This is a detached answer part of a double postal stationery sent from the post office Wilno 1 (now Vilnius, Lithuania) by the Kurja Metropolitalna Wileńska (Archdiocese of Wilno. "Kurja" is spelled Kuria in modern polish language) to Łódź, Poland. It looks like a certain Mr. Adam Holaczewski in Łódź requested a record of his father to the Archdiocese of Wilno - Wydział Metryczny (department of civil registration). I'm surprised that the archdiocese kept such civil registration document including birth certificates, but according to the website of several present Polish archdioceses, they actually do have a special archive for this and it's open to the public upon request. I have noticed that not only philatelists but people who are trying to trace back their genealogy often visit this blog, and I just wanted to tell those people that the old archdioceses archives could be an option to retrieve your family's traces. Unfortunately, the old Polish Archdiocese of Wilno is gone and lots of those documents concerning the church have been confiscated (some destroyed) by the Soviet authority that took over.
Here is a link to the list of towns and villages under the jurisdiction of the former Archdiocese of Wilno for your convenience: link
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