ABOUT KUKULKA

You don't make much sense, Mark. Do you have an idea how many people there are worldwide who are descendants of protestant Germans, Dutch, French or Scots who lived in the area which is now Poland? The chance that the majority of protestant church books remained in Poland is quite low actually, given the fact that almost 400000 of them ended up in Moscow and are now scanned by the LDS, that loads of them were destroyed during the war and by the Poles immediately after the war, and that many more are kept in Berlin.


A lot of old catholic church books were given back to Poland by Germany as late as 2001, and AFAIK there are still plenty left in the archives in Regensburg (I heard it's closed now) and Nuremberg, respectively.

AHHHH yes I do considering protestants make up less than 1 percent of the persons in Poland and that is just persons of the christian faith.

A lot of old catholic church books were given back to Poland by Germany as late as 2001

Thanks for making my point.

You're either drunk, stoned or both, or you simply don't get it. :)


Well, you might want to read the rest of the sentence first...

Cheers!

Apparently you don't get it. Less than 1 percent of Poland is protestant. So of course if your looking for protestant records... there is more than a 99 % chance they won't be there. If Iowagirl's relative was protestant.... than by all means I would suggest she book the first flight out to Germany to check those records.

Gheez, Mark - that's nowadays. When we are talking about ancestors, we might want to go back in time a bit, don't you think? Probably to an era not too long ago when the percentage of protestants in Poland was much, much higher than it is today? Need more hints, or do I need to call the doctor?


Again: I was responding to Hellen and NOT to the OP. Where does Hellen say that her ancestor was catholic?

TheOther
I apoligize you are right It was Helen. It is possible that her relative was Protestant. But even in the early 1800's the height of the protestant faith in Poland the area was still only 30 percent protestant. I will wait to see if Helen's ancestors were in fact protestant before I make any recommendations regarding possible research.

When we are talking about ancestors

It was nice to hear you use the word instead of citizens. As geealogy is more the study of one heritage not ones citzenship.

I agree with you, heritage is important. But if you do not understand the political environment your ancestors lived in, you will never know why your heritage/ cultural background is the way it is. One thing I will never get for example is, why so many (Plastic) Poles on this forum simply refuse to accept that the histories of both Poland and Germany are so deeply interconnected in eastern Europe that you can hardly keep them apart. What sense does it make to deny historical facts just to paint (your personal idea of) your heritage in the rosiest light possible?

Hello I am also a KUKULKA born in Vienna and I can trace my family tree through various generations.

It is of polish heritage but I too have only started looking and have created my family tree.

There are an awful lot of Kukulkas in America I notice.

My parents migrated from Austria in 1959 to Australia.

Kukulka means "cuckoo" and my dad was Julius Johann Kukulka, his father was Otto Kukulka, his father Johann Kukulka.
myheritage.com/site-family-tree-109122441/kukulka-family

Frieda McLoughlin (nee KUKULKA)
Sunbury Victoria Australia

My grandfather was from Krakow and is a Kukulka, he emigrated in 1912 through Bremenhaven Germany on the SS Bremam.
He came to Thompsonville CT. The region was Galicia in southern Poland. You can find your relatives name on the ships manifest
through Ancestry.

Name looks uncannily similar to the Finnish family name "Kukkula" meaning "flower", although surely not related.

Kukułka is imitative of the birds voice just like the English cuckoo

Onomotopaeia, eh? Makes all sorts of sense. Thanks, gumishu!