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3 Oct 2008
Genealogy / Petrosky - my last name [6]

the United States marine corps (MILITARY?SOLDER) told me my surname was RUSSIAN. my father hated RUSSIANS ,and said he was from POLAND . my father worked with polish immigrants after world war 2 in Europe ,and helped sort out the impostors ,and criminals .he was able to repatriate some poles and to get papers for polish national to the USA .. HE despised RUSSIANS . also we were catholic ,devote the American spelling of my name is Petrosky/but my uncle spelled it Petrowskie. can anyone help me . my father and his brothers told me my grandfather and my grandmother had to swim across a river to escape POLAND ,,and were shot at ,my grandfather carried his first child on his back .that was either 1913 0r 1914 ,,we were never sure. someone help me