosie ko³o Nowogródka
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage: Dziady CzeϾ III
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I am
    Comments: Co widzê? - d³ugie, bia³e, dróg krzy¿owych biegi,

    Drogi d³ugie - nie dojrzeæ - przez puszcze, przez œniegi

    Wszystkie na pó³noc! - tam, tam w kraj daleki,

    P³yn¹ jak rzeki.

    P³yn¹: ta droga prosto do ¿elaznej bramy.

    Tamta jak strumieñ wpad³a pod ska³ê, w te jamy,

    A tamtej ujœcie w morzu. - Patrz! po drogach leci

    T³um wozów - jako chmury wiatrami pêdzone,

    Wszystkie tam w jednê stronê.

    Ach, Panie! to nasze dzieci,

    Tam na pó³noc - Panie, Panie!

    Taki¿ to los ich - wygnanie!

    I dasz ich wszystkich wygubiæ za m³odu,

    I pokolenie nasze zatracisz do koñca? -

    Patrz! - ha! - to dzieciê usz³o - roœnie - to obroñca!

    Wskrzesiciel narodu,

    Z matki obcej; krew jego dawne bohatery,

    A imiê jego bêdzie czterdzieœci i cztery.




     

    Friday 12/16/2005 9:27:53pm
    Name: Chegda Ivan
    E-Mail: terenunozi@aol.com
    What is your age: 52
    Where are you from: Ukraine
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments:

     

    Tuesday 12/06/2005 10:57:36am
    Name: Bozena Popiela-Nowka
    E-Mail: wrc81@mywdt.net
    What is your age: 51
    Where are you from: USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments:




     

    Saturday 11/19/2005 3:37:46pm
    Name: El¿bieta Bro¿ek zd Demkowicz
    E-Mail: aniabrozek@op.pl
    What is your age: 40
    Where are you from: Wroc³aw- Polska
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: Babcia-Maria Demkowicz zd Popiel, Dziadek- Micha³ Demkowicz, Ojciec- Daniel Demkowicz ur.w Dobrej w 1937r.




     

    Saturday 11/12/2005 0:54:31am
    Name: John Charydczak
    E-Mail: nissantoyota@hotmail.com
    What is your age: 51
    Where are you from: uluch
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: i used to live in dobra szlachecka




     

    Thursday 09/08/2005 12:45:54am
    Name: Peter Demkovitz
    E-Mail: PDemkovitz@MarkowitzandRichman.com
    What is your age: 48
    Where are you from: Philadlephia (Wyndmoor) PA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: Paternal grandfather was Phillip Demkovitz. Lived in Scranton, PA. His sons spelled name Demcowicz, Demkovitz, Demkowitz. I was just looking for connections. ancestors. You've done a great job. Feel free to contact me.




     

    Wednesday 08/31/2005 10:47:49pm
    Name: Richard Geissler
    E-Mail: rgeissler2@comcast.net
    What is your age: 78
    Where are you from: Rehton, WA USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: My grand parents were born in Dobra Poland. Grandfather Leon Bialkowski Born Jan. 3 1879 Grandmother Margaret Chojncka Born May 21 1860 Dobra Came to the USA in about 1900. Any information that I can get would be appreciated

     

    Tuesday 08/30/2005 8:02:20am
    Name: Theodora Gbur Barr Betz
    E-Mail:
    What is your age: 63
    Where are you from: originally from Aliquippa, PA, now Ohio
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: My grandfather, John Gbur, came to America in 1904 at age 14 from Dobra Szlachecka; and my grandmother, Theodora, aka Fannie, came from Lukovata, Dobroml, Galicia in 1911 at age 19. They were married in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1912.

    John worked in J&L Steel Mill for 25 yrs. and operated Bur's Grille. Later Theodora and the children built, owned, and operated Hotel Barr which opened in 1950.

    I am doing a family tree mainly on the Gbur side and also Theodora (one of 11 children) and looking for relatives who knew them or knew of them, especially the name of John's Grandmother, wife of Joseph Gbur, born 1873, Sanok, Galicia, Austria. She never came to America, and their other children's names, etc.

    Thanks to Sandy and Ron Blackburn for recommending this site. Have relatives on John's side who still read and speak in Ukrainian. This website opens up a world of perspective for us who are Americanized to appreciate where they and we came all the hardships went through to give us the opportunities and liberties we enjoy today. Spah-cee-bo (Thanks in Ukrainian?)




     

    Thursday 08/25/2005 9:31:07am
    Name: Thomas
    E-Mail: genealogy(antispam_remove_this)@fastwebnet.it
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandmother is
    Comments: Nana and her parents are from Dobra (Near Sieniawa)




     

    Friday 06/24/2005 2:06:58pm
    Name: Andrzej Demkowicz
    E-Mail: adds@wp.pl
    What is your age: 29
    Where are you from: Gdansk - Poland
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My father is
    Comments: My father name is Józef Demkowicz Dobrzański he is born in 21-07-1931 in Dobra Szlachecka.




     

    Friday 06/17/2005 2:28:44pm
    Name: weronika
    E-Mail: weronikawawro@o2.pl
    What is your age: 40
    Where are you from: Sosnowiec/Poland
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My Mother is
    Comments:




     

    Friday 06/17/2005 2:27:49pm
    Name: weronika wawro
    E-Mail: weronikawawro@o2.pl
    What is your age: 38
    Where are you from: Sosnowiec/Poland
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My Mother is
    Comments: poszukujê informacji o mojej mamie Anna Tyrawska ur.w 1925r. w Dobrej

     

    Friday 06/17/2005 2:17:09pm
    Name: weronika wawro
    E-Mail: weronikawawro@o2.pl
    What is your age: 38
    Where are you from: Sosnowiec/Poland
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My Mother is
    Comments: poszukujê informacji o mojej mamie Anna Tyrawska ur.w 1925r. w Dobrej




     

    Friday 05/27/2005 11:42:23am
    Name: Danilo Kliszcz
    E-Mail: danklisch@verizon.net
    What is your age: 68
    Where are you from: Brunary
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments:




     

    Wednesday 05/25/2005 9:44:47pm
    Name: Lolly
    E-Mail: lolky95@hotmail.com
    What is your age: 60
    Where are you from: Canada
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: My ancestors are From Szczutkow near Lubaczow. I have researched the village in the Latter Day Saints microfilms and have found a relative whose title in 1810 was'Magnificus' Ignatius Konopka and his occupation was 'Posesor et Comisarius' Lubaczow. I suspect that he was a Bishop??
    Can you tell me where I could find any information on him and his title?




     

    Wednesday 05/11/2005 8:49:34pm
    Name: Sarah Wraight
    E-Mail: amphibiangel@hotmail.com
    What is your age: 24
    Where are you from: Indiana
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: My ancestors are Gburs. My great-grandparents were Joseph and Anna Gbur. They were both born in Dobra and then immigrated to the U.S. as young adults. Their parents were: Joseph's (Michael Gbur and Katherine Podlecki), Anna's (Daniel Gbur and Julia Kowalczyk). Other surnames for my ancestors are Soroka and Guralnyj.




