Wola – in old Polish, the word’s meaning was identical to that of “freedom”. Therefore, the word “wola” became a part of a name for a piece of empty land given to settlers for a certain number of years, one on which they did not have to do any service for a local lord and were not bound by rent or villeinage. The second part of such a place name was derived from the main…
I’ll never cease to be amazed by the skill that priests had… They could virtually turn the front page of a bishop’s copies’ volume into a work of art.
Some of you may have already seen it but the diocesan archive in Kraków has finally made the catalogue of their vital records available online. Just click the link
I stumbled upon it while surfing the Net, thought it’d be nice to share it with you. Originally posted here.
Some think that improper conduct is a fairly recent phenomenon. One couldn’t be further from the truth! In the village of Pietrusza Wola near Krosno, podkarpackie, there were only three births in 1837. Well, one may say there’s nothing strange about it as some villages were really tiny. However, there is one fact that caught my attention: I’d never seen anything like that before – three sisters giving birth to three children within a year,…