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tracing my family roots- the surname Tarasiewicz?

telefonitika

Nov 25, 06, 15:05 #1

I am trying to discover more about a gentleman called "Zigmunty Tarasiewicz" he came to the UK just after WW2 along with quite a large number of other older generation poles, Zigmunty married a british female called Margaret whom happened to be my father's mother though i am not 100% sure if he was born prior to Zigmunty and Margaret's marriage or before as my father was born in 1947. Tragically my father died age 53 in 2000, 6mths later i traced Zigmunty to an address in the Derbyshire area of UK called South Normanton, where he had lived since prior to Margaret death in the mid 1980's, but due to the shock of being told my father had died i didnt persue asking questions and i believe as no contact has been made in a while that it is possible that Zigmunty may have passed away.
If anyone knows how i can go about discovering my ancestry and polish connection this would be really appreciative :-)

thanks to all

Tara

Grzegorz_Threads: 80 Posts: 6,104 Joined: Nov 16, 06 ♂	Nov 25, 06, 15:21 #2
The name is probably Zygmunt.

rdywenurThreads: 5 Posts: 175 Joined: Jun 28, 08 ♀	May 29, 10, 00:05 #3
My parents had friends names Tarasiewicz but they live in central NY.

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Apr 3, 11, 05:52 #4

Hello Tara,

My great-grandmother's surname is Tarasiewicz. My sister and I went to Poland in 2009 and found family members in the farming communities of Szabin and Krasnybor, in the area south of Augustow and north of Bialystok. At a village church there, the parish priest told us that older birth and death records records are kept regionally. You might start with the ancestry.com website and see where that takes you. While in Warsaw, we walked by a gallery featuring Leon Tarasiewicz' artwork; I did some Internet research when I got back home, and he is a well-known artist from this same region, the borderlands between Poland and Belarus. From this, I am assuming that the family came from this area.

I hope this helps point you in the right direction.

Tim

Polonius3Threads: 963 Posts: 4,551 Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂	Apr 3, 11, 12:09 #5
TARASIEWICZ: patronymic nick for the son of Taras (a popular Ukrainian first name).