     

    Wednesday 05/04/2005 4:06:34pm
    Name: Suzanne Demkowicz
    E-Mail: suzyd00@hotmail.com
    What is your age: 22
    Where are you from: suburbs of Chicago IL USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: Cool site - my dad's name is Mike Demkowicz - I was just searching my name online and came across it - the pictures were very pretty.

     

    Sunday 04/24/2005 11:01:31am
    Name: Malgorzata Nisiewicz
    E-Mail: malgorzatanisiewicz@o2.pl
    What is your age: 29
    Where are you from: polska
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My father is
    Comments: bardzo du¿o sie dowiedzia³am z tej strony o miejscu w którym ¿y³a kiedyœ moja rodzina nisiewicze i demkowicze szukam te¿ dokumêtow o rodzinie i jej pochodzeniu




     

    Tuesday 03/22/2005 3:50:05am
    Name: Vitaliy Demyanik
    E-Mail: burnout555@msn.com
    What is your age: 19
    Where are you from: Originally - Kyiv, Ukraine; Seattle, WA.
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Good job on the web site, keep it up.




     

    Monday 10/18/2004 11:32:16pm
    Name: Michael Chunka
    E-Mail: mike38101@msn.com
    What is your age: 68
    Where are you from: Murrieta, CA.
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: My family may be name is spelt as Czomko or Chomko and am looking for information on my grandparents or other possible ancestors whose last name is the same




     

    Sunday 10/10/2004 0:29:19am
    Name: Milan Oskoryp
    E-Mail: osk379@telus.net
    What is your age: 68
    Where are you from: Terrace, Brit.Col.,Canada
    Homepage: http://myTelus.com
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Looking for ancestors from Telesnica Sanna. Now under a dam on river San.
    Milan




     

    Friday 09/17/2004 11:14:34pm
    Name: Bob Krowiak
    E-Mail: krowiak@cox.net
    What is your age: 48
    Where are you from: Cleveland, Ohio
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: Grandparents were Stanislaw and Katazyna (Berger) Krowiak. The oldest child of 12 was Feliksa Filomena, born in Holuczkow in 1905; Filomena never left Poland. The 2nd oldest was Aniela, who was baptized in Sanok in 1910. Stanley and Kathryn settled originally in Olyphant, PA. before moving to Cleveland. My father Joseph was the youngest child, and just passed away this year (he was the last surviving child). I was lucky enough to visit Dobra 3 years ago and met some Krowiak's.

     

    Monday 08/30/2004 9:31:08am
    Name: KRAWIARZ
    E-Mail: krawiarz@man.poznan.pl
    What is your age: 60
    Where are you from: POLAND
    Homepage: www://idpan.poznan.pl
    Title of homepage: Institute of Dendrology
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: I'm from free world.




     

    Saturday 08/14/2004 5:25:43pm
    Name: Catherine Bavolack Amato
    E-Mail: amatojc@chartermi.net
    What is your age: 62
    Where are you from: mcadoo, pa
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments:




     

    Saturday 07/03/2004 9:51:54am
    Name: A.B. DUDEK
    E-Mail: DUDEKNCNANA@AOL.COM
    What is your age: 72
    Where are you from: FAYETTEVILLE ,N.C.
    Homepage: http://NONE
    Title of homepage: NONE
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: I WANT TO RESEARCH IN POLAND FOR THESE NAMES;
    DUDEK
    LIS
    CZULBERLA
    BARTOMY




     

    Wednesday 05/26/2004 12:37:58am
    Name: halina Karczyñska-durlej
    E-Mail: hdurlej@poczta.onet.pl
    What is your age:
    Where are you from:
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My parents are
    Comments: zdjêcia bardzo ciekawe dziêkuje za informacjê proszê informowaæ o nowoœciach , co z tym zjazdem?




     

    Monday 05/24/2004 11:41:22pm
    Name: Joseph Martin Przygodzinski
    E-Mail: res0nb59@verizon.net
    What is your age: 54
    Where are you from: Philadelphia born-Hawaii reside
    Homepage: http://N/A
    Title of homepage: N/A
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: On Page 205 of the I. Szlachta galicyjska strona is the name Jozef Przygodzinski
    My grandfather died when I was only 8. My oldest aunt said that he had claimed to be of Polish nobility. He claimed the family once had a ruined castle. This is all I know. My aunt has also passed away and I know nothing of our Polish roots. I did find the name Przygodzinski also in the Herald registery as being under the House Sulima and allowed to bear it's coat of arms.
    In any event, although my family is gone from Poland for over a century, I feel good in my heart when I meet a fellow person of Polish ancestry or hear of news from Poland, Lithuania, Bielorussia or Ukraine.
    Your site is fantastic.

    In Brotherhood,

    Joe

     

    Thursday 05/13/2004 3:30:49pm
    Name: Adam Szpak
    E-Mail: adam_sz5@op.pl
    What is your age: 42
    Where are you from: Poland. Nowa Ruda
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My father is
    Comments: I'm looking for an information about my grandmother and grandfather. They lived in Dobra 1910-1947. I thing You help me. At the moment I live in Nowa Ruda near Wroc³aw. I'm waiting for Your answer. By.




     

    Thursday 05/06/2004 8:51:00pm
    Name: Barbara Kupis Toner
    E-Mail: barkko@comcast.net
    What is your age: 60ish
    Where are you from: Delaware
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: A very informative site. Thanks.




     

    Thursday 05/06/2004 6:08:33pm
    Name: Elias Alemu Teklemariam
    E-Mail: ETK550sport@Budweiser.com
    What is your age: 33
    Where are you from: Ethiopia/UnitedStates
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: As far as I knew, Dobra was a money that was twice the amount in Gold between two Johns in Portugal. It was being used in the 17th century.But I am happy to find out that it is name of city in Poland.

    Thanks.




     

    Wednesday 04/28/2004 4:10:20pm
    Name: Martin Gbur
    E-Mail: matogbur@pobox.sk
    What is your age: 24
    Where are you from: Slovakia (Slowacja)
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: Dzien dobry, nazywam sie Martin Gbur jestem to Slowacje i bylem na google.sk. Sukalem kogos, kto ma to same (ladne:-)) nazwysko i tam byl ten website. Pozdrawiam i zyczie wszystkiego najlepszego.

    PS: u nas w rodzine mówi sie ze jestesme s Polski no na pewno to nik nie wie :-)




     

    Monday 04/26/2004 4:06:56pm
    Name: Malgorzata Mueller-Malesiñska
    E-Mail: m.malesinska@ex.one.pl
    What is your age: 1957
    Where are you from: Warszawa, Polska
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: Poszukuje przodków Anny Choœciak Popiel urodzonej oko³o 1765 r w Ma³opolsce? Wysz³a za m¹¿ za Krystyna de Jaillard. Jej dzieci mieszka³y w Radomiu i okolicach.

