How far back to go to trace your ancestry?

Ozi Dan 26 | 566

19 Apr 2008 / #1

How far back can you trace your ancestry?

Any famous people there? Any interesting stories? Know any historically famous Poles?

Arise_St_George 9 | 419

19 Apr 2008 / #2

Nope. My Great Grandparents were gypsies that emigrated to the UK from Eastern Europe somewhere but I haven't the foggiest how to find out more.

z_darius 14 | 3960

19 Apr 2008 / #3

The story says the family line started in some remote times, with the first actual record from 975 AD, but I was unable to trace actual bloodlines and assign names to them to any period before the 15th century. Some of the members of this line were Count Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski and Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński.

Koach 16 | 128

19 Apr 2008 / #4

My earliest Polish lines go back to the late 1700's. These ancestors lived near Tarnow.

Zgubiony 15 | 1274

19 Apr 2008 / #5

My ancestors go back to Galicja 1772 (Austrio-Hungarian partition of Poland) Surname Macko

bobbeh 1 | 1

24 Apr 2008 / #6

All I was able to find out was that my great-grand father died during a mass execution in WW2.

Peter 3 | 248

24 Apr 2008 / #7

My family goes back to the late 1600's. Supposedly the family is connected to Piotr Konaszewicz-Sahajdaczny, the famous hetman.