I am not Polish enough :-(

Wow, it's nice, all Nordic countries (almost) ;) I'd like to have ancestors from there, i like this part of Europe...



Not really...she's "only" 75% Scandinavian, as long as Finland is not Scandinavia.

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My dads name was Voight. Does anyone know if this is Polish name? If not where does it come from?

Voight is not Polish. Could be German or Austrian?

Hello, my grandfather, Basil Karasevich b. 1890 in Fedorki Russia (maybe Ukraine) always said he was a "white Russian" when he was here in the United States. He also told my father that we had another family name "Zmud" I have found info that Zmud's were born near Ternopil and found a Fedorki close by. He was very secretive and never spoke much about his homeland and I've had a very hard time finding anything out. His mother's name was Zofia Blashkova. He came to the US in 1910 I thought maybe the family left behind changed their name to Zmud but maybe not, maybe he did when he left.

Belorussian...

What would the surnames Zmud and Karasevich be? He did spell the name Karasiewicz when he first came to America. His parents, born 1865 +- supposedly owned a farm

I am interested in comparing notes with you regarding your Hryncewicz ancestors. This is a name in my family tree.

Just kidding. I'm not very Polish. Mostly Slovak and Austrian on one side, Native American on the other. :]

Wish I was more Polish, but what can you do? :/

On my mother's side... I'm 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Polish, 1/4 German, 1/8 Russian, 1/8 Ashkenazi Jew.

Don't know much about my father's side.

This isn't a statement of nationality but of trying to identify with the cultures of my ancestors. For example it is important for me to differentiate -- especially with Poland being a war-torn area -- were my ancestors cultural Poles? Or were they Germans living in an area that is now Poland?

It is important to me because our ancestors' cultural traditions play a huge part in who we are today...

thats engough! my great x3 grandmother i think was from poland(all i can find is prussia) she had a polish name but married a german so not really 4 sure but ur more than me but im more czech than you...........maybe :)

I would try to look for Żmuda.

of course ur very Polish , if ur mostly Polish by blood that's good enough, no one in Poland is 100% Polish, we've been mixing with our neighbors since Poland became a country, it's just not everyone knows what they are since it was their great great great grandfather or mother that was something else for example, or the family is ashamed of it and was hiding it, i found out just 5 yrs ago that i'm 75% Polish 25% Ukrainian, i have at least 8 or 10 friends that are a lil German, Ukrainian, Lithuanian or Jewish

That's how my family was. They were ashamed of being Polish (imagine that!!) so they kind of "Germanized" themselves. All the recipes my Grammy made while I grew up, she always told me they were German. I only found out recently they were traditional Polish dishes!!

my great grandfather's name was morris gitler who changed his name to Mack Gordon (after his hometown of grodno). By the way he is a famous songwriter. look him up on wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_Gordon