Jambrich/Yambrick surname?

So my uncle is really good at tracing our family tree. But I dont' see him very often. He told me though, that our family name back in the day, in Poland used to be 'Jambrich', but when my ancestors immigrated here it was changed to 'Yambrick' to avoid confusion.

Any other Yambrick/Jambrich's? Does that even SOUND Polish?

No.

A name doesn't have to be Polish to make you Polish. Where in Poland do the family come from ?

Go to JewishGen and do a soundex search on the name.

I agree with Wroclaw. You can have the name Stern and be Polish--be born there, lived there, died there, all your ancestors living there for a hundred years. That makes you Polish, despite the origin of the name or what religion you are, if you culturally identify yourself as Polish.

Many of the people named Jambrich from the early 1900s at ancestry dot com stated they came from Slovakia or Austria. They could have been Polish people who moved to those area before immigration to the US.

Do you know who the earliest ancestor to immigrate to the US was? Their 1st name? Or where the family first settled when they came here?

I can try and do a search for you.

Thank you, Bookratt! We are Slovak and Austrian too, but we identify most with the Polish ancestry. I think my great-great grandmother's name was Leona. But it could be something different.

my neighbour surname is Jambrich.I call him Jambo.
It's Croatian name I think.

Jambo? Cool. My dad's name is Jim and sometimes we call him Jimbo.

My maternal great grandmother was a Jambrich. She and her five sisters (inseperable) moved to and eventually were laid to rest in a village on the Translyvanian border (on the Hungarian side as the village was split down the middle by the border). The village in in the south of eastern part of the country. I do not remember any other languages being spoken other than Hungarian, though there is a possibility of a Slavic variant being spoken. I'm not sure which Slavic language. In terms of clothing, they were very subdued; not as flamboyant as others in the area. Does anyone have any pictures? Perhaps the origin could be determined by the style of dress or ornamentation in the household.

Jambi, that's very interesting. Was your great grandmother Transylvanian born? Or was she from Poland?

I believe it was my great grandmother also, who was straight from Poland.