Looking for information on Szczepanski, Brauder

As age creeps up on me and my childhood years are getting put away I am looking for family. This is the first time on this web site so I am hoping I am doing this right.

My fathers name in Eugeniusz Jan Szczepanski;DOB 7/7/19- Mothers name in Maria Brauder 4-15-02 born in Minsku litewskim: Fathers name was Antoni Szczepanski Both from Skorczu.My dad has passed: He was in a concernatration camp and I heard had brother. He was a comander in the Plosh Navy and worked at the Gdansk Transport Enterprise of Building Industries ( engibneer) and left that in 1959.

My mon : Stanislawa Szablinska DOB: 8-8-20 Has passed as well. SHe was a Pediatrician that worked in the Provincial Chest Diseases Center at Gdansk in 1960.

I have heard that my parents had brothers and sisters , I have no idea what relatives I may have in Poland, and most of all what were my parents childhoods like. WHat is there religus background. They never shared.

Thanks for any assistance . Hania

Hi Hania.
My name is Szczepanski....

Szczepan~ski (in Polish spelled with an accent over the n and pronounced roughly "shcheh-PINE-skee") is an adjective in form, meaning "of, from, related to Szczepan," which is one of the Polish forms of the name "Stephen." So in many cases this name means simply "kin of Szczepan," in some other cases it might mean "one from the place of Szczepan" where that place was once owned or founded by a prominent Szczepan and bears a name such as Szczepanki or Szczepanowo, something like that. It's a very common name, as of 1990 there were 31,208 Polish citizens named Szczepan~ski, living all over the country.

My family was also Szczcepanski. My great-grandmother was from the area around Lubawa, which is about a 3-hr. drive from Gdansk. While there were a lot of Szczpanski's in the cemeteries I visited there, last Sept. I found no real family. I did, however find my great-grandfather's family, Zwolinski. They live in the same area, today. If you have any info at all on your family, let me know. I'll try to help you out. You can contact me directly at dunkles54@verizon.net. Good luck, tom

my mother's maiden name is sczepanski (variation of szczepanski - after the first z was dropped) and i think i remember an antoni in our family history. i will talk with my mom about this, show her the thread and get back to you. (:

-rachel