[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help Needed Identifying Birth Place inPolishRecord

[Peter (chamdo4ever)]

Well, many thanks to Mike, Rose, and Edelgard for your very thoughtful
and insightful replies! Posen / Poznan makes much more sense than the
way I was interpreting it.

Again, many thanks!

Peter Schmidt

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Edelgard Strobel
<udo-edelgard at freenet.de> wrote:
> It is the Grand Duchy of Posen,  Wielkie Księstwo Poznańskie. Instead of Ks
> it often has been written with X in the records.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Posen
>
> Greetings,
>
> Edelgard
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rose Ingram" <roseingram at shaw.ca>
> To: "Peter (chamdo4ever)" <chamdo4ever at gmail.com>; "SGGEE"
> <ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 10:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help Needed Identifying Birth Place
> inPolishRecord
>
>
>
>> Peter
>>
>> His birth place appears to be  Xeistwa (with diacritics) Poznanski.
>> I usually take this as meaning 'Parish of Poznan'.
>>
>> According to the Polish Word List, "Xiega" translates to 'book'.
>> So Peter's birth should be in Poznan church records, or possbily in a
>> parish close to Poznan.
>>
>> As Peter did not provide brith place information on this death record who
>> knows if his wife or witnesses are have the correct information.
>>
>> Rose.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----  From: Peter (chamdo4ever)
>>  To: SGGEE
>>  Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 12:02 PM
>>  Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help Needed Identifying Birth Place in
>> PolishRecord
>>
>>
>>  Hi All,
>>
>>  I have the 1831 death record of a Peter Kramer from Płock. The record
>>  mentions the place of his birth, and as best as I can see, it is
>>  "Kostwa Posnajski."
>>
>>  Could anyone please tell me where Kostwa Posnajski might be? I've
>>  searched high and low to no avail.
>>
>>  Images of the record itself and close crops of the word "Kostwa" and
>>  "Posnajski" are available for viewing here:
>>
>>  http://imgur.com/a/3NQoI
>>
>>  Many thanks for any help,
>>
>>  Peter Schmidt
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