Trying to find a town called Kadyz.

I have searched for the town of my family on google but without finding it. It is likely that the name of the town is written wrong and the time period is before WWI. Hope someone can help.

It's spelled Kadysz in Polish, and it's now in Belarus, right next to the Polish border. My mother's family comes from very close nearby.

@Ybscka

Which surnames are you interested in? And do you have any connection with Dupont, PA?

Badura and Baran

The reason I asked about Dupont is that many people from the area around Kadysz settled in Dupont. Very many. There are Baran's in Dupont, but that might just be coincidence. Baran is an extremely common Polish name.

I am not from Dupont tho. Thanks for your help. If you find more info, please write here.

It's a tiny village in a area that is still predominantly settled by ethnic Poles. There was a last minute change in the border negotiations after WWII that trapped them inside of Belarus, same as my surviving family members from neighboring villages.

Baran is an extremely common surname all over Poland, and Badura is fairly common, too, also found all over Poland. Neither name is unique to a single family; multiple unrelated families use these surnames. Chances of you being related to a random Baran or Badura are low, unless you can find documentation confirming the linkage.

Thanks again. Do you use some specific websites for your research?

This is most surprising! Whereas the (forced) border exchange between Poland and the USSR in the year 1951 is pretty widely known about (the Ustrzyki Dolne area for the Belz area, now in Ukraine), I have never heard of another correction on the eastern border of Poland.

The change occurred during the course of post-war treaty negotiations, after the matter of relocation of populations had already been settled. The original border proposal ran along the Nieman. During negotiations, it was decided to move it further west, closer to the Curzon line, without revisiting the question of relocating the ethnic Polish population.


Various and sundry, depending what Google searches in Polish turn up. You're not going to find a lot of this information in English.

"Kadyz" might easily be confused by the innocent layperson with the "Cadiz" in Spain, no?

@DominicB
That is irritating, because my Polish is not that well.
@Lyzko
It says "Kadyz, Poland" so it is not cadiz, Spain.

True, only the orthographic similarity is what caught my attention:-)