Sabaudia: Birthplace of Anthony Raczkiewicz

Some of the first clues as to which part of Poland our family is from came from immigration lists of departures and arrivals. For example, Anthony’s older brother John listed birth place as Zabaldy, Poland. I looked on maps to try to find it so I could find parish records to learn more about births, marriages and deaths in the family. There was no area with this name. When I did my original post on a Polish Genealogy facebook page, someone was able to figure out it was Sabuadia. It would sound like “Zabaldy” when said to the person taking the information for the ship manifest. “Sabaudia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tomaszów Lubelski, within Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.” It is about two miles northeast of the city of Tomaszow. There are currently 600 people living there. The Wikipedia link is on the Facebook Page Polish Family History It appears that the Anthony, his father and his grandparents on one branch of the family tree all were born and lived in Sabaudia. The generation before had moved from Majdan Gorny, a few miles away. They were peasant farmers in both locations. If you look for information on the area on the internet, there isn’t much to find. It is very agricultural and rural still. Here is a link to the current area. If you switch to satellite view and zoom in, you can see that the area is still very agricultural. If you click on the picture on the lower left, you can get street view and look up and down the street. There is a little shrine of some sort at the intersection. The Google map link is on the Facebook Page Polish Family History.