Law / Polish citizenship by petition to the president of Poland? [66]


Not really. Polish state archives are actually quite reasonably priced provided that you give them enough details and don't let them search for you through the records. It's the Civil Registration offices that rip you off big time. Despite: many records are already online for free.


That I don't know.

Law / Polish citizenship by petition to the president of Poland? [66]

It gives you the number of the microfilms. Why don't you go to an LDS Family History Center near you and order the relevant films or microfiches? Costs only a handful of bucks and you can make copies once the films arrive at the center.

Law / Polish citizenship by petition to the president of Poland? [66]

Sorry, just saw that you already checked the Poznan Project. To find the location of the documents, you have to click on the "Original record" link to the right of the record. A window will pop up with the information you're looking for.

Law / Polish citizenship by petition to the president of Poland? [66]

Instead of dealing with the archive in Warsaw, why don't you contact the State Archive in Poznan or Bydgoszcz directly? That's where the documents should be. Or even better: search for his marriage record for free on poznan-project.psnc.pl


How could he? There was no Polish army in 1897.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


That would be the Libertarian nut jobs and not the brain-dead right-wingers who are currently running our country.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


Fascism is the right way? Maybe in Trumpland, but not in the civilized world.

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News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


Fascist = right wing = conservative

Works both ways, doesn't it?

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]

Selin Gören is not a liberal. She's a Turkish-German member of the ultra left party "Die Linke" (many East German commies amongst them), and member of the Turkish left-wing party HDP.

History / Silesia to Czechia [54]


So where should Germany buy its natural gas instead? From the USA? We are not reliable either at the moment. Decisions, decisions...

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


You base your opinion on just one radio interview that you found on the web? They were talking about the educational difference between areas of high concentrations of Mexicans and low:

"Mexican-Americans who live outside of high concentrations of Mexicans - so Mexican-Americans who live outside of California and Texas - tend to have more education, tend to have higher earnings, tend to look like their more successful."

This sentence above is to be taken with a grain of salt, by the way, because it does not take into account that both states are big and that the concentration of Hispanics and Latinos in the south is much higher than further up north due to the proximity to Mexico. Once they leave these areas, they are good. I live in Northern California for example, and I see and talk to these people every day. Here in the Bay Area, your assumption is dead wrong.


I'm afraid we have to disagree here.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


That's why true W.A.S.P.s consider themselves something special. After the colonial period, they only played a secondary role.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States#History


No offense, but that's utter nonsense, Maf. Where do you live that you come to such a conclusion?

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


There are hardly any simple code monkey jobs in Silicon Valley anymore, Dirk. You are either top notch, or you won't get a job. They don't pay you 150K+ for nothing.

techrepublic.com/article/top-10-highest-paid-tech-jobs-in-silicon-valley


Not so much because of taxes, but because of housing costs. It's crazy what you have to shell out these days for a small home even in an "up and coming" neighborhood.


Hands down. :)

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


You still don't get it, do you? The USA is a huge country compared to South Korea or Japan. Our nation is traditionally based on immigration, which is why we have such a diverse population. They are homogeneous, we are not. They have highly educated and motivated people, we have not (any more). You can't turn back time, even if you would love to have that good old plantation master feeling back.


That's not what I said. Read again.


Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. To land a good job as a software developer in Silicon Valley, you'll have to be really good and not just average. And if you believe that all the foreigners work for nothing and undercut American wages, try again.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


No, but they have a functioning education system and highly motivated people. We have Flyover Country, opiate addicts, gangs and gun nuts. You should come to the Bay Area and take a good look around. Foreign citizens make up nearly three-quarters of the Silicon Valley tech workforce; almost 40% of Silicon Valley is foreign born.

India for example is in large parts still third world, yet there's an overwhelming number of Indian engineers in the Valley.

What do you think happened right after WW2? You believe that German scientists like von Braun got a friendly invitation with R.S.V.P. to move to the US? No, they were taken into "protective custody" and really had not much of a choice. Call that what you want.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


Exactly. Look at our education system and the social problems we have in the USA, and you know what's wrong. It has already started that we are losing talented people instead of attracting them to the country. American exceptionalism - especially the superiority part - is a myth.


The immigrants might be low skilled when they arrive in their new country, but what about their children? Do you believe that they will be low skilled too just because their parents were?


Every country in the developed has low birth rates. That's just how it is. Incentives to have more kids never worked. The question though is, do we really need THAT many people.