     

    Monday 04/12/2004 6:55:04pm
    Name: Roman Charydczak
    E-Mail: roman4771@netzero.net
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Daytona Beach Florida
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My Mother is
    Comments: W Uluczu.ktorego miszkancy dali podobno poczatek Dobrzanskim,21 i 22 Maja 2004 odbedzie sie tradycyjne juz Wzniesinie Chrystowe(Ascension of Our Lord)Jak co roku wezma w nim udzial rozsiani po swiecie.
    W sobote wieczorem(21 maja 0nad Sanem piknik,w niedziele rano-Sluzba Boza przy cerkwi na gorze Dubnik.Warto uczestniczyc




     

    Friday 03/19/2004 10:02:53pm
    Name: WOLOSZYN
    E-Mail: DAKTYLUS28@WP.PL
    What is your age: 28
    Where are you from: SANOK from Poland ;-)
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: witam
    Bardzo ciekawa strona ale dlaczego nie ma wersji polskiej??????
    Pozdrawiam




     

    Thursday 02/19/2004 4:30:41pm
    Name: Keith Hryckewicz
    E-Mail: CACTUS03@WEBTV.NET
    What is your age: 37
    Where are you from: Upstate NY
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments:




     

    Wednesday 02/11/2004 0:52:56am
    Name: Ian Dobra
    E-Mail: dooby_6_9@hotmail.com
    What is your age: 19
    Where are you from: Dalmeny, Sk, Canada
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: well i just typed in my last name which happens to be Dobra and your name popped up, i just thought it was kind of interesting, where did you guys say this town is???? My grand parents are hungarian




     

    Sunday 02/08/2004 7:55:34pm
    Name: uta szczerba
    E-Mail: utavogueny@aol.com
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: new york city
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments:

     

    Sunday 02/08/2004 6:56:59am
    Name: Ossoliñski
    E-Mail: ossol@wp.pl
    What is your age: 35
    Where are you from: Polska-Katowice
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage: www.ossolinski@wp.pl
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: poszukujê rodziny Ossoliñskich która zamieszkiwa³a Dobr¹ Szlacheck¹ w XIX wieku




     

    Tuesday 01/20/2004 2:01:14am
    Name: Michael Chunka
    E-Mail: mike@ixpres.com
    What is your age: 67
    Where are you from: Murrieta, Ca.
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
    Comments: Dear Jan:

    I can't thank you enough for the work you have done with respect to putting together The Dobra Szlachecka Society web site. I found your site over three years ago when I learned that my grandfather was born there and the information that you provided in the web site has added so much to understanding my Ukrainian heritage.

    However, the purpose of this email stems from an area of the site that I previously never indulged in before. Under the "Important Documents" section I never noticed the sub-titled area known as "Saved from the Ashes" before. So I opened this area last night and at first I thought little of the content as the letters were unreadable as they were not enlarged and were very small and there was little information as to their content other than that they were "found in the dirt by you in 1985 which meant very little to me.

    I enlarged the first document and you couldn't possibly imagine my excitment after I scanned the letter. Unfortunately, I cannot read Polish, Ukrainian or Latin but I was able to decipher that this was a "Baptismal" certificate of sorts and in the body of the document I was able to read my great grandparents names "Alexander Czomko" and my great grandmother "Anna Tyrawska" in the body of the document. It almost "floored" me. I was surely astrounded by this unexpected discovery.

    I then began to search and examine the other documents in this section. I came across the "Church Census" and here again I found my family name (Czomko) in five separate line entries.
    What is more interesting I also found a the family name "Uhryn" which interesting enough is also mentioned the the Baptismal document.

    The purpose of this email is to ask you if you could perhaps expand on what the baptismal letter says and under what circumstances were these documents were found by you in 1985. I would forever be grateful for any additional information you can provide in this matter.

    Thanking you in advance for any information that you may be able to provide with respect to learning more about my heritage.


    Very truly yours,


    Michael J. Chunka
    mike@ixpres.com




     

    Monday 01/19/2004 1:15:02pm
    Name: Sister Antonelle Chunka
    E-Mail: smantonelle@yahoo.com
    What is your age: 66
    Where are you from: Lodi, NJ
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: The family name is Chomko (Czomko) and appeared on the 1947 census




     

    Friday 01/16/2004 3:16:43am
    Name: Aleksander Burdziak
    E-Mail: aburdziak@itbc.poznan.pl
    What is your age: :)
    Where are you from: Poznañ, Poland
    Homepage: http://www.itbc.poznan.pl
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: Janie, uprzejmie dziekuje, ze stworzyles strone Dobrej. Moze Dobra to i zapyziala dziura, ALE moi dziadowie z ta Ziemia sa emocjonalnie zwiazani, tam sie wychowali i zyli. Mnie nie przyszlo do glowy, aby zachowac ten kawalek historii,
    ALE dobrze, ze jest taki Jan Popiel, któremu sie CHCIALO chciec.
    Aleksander Burdziak
    Poznan
    PS. W Dobrej bylem, miód i wino pilem.




     

    Monday 01/05/2004 3:52:37pm
    Name: Katarzyna Czajkowska-Tomczak
    E-Mail: kasiacraig@yahoo.com
    What is your age: 30
    Where are you from: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My father is
    Comments: Hi everyone, I got info about this webpage from my cusin Bogda, she made the family tree for Czajkowski and Demkowicz-Dobrzanski. My father Jozef Czajkowski was born in Dobra 1/1/1943 to Aniela Krajnik and Zygmunt Czajkowski,who was a son of Katarzyna Dobrzanska-Nisiewicz and Wiktor Czajkowski, who was a son of Katarzyna Pytlowana and Zygmunt Czajkowski, who was a son of Katarzyna Demkowicz-Dobrzanska and Wincenty Czajkowski, who was a son of Julianna Trzecieska and Szymon Maksymilian Czajkowski from Czajkowic. All but the last two were born in Dobra. Thank you for the website - I need to say that by gathering this information you intergrate people of Dobra. I had a chance to be there in 1993 and visit my relatives. Dobra is a very lovely place.

     

    Tuesday 12/30/2003 4:03:12pm
    Name: Evelyne Bornier
    E-Mail: leilaasma@earthlink.net
    What is your age: 34
    Where are you from: France - Currently lives in the US
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandmother is
    Comments: I love your website. It's very informative, very moving for me to read about the history of that region, and I love the pictures.

    I read somewhere that there are about 5 villages/cities named Dobra in Poland.
    Could there be more than one in that very area of Poland where my grand-mother was from?
    My paternal grandmother, Maria Wloch, was born in Dobra in 1902. She left for France around 1920.
    I am French, but now live in the US and I have always wanted to know where my family came from and what happened to them.

    The little I was able to gather here and there, talking with family members, made me think that the Dobra on your website is the one... But I could be wrong. Everything on your website matched what I had heard: a little village, near a river, you had to take a ferry to cross the river, the village was at one time cut in half, some family members identified as Ukrainians...
    The similarities between the info on your site and my family's account are so striking...
    I have always wanted to learn about my roots. My grand-mother died at age 53 and left 7 orphans, my Dad was one of them... He was 14 when she died and I think she never told her children much about her origins.

    I never knew my grand-mother and learning about her origins, would be a way for me to connect with her and honor her memory. One day soon, I want to take a trip there and visit her birtplace and the cemetery where my great-grand-parents and great-aunts and great-uncles were buried.

    I thank you for your time and wish you a Happy New Year!

