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Zuba family from Dzikowiec

Zuba family from Dzikowiec

Posted: 26 Sep 2000 5:40PM GMT
Edited: 16 Feb 2005 3:11AM GMT
Looking for relatives of Marjanna Zuba, my ggrandmother, who married Jozef Stachelski in Jersey City, NJ. She was born in 1885 in Stary Dzikowiec. Mowie po polsku ale nie bardzo dobrze...

Re: Zuba family from Dzikowiec

Posted: 9 Jul 2001 1:30AM GMT
Surnames: Zuba
My husband's grandmother was Weronika (Veronica) Zuba from Dzikowice, Galizia. She came to the United States in 1913 and married Alexander Rutkowski in Massachussetts in 1915. Do you think there is a connection with your Zuba family?

Re: Zuba family from Dzikowiec

Posted: 9 Jul 2001 2:00AM GMT
Edited: 16 Feb 2005 3:11AM GMT
Hi there,
There is a good possibility that we are related. I went to Dzikowiec in 1995 and met my family. It is a small village outside of Rzeszow and Kolbuszowa. I met w/2 Zuba families b/c when I got to the village, I got dropped off at the local church by the taxi cab driver and just sat there for a few hours not knowing what to do. A strange American kid in a baseball cap in the village caused a stir and people came by and asked me who I was in Polish. I used to know the language fairly well but in 1995, my memory of Polish was declining but I communicated w/them fairly well. I told them that my great-grandmother left Dzikowiec w/her sister and headed to Jersey City, NJ. I came armed w/a latin copy of her baptismal certificate made in the 1940s and it had her parents' names and grandparents' names.

They took me to the church (right across the dirt road) and I met w/the local priest. He showed me the baptismal abstract book which would contain your Weronika Zuba as well. Then, someone brought out 2 bicycles and we drove up the dirt path to each Zuba house. I went to the first house and mentioned my grandmother's maiden name, Stachelski, and no one recognized it. The 2nd house was a direct hit. I spent the day w/them and they rolled out the red carpet...I felt guilty b/c I didn't anticipate anything but the people at the bench where the taxi dropped me off insisted that I go find Zubas. They were pretty adamant about it as a matter of fact. The family took me to the cemetery and I saw my great-great grandmother's stone. She was named Weronika Zuba, too. Her maiden name was Kosek (if I remember right) and she died in 1947 in Stary Dzikowiec. I have pictures of all of this, including the village if you are interested in seeing what it looks like. I could scan/make copies of pictures for you in August b/c I am sitting for the bar exam now & trying to study...emphasis on trying.

At best, we would have to be 3rd cousins. The woman I met over there was the daughter of a man named Jan Zuba and he was my grandmother's uncle. She and my grandmother are 1st cousins. Assuming that my great-grandmother and your Weronika Zuba were first cousins, then that would make us at least 3rd. If you wrote a letter to the church in Dzikowiec or the Civil Registry there I know for a fact that they would get back to you. Faster, still if you include money. If you cannot write polish, there is a good book out there by a woman named Chorzempa & if that isn't an option let me know & I can have my grandmother write a short letter for you.

Hope that you find this interesting,
Take care...
Ryan McGonigle
P.S.: Respond to my e-mail account which is: rmcgonig@astro.temple.edu

Re: Zuba family from Dzikowiec

Posted: 18 Jul 2001 6:24PM GMT
Edited: 30 Dec 2002 12:28PM GMT
Surnames: Zuba
Ryan- I composed a letter to you last week but the email address you gave came back as "undeliverable".
Anyway- My husband and I read with great interest your Zuba connections in Dzikowiec. My husband's grandmother, Weronika Zuba, was the daughter of Andrezeju and Marii Zuba from Dzikowiec. She had a brother, Anthony, who died in 1956 in Dzikowiec.
Weronika came to the U.S. in 1913 via ship with a Agnieszu Zuba- both were from Dzikowiec. Do you happen to know who Agnieszu is? My mother-in-law (Weronika's daughter) has no clue. Have you looked at the Ellis Island website for Zuba family members?
We have a polish document/will from Dzikowiec that has been loosely translated for us. Apparently when Weronika's brother died in 1956 it left here heir to his property and home.The address was given an #306 village of Dzikowiec county of Kolbuszawa, Galiczia Poland. The house was given to a Josef Tyburczy and the property was given to the Catholic Church in exchange for all burial expenses and funeral Mass. The new church that is built on this land is called the The Church of the Transfiguration. Is this the church that you visited?
If you would like to see this document, I could fax it to you if you have access to a fax machine. Let me know.
I would like to have copies of a photo or two of Dzikowiec -especially if you happen to have one of the church. We are planning on a trip to Europe next summer but we haven't decided whether we will make it to Poland on not. If time allows it would be great to see Dzikowiec.
Good luck on your studies for the bar exam!

