Polish Roman Catholic Churches in the Diocese of Belleville, IL

The map provided plots the locations of Polish Roman Catholic Churches in the Belleville Diocese of Illinois. These are farming communities settled by Polish immmigrants and were identified as such in Mucha, Henry P. editor, The Polish-American Parish, published in 1963 by the Orchard Lake Schools, MI. Due to privacy restrictions, filmed baptismal records only go up to about 1907 while marriage records go up to about 1931.