Dingbat: Dzień dobry from Nottingham

As it appears customary, my introduction:

Although I'm English, my wife's family are from Poland, coming to the UK after the war - via Siberia/Persia/Palestine - the usual routes for Sybiraks! Her father went on to Italy, fighting at Monte Cassino, while her mother sunned herself in Rhodesia.

Although my wife is bilingual, I have only reached the stage of learning very basic Polish (although I understand a lot more than I can speak!) but have long since developed a taste for Polish food and beer.

Main interest is family history, but with the border changes, this has been difficult as the records are now in Ukraine.

Welcome!!

Witam Dingbat, from your fellow midlander here in Brum.

hi there. Im English with Polish partner.

hey from just up the road so to speak in Doncaster and hope you enjoy the forum


indeed this is me

Useful to know when you're being talked about!

Although when I was standing outside my office the other day, a recently-arrived Pole asked me in broken English how to get to a particular address and was amazed when I replied in Polish.

I know that feeling i always get asked why i am learning the language but i explain the many reasons why and none are connected to me having a polish bf or husband neither!

do many of them still come to England? talking in broken english? i heard that you can hear Polish everywhere in UK.
2 friends of mine went to dublin for a weekend hoping to talk in english, and it turns out that what they hear was Polish, hehe, and the only place there thay use English was on office, i don't kon which, but anyway, nice to write in English to you all,
cheers!

I was writing in reply to this sentence..
;-)

another thin
where does the history start? i have some friends in Ukraine, maybe they can help..

Thanks for the offer, but we have already made a start on looking at the Księgi Metrykalne (Parish records) for the parish where my wife's family came from.

My wife's aunt visited Ukraine a few years ago. The farm they owned until the war is now owned by a Ukrainian family, and the Parish Church no longer exists. The parish records are now in Rzeszów but have been filmed by the Mormons - which is why we can go through them.

We are making progress slowly, but have managed to get back to the early 1800s so far - quite a bit more recent than my (English) family which I have been able to trace back to 1600.