Re: Zuba family from Dzikowiec

Ryan McGonigle (View posts)
Posted: 19 Jul 2001 1:48AM GMT
Hi there Linda,
Sorry about the e-mail address not working, I will look into it. My AOL address is RyRySJU@aol.com. Drop me a line there and I will patch on a fax # and any other materials.
The church I went to in Dzikowiec was not old from the outside but definitely old on the inside. I have it videotaped, too. Dzikowiec is well off the beaten path, however, so go prepared if you end up there. It cost me approx. $75 in cab fares to get there on the way to the village and my relatives put me on a .75 cent bus on the way back to Rzeszow. If I only knew that there were such things. Take care,
Ryan

Re: Zuba family from Dzikowiec

Posted: 13 Aug 2002 3:17AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Zuba
I have some info that may help. My G-grandmother was Margaret Veronica Zuba, she had sisters and brothers some of there names were Josephine Ann, Peter, Genavive, Veronica and a unknown brother that died in WWII and may be others, I will find out soon. Margaret's parents were Martin (Marcin) Zuba and Mary Ann ( Marcinna) maiden name unknown. Martin emmagrated in 1898 to Central Falls RI.Could this be related?

Re: Zuba family from Dzikowiec

Posted: 14 Aug 2002 1:03AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 30 Dec 2002 12:28PM GMT
Surnames: Zuba, Rutkowski, Cyburt
Thank you so much for your message!
Veronika (Veronica) Zuba was my husband's grandmother. My records show that she was born in Poland 3/6/1900. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1913 through Ellis Island - then to Fall River, Mass. My mother in law tells us a story that she came over by herself to the U.S. with a loaf of bread and a chunck of cheese. She had to lie about hre age in order to board the ship without her parents. Her parents are listed on her death certificate as being Andrew Zuba and Mary Sito.
I don't think that your relatives are the same, but perhaps they were cousins?
Let me know what you think! Linda

Re: cousins

Posted: 14 Aug 2002 2:37AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Linda,
I think that's definately possible. We have Marcin coming over in 1898 to Prov RI. In 1910 his son in law came. His daughter Margaret came in 1911 with her children. We are unsure when her sister Josephine came over. Josephine had a son named Andrew, which could have been named after a relative. It was not a very popular name. Well I guess we keep digging and maybe we will come up with a connection. Good luck and thanks. Angie

Re: Zuba family from Dzikowiec

Ryan (View posts)
Posted: 4 Jul 2004 7:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Zuba, Kosek
Hello Linda and sorry for the 2+ year delay in communicating w/you. I changed e-mail addresses and never got the message that you had responded. I have photos of Dzikowiec but can also tell you that the same photos are available online at http://dzikowiec.webpark.pl/witajcie.html. If it doesn't come up, type "dzikowiec" in a search on google and the 1st website that comes up is the one w/4-5 pictures.
I was in the town in 1995 and visited w/my grandmother's 1st cousin. It was a great trip for me personally and would recommend it, esp. if you speak a little polish to communicate w/folks. It's likely that we, too, are related b/c of the fact that there are only 2 Zuba families in town. The 2 families are not immediately related, they told me, but have to be distantly related, at least. My Weronika Zuba (from my memory of the relationship only), was born a Kosek. She married Franzciszek Zuba, my great-great grandfather who apparently died in a snowstorm in Poland, according to my family. They had several children some of whom went to New Jersey. At least one stayed in Stary Dzikowiec and probably lives there today; it was she who I visited in 1995.
The town has a civil registry that has births and deaths from a certain time frame; I obtained Wiktoria Zuba's death certificate from March of '46, I believe. It also listed her parents' names. Drop me a line at ryanmcgonigle@yahoo.com. That e-mail will never change. I hope this message is received by you....

Take care,
RM
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