Dubas family research · Rażniów, Galicia
A picture of our ancestral village drawn from the Greek-Catholic metrical books: who lived there, who sponsored whose children, which houses held which families, and where the Dubas line sat in that web.
Please read this as patterns, not exact facts
About 93.6% of the Rażniów event rows in the index (1,518 of 1,621) were read at moderate zoom and are marked low confidence. Target surnames — Dubas, Lesiuk, Sawczyn, Bida, Nachwostacz, Czech — and doubtful dates were read at full zoom. The charts below show aggregate patterns from normalized surnames. Individual shaky readings should not be treated as settled facts.
Greek-Catholic metrical books of Rażniów, via FamilySearch film images. Counts from the merged index of 30 Oct 2026.
Every named role was indexed: child, parents, mother’s parents, godparents, witnesses, midwives, and the deceased. The register place form Karniowiensis / Rażniowiensis is Rażniów.
Coverage is uneven because of the books, not only the index. The earliest volume is births only through 1838. Marriage and death series open in force around 1835. Three gaps remain inside the years that should have all three types:
| Gap | Status | What is present |
|---|---|---|
| 1838 marriages | Missing | Births 12, deaths 11 present |
| 1841 | Deaths only (5) | No births or marriages with a year in the index |
| 1857 marriages | Missing | Births 21, deaths 8 present |
| Before ~1835 | Births only | v4871 is a births book; marriages/deaths largely start 1835 |
| 224 events | No parsed year | Still in the index; omitted from yearly charts |
Counts are Rażniów rows with a parsed year (1,397 of 1,621).
Births run the whole span, but 1829–1833 show zero in the yearly chart because those birth rows lack a parsed year in the merged index (they sit in the 224 undated events; the decade totals still include them once a year can be read). Marriages and deaths are thin before the mid-1830s because those acts lived in other books. Once all three series exist, 1852 stands out for marriages (16), 1855 for deaths (23), and 1860 for births (36) — the single busiest birth year in the dated Rażniów rows.
356 Rażniów deaths; cause keywords matched in notes/age fields (first match). 205 deaths have no readable cause in the index.
| Year | Deaths | What the registers name |
|---|
Consumption (phthisis) is the leading named killer when a cause was read — 47 deaths, with a sharp 1837 cluster (12). The mid-1850s look epidemic: fever and dysentery in 1854, fever and smallpox in 1855–56. A few drownings and one cholera mention (1859) appear, but most lethal years still have a majority of causes unread. Age-at-death is only sparsely parseable (107 year-ages); among those, children 1–4 are the largest bucket (34), and the median is 19.
Normalized variants collapsed (Dubasowa→Dubas, Lesiuczka→Lesiuk, etc.). Cap and Kis totals are inflated by midwife rows — switch to “As father” for household heads.
Dubas and Lesiuk dominate every decade that has usable surname reads. Sawczyn rises sharply in the 1830s, Dackow (Simon Dubas’s in-laws) stays steady, Jaremkow and Babiński weave through as marriage and godparent partners. Bednarz is an early godparent power (71 godparent mentions vs only 10 as father) that fades after 1820.
| Family | Mentions | As father | As godparent | Top houses |
|---|
Built from 487 Rażniów births where both the father’s and a godparent’s surname mapped to a known family. Cells = how often that father-family’s children were sponsored by that godparent-family.
Rows = child’s father family; columns = godparent family. Darker cells = more sponsorships.
The strongest cross-family bond in the godparent data is Dubas ↔ Lesiuk (43 shared sponsorships), then Dubas ↔ Jaremkow (35). Families also sponsor their own: Dubas→Dubas 34, Lesiuk→Lesiuk 30, Sawczyn→Sawczyn 12. Nachwostacz (Maria’s natal family on the direct Dubas line) is small in the matrix but sits next to Dubas and Kis when it appears. Marriage witnesses echo the same core: Dubas, Lesiuk, Dackow, and Kis show up together most often.
136 Rażniów marriages are indexed (plus 199 registered at Ruda Brodzka in the same films). Bride surnames are sparsely tagged in the people file, so strict groom×bride pairs are too few to chart. What the records do show clearly is geography: other villages named in Rażniów entries.
Zabłotce is the dominant neighbor (58 mentions) — the parish and earlier books the Dubas line also touches. Kadłubiska, Ponikowa, Sokal, and Ruda Brodzka appear as residences of spouses, witnesses, or mother’s parents. A handful of marriage rows explicitly call a party Kadłubiensis or name Olesko/Brody.
Dubas × Lesiuk in the books
Anna, daughter of Alexius/Leo Dubas (house 25 collateral), married Basilius Łesiuk on 13 Nov 1853 — one concrete bridge between the two biggest surnames. Nicolaus Dubas (son of Joannes × Theodosia) married Anna Lesiuk on 11 Nov 1855. The direct line ties to Nachwostacz (Michael × Maria, 1842) and earlier to Dackow (Simon × Anna).
House numbers as written in the registers (first digits parsed; values over 120 dropped as likely misreads). A house can hold more than one surname over eighty years.
| House | Events | Families most often named there |
|---|
House 41 is the busiest address in the dated events (61), a Sawczyn stronghold. House 18 leans Dackow; 28 and 39 are Dubas centers — 28 for Joannes × Theodosia and related collateral, 39 for the direct line. House 25 is the Leo/Alexius × Anastasia collateral household. House 45 mixes Jaremkow and Dubas.
Mapped from the midwife/officiant field on Rażniów births (priest-only rows excluded). Spellings vary; counts are approximate aggregates.
A few women delivered most of the village. Ahaphia Kis leads the index (108), then Ahaphia Capowa (often marked non approbata — not licensed), Maria Ripa, and Eudocia Dubas (34). Dackow, Lesiuk, and Sawczyn midwives round out a pattern: the same families who sponsor baptisms also catch the babies. “Eadem ut supra” / “as above” is common once a midwife is established on a page.
The direct line in these films
Simeon’s index row reads house 30 at low confidence; the crop and prior work prefer house 39.
Dubas is not a side family in these books — it is one of the two spines of the village, with Lesiuk. The direct line occupies house 39 for three generations, marries Dackow then Nachwostacz, and uses Lesiuk and fellow Dubas as godparents. Collateral Dubas households in 25 and 28 intermarry with Lesiuk and Jaremkow and stand as witnesses for each other. A genealogical tie from Leo/Alexius or Joannes back to Simon is not yet in the index; those branches stay attached only when a record links them to someone already on the tree.
Every number above was computed from the merged index on 30 Oct 2026 (America/Denver). Re-reads at full zoom can move individual people between houses or surnames; they should not erase the shape: a small Greek-Catholic village whose Dubas and Lesiuk households sponsored each other’s children, married neighbors in Zabłotce and Kadłubiska, lost people to consumption and mid-1850s fever/smallpox, and recorded their lives under house numbers that still cluster the same families eighty years apart.