    Best Regards,

    Evelyne




     

    Monday 12/22/2003 11:33:07am
    Name: Steve Koch
    E-Mail: kochwagner@sympatico.ca
    What is your age: 47
    Where are you from: Toronto
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: Merry Christmas to all at the Dobra Szlachecka Society!
    Steve Koch
    my family names from Dobra include:
    Czajkowski, Stalony, Hynko, Krajnik, Demkowicz & Niesiewicz.




     

    Saturday 12/20/2003 7:32:07pm
    Name: Rafal Czajkowski
    E-Mail: womisiek@wp.pl
    What is your age: 23
    Where are you from: Ostrowek
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
    Comments:




     

    Sunday 11/23/2003 10:08:11am
    Name: kristy maree maslowskyj (buglio)
    E-Mail: kristybuglio@hotmail.com
    What is your age: 23
    Where are you from: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: I have been researching my family tree,My father was Mickel Nickoli Maslowskyj, son of Mickel Maslowskyj. My grandmother's maiden name was Anna Mizzechen (not sure on spelling). however We have been trying to trace relatives of the Maslowskyj name for the last 20 years,the search has been extremley difficult as my grandfather was seperated from his13 brothers and sisters during world war II. He made is way to Brisbane Australia approx. 1953 and has since passed away 1991. We are still however trying to fulfil his dream of finally locationg all of his living relatives. Please e mail me with any information on the Maslowskyj name.
    kristybuglio@hotmail.com
    Many thanks
    kristy buglio (nee Maslowskyj)
    24/11/03




     

    Monday 10/27/2003 6:28:22am
    Name: ROBERT KUCENSKI
    E-Mail: WHEEZYK1313@AOL.COM
    What is your age: 64
    Where are you from: LAKELAND, FL
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
    Comments: Q VERY INTERESTING AND HELPFUL SITE

     

    Monday 10/13/2003 1:47:10pm
    Name: Slawomir Demkowicz
    E-Mail: dimua@poczta.fm
    What is your age: 26
    Where are you from: Orneta
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
    Comments: If anybody knows more about my family's genealogy please send me the information.

    gggfather (?-1860) Mieczyslaw Demkowicz (born in Dobra Szlachecka),
    wife - Katarzyna
    ggfather (26.05.1887) Stanislaw Demkowicz (born in Dobra Szlachecka)
    farmer, educated 3 class, work as a teacher, native language-Ukrainian and Polish, also spoke German
    wife - Agnieszka (1889)
    gmother 1937 (born in Dobra Szlachecka) Anna Wawrzyniak maiden name Demkowicz
    Father Zdzislaw Demkowicz, born in 1954 in Piotrowiec.
    Slawomir Demkowicz (born in 1977 in Orneta)




     

    Tuesday 09/23/2003 3:16:44pm
    Name: Myron King (now) (born) Miron Stanko
    E-Mail: Myrronking@aol.com
    What is your age: 52
    Where are you from: Originally England now Northern Ireland
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My father is
    Comments: My father is from Dobra, near Jaroslaw. My grandfather is buried there.




     

    Tuesday 09/23/2003 4:53:54am
    Name: Miroslaw Drozd
    E-Mail: miroslaw.drozd@wp.pl
    What is your age: 20
    Where are you from: Kêtrzyn
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Srona super!Ale mam pytanie czy wiecie cos o rodzinie Gbur mieszkajacej do 1947 w Woli Krecowskiej moze wiecie czy s¹ oni rodzin¹ z Gburami z Dobrej? Prosil bym o odpowiedz .




     

    Wednesday 09/17/2003 11:47:50am
    Name: Walt Whitman
    E-Mail: Walt@Whitman.com
    What is your age: 47
    Where are you from: Brooklyn, NY
    Homepage: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/
    Title of homepage: Leaves of Grass
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: A great city is that which has the greatest
    men and women,
    If it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

    - Walt Whitman




     

    Friday 08/29/2003 8:36:52pm
    Name: Anna Mazur
    E-Mail: amazur@caramail.com
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Belgium
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Janie,
    Po raz kolejny otwarlam Twa (a raczej Wasza?) witryne.
    Zachwyca mnie jej ewolucja.
    Niesposob powstrzymac sie od komentarza.
    Jedno tylko slowo cisnie sie na usta: Encore, encore, encore.....
    Gratuluje i ..... czekam.

     

    Tuesday 08/26/2003 1:44:23am
    Name: Jasmine Merhie
    E-Mail: wnr@winnergambler.com
    What is your age: 25
    Where are you from: Turkey
    Homepage: http://www.winnergambler.com
    Title of homepage: Voted Casino Portal 2003
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: ~ * ~ Excellent website.You did a good job.Good luck... ~ * ~




     

    Monday 08/25/2003 2:39:06pm
    Name: Marian Wlodarczyk
    E-Mail: richard.wlodarczyk@ntlworld.com
    What is your age: 53
    Where are you from: Ashton-U-Lyne England
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My Mother is
    Comments: My mothers maiden name was Gizycki. She came to England after the war, my brother and I were born here. I believe we still have relatives living in Sanok.




     

    Wednesday 08/20/2003 11:06:39pm
    Name: Anna Nahurska Kalivas
    E-Mail: akali@kwom.com
    What is your age: 53
    Where are you from: Glen Ellyn, IL USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: I drove thru Dobra this last July 03.
    Pretty area, very poor village. I hope that there is better future for them.




     

    Monday 08/18/2003 8:52:50pm
    Name: James Dobrzanski
    E-Mail: james.dobrzanski@btinternet.com
    What is your age: 23
    Where are you from: Plymouth
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments:




     

    Monday 08/18/2003 3:56:55am
    Name: Arkadiusz Suda
    E-Mail: arsud@poczta.onet.pl
    What is your age:
    Where are you from:
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Witam! Wspania³a strona o Dodrej i Dobrzanach. Moja mama z domu Demkowicz pochodzi z Dobrej Szlacheckiej,obecnie mieszka w Policku ko³o Miêdzyrzecza.
    Pozdrawiam wszystkich Dobrzan i ca³y ród Demkowiczów.

     

    Friday 08/15/2003 11:42:21am
    Name: Ireneusz Dziurdziewicz
    E-Mail: dziurdziewicz@wp.pl
    What is your age: 40
    Where are you from: Żary( Lubuskie)
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My father is
    Comments: Bardzo się cieszę ,że nawiązaliśmy kontakt z panem J.Popielem.Jesteśmy bardzo ciekawi naszej przeszłości,niestety mój tato był zbyt mały aby pamiętać tak dobrze Dobrą,bardziej pamięta Braniewo , bo juz był nastolatkiem.Z opowieści zna dość dobrze Dobrą i jej mieszkańców, ale chcielibysmy poznac więcej faktów.
    Pozdrawiam.




     

    Wednesday 08/13/2003 10:10:31pm
    Name: Ingrid Capozzoli Flinn
    E-Mail: icapf@nyc.rr.com
    What is your age: 43
    Where are you from: Brooklyn, New York
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
    Comments: I have been looking for this town for over twenty years!




