Jarantowski family, help with potential birthplaces

[jarantowski]

Hello,
Just wanted to say I think this site is fantastic. I am looking for the birthplace of my grandfather's family, the jarantowski's. On the United States census 1910-1930 the spellings are likely incorrect because I cannot find any of these towns, I am told they lived in an area which went under russian control after WWI. This is what they wrote on various documents:

Urzon, Poland
Lewowloz, poland
Zytornia, Russia

Antoni Jarantowski, born in 1860s, wife Sofia, children Elenora, Heronim, Kasimierz, Tanya, and others unknown.
I have also heard there is a town Jarantow in Poland, apparently this surname owned at some point, anyone know anything about this town's history or where I can go to find more?
Much appreciated, steve

[Hannia]

Antoni Jarantowski, born in 1860s
Anton Jarantowski was born appx 1857

As per Ellis Island Records, Anton JARONKOWSKI (obvious clerical typo), married, 54 yrs old laborer, arrived in New York 5/16/1911, thru Rotterdam, heading for son's (Hieromin - more likely Hierosim???) residence @ 508 W 55th Street, NYC. According to original ship manifest,
Anton was from UZIN, KIEV, RUSSIA.
Zofia stayed behind in Uzyn. Ship documentation shows
Anton w/Polish ethnicity and Russian citizenship.

Today there r 2 Uzyn, that may be your ancestral birthplace:
UZYN #1 - (village size) coordinates 49.59-30.23, appx 31.6 miles S of Kiev, in Vasilkiv District> Kiev Region > today Ukraine
UZYN #2 (town size) - coordinates 49.50-30.24, appx 41.7 miles S of Kiev,
in Bilocherkva District> also Kiev Region>today Ukraine.

The 2 Uzyn's r appx 10.4 miles apart.Uzyn #1 is due N of #2.
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I see you found Kazimerz. In 1922 he lists home as Lewowicz > Poland. There is also a Zelestima Jarentowsky (1910), also from Uzyn, listing father Antoni from Kiev Gubernia/Region. She is crossed off, because he never made it on or off board???

IMO Lewowicz today is selo/village Levkiv (zip code 12405) >Zhytomirskij raion/district >
Zhytomirska Oblast/Region >Ukraine,
just about next door to where the family had been
living before Treaty of Riga 1921***. OR it could be Levkivchi (zip code 11134)> Orutskij raion in Northern Zhytomir Region. My bet is that it is Levkiv, because it is closer to both Uzyn's???

All geography ascertained using link below.
JewishGen ShtetlSeeker - Town Search
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/LocTown.asp


***The Treaty of Riga of 1921, between the USSR and Poland, followed a truce concluded late in 1920. The war between Poland and the USSR (1920) had been precipitated largely by the demand of Poland that its eastern border of 1772 be restored. The treaty terms, which fixed the Russo-Polish border, did not satisfy the claims of the victorious Poles, but they awarded to Poland large parts of Belorussia and of Ukraine. Nullified by the German and Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, the treaty was replaced in 1945 by a new
Soviet-Polish border agreement.
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Records:
Russian-Partitioned Poland
Civil registration, introduced by Napoleon in 1808, was continued by the Russian administration after the partitioning of Poland. Birth, marriage, and death registers were written in Polish and most have been indexed for each year. In 1864, records were required to be kept in Russian. Since the Russians did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1918, you may find two dates (12 days apart) on a vital record or in a register from the
Russian-occupied areas. The earlier date is the Russian date and the later date is the Gregorian date. Records less that 100 years old can be found at the local civil records offices. The older records are kept at the state provincial archives. Many records have been filmed by the
LDS.

