Food / POLISH RECIPES! [287]

Sounds nice except I understand there is no such thing as graham cracker crumbs in Poland. Correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe by now some Food of the World type shop carries them. At any rate, they are not indigenous to Polish cookery.

Genealogy / Marciniak, Gelitzky, Wohlgemut, Bekier / Dziuba, Janczak SURNAMES. [11]

The chance of your being related to footballer Artur Marciniak is that of a snowball's chance in hell. More than 36,000 people in Poland use the Marciniak surname which orignated as a patornymic nickname. Eng. equivalent = Martinson.

News / Poland's fight against paedophilia [277]

Does the Poliosh law apply to rapists was well as for incest and paedophilia?

Genealogy / Genetic difference between Poles and selected others. [83]

This raises the quesiton of genetics and culture including language. Genetically different people can cultrually agree to accept each other. Widepspead intermarriage would probably expedite the phenomenon of unification or genetic blending. One advanatge of sameness would, theoretically at less, eliminate cultural, religious and in time also linguistic differences, so wars wouldbe fought over economics, food, water and maybe even breathable air, in other words rich against poor, the north agaisnt the souht. In time the typical earthling would be off-white, a light-complectioned mulatto, and most of the world would be speaking broken wog English. The question is: woudl we really want to live in such a homogenised, stewpot world. The French say: Vive la différence.

Genealogy / POLISH NOBILITY NAMES IN -SKIi [82]

In Gemran noble names "von und zu" sometimes appears.

News / Prediction: Poland to be World Superpower in XXI century [147]

Since Poels cannot get along even amongst themselves , as current political battling shows, it is highly unlikley that all these countreis could somehow get together and see eye to eye. However, if Poland, Urklaine, the Czech Rep., Slovakia, Hungary, Belarus and the Baltic states could relaise that a federation or confederation or commonwealth was worth their while, who knows....?

Predicting after WW2 that the vanquished, war-torn Japs and Krauts would become economic superpowers would have been equally ludicrous. In history, politics and economics, most everything is possible.

Genealogy / to Find family history, Jaworski / Yaworski [7]

Can't say anything about your specific ancestors, but Jaworski comes from the word jawor (sycamore) and the root of Czarnecki is the adjective czarny (black). Names in -ski and

-cki are usually of toponymic (place-name) origin, so these probably originated to identify someone from localities incorporating those roots.
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Genealogy / Gorzelnik and/or Podgorczyk family tree [11]

For what it's worth, Gorzelnik is a distiller (moonshiner) and Podgórcyzk was someone living in a piedmont area (in the foothills).

News / RHD cars in Poland - my campaign to change the rules in Poland [128]

How on earth does one change gears with the left hand? Seems inconceivable! I'd probably end up shifting into reverse at 30 km/h instead of 2nd gear.

Language / How to pronouce Szczygieł last name? [26]

Indeed, I'd say 99% of all Americans, including many Po-Ams, would say either something like Seegle (seagull) or Shiggle or simply ask: "How do you pronounce it?"

Genealogy / GITLER... is it Polish surname? [30]

There are 78 Gitlers in Poland today. The name is quite possibly Yiddish. Indeed Russians spell Hitler's name Gitler, but the Gitlers of Poland are most likely purely coincidental. BTW, the late US president in Russian is pronounced Gerbert Goover.

Genealogy / Searching for the HUDZIAK and MAZUREK family [14]

The proper spelling of Hudziak is Chudziak and originated as a patronymic nick
meaning the son of chudy (the thin bloke's son).

Genealogy / POLISH NOBILITY NAMES IN -SKIi [82]

According to legend, the Prawdzic c-o-a origianted when a knight with a lion crest married the daughter of Judge Jan Prawda whose heraldic device showed a rign or hoop. The merged c-o-a was called Prawdzic and depcited a lion holding a ring or hoop behind a brick wall.

Genealogy / 1939 Krakow - what happened to the residents? [21]

Etymology: Flek - roof patch from German Fleck.
43 such name bearers in Poland, the most in the south opf the country: Tarnów and
environs (17), Opole (14) and Katowice (5). Only 2 in the Greater Kraków area.