     

    Tuesday 07/22/2003 11:53:23am
    Name: Mariusz Hnatusko
    E-Mail: MHnatusko@poczta.onet.pl
    What is your age: 32
    Where are you from: Zielona Gora/Poland
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: Nazywam sie Mariusz Hnatusko. Mieszkam w Zielonej Gorze.
    Mam 32 lata. Moj ojciec Mikolaj urodzil sie w Dobrej 1946 roku na kilka miesiecy przed deportacja.
    Janie, chcialbym Ci podziekowac za udostepnienie materialow o Dobrej, jej historii
    i mieszkancach. Dzieki stronie mialem okazje poznac historie naszego rodu. Od dziadka niewiele sie dowiedzialem, byl wieziony w Jaworznie, ciezko to przezyl i nie chcial o tym mowic. Zmarl w 1991 roku.
    Twoja strona rozbudzila moja ciekawosc i zmobilizowala mnie do dalszych poszukiwan, narazie, z braku czasu, tylko na internecie.



    My name is Mariusz Hnatusko. I live in Zielona Gora, Poland.
    My father was born in Dobra. My grandparents were displaced from Dobra to the north of Poland in 1947. Then they moved to Nowogrod Borzanski, west of Poland.
    I would like to thank Jan for collecting all materials. Thanks to that, I have had a chance to acquaint with my roots and family history.




     

    Wednesday 06/18/2003 9:36:39am
    Name: Tomasz Gierula
    E-Mail: tgierula@wp.pl
    What is your age: 28
    Where are you from: Lubno, commune Dynow
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Dear friends,
    I'm interested in old, wooden Orthodox churches. This one in Dobra is beautiful but very neglected. It's require instant renovation's. I believe that you will do it. If you need a help send me e-mail.
    Yours sincerely,
    Tomasz Gierula




     

    Tuesday 06/10/2003 8:17:19pm
    Name: Jan Popiel
    E-Mail: SASPopiel@aol.com
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Dobra Nobili/Dzierzazno Wielkie/Brooklyn
    Homepage: http://www.dobra.org http://kingpopiel.tripod.com
    Title of homepage: The Popiels and The Dobra Szlachecka
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: Since Mike has no time to post the translation of Lustracya 1565, here it is in the guest book:
    Census of Dobra- 1565

    Dobra, a village by the river San, where all the gentry live, having abundance of land, well populated, and abundance of fields and forests and pastures and meadows. Great land, on which this village had been settled was given by King Wladyslaw in anno Domini 1402 to his servicemen, under condition that three horsemen with mounts from this village would serve continuously at the Castle of Sanok, as needs of Sanok Lord Subprefect pro tempore existenti may be; according to the act of the Parliament, and in any war, with Sanok Lord Subprefect they shall ride according to their custom, for many years.
    After successu temporis, they paid to buy back continuous service that was due, ut praemissum est, to the Castle, except war time ( since as some gentry known from it that not only for war, but as well for all other needs, must pay liberty rent, with Lord Subprefect as well as with the Subprefect deputy, they rode to the Hungarian borders ), but continuous service that is those three men, who had to live at the Castle, used to be sent with the list to select rams and pigs, to supervise conscripts, etc., buying back they had to pay every year ten "grzywna" to the Sanok castle, and at the time of need, when they were called for from the Castle, they rode, though, and they kept paying that liberty rent until this year. At the Parliament session in Piotrkow, anno Domini 1565 they obtained the privileges of liberty from such a rent ad relationem reverendi domini Petr(i) Miskowski, r. P. vicecan., cum ea conditione, [under condition] that at time of forming of gentry voluntary troop, the nobles of this village shall send to war only four mounted, and before that they used to send for each war not only four mounted, but also each of them used to serve as was the custom of polish nobility, and if their deeds were greater, it is up to His Majesty recognition.

     

    Wednesday 06/04/2003 3:55:32am
    Name: Susan Chunco (Czomko)
    E-Mail: ukapole@juno.com
    What is your age: 57
    Where are you from: Santa Rosa, California
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: I know my grandparents came from Galicia at the beginning of the 20th century. My grandmother insisted she was Ruthenian but came from Ukraine. I've been searching for information on our surname and came across your website.




     

    Wednesday 05/21/2003 11:29:14pm
    Name: Alicia
    E-Mail: Aseihcila99@hotmail.com
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: I would like to congratulate Mr. Popiel for his wonderful research. Amazing and fascinating task indeed.




     

    Sunday 05/04/2003 2:48:28pm
    Name: Greg Garbinsky
    E-Mail: gregoryjgg@cs.com
    What is your age: 48
    Where are you from: Maryland
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: If I read my grandfather Konstantyn GARBINSKY's Radoszyce, Galicia 1868 birth record correctly, his mother was Thecla Garbinsky who was daughter of Joanne KRAYNIK (or KRAJNIK), a farmer in Dobra. Her mother's surname may be LINEWSKI or LISEWSKI, but is difficult to read.




     

    Monday 04/07/2003 11:58:02pm
    Name: Steve Zelinka
    E-Mail:
    What is your age: 51
    Where are you from: Chicago, Illinois, USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
    Comments: Grandson of William & Nellie Demkowicz, both of Dobra. Mother, Olga born in Dobra.

    714 Middle St.
    Bath, ME 04530, USA




     

    Monday 03/31/2003 12:22:55am
    Name: Cari Dobrzanski
    E-Mail: cj.dobi@verizon.net
    What is your age: 24
    Where are you from: Tampa, FL
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments:

     

    Tuesday 03/11/2003 4:04:20pm
    Name: Michael Czajkowski
    E-Mail: czajkowski@wiez.com.pl
    What is your age: 69
    Where are you from: Chełmża (My father from Dobra Szlechec
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My father is
    Comments: Whole family of my father




     

    Monday 03/03/2003 8:45:39pm
    Name: Barbara Malisheski
    E-Mail: www.windsor54766@yahoo.com
    What is your age: 57
    Where are you from: Sheldon, WI USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: other spellings of name are Maliszewski, grandmother Niedwiecka, Ruchla Szmulowna, somewhere near Diniper River town of Bialia




     

    Saturday 02/22/2003 2:33:59am
    Name: Joseph HANKS
    E-Mail: hanksj1@telus.net
    What is your age: 69
    Where are you from: Calgary, Alberta Canada
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Just browsing. Seems like a beautiful town. A very nice and informative website. Thank you.




     

    Friday 02/21/2003 10:53:34am
    Name: Denise Hnatusko Piefke
    E-Mail: jeffpiefke@yahoo.com-------
    What is your age: -42
    Where are you from: born in Chicago Illinois, now in TN
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
    Comments: The family history is that my grandfather, Walter Hnatusko stow away on a ship when he was 14 from Dobra, his mother was here but he found she died when he got here. He was illigitamate. We don't know his mother's name or where Hnatusko came from. In Dobra, he lived with an Uncle..I don't know Polish or Ukrainian..I never knew my grandfather, he died way before I was born. we still do Pysanky eggs at Easter.