State Archive of Kyiv Oblast
[Derzhavnyi arkhiv Kyivskoi oblasti]
38 Melnykova st.,
04119 Kyiv
Tel: (044) 213-75-72,
Tel/Fax: (044) 213-19-16
Working hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30-17:30

State Archive of Zhytomyr Oblast
[Derzhavnyi arkhiv Zhytomyrskoi oblasti]
2/20 Okhrimova Hora st.,
10003 Zhytomyr
Tel.: (0412) 24-4527
Working hours:
Monday-Friday, 9.00 - 18.00

I checked for both the Kiev villages/towns and the Zhytomir villages and found NO LDS copies. You will need to submit inquiries to Archives. To facilitate inquiries, use a
Ukrainian translator. There is a KGB index card record for Poles & Germans exiled to Khazakstan and Siberia @Zhytomir Oblast Archives that may be of interest to your family.
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Poles from Zhytomir Region
The case of Kazakhstan is special and in the opinion of many groups, will serve as a water test of Polish intentions in the face of far-flung brethren. There are at least 50,000 (or according to some, twice as many) second and third generation Poles in Kazakhstan. Originally from the ╞ytomierz (Zhytomir) region in Ukraine, they were exiled to Kazakhstan by Stalin in 1936 for resisting agricultural collectivization. Although, thanks to the work of the Polish Community, there has been some success resettling individual families in certain Polish communes, there remains much work to be done. The operation's biggest
enthusiasts admit that both the authorities and society must expect a long-term and difficult operation. In aid of their Kazakh compatriots, they want to enlist the involvement of Polish groups in the United States and Australia.

http://www.warsawvoice.pl/archiwum.phtml/6035/

Another must read!!!
Warsaw Voice - Poles Apart
http://www.warsawvoice.pl/archiwum.phtml/6034/
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Jarantow Kolonie was originally a German/Prussian colony due West of Krakow??? In late 18th century Catherine the Great invited Germans to colonize Southern Czarist Russia???

Of course you will track all the paperwork, because this is just historical conjecture, not anything written in stone.





[Edited by Hannia on 13th March 2006 at 15:10]

[jarantowski]

Hannia,
Just wanted to sincerely thank you for the information, it's truly incredible and gives me several avenues to explore from here. I relay all new information to my 90 year old aunt and she can scarcely believe it.

I think the Zelestina entry was potentially the daughter (she must have gotten on another ship) eventually known as Tanya here in the U.S. All the children took American names.

I just learned that Elenora Jarantowski never emigrated, married, but her husband was later executed by the Nazis, and she and her daughters supposedly escaped to France and worked in the French underground during WWII.

[Hannia]

The Kings, NY JARANTOWSKI family cluster consisted of Honim/Heronim, who was naturalized and had a WW1 draft card, Stephanie born in 1897, Lucy, Sigmund, Charles and the old patriarch himself, Antony. What happened to Zophia???

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Zelestina was on the steamer!!! Surname was JARENTOWSKAJA. What is interesting about her, is that she lists her place of birth as Shalno, Russia??? She lists her father, Anton, in Uzin, Kiew. She arrived 12/17/1910 and was heading to Herosin's on 10th Avenue & 55th Street.


[Edited by Hannia on 14th March 2006 at 03:47]

[Hannia]

Henryk JARONDOWSKI, 20 yrs old, left father Antoni Jarondowski in Bielocherkow, Kiew. He arrived 7/1910 @Ellis Island and was heading for friend's (Toman or Roman
Klonowski) in Jersey City.

[jarantowski]

Hannia,
You are quite amazing. Heronim arrived in the U.S. sometime in 1910, and first came with a brother close in age. All I knew was his name was Henry and he was a window cleaner in NYC who tragically fell to his death probably between 1910-1920. That is Henryk. My aunt Lucia, who you also located, when I ask her about that time period remembers the name Roman!, but that is all she knows.

According to Lucia, Anton did not stay here, although he visited several times up until the mid 1920s? He returned to Zofia and I presume the other children?. Zofia did come to the US though, in the early 1940s, I guess after Anton died, and spent the last ten years of her life here, dying in her 90's in 1953.

Shalno rings no bells. I will ask my aunt about the name zelestina.

Thanks for the wealth of information,
Steve