Tracking family tree - anyone know any Olian family in Poland?

moonmustangThreads: 2 Posts: 50 Joined: Oct 21, 07	Oct 21, 07, 12:07 / #
Hi - I have been researching my family tree and found that my Grandfather is 100% Polish. So now I know I'm at least 1/4 Polish. But...on my grandmother's family I'm hitting a dead-end. I can't seem to track down where they are from. It seems many Polish Jews put Russian on their immigration paperwork - does anyone know why? Anyway - I'm looking for anyone who may have Olian or Blocher in their family heritage. All I do know is that according to verbal story many of our family were taken to concentration camps. This seems to make all this geneology a bit harder.

WroclawThreads: 76 Posts: 7,418 Joined: Apr 1, 06 [Moderator]	Oct 21, 07, 12:12 / #
Quoting: moonmustang It seems many Polish Jews put Russian on their immigration paperwork - does anyone know why? Because it was a time of partition and, in short, the Russians had the east of Poland. If you check the threads you will find out more. Many of the links you need are there.