Hamtramck, Michigan, USA

Is anyone from, near, around, or ever heard of Hamtramck, Michigan (near Detroit)?

Oh... I've also been coming into the forums and reading for quite some time. I only just FINALLY joined today though. (What took me so long?)

I know you yes I live very very close to you. in another very polish community

You know me? From Hamtramck?

Do you ever go to 88th Avenue (Kazik's place)?

No from possibly another forum? spiritus Vs spirytus. Marek?

No... Michael. But you're from the same area. That's cool. DO you go to Hamtramck often? I live 30 miles from there, but I work in Hamtramck.

I live in Wyandotte, my aunts family lived in Highland park. not now though.

you just started doing your ancestry?

have you ever come this way to Polonis ? By the way, I am Questioning why my posts
still say guest, when I signed up and it shows me as a guest

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NO, I've been doing it for a while, but I'm stalled at my Great Grandparents.

I don't go downriver very often. I live by New Baltimore (30 miles north-northeast of Hamtramck), but work in Hamtramck. What is "Polonis?" There is "Polonia" restaurant in Hamtramck, as well as Polish Village (my favorite), and Pod Orlem (Under the Eagle).

88th Avenue is a Polish Dance Club in Hamtramck. Most of the people who go there are from Poland, and are native Polish speakers.

What is "Polonis?" restaurant <~good food too!!!

What are your great Grandparents names?
what area did they live? mine were delray, and wyandotte.
they came from Nowogrod, and Osiek, Polanka , and Kolno.

New Baltimore is nice, lots of country

if it is lomza area they have that microfilmed. southern poland isnt yet that I know of.

Yes i am ... i live in detroit/windsor...

Detroit or windsor? OK now I really am going to work, lol

I will catch up with yas later have great afternoon

I live in Hamtramck, but my family came from Poznan via Chicago so I've got no local roots.

My wife and have a website about the city: Hamtramck Star

Cool.... except Hamtramck is no longer polish!!! well maybe some polish people but barely any...!!! In windsor omg polack madness...!!!

I don't think your statement is exactly accurate. There aren't as many Poles as there used to be but it's still the largest segment of the population.

really because i heard otherwise i mean last time i went there i met like 2 or 3 polish people the rest were like americans or something else

What's your definition of a Polish person? Hamtramck is populated predominantly with second-generation Poles who's parents immigrated.

My great-grandparents immigrated.

Perhaps by "Polish people" you mean Polish immigrants.

no just polish peopld that speak and eat not immigrants like their children to and everyone... sorry if i messed up that but ya... well that's cool i never new that that there were still alot of polsih people there...!!

It's sort of offensive to deny descendants of immigrants their Polish-ness. They're still Polish, they've just been living in Polonia-Hamtramck, Polonia-Chicago, or somewhere else.

Often immigrants didn't teach their children to speak Polish because they didn't want them to "stick out" in a crowd. They wanted them to have the same opportunity as everyone else in the States.

One of our neighbors says that Polish is the "Language of Problems" because when she was growing up, the adults would speak it when they had serious matters to discuss.

Back when my great-grandfather came to the US he changed his name because of anti-pole discrimination. So his generation paved the way for Poles to immigrate and NOT change their names. It still bums me out to think of the discrimination he faced.

This conversation sheds some light on why the tellers at the Polish Credit Union don't believe that I'm Polish and give me static when I go inside. Except the older people that work there know better.

well i polish people in general as in everyone that is what i ment... really that sucks... i never had that kind of problem with the polish banks i mean they all know me because i get involved in church and singing and volunteering and stuff!! Although they shouldn't automatically assume that your not polish... My parent's taught me polish since i was a little baby all my friends know polish and we talk in polish in crowds and eveyrone gets so mad... but we don't care... like i'm first generation here... with my brother...!! which generation are you?

4th. My great-grandfather was born in Poznan.

He changed his name from (probably) Franciszek Wisniewski to Frank Cherry. He was a cabinet/furniture maker and worked in machine shops in Chicago then Detroit. My grandfather (Royal Cherry) worked for the Auto companies in Lansing, MI where I was born.

The tellers at the bank ought to know I'm polish by my big Polack head.

lmao wow... that's so common... lol ya i have friends who are polish and they have huge heads but that's not a big deal ... at polish guys are smart well most of them but ur probably smart..... cool my last name is spanish... meaning black walnut and in polish meaning leg = Nogal

We need the room for our huge brains. At least I have a big body to match my big head. Not everyone is so lucky.

Nogal - does this mean you have a leg made from black walnut? And spanish too, maybe you're a pirate!

Polish women have big brains too, but they cover their foreheads up with hair.

True except i have a small forehead and i don't have bangs...!!!

If anyone wants to visit Hamtramck, drop me a line. We have new polish immigrants moving in all the time.