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jonniThreads: 26
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Sep 7, 09, 16:16    #31
kryski:
Yes and no to what you say.

Quite, as Mr Kowalski would say too.
kryski  Sep 7, 09, 16:33    #32
If you want to know if your name is truly polish nobility go the website Genealogia dynastyczna (Geanology of Polish Dynastys). This website is based on a very old polish book which lists polish familes with noble status. My family is from Masovia. Just know that if you are an american that your name maynot be spelled correctly now. The english alphabet is not the same as the polish alphabet.
kryski  Sep 7, 09, 16:47    #33
The Russians stole a great many estates during the 1700s. They made Russian the only legal language in Poland. Many people went from land owners to poverty with the Russian's whim. If they likes your land it was over for you.
Polonius3Threads: 1,005
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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 Sep 13, 09, 16:24    #34
In Gemran noble names "von und zu" sometimes appears.
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Joined: Sep 17, 09  Pictures: 1 ♀ 		 Sep 18, 09, 07:56    #35
"-ski" could be a mark of nobility as well, but it's also a very Jewish-Polish or other Jewish-Slavic suffix. Then again, according to Wikipedia (and be discerning about Wikipedia), Marek Soieski's mother was Zofia Danilowicza (Sofia Danylovna).
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Joined: Oct 5, 09 ♀ 		 Oct 14, 09, 04:03    #36
My Wojtowicz family had a farm near Radom. Does that mean they were nobles?

Not sure what "wicz" means. We are not Jewish.
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Joined: May 31, 09 ♂ 		 Oct 14, 09, 05:08    #37
In Poland from what I have read there are 2 types of nobility.

1. The szlachta (nobility) inherited both status and land. They were, however, obligated to perform military service for the king, and to submit to his tribunals (his court of moral principles or laws), but they were the independant magistrates over their own lands

2. noble/yeomanry which is the more common form in which person received ownership of lands and were given the right to bear a coat of arms. No real title was bestowed upon them.
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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 Oct 14, 09, 14:34    #38
Owning a peasant farm or smallholding was not that same as a landowning noble. W¼jtowicz means the village mayor's son.
Any Polish name can be held by a Jew. Some but not all had typcially Jewish names like Szapiro, Margolis, Lubartower or Lubartowski, Posner or Poznański...
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Joined: Apr 11, 09 ♀ 		 Oct 14, 09, 23:17    #39
plk123
not sure about australia but in the US many, many poles dropped the ski or changed their names to make them easier in america.. some, you'd never even know were poles..

I know this was from a while back, but I'm not sure how true this is. Most Poles I know (I live in New Jersey, USA) have "ski" at the end of their last name. My surname in America is Seyglinski, but in Poland it was originally Szczygliński. I wish I could find more about it, though.. I've searched quite a bit and it's evidently quite rare.
Frances  Oct 24, 09, 05:21    #40
my name is sajdloski and I live in the USA, and I am proud to be Polish. Both my parents were polish and their parents were Polish
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Joined: Mar 14, 10 ♀ 		 May 16, 10, 22:19    #41
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Names of Counts and Countesses of Poland 1800s

Where do I go to find these names, also where they lived in estates etc. Is there an address I can visit when I am in Poland next month?

Leslie
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start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Polish_nobility_coats_of_arms
Rad0001  Dec 20, 10, 11:42    #43
hi I'm Polish and I know a lot about Polish nobility above all divided into four types of nobility;
A parochial
2 Earth
3 magnates
4 Knights
depending on social status and financial status of the family. arms of the nobility began to appear from the early 13th century as signs of the knights were all participating knights. noble names in Poland are usually those ending in: ski cki Icz first two caps are the names of the Polish nobility and is Icz caps names Lithuanian nobility both countries joined the union in the 14th century against the Teutonic Order. name indicates that nobility of the functions performed or the place from which they came from Radomski for example indicates that a person bearing that name comes from the same town or area in tum case lying Radom in Poland, or for example Makowiecki yo man who was engaged in poppy cultivation, if you have problems with the Polish history write to the address pitol_rad@op.pl
chuck42  Mar 28, 11, 00:37    #44
Have you visited Ostrozany? I visited the village- as my relatives came about 1/2 mile in the next village. The family name was Kosk- but reportedly had great wealth - but much was taken by the Russians. Even w/o the "ski" ending- some families did have great weath.
beahive  Mar 31, 12, 16:35    #45
Grandparents surname has no "-ski", but it seems they were also nobility; even a river once existed with that name, but it was renamed many years ago. Does anyone have any information on the name BOBER from Dzievin/Bochnia? - Bea

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