Genealogy / LISIA GORA - village in Poland [16]

Lisia Góra (Fox Hill) is a rather large vilłlage of 14,000 in the Tarnów area of SE Poland. If you read Polish, here is a link:

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmina_Lisia_G%C3%B3ra

Genealogy / Surname: Krowiorz from Trembatschau (Trebaczow) / Sikora (Schikora?) [33]

Schikora - German phonetic respellign of Sikora (coaltit, a small bird), a popular Polish surname.
Krowiorz - Silesian/Highlander pronunciation/spelling of Krowiarz (cowherd).

Genealogy / Wolochowicz [14]

There are only 117 people. That would make it easier to track down a relative than if your name were Nowak or Wiśniewski. The general rule of thumb is: the smaller the number of namesakes, the bigger the chance that you are related to all or most of them. This is how they are distributed across Poland according to the old small voivodships. The absence of Wołochowiczes in southern Poland might suggest the original Wołochowicz came to Poland many centuries ago and settled in the north and west of the country.

Wa:25, BP:1, Bs:3, El:8, Gd:8, JG:1, Ka:1, Ki:1, Ko:2,Lg:7, Lu:3, £d:1, Ol:4, Op:4, Pl:2, Po:18, Sł:16, Sz:1, To:1,Wb:2, Wr:3, ZG:5

Life / How do Polish people see homosexuality? [152]

Hania - I wasn't being sarcastic, but asked: Is it advisable....unfortunately I forgot to close it off with a query (?).
You may well be right that violent and substance-linked behaviour are byproducts of homosexual misfits who feel unwanted, misudnerstood, etc.
All except the promiscuity (short-term relationships, multiple partners) which has been shown to be an inherent element of what that "orientation" is all about. Homos themselves admit that promiscuity is part and parcel of their overall lifestyle.

Probably homo lfie expectancy could be increased if they cleaned up theri act re substance abuse and violence, but the myriad infections (HIV is but one of them) they subject themselves to through rectal penetration, rimming, "bringing gifts" and other sexual behaviour would probably still continue taking their toll.

Life / How do Polish people see homosexuality? [152]

A survey conducted in Poland earlier this month (August 2009) showed that 75% of Poles opposed homosexual "marriage" and 87% were against adoption by same-sex couples.

Maybe on day morally flabby, decadent Old Europe will wise up and see the error of their ways.
Religion and morality aside, but in terms of basic human decency, is it advisable and ethical to place orphans, who have already had their share of personal traumas as a result of abandonment or a dysfunctional family setting, into a home marked by:

-- shorter-term relationships compared to hetero averages
-- higher level of promiscuity (mutliple partners)
-- a higher level of domestic violence
-- a higher level of substance abuse
-- poorer overall health
-- earlier average death of adoptive "parents".

Polonia / Poland and France cultures are similar [112]

The French claim the English eat to live, whilst they live to eat. Poles also tend to gourmandise and would do even more so if they could afford it.

Genealogy / Sykala family from Pruchnik [6]

SYKA£A: from syk (hiss, wheezing sound) - possibly a nick given to someone who spoke in a hissing manner, typcial of people with side tooth gaps that force air and saliva out when speaking: so Janko Sykała might have been Johnny the Hisser. This probably has nothing to do with your 19th-century relatives, as nicknames-turned-surnames usually go back many centuries.

USA, Canada / A good Polish restaurant in Michigan? [25]

POLISH DINING IN SE MICHIGAN

The American-Polish Cultural Center is definitely a place to visit when in the Detroit area: Polish food in a Polish cultural setting, banquets, off-site catering and various cultural events makes this place a must.

AmericanPolishCenter.com

HAMTRMACK'S POLONIA RESTAURANT IN MICHIGAN REVISITED

For those interested here's a nice write-up about a Polish restaurant in Hamtramck, Michigan - once Detroit's predominantly Polish enclave-suburb. (By enclave is meant that to get ir or out you have to drive through some part of the City of Detroit. But Hamtramck is not just a neighbourhood or section but an indepndent municipality with its own mayor, town council, polcie force, fire brigade, school system, etc.)

metrotimes.com/food/review.asp?rid=25492

Life / Prices of cars in Poland? [88]

No, but try googling....

Life / Prices of cars in Poland? [88]

autogaleria.mojeauto.pl

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Why would anyone want salted butter? Butter used to be salted to prevent it going rancid but it cannot compare in flavour to truly creamery fresh unsalted buuter. Land o' Lakes is a favourite with many Pol-Ams.