     

    Tuesday 02/18/2003 10:55:59pm
    Name: Greg Anderson
    E-Mail: anderson1eod@aol.com
    What is your age: 45
    Where are you from: U.S.A. (Missouri)
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Please help! My wife's Grandmother was born in Wola Bentkowska,Poland 1912. Grandfather was born at Gajowiki,Poland 1905. As most of you may know, many towns have changed names since WWI and WWII. If anyone know's where these towns are please e-mail me.Thank you

     

    Monday 02/10/2003 8:59:05am
    Name: Marcel Domin
    E-Mail: mdomin@halicz.pl
    What is your age: 48
    Where are you from: Sanok
    Homepage: http://region.halicz.pl
    Title of homepage: REGION
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Imponujaca ilosc i jakosc zebranych materialow, pasja, upor i konsekwencja autorow moga byc dla innych przykladem. Niestety, co z przykroscia konstatuje, swoje gniazdo rodzinne najlepiej widac z daleka.




     

    Sunday 02/09/2003 9:08:46pm
    Name: Jerzy Aftanas
    E-Mail: aftanas@pf.pl
    What is your age: 66
    Where are you from: Poland, Gdansk
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments:




     

    Sunday 02/02/2003 6:29:09am
    Name: Wolanski
    E-Mail: redlo5@go2.pl
    What is your age: 32
    Where are you from: Redlo
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
    Comments: Pozdrowienia dla wszystkich Dobrzan.
    M�j dziadek Jan Gbur pochodzi� z Dobrej.
    Jego �ona Tekla Biela�ska z Lachawy.

    Andrzej Wola�ski




     

    Tuesday 01/28/2003 4:16:47pm
    Name: Zenobia
    E-Mail: redlo5@go2.pl
    What is your age: 58
    Where are you from: Lachawa
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: Pozdrwienia od rodziny Gbur z Dobrej Rustykalnej oraz rodziny Biela�skich z Lachawy
    Zenobia Gbur




     

    Wednesday 01/22/2003 9:22:29am
    Name: Christine Dombrowska
    E-Mail: tina58stan@westelcom.com
    What is your age: 62
    Where are you from: Willsboro, New York, USA
    Homepage: http://www.tina-stan.com
    Title of homepage: Tina & Stan's Website
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: We are doing genealogy on our families. Many are from Poland but we are having great difficulty. Thank you for your website. It is very well done. Our's is just a family page and not really for anything more than to communicate with our family around the country.
    Bardzo dzieki.

     

    Sunday 01/12/2003 9:54:47am
    Name: Marek Nisiewicz
    E-Mail: m.nisiewicz@freenet.de
    What is your age: 42
    Where are you from: Niemcy
    Homepage: http://www.nisiewicz.de
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: Dzisiaj wiem ze jestem dobrzaninem, takze dzieki Panu. Dziekuje!
    Zyje w Niemczech od 1981 r. Jestem synem Andrzeja i wnuczkiem Michala, oboje skazani w 1947 przez WSR ( informacja o tym na panskiej stronie: IPN ZpNP ). Bylem wszedzie, gdzie Ich po swiecie w 1947 r. rozrzucili. W Zelaznej Gorze, Braniewie, Pienieznie, Swidnicy Slaskiej i Stanislawowie.
    Dziekuje Panu za trud i czas ktory poswiecil pan przy redakcji tej strony.
    Marek




     

    Friday 01/03/2003 2:37:29pm
    Name: Robert L. Hill
    E-Mail: hexl@aol.com
    What is your age: 64
    Where are you from: Rensselaer, New York 12144 USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My Mother is
    Comments: I've been looking for a web sight like this for some time. My mother Sophia Hynko Hill was born in Dobra in 1897. She passed away at 100 in 1997. Brian Cunningham, Mark Dushnyck and Steve Koch are collectively responsible for my finding the web site and Jan Popiel asked me to sign this register. I and my brothers and sister are looking for information on our ancestry. My grandfater was Onofry Hynko and grandmother was Anastasia Hynko. My sister's name is Anastasia Hinko Hill Traegler. My mother Sophia was Anna Staleny's Sister. They had other siblings. I will re register with more updated information as I find it. Thank all of you for having this wonderful web site. It is what bthe web is made for. Bob Hill




     

    Friday 01/03/2003 7:00:09am
    Name: Bartosiewicz Piotr
    E-Mail: sobiepan@enterpol.pl
    What is your age: 27
    Where are you from: Lublin, Polska
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: Witam! Jestem Piotr Bartosiewicz z Lublina. Dobra Szlachecka to takze rodzinne gniazdo rodu mej matki, ktorej przodkami byli takze Demkowicze Dobrzanscy. Jesli idzie o moich przodków w linii prostej od strony matki, to wyglada to nastepujaco: ja - moja matka Aleksandra Bartosiewicz, urodzona w Dobrej Szlacheckiej, córka Zofii Górskiej i Eugeniusza Szurgota- moja babka Zofia Górska, córka Katarzyny Demkowicz Dobrzanskiej i Michala Górskiego). Od dluzszego czasu badam dzieje i genealogie swojej rodziny. Mam troche ciekawych informacji na temat Naszej rodziny Demkowiczów - Dobrzanskich . Zainteresowanych kontaktem z krewniakiem prosze o list: sobiepan@enterpol.pl.
    Wasza strona jest dobrze pomyslana i profesjonalnie wykonana.
    Bye!




     

    Thursday 12/26/2002 1:27:14pm
    Name: Steven Koch
    E-Mail: kochwagner@compuserve.com
    What is your age: 46
    Where are you from: Toronto, Canada
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: Merry Christmas Mike & Jan,
    it's great to see the Dobra site still going strong!
    Steve Koch
    My ancestors from Dobra include:
    Czajkowski, Stalony, Hynko, Krajnik, Demkowicz & Niesiewicz




     

    Friday 12/13/2002 11:46:12am
    Name: John V. Lecorchick
    E-Mail:
    What is your age: 60
    Where are you from: Hanover, Pa.
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: My heritage is Carpatho - Rusyn (Greek Catholic Church). Thanks to you and your web site and links I am closing in on where my grandparents came from. Your web site is interesting, enjoyable and helpful - thank you for being there.
    John

     

    Thursday 12/12/2002 5:38:18pm
    Name: mark steven olszewski
    E-Mail: captainboh@aol.com
    What is your age: 45
    Where are you from: severna park ,maryland U.S.A.
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: Just trying to search the last name and see what i come up with.Also searching greatgrandfathers name which is Frank Trawinski and greatgrandmothers maiden name which is Caroline Cziczerski I think i'am pretty close to that one. Thanks alot Mark Olszewski




     

    Monday 09/30/2002 2:08:20am
    Name: craig anthony dobra
    E-Mail: split22@mail.com
    What is your age: 16
    Where are you from: australia
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: interested in my family history.good site




     

    Saturday 09/28/2002 1:04:03pm
    Name: stella mezibroski johnson
    E-Mail:
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Abbotsford BC CANADA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: CONGRATULATIONS JAN,
    YOUR VISION TO DEVELOPE (tiny)DOBRA'S PRESENCE IN THE GLOBLE world is commendable!!!!!congratulations, WE are looking forward to your arrival in Vancouver BC Canada,,stella j.




