Anthony Raczkiewicz' Siblings

The first exciting information I learned when beginning to research my grandfather Anthony Raczkiewicz was the name of his parents. Anthony’s parents, born in Tomaszow, Lublin, Poland, were Katie (Katarzyna) Kaszucka (1871-1944) and John (or Jan) Raczkiewicz (abt. 1864- 1915) When my genealogy search began in November 2019, I knew that Anthony may have had other siblings, that remained in Poland or also emigrated, that had not yet been discovered. I have found that four siblings came to the U.S. The two I originally knew about were my grandfather, Antoni who was born March 13, 1893, and his brother Joseph who was born earlier in 1891. I quickly discovered their oldest brother Jan/John who was born in 1888 also came to Grand Rapids before Anthony and Joseph. Then I found his sister Marion who was born in 1899 and ended up in Muskegon, Michigan. My mother Shirley Longwell remembers visiting her house one time. Piotr is listed as a brother on Mary’s immigration papers so I started looking for the siblings that remained in Poland. I then discovered that besides Piotr (b. 1897) there was Stanislawa (b. 1895), Paulina (b. 1901), Franciszek (b. 1904), and Boleslaw (1906.) The siblings that came to the U.S. all claimed Poland as their birthplace on various documents. For example, when the three brothers in Grand Rapids registered for the WW I draft in June of 1917, they all listed where they were born as Lublin (state), Poland (country), and Russian (citizenship.) Anthony listed his city as Tomaszow. Tomaszow is a village in the district of Gmina Pulawy, within Pulawy County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometers southwest of Puławy and 51 km west of the regional capital Lublin. (Wikipedia )Here is a link to the current area: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Sabaudia/22-600+Tomasz%C3%B3w+Lubelski/@50.4513291,23.4332671,13z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x4724af60ea937279:0xa350c5b9c962ba7d!2m2!1d23.4341877!2d50.4714181!1m5!1m1!1s0x4724af11c7aacc15:0x268d7ac08cef58c!2m2!1d23.4163099!2d50.447024!3e0 John and Joseph listed Zabaldy which turned out to be Sabaudia. “Sabaudia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tomaszów Lubelski, within Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabaudia,_Lublin_Voivodeship Photo: Piotr, Paulina, Jozefa Janina (Boleslaw's wife) and Boleslaw.