USA, Canada / Why no Polish stuff in Chicago? [41]

There are two (2) 'old Warsaw' restaurants.

The Polish Genalogical Society of America is in Chicago, on Milwaukee Avenue and Augusta, at the origanal Polish area of Chicago

Genealogy / I'm half Polish American, but I'm very Patriotic about my ancestry [47]

I have split loyalty. My great grandparents on my father's side were exiled by the Germans in 1884, from the area around -alno, Poland, and I am very interested in learning more about the family and area. The Germans apparently followed the family to the USA, possibly killing my great grandparents first three sons, in the USA. Now since my grandparents and parents have passed away, it is hard to find out information. My father changed his last name in 1918, when his uncle was killed in the Chicagoland area (unsolved murder) and his older brother died. I am proud of my Polish roots and changed my last name back to the Polish family name and a member of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, in Chicago. I grew up in Chicago.

My mother's side has three American Revolutionary War ancestors, two American Civil War GAR great grandfathers and Kansas homesteaders. My aunt on my mother's side was into genealogy, and has my mother's side tracted back in Europe to about the 800's.

I wish I could go half that far back on my father's side, and with an uncommon name (in Poland and the USA) of Jednoralski, I have got back to about 1750's in -alno.

Genealogy / Jednoralski Family from Zalno, Poland [9]

Second Correction: Żalno is in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Tuchola Powiat Gmina Kęsowo

Genealogy / Jednoralski Family from Zalno, Poland [9]

With the help of Edward and Jan Jednoralski, and a Polish researcher, I have tracted the Jednoralski family back to the 1750's in Zalno, Poland, and Jacobus Jednoralski. I believe all the present Jednoralski's in Poland can be tracted to Jacobus's first wife. My great grandfather can be tracted to Jacobus's second wife. I am wondering why my great grandfather was exiled from the area by the Germans.

My great grandfather, Tomasz Jednoralski, b. 1839, in Zalno, Poland.
His grandfather was Jacobus Jednoralski, 1756-1826, Zalno, Poland
Probably all Jednoralski's in Poland now can be tracted to Jacobus's first wife, Barbara ?
My great grandfather's line came from Jacobus's second wife, Eva Ratzova.
Jacobus's third wife, Marianna Jaworska, appears to have had no children.

Thank you for the links. They gave me more information.

John Neil Stevens Jednoralski

Facts I have:
Jacobus Jednoralski, b. abt 1756; d. 15 Jul 1826 in Zalno, Raciaz Catholic Parish
married first wife, Barbara, before 1795, b. abt 1755, d. 15 Dec 1810, Zalno, Raciaz
son, Casimir Jednoraski
son, Johann Jednoralski
son, Michael Jednoralski, b abt 1797, Zalno, Raciaz [b](Jednoralski's in Poland)
married second wife, Eva Ratzova, Zalno, 9 May 1811, Raciaz Catholic Parish,
d. 30 Aud 1819
son, Josef Jednoralski, b. abt 1813, Zalno, Raziaz Catholic Parish,
d. 6 Jan 1885, Medromierz Maly
married Evelyn Beller. 4 Feb 1839, Zalno, Raciaz
b. Cerkwica
d. 5 Feb 1890, Medromierz Maly
**son, Tomasz Jednoralski, b. 3 Dec 1839,
Zalno, Raciaz
d. 31 May 1930, Chicago, IL, USA
son, August Jednoralski, b. abt 1813, Zal no, Raciaz Catholic Parish, d. ?
married Anna Muszynska, 26 Nov 1838, Zalno
son, Tomasz Jednoralski, b. 6 Dec 1817, Zalno, Raciaz
married Eva Kuligowska, 20 Jan 1835, Zalno, Raciaz
married third wife: Marianna Jaworska, Zalno, 27 Jan 1820, Raciaz Parish
no children