     

    Friday 09/13/2002 1:41:03pm
    Name: Roman I. Zherebetskiy herbu SAS
    E-Mail: roma-jh@narod.ru
    What is your age: 29 years
    Where are you from: Ukraine, Lviv
    Homepage: http://www.roma-jh.narod.ru/roma.index.html
    Title of homepage: House of Zherebetsky
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments:




     

    Thursday 09/12/2002 8:15:00pm
    Name: Aleksandra Zawadzka
    E-Mail: azawadzka0568@rogers.com
    What is your age: 28
    Where are you from: Canada
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: My grandparents Helena Nisiewicz (year of birth 1921)and Michal Bialas (year of birth 1914) lived in Dobra (Pliszewa) until June 8 1947. They were relocated by "Akcja Wisla" to Pieniezno. Our Bialas family visited Dobra several times with our grandmother. It was always a great experience walking on the ground our ancestors did. Here is our family tree. My grandmother's (Helena Nisiewicz-Bialas) side of the family:Anna Nisiewicz (1888) married Jozef Nisiewicz (1882). Their children: Katarzyna (1911-1989), Anna (1914-2001), my grandmother-Helena (1921), Jan (1924-1945), Wladyslaw (1927-1980), Aniela (1932).
    My grandfather's side of the family (Michal Bialas):Maria Demkowicz married Michal Bialas. Their childen: Mitro (1912-1945), Michal (my grandfather, 1914-1973), Katarzyna (1923-1995).

     

    Friday 09/06/2002 8:24:44am
    Name: Jozefa Solon
    E-Mail: solon@itconnect.net.au
    What is your age: 94
    Where are you from: Dobra
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I am
    Comments: I was born in Dobra in 1908,
    I live in Australia.




     

    Friday 08/09/2002 3:51:21pm
    Name: MARJORIE DOBRA
    E-Mail: MARJORIE@FRONTIERNET.NET
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: A friend
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments:




     

    Friday 08/09/2002 11:51:30am
    Name: Melissa M Dobra
    E-Mail: nkmiss4@frontiernet.net
    What is your age: 26
    Where are you from: Brockport, NY USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: Just to see what would come up I put in my last name into the search engine. I new my last name was Polish but didnt realize that there was a town! I'll be in Europe this fall so I may stop in to see what it is like. When it comes to ancestory, all I know is that both sides of my family were from Germany.




     

    Friday 07/26/2002 5:49:40pm
    Name: Nick Gombash
    E-Mail: nck200486@yahoo.com
    What is your age: 16
    Where are you from: Mokena, IL
    Homepage: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~gombashfamily/
    Title of homepage: Gombash and Rodgers Family Homepage
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Hi All. My uncle's Gbur Ancestors are from Dobra. If anyone knows anything on the surname of Gbur, please contact me. Thank You.




     

    Wednesday 07/24/2002 3:00:03pm
    Name: Steve Koch
    E-Mail: kochwagner@compuserve.com
    What is your age: 45
    Where are you from: Toronto
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: hi Mike & Jan,
    it's great to see the site still going so well. Keep up the good work!
    My ancestors from Dobra include:
    Czajkowski, Stalony, Hinko, Demkowicz, Niesiewicz and I'd be glad to share information with anyone interested in those families.

     

    Thursday 07/18/2002 1:09:38am
    Name: Stanislaw Dobrzanski
    E-Mail: Stan_dobrzanski@hotmail.com
    What is your age: 31
    Where are you from: Vancouver, B.C. , Canada
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: My immediate relatives still reside in South Eastern Poland (Zalesie, Lancut)and was there visiting not long ago. Had I known of your research I would have attended your meeting in Dobro; perhaps next time. Kudos to all who put the work in to this site.




     

    Tuesday 06/11/2002 10:15:56am
    Name: Feliks Stalony Dobrzanski
    E-Mail: fstaldob@uci.agh.edu.pl
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Krakow, Polska
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: No - w ko�cu pojecha�em do Dobrej.
    Dzwonnica rzeczywi�cie - rewelacja. I forma i konstrukcj�.
    Niezbyt dobrze przedstawia si� sprawa samej cerkiewki. S� ju� zacieki wewn�trz po prawej stronie.
    Ma�o tego - miejscowi co� m�wi� o tym,iz im juz r�ce opadaj� od stukania o konserwacj� i ratowanie - no bo zabytek, to i samym im nic nie wolno - i juz zbieraj� drzewo na nowy ko�ci�.
    Z drugiej strony mo�e to i dobrze - niech jednak cerkiew pozostanie cerkwi� lecz taki zabytek - bo to jest nie byle jaki zabytek - nie powinien i�� w ruin�. Tu anse trac� sens.
    Ciesz� si�, iz przypadkiem - po przeczytaniu Pana listu w Tygodniku Powszechnym - odnalaz�em Pana �lad - bo zgin�� mi Pan w internecie. Na dodatek w tej�e Dobrej dowiedzia�em si� jakoby Pan zgin�� 11 wrze�nia w owym ataku. Mam nadziej�, iz jest to oznaka d�ugiego �ycia.
    Czekam na sygna�.
    fsd




     

    Sunday 06/09/2002 8:42:06pm
    Name: Robert Adamczyk
    E-Mail: radamczyk@gorzow.mm.pl
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Gorz�w Wlkp., Poland
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My Mother is
    Comments: Jestem zaskoczony, ze tyle jest wiadomosci o Dobrej. Moja Babcia mieszkala w Dobrej - Katarzyna Demkowicz, i moja Mama tam si� urodzila.




     

    Saturday 06/08/2002 4:00:23pm
    Name: Zbigniew Czajkowski
    E-Mail:
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Swidwin, Poland
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: Dzi�kujemy. Serdeczne pozdrowienia od prawnuka Katarzyny Demkowicz-Dobrza�skiej. Zbigniew Czajkowski




     

    Saturday 06/08/2002 3:33:05am
    Name: Bogumila Kalinowska
    E-Mail: Bogumila.Kalinowska@ds.mofnet.gov.pl
    What is your age: 42
    Where are you from: Poland,Wroclaw
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My Mother is
    Comments: Sporz�dzam drzewo genealogiczne rodu Czajkowskich oraz Demkowiczow-Dobrza�skich

     

    Friday 05/31/2002 11:54:31am
    Name: Marcin J. Tarnowski
    E-Mail: martin.tarnowski@sympatico.ca
    What is your age: 67
    Where are you from: born Dzikow/Poland, now Montreal/Canada
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: Contents are very interesting, will be delighted to meet with Jan Popiel when he comes to Montreal.




     

    Thursday 05/30/2002 1:36:27am
    Name: Maciej Augustyn
    E-Mail:
    What is your age:
    Where are you from:
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: To jest najlepsza strona o karpackiej wsi jak� widzia�em.
    Gratuluj� autorom

    Maciej Augustyn




     

    Monday 05/27/2002 2:33:54am
    Name: Tony Dobra
    E-Mail: tony_dobra@scotiacapital.com
    What is your age: 40
    Where are you from: Hong Kong via England & Hungary
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: Family settled in N.E. Hungary late 17th Century




     

    Friday 05/24/2002 8:00:45am
    Name: Anna Duchniak
    E-Mail: aduch83@poczta.onet.pl
    What is your age: 19 age
    Where are you from: Pi�a Poland
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: Ciesz� si� �e znalaz� si� kto� kto postanowi� za�o�y� stron� Dobrej Szlacheckiej. My�l� �e to �wietny sposob aby m�odziez zacz�a si� interesowa� swoim pochodzeniem. Dzi�ki panu Janowi mog�am dowiedzie� si� wi�cej o wiosce moich dziadk�w i pradziadk�w. Bardzo dzi�kuj� panie Janie.




