Hi Everyone, I've become a bit stumped, and could use help from folks both in Australia and Poland. Paul Radecki was born, raised and married in Poland, then emigrated to Australia in 1882, where he died. Because he died there, there's an Australian death cert for him. A search of the BDM website shows the death cert number as 3808/1904. Oddly, over at the old genealogy.com forum (link:
http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/radecki/49/ ), there is someone who claims to have posted a transcript of Paul's death cert, but they give the number as A11724/94, which is suspect because the /# is supposed to be the year. Plugging that number into BDM search comes up with someone different. In any case, both the supposed transcript and the actual BDM search return show Paul's parents as Joseph and Susratka Radecki (I had made profiles of both of these people before learning of the conflict; I've added notes to both of those explaining the situation).
However, I was recently made aware of the Polish Poznan Project, with it's really neat search capabilities, which is indexing the marriage registrations for Poznan from 1800-1899. Entering Paul Radecki and Victoria (his wife) into the advanced search feature pulls up their marriage record which appears to have the correct date and correct couple. However, the parents as listed there for Paul are a completely different couple, Valentinus/Walenty Radecki and his wife Magdelena. A PDF of the actual record is not available.
So, to my questions to try to solve the mystery of who Paul's parents really are: For the Australians in the house, does anyone have access to BDM 3808/1904 such that a copy of the cert, or at least an accurate transcription can be made available to confirm who the parents are that are listed there?
For my Polish brethren and sisteren in the house, does anyone know how to get a copy of the original marriage record, and to provide yet another source document to help confirm things, is there a way to get a copy of Paul's birth or baptismal record that might shed light on his parentage?
Beyond those questions, does anyone else have any suggestions as to how to confirm his parents' identity?
Thanks in advance to everyone in this wonderfully collaborative environment!
