News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]


This sounds as if each and every Pole waited for the revolution since the last partition happened. Very patriotic point of view, but isn't that more like wishful thinking combined with political propaganda (no pun intended)? Isn't it much more probable that the vast majority of ethnic Poles just wanted to live in peace - no matter who was ruling them? Villeins most likely didn't care whether their master was Polish, Prussian or Russian. Out of curiosity: do you have any reliable sources which show that the majority of ethnic Poles (instead of a minority of Polish intellectuals) supported the resistance/uprisings you've mentioned?


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News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]


Why would that be arrogant? It happened to others countless times in the past, and it will happen again in the future. What makes you think that Polish people are completely

different than everybody else in this respect?

News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]


If oppression would have been unbearable before WW1, I would agree, but that wasn't the case. I believe that without WW1 the Poles simply would have continued to arrange themselves with the system and would have stayed "good" German, Russian or Austro-Hungarian citizens while keeping their Polish culture.

News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]


Dream on. Without WW1 the official first language of the Polish people would be either German or Russian.

News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]


Are you kidding? No Treaty of Versailles, no Poland...

Life / IS POLISH PATRIOTISM OBSOLETE? [34]

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Of course you can be proud of your country ... quietly and with respect for others.

Love / Is Polish girls' beauty a myth? [78]

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Certain men are not travelling to western countries because the girls over there are too difficult to get for them. They prefer eastern Europe instead...

Genealogy / No documents found regarding my late grandfather? (born in Grajewo) [23]


Then I'm pretty sure that your grandfather wasn't born in Grajewo.


Do you know where the parents and siblings of the mother of your grandfather lived? If I were you I would first check the parishes where the above mentioned persons resided, before contacting the archives.

USA, Canada / Can US citizenship through marriage be 'transfered' to a new spouse? [16]


Don't count on it. Since 9/11 the INS is so far behind in processing the greencard applications that it can easily take up to 3 years before you get one. Happened to some friends of mine.

Genealogy / No documents found regarding my late grandfather? (born in Grajewo) [23]

Is your grandfather older than his siblings? Maybe your information about his DOB and place of birth is incorrect and he was born in a different parish and/or on a different date. Maybe his parents moved to Grajewo after he was born or his mother stayed with relatives somewhere else to give birth there?

Love / Poland reverse of fortune in dating [124]


Maybe those guys have charme and are good listeners? The looks are only important when you first meet. Afterwards they're just a "nice to have".

History / Communists blaming pre-war Polish government for WW2? [6]


Yeah, I remember that one. But this one here is about the Polish commies blaming their own pre-war government for WW2. I never heard about that. You?

Life / Bringing up children in Poland. [16]


That's a (IMHO criminal) cult and not a church, although they desperately try to make it look that way to be exempt from taxes.

Love / Techniques for meeting Polish girls [68]


Envy you.

Love / Techniques for meeting Polish girls [68]



Even in the good old pre-AIDS times, English, German and Swiss ladies were the easiest while the American gals were the most complicated.

Love / Why are more Polish girls marrying Americans? [77]


Oh shock!


Oh the horror!


That you work in an embassy? No.


Maybe a little love, too?


Guess...


Because they've got the pink slip from their lovers and couldn't cope with the American way of life afterwards?


I suggest, you simply relax.

Genealogy / POLISH (-ski) and ENGLISH (of) = TOPONYMIC NICKS [18]


Yes, because the protestant church was under enormous pressure until approx. 1767.


You know about these sources?

kerntopf.com/diverses/kolliste.htm

odessa3.org/collections/land/poland

odessa3.org/collections/land/wprussia


One of my grandmothers was fluent in Low German (Plattdeutsch). The dialect is actually a mixture of German, English and Dutch elements. Would you believe that my grandma understood English although she never learned it at school?

USA, Canada / Why Americans think that nobody likes them? [185]


Didn't you want to say "when mating was just a swinger-club away"?

Genealogy / POLISH (-ski) and ENGLISH (of) = TOPONYMIC NICKS [18]


These are the microfilms available at an LDS family history centre near you (in case your ancestors were catholic):

Poland, Bydgoszcz, Żałe (Rypin) - Church records

Kopie księg metrykalnych, 1808-1891 Kościół rzymsko-katolicki. Parafja Żałe (Rypin)
Kopie księg metrykalnych, 1810-1841 Kościół rzymsko-katolicki. Parafja Żałe (Rypin)
Księgi metrykalne, 1746-1891 Kościół rzymsko-katolicki. Parafja Żałe (Rypin)

It is almost impossible to trace people back to western Europe, by the way. There are no written sources other than the usual suspects. One web site you might find interesting though:

upstreamvistula.org/index.htm

USA, Canada / Why Americans think that nobody likes them? [185]


I don't know him, so I'm not sure. He shows some "typical Republican" behaviour, though.

Genealogy / POLISH (-ski) and ENGLISH (of) = TOPONYMIC NICKS [18]


You will find the same in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and to a certain extent Switzerland.


The "de" as part of the family name was also widespread in northern Germany, simply meaning "the"

Genealogy / POLISH (-ski) and ENGLISH (of) = TOPONYMIC NICKS [18]

My dad's ancestors came from the Poznan/ Posen vicinity, and I was able to trace one line back to 1715. Too many wars, lost church books and drunken priest in that area. My mum's ancestors came from the Bremen/ Hannover area. The earliest proven ancestor I found was born in 1480.

Genealogy / POLISH (-ski) and ENGLISH (of) = TOPONYMIC NICKS [18]


Might be a good idea, although in reality it's much more complicated. There are places in Germany for example, where the groom always took the "family name" of the bride. And the brides' name was derived from the name of the farm/cottage her parents lived on (so-called "Hofname"). Very difficult to track, because every generation you have different family names in the male line.

Genealogy / POLISH (-ski) and ENGLISH (of) = TOPONYMIC NICKS [18]


Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. If you're talking about the present, the Wikipedia explanation is correct. But go back 400 or 500 years, and it's a different story. I've been into genealogy for a long time and I had some "von's" in my German lineage as well. Turned out they weren't nobility at all.


Depends. Starting in the 15th century many people gave up the "von" in their surname, but others kept it. BTW: up until 1874 there were no official rules in Prussia on how to write your surname. That's why you have so many variations in family names in that era.

Genealogy / POLISH (-ski) and ENGLISH (of) = TOPONYMIC NICKS [18]


The "von" in a German family name is very rarely linked to a noble family. Most of the time it is an addition to the family name which points to a certain place. Like "Hans von Hamburg", meaning either "Hans lives in Hamburg" or "Hans was born in Hamburg" (but now lives in another place).

USA, Canada / Why Americans think that nobody likes them? [185]



I take it that you are a Republican... :)

What was the approval rating of Bush in the end, once again? Remember what happened to Bush's poodle? Nah, going into Iraq a second time was a big time mistake. Since then, thousands of troops and an unknown number of civilians have been killed, billions of dollars been wasted for nothing. Heck of a job, bushy...


Tony Blair

USA, Canada / Why Americans think that nobody likes them? [185]


Never met one before... :)


Sorry that I cannot live up to your stereotype ... I'm no Pom, have shiny white teeth and not a single filling.

USA, Canada / Why Americans think that nobody likes them? [185]


LOL

I thought you're from Dayton, Ohio. Not directly on the west coast...

USA, Canada / Why Americans think that nobody likes them? [185]


To voice my personal opinion doesn't depend on whether I live in my country of birth or in another one.


Nope, born in Australia.