     

    Monday 04/29/2002 12:14:20am
    Name: karol dobrzeniecki
    E-Mail: dobrzeniec@wp.pl
    What is your age: 23
    Where are you from: Ilawa
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: Strona robi wrazenie dopracowanej pod wzgledem
    merytorycznym, imponujacy zbior i wykaz zrodel.
    Autorom nalezy pogratulowac pomyslu - w dobie
    globalizacji poszukiwanie korzeni wsrod osadzonej
    w dziejach lokalnej spolecznosci. Swietna pomoc
    do studiowania stosunkow polsko - ukrainskich i
    historii wsi w I Rzeczypospolitej.

     

    Sunday 04/28/2002 11:07:15am
    Name: Michael Demkowicz
    E-Mail: MDemkowicz1@Comcast.net
    What is your age: 34
    Where are you from: New Jersey
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Mike Demkowicz
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My ancestors are
    Comments: The guestbook is working. Sorry for the delay.




     

    Tuesday 02/19/2002 4:10:40am
    Name: Andrzej Gbur
    E-Mail: andrzej.gbur@interia.pl
    What is your age: 26
    Where are you from: Zielona Gora, Poland
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grand parents are
    Comments: My grandparents were born in Dobra. They are Romana Dziurdziewicz and Mikolaj Gbur. After the WW2 they moved (as the result of the goverment displace action) to the north of Poland (near to Elblag). In the late fifties the family moved to the west part of the country (Zary - near to Zielona Gora). In seventies my father moved from Zary to Zielona Gora, where I was born. Now I live and work in Warsaw.




     

    Wednesday 02/13/2002 4:19:52pm
    Name: soroka
    E-Mail: sev-soroka@voila.fr
    What is your age: 32
    Where are you from: france
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: Hello Everyone !
    I was just wondering if my grand-father Jaroslaw was from the SOROKA family mentioned on your site. He was born in 1923 just near PRZEMYSL and we don't know much about his family. Have they been in Dobra, that is the question !!
    Is there someone here connected to the Family SOROKA.
    Thank you
    Séverine
    thank you Mr Krupack ;-)




     

    Friday 01/25/2002 4:55:05am
    Name: Robert c. Karczynski
    E-Mail: protomechanic2@yahoo.com
    What is your age: 48
    Where are you from: Wyandotte,Michagan
    Homepage: http://none
    Title of homepage: none
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: seaching my roots,my grandfathers name was Kazimierz Karczynski he came from 1900-1910 dont know who he left behind he is start of all karczynskis in michagan.any body with info contack me.




     

    Sunday 12/09/2001 7:48:35pm
    Name: Marie Hejnosz
    E-Mail: hp6745@aol.com
    What is your age:
    Where are you from: Philadelphia,PA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: My uncle,Wojciech Hejnosz is the author of one of your articles. I was so delighted to have the opportunity to read it. He died before I was old enough to read any of his writings.

     

    Saturday 11/10/2001 11:01:36pm
    Name: Robert Bellman
    E-Mail: rbel215889@aol.com
    What is your age: 65
    Where are you from: Horseheads, New York USA
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: My Wife's Grandparents came from Dobra Austria in about 1909. Their name in the USA was Zeedar, but we know that wasn't their name in Austria.




     

    Thursday 11/08/2001 10:51:39pm
    Name: Leszek S Szostak
    E-Mail: szostakles@hotmail.com
    What is your age: 56
    Where are you from: chicago
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: None
    Comments: my father -in law Michael Dobrzanski or rather his parents were from Dobra




     

    Saturday 10/27/2001 2:43:06am
    Name: elizabeth schudmak
    E-Mail: schuddy100@aol.com.au
    What is your age: 50
    Where are you from: toowong australia
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: I have started to trace my fathers life HEINRICH SCHUDMAK. BORN SANOK OR CRACOW 1913 MEDICAL PRACTITIONER LEFT SOME HOW 1937/1940 tHANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TROUBLE IN YOUR SIT IT IS VERY IMFORMATIVE




     

    Sunday 10/21/2001 2:16:03pm
    Name: SIMPSON LIDIA
    E-Mail: SEAN.LS@NTLWORLD.COM
    What is your age: 36
    Where are you from: DRAGOWINA WOJ LUBUSKIE
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My parents are
    Comments:




     

    Friday 09/21/2001 0:03:54am
    Name: Laura
    E-Mail: lauracherry1@juno.com
    What is your age: 16
    Where are you from: arkansas
    Homepage:
    Title of homepage:
    How did you find our website: Search engine
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: I'm not sure
    Comments: Do you know anything about John and Sophie Czajkowski Wisniewski? PLEASE e-mail me at lauracherry1@juno.com if you find anything.

     

    Monday 08/21/2000 6:28:00pm
    Name: Pawel Karczynski
    Age: 26
    How did you find our website: Michael Demkowicz
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My father is
    Comments:
    My father was born in Dobra. My grandparents still live there. Feel free to drop me an email at: pirx@theglobe.com




     

    Sunday 07/30/2000 9:00:00pm
    Name: virginia gbur
    E-Mail: eyem6e@aol.com
    Age: 62
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: No
    Comments:
    My husband's family may of been from Dobra. I am not sure. My son is interested in finding the family history and e-mailed me about the Gbur Family Genealogy Forum and that is where I got information about this web site.




     

    Thursday 07/13/2000 9:27:00pm
    Name: Sandra Blackburn
    E-Mail:rgblackburn@worldnet.att.net
    Age: 62
    How did you find our website: A Relative
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: My grandfather is
    Comments:
    I would like to exchange information on the GBUR family.My grand father Jacob Gbur was born Mar 10,1873 in the town of Dobra in the district of Galacia which was in Austria in 1873. Jacob married Mary Petroski a daughter of John Petroski at Dobra in 1895. Mary was born on 7/10/1873 in Poland. The date and place of her birth is from her deathcertificate. Jacob Mary and Mike arrived in the USA on board the ship ALBA in September 1904. The ship ALBA had sailed from Hamburg Germany to Ellis Island NY. Their Son Mike was born in Sept 20, 1900 in Dobra. Jacob, Mary and Mike settled in Olephant Pa. The family relocated to Chicago IL in 1906.




     

    Wednesday 06/07/2000 12:10:00am
    Name: Taras Kravets'
    E-Mail: tkrawets@excite.com
    Age: 29
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra: No
    Comments:
    My father was replaced in 1945 from his native place Kmytchyn in Holmshchyna, becouse he was Ukrainian.




     

    Sunday 04/02/2000 11:10:00pm
    Name:  KATHERINE M. ORLOS
    E-Mail: SWAN2SWAN@MSN.COM        
    Age:  64
    Homepage: SWAN2SWAN.WEB.COM
    How did you find our website:   Jan Popiel
    Are you or any of your ancestors from Dobra:  No
    Comments:
             LOVE AND HOPE FOR PLANET EARTH AND ALL THAT DWELLS UPON IT. YOUR PAGES SHOW GREAT PASSION AND DETERMINATION.GOOD LUCK TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

     

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