This Polish parish identifies itself as St. Michael the Archangel but the LDS has it listed as just St. Michael. The LDS has St. Michael the Archangel listed, but they're not Polish. Records for the Polish parish are on 2 rolls of microfilm and had been cataloged together.
The map provided plots the locations of Polish Roman Catholic Churches in the Archdiocese of Chicago. These are the churches identified in Joseph John Parot's book, Polish Catholics in Chicago: 1890-1920.
There are other Slavic peoples in this parish (use of v accent mark) at its beginning but then not so many as perhaps they established their own ethnic parishes or moved away. The writing in volume 1 gets very bad about half way through the volume. In volume 2, after page 105 the pages are not numbered but the index continues the page sequence as though they were. The enumeration number is probably more useful once you know to look at the back of the volume for pages beyond 105. These pages are smaller in size and contain only 6 baptisms per page.
Rossford, OH was founded in 1898 by Edward Ford, who opened a glass company there. Many immigrants came from settlements in Pennsylvania to work in the new plant. Rossford is a suburb of Toledo and some came from there as well.
It seemed that most Polish immigrants to Rossford, OH (during its early years) came from the villages of Wzdów, Jaćmierz, and Besko which are shown on the map below.
A common design for baptismal registers was to spread records across two pages with the father's name on the left hand page and the mother's name on the right hand page. The problem is that often the father's surname and the mother's given name are unreadable as they are pinched in the crack of the binding where the two pages come together. The same problem sometimes occurs with names in marriage registers.
If you look at the thumbnail pictures in the galleries, you may notice people with their heads cut off or equally strange things. Consider it an invitation to click on the thumbnail image to open up a larger image-- heads and all. The thumbnail images are generated automatically with some cropping if necessary to get the right size. The software doesn't know it's not nice to cut off someone's head.