** Tomasz Jednoralski, b. 3 Dec 1839, Zalno, Raciaz (Great Grandfather)
d. 31 May 1930, Chicago, IL, USA, St Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Parish
married first wife, Salomea Klossowska, abt 1866/67, b. ?
d. ?, Medromierz Maly
daughter, Antonina Jednoralski, b. 1867, Medromierz Maly
d. 7 May 1878, Medromierz Maly
son, Johann Jednoralski, b. 1874, Medromierz Maly
d. disappeared in USA after 1884
married second wife, Rozalia Catharina Donarski, 9 Jan 1875, Medromierz Wielki
b. 11 Nov 1852, Pruszcz
d. 13 Mar 1938, Chicago, IL, USA
son, Josef Jednoralski, b. 25 Dec 1875, Medromierz Maly
d. disappeared in USA after 1884
daughter, Anna T Jednoralski, b. 10 Dec 1877, Medromierz Maly
d. Mar 1973, Niles, IL, USA
son, Tomasz Jednoralski, Jr., b. 6 Dec 1879, Medromierz Maly
d. 25 May 1918, murdered, Maywood,IL
daughter, Marianna Catharina Jednoralski, b. 2 Feb 1882, Medromierz
d. 5 March 1884, Medromierz Maly
(buried as Francisus Xaxier Jednoralski)
*** son, Francisus Xavier Jednoralski, b. 17 Sep 1883, Medromierz Maly
d. 17 Jan 1962, Chicago, IL, USA
(Grandfather)
*** Frank Xavier Jednoralski, b. 17 Sep 1883, d. 17 Jan 1962, Chicago, IL, USA
married Bronislawa 'Bertha' Stefanski, 16 Apr 1907, Chicago, IL, St Mary of the Angeles
b. 24 Aug 1887, Ostrowki, Poland
d. 8 Dec 1961, Chicago, IL, USA
daughter, Florence (1) Jednoralski, b. Apr 1906, Chicago, IL
d. 20 Jul 1910, Chicago, IL
son, Jerry Frank Jednoralski, b. 4 April 1907, Chicago, IL
d. ?
son, John Joseph Jednoralski, b. 13 Sep 1908, Chicago, IL
(changed last name after uncle, Tomasz,
murdered in 1918)
(Father)
d. 2 Aug 1993, Chicago, IL
daughter, Florentine B Jednoralski, b. 1913, Chicago, IL
d. 9 May 1971, Chicago, IL

Jednoralski sword passed from to oldest surviving son to oldest son.

I have taken the Ancestry.com DNA test, and it will be associated with my Jednoralski family tree on Ancestry.com.

Neil J

Merged: 'old' Polish Estates'

The Jednoralski's were in the Żalno, Poland from at least 1758 thru 1839.
My Great Great Grandfather, Josef Jednoralski, and my Great Grandfather, Tomasz Jednoralski, Sr., moved from Żalno to Maly Medromierz, some time between 1819 and 1867.
I believe Żalno is in Pomeranian Voivordeship, Chojnice County, Gmina Chojnice; and
Maly Medromierz is in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivordeship, Tuchila County, Gmina Tuchola.
Tomasz Jednoralski, Sr, left Maly Medromierz, Poland in 1884, for the USA.
Josef Jednoralski died 6 Jan 1885, in Maly Medromierz.

Jednoralski means 'the General's Son'. Who was the General?

Family says that Josef or Tomasz, Sr. had seven estates in Poland.

The Polish Museum of America Library says, 'The Polish Government has been restoring title to lands that were nationalized..'
As the German Empire moved into Poland in the Partitions, they nationalized the Polish land.

Why would the Germans have killed Salomea Klossowska, Antonia Jednoralski, and Marianna Catharina Jednoralski in Poland; and
followed Tomasz, Sr., to the USA and killed Johann Jednoralski, Josef Jednoralski, Tomasz, Jr (unsolved murder in the Chicago, IL, area),
Florence (1) Jednoralski, and Jerry Frank Jednoralski in the USA.

Are there lands that the Polish Government would restore title to in the Żalno and Maly Medromierz areas?
What Polish Government office should be contacted?

Correction: Josef and Tomasz, Sr. moved between 1839 and 1867, not 1819.

Genealogy / Jednoralski Family from Zalno, Poland [9]

I am not sure what your problem is.
I have Google Zalno, and I can not find anything.
My great grandfather was exiled from Zalno area in 1884 by the Germans.
He and his father were land owners in the area.
Possibly three or more sons were killed by the Germans.

Since I do not live in New York, I do not have access to that data on Jim Kowalski. Have you tried Ancestry.com?

Do you like in or around Zalno?
I gave the administrator more information.