Until very recently, many top talents came to the US voluntarily. We didn't have to use headhunters to find and hire them. That might change though once the Republicans are done with the immigration system, and then we're toast. One day we might have to resort to the proven methods of the past again: enter a war late, be one of the victors and then steal every patent and scientist we can get hold of. Worked before, didn't it?

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


By whom? Their religion tells them that contraception is a sin, and their wallet tells them that they cannot afford any.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


So the United States - an immigrant country which still attracts some of the best talent from all over the world - is built on an unsustainable model? If we would stop immigration completely, we would be toast within a decade.


Yes, in a way it's a different form of colonialism. In the past we extracted resources, now we siphon off the best and brightest of the developing world.


Not a new idea, but I believe that investing in these countries is still the best way to deal with the crisis. The west should stop handing out foreign aid though, because that money will almost certainly end up in the hands of some corrupt politician.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


You see, and that's our problem right there. Uncontrollable population growth in the third and second world. You won't stop these people from moving north unless you start a nice little nuclear war or become a genocidal animal like Adolf. Cutting back welfare payments in Europe might slow the current development down for a while, but it won't stop it. Especially when you consider that many new arrivals in Europe are actually war refugees and not economic migrants. So what do you suggest as a solution? Serious answer, please.


You have to take a look at each and every European country and where their migrants came from. The picture in France looks completely different to the one in Spain, the U.K. or Germany for example.


There's an interesting article about this here:

ipsnews.net/2018/02/african-migration-europe-not-crisis-opportunity

They bring up some important points, although I disagree with their conclusion that "African migration to Europe is an opportunity." We still can't run away from this problem.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]

That is indeed stupid, but it doesn't answer the question why these people leave their homes and families, indebt themselves to pay off a criminal smuggler and risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean in the first place. Free handouts in Europe, or could it be that their home countries are so dirt poor and war torn that they don't have a future there? Which brings us back to the meddling of certain nations.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


Don't forget to mention why the continent is really in such disarray at the moment. The refugees and migrants didn't show up on Europe's doorstep overnight and without reason. There's a handful of nations which were (and keep) meddling in the Middle East and Africa, which started a few wars and toppled a few dictators to spread "democracy" and sell a boatload of weapons. That's where all the mess started - not with Merkel.

Life / My Last Link To Poland Died - Why Leaving Poland Was My Best Decision [249]


There's nothing wrong with conquering a backwards people... :)

Life / My Last Link To Poland Died - Why Leaving Poland Was My Best Decision [249]

Well, they received exactly the same "treatment" by the new arrivals as their cousins in North America, didn't they? Blame it on the British Empire.

Life / My Last Link To Poland Died - Why Leaving Poland Was My Best Decision [249]

That's what the Native Americans said when they saw the first white settlers... :)

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]

Miloslaw, we were talking about open borders; i.e. no passport controls to speak of when someone enters the country. This is simply not true for the U.K., even though the country is very welcoming to citizens of other EU members. The biggest issue is probably not migration from the continent, but from Commonwealth citizens that seem to (still?) move to the U.K. in large numbers.

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]


What are you talking about? The U.K. does not have open borders. They are not part of the Schengen Area.

Genealogy / Trying to build Polish Family Tree... Too Many inconsistencies. [12]

Alan, what does the naturalization document of your grandfather say? Family name, date and place of birth? If it's Wladyslaw Kozlowski, check out the dataset I linked to in post #8. That one seems to be promising.

Here's the marriage record of your grandfather (no. 10):
familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6P74-3LX?i=406&cc=1469062

Name changes happened all the time because immigration agents and other government employees couldn't handle/ understand the foreign spelling. They simply americanized the names.

Genealogy / Trying to build Polish Family Tree... Too Many inconsistencies. [12]

Well, replace "great grandparents" with "grandparents" then... :)
Sorry, my bad.

Have you searched the LDS database already? There are quite a few datasets and documents for Wladyslaw Kozlowski/ Walter Koziol (born in 1894) there. The first one looks promising.

familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AWladyslaw~%20%2Bsurname%3AKozlowski~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1894-1894~

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


Are you illiterate? Dirk wrote "A private business should be allowed to refuse service for any reason or none at all."

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


I'm sure you would be totally fine with a sign outside a grocery store saying "Polish nationals and Polish Americans not welcome", right?

Genealogy / Trying to build Polish Family Tree... Too Many inconsistencies. [12]

I'm almost certain that the spelling of the first and last names of your ancestors were altered when they entered the U.S. . That's a common problem. If I were you I would search the usual sources for name variations.


Looks like. The e-mail was only added as a comment to the Poznan Project dataset.