how many know their own family histories?

Ive not seen anything like that. in ancestry but I did run into cencus online in certain area
for poland. that was few years ago. whether they still have to website up
or not, im not sure.

I'm only starting out, and stumbled over this forum & have joined up.
I'm waiting on a reply from the polish registry office to obtain my late grandmothers birth certificate & see if i can locate my great uncle's daughter (my grandmothers brother had a daughter, they stayed living in poland) but we're all out here in australia.

My gran migrated here after WW2. so my gran's side has links to poland & warsaw.
I'm the only one who's interested to find out our history on the poland side. I'm hoping i've not left it too late to find my long lost relative. She tried to come out & see my gran some years ago on a visa but that didnt work out & they lost touch. my gran's only passed on last year. so i'm not sure if i will find anything but i might. its early days of hunting yet.

My great-grandfather on my mother's side, Stanisław Trzop was born in Poland and I found his emigration record to Canada online, turns out he came here when he was 25 in 1935

yes that is true but i have long family history tree all written
my problem now is movement of family circa 1800

I am new to this sight. A lot of people that came to the United States came to flea. Some chose not to pass on their roots. It was a hush hush thing because of the war. Some refused to let their children speak the launguage. My father spoke fluent Polish, but did not pass to much on to us. I am very proud of my hertiage. I am the director of a Polish Cultural dance group in Michigan. We teach the dance and language. My grand daughters are also in the class. We Polish people need to keep our hertage alive. Pass it on however you can. The history is amazing.

Hell yeah. I plan on going to it before it comes to me.



Damn... 8/



NOT A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL. Way too much history and pride in that thing.

My friend if I had any pictures I would gladly share them, trouble is that it is in Poland, and I'm in the states...



Nope...might check it out in the future though. Good thought. :]

I can trace my ancestors back to the ships they came over to the US on.

1 set of great great grandparents came from Germany in 1884 or so.
1 set of great great grandparents came from Poland in 1888 or so.

The rest of my great-grandparents came over from Poland from 1909-1914.

6 of 8 great-grandparents born in Poland.

1 great-grandparent born in US of Polish Parents.
1 great-grandparent born in US of German Parents.

The thing is I don't know is where they lived in Poland.

I am trying to find out. If I can prove my ancestory I might be able to get Polish citizenship.

My girlfriend can trace her family back to the 1500's.

Well from my fathers side i never asked so much or researched.
But from my mothers side i can trace my ancestors back into the medival ages. My grandmothers side was from a simple farmer family, but my grandfathers side came from a noble family, his mothers name was Jadwiga pomorska and came from the higher nobility class and had their residence in lwow, and his fathers name was Marian Abdank Toczynski who also came from the upper nobility class and was born in Mielec.
From there i can trace my family/Ancestors back to the medival age. To bad all of the estates they owned before ww2 was confiscated by the Communists after ww2 or else i would live like a king now :P

have you looked on the ancestry.com?

you live in Detroit, the hill burton collection has some awsome records
and you can find churchs that closed that have baptismals and marriages etc

what else dont you have? the mormon microfilmed the detroit drafts which
also can give clues to the town you need.

email me maybe I have some church records.. :)

I know of a Zygmunt Tarasiewicz (born 1926) oldest son of Adolf and Waleria Tarasiewicz of Nieciecz military settlement (osada) in Nowogrodzkie wojewodztwo. I have been trying to trace members of the Tarasiewicz family who came to in NZ for an elderly friend of Zygmunt's from Canada - they were in the RAF together. Zygmunt's younger brothers were Edmund, Marian and Zbigniew. Marian and Zbigniew came to NZ with a group of Polish orphans in 1944; Edmund and their father Adolf joined them after the War. Zygmunt opted to stay in England. Only Zbigniew is still living. He rememers visiting his brother in England once after the War - his brother Zygmunt lived somewhere between Nottingham and London. Could this be the Zygmunt Tarasiewicz you are looking for?

Thank you Kiwikid ... Zygmunts father was called Adolf as this is stated on the marriage cert to my fathers mum Marjorie .. and they lived Pinxton Derbyshire moving to South Normanton which you could say is just pass Nottingham so you would be spot on

Because both your great-grandfather Adolf and your grandfather Zygmunt served in the Polish Army / Air Force under British command during WWII you should be able to obtain their service records. Contact Ministry of Defence APC Polish Enquiries Building 28B RAF Northolt West End Road Ruislip Middlesex HA46NG; email: polishasstdisoff@notholt.raf.mod.uk or phone: 020 8833 8603 and they will let you know what information you need to provide in order to receive the records.

hey chick

thanks again for the help it wasnt expected but i am happy and i will contact the RAF over next few days to obtain that information ...

and welcome to the PF :D

If you are interested at all in the history of how your grandfather got to England in the first place let me know and I will give you a brief (?) account - at least I'll try.

Hello all

I only know part of the family history based on the family bible. It goes back as far as the turn of the 1800's. I know that my grandfather and a brother of his served in the Polish Armed forces. I have a picture of both of them in uniform and a 3rd brother who is in civilian clothing. I was told he may have served twice. Once in the early 1920's and then about 1939. Where would be the best place to obtain military records? Would the place in England have military records information prior to WWII?
I do know that my my grandfathers' family was involved in the textile industry. His father was 1st married in Wegrow. Then he for some reason not mentioned had been remarried. Just wish I knew where to get information on his Polish citizenship status. He and his family had live in the French zone of Germany prior to immigration to Canada in 1951. My aunts said that they were in Germany for about between 6-8 years. The only problem is tracking that information down. Dzien kuje everyone. I do know that my grandfather was born in Elzbietow and my mother was born in Lublin.