Wiwatowski is the Polish form of the Latin word "vivat" which what we Americans would call a "cheer" analogous to "hooray".

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General Wiwatowski Genealogical Items
In addition to a few of the items below, much of the information I have on the Janusezwski and Rzentkowski families are the result of the efforts of Robert Rzentkowski. Though I don't have him cited as often as I should, he has been very generous in sharing any information he has on our common ancestry.
 

Wiwatowski Calendar Polish Vocabulary Relationship Chart	Chicago Land Map Use - 1941 - A detailed map of the neighborhood where many of my ancestors lived. Chicago Land Map Use - 1941 (b) - A detailed map of the neighborhood where many of my ancestors lived. Poland Map 1850 - 1918 Poland Map 2000
I downloaded the images below many years ago when I first started my genealogy research. I don't recall what website I got them from. I believe they are the latter part of the 19th century.
Pomrania Posen Silesia	West Prussia Mecklenburg

How the Wiwatowski's Came to America
Source: Michael Palmer
The earliest record I could find for the arrival of a member of this family was for Bronislaw Wiwatowski, age 23, from Dobrzowic, Austria [= Austrian Poland, most probably Galicia, in what is now either Poland or Belarus], who arrived at New York on 18 January 1901 aboard the Hamburg-America Line steamship PATRICIA, Capt. Leithauser, from Hamburg 6 January, via Boulogne 7 January. He is the only Wiwatowski on the passenger manifest, although it appears that he was traveling with at least one family and several single individuals also from Dobrzowic [Hamburg Passenger Lists, Direct Lists, Bd. 116 (= Family History Library microfilm #472959), p. 25; New York Passenger Arrival Manifest, dated 19 January 1901, National Archives Microfilm Publication T715, roll 168 (= Family History Library microfilm #1403918), vol. 275, p. 7, line 9].

Katarzyna Wywatowska, age 45, and Alexander Wywatowska [sic], age 19, arrived at New York on 12 June 1907, aboard the Hamburg-America Line steamship PRESIDENT LINCOLN, from Hamburg/Cuxhaven 1 June, via Boulogne and Plymouth [Hamburg Passenger Lists, Direct Lists, Bd. 191 (= Family History Library microfilm #472993), p. 1551; New York Passenger Arrival Manifest, dated 13 June 1907, National Archives Microfilm Publication T715, roll 920 (= Family History Library microfilm #1399604), vol. 2062, group sheet 99, lines 29 and 30]. Both the Hamburg and the New York passenger manifests give their place of origin as Dobrzowic[e], and their intended destination Katarzyna's son, Bronislaw, in Chicago. Incidentally, this was the PRESIDENT LINCOLN's maiden voyage.

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