Hello, I am looking for information about the name "BIALOSUKENSKI" which is listed as a Polish Jewish name. I am interested in this name because it seems to correspond to my name "BELOSOUKINSKI" which is written this way on French papers. I did not find any other correspondence knowing that my family comes from ODESSA and came to FRANCE in 1917. On the list of victims of the SHOAH figure many assassinated BIALOSUKENSKI. Could you help me confirm that "BELOSOUKINSKI" and "BIALOSUKENSKI" are the same last name? Alas, I was born in France, I never learned Polish and I always thought that I was Russian, because my family comes from ODESSA and that on the French papers appears that my great-grandfather comes from Russia. Thank you for your help and your light.
I am helping my family find information on their past relatives the surname is Podwika his grandfather John Podwika came to the states abt 1905-1909 from poland his death record says he was born on Jan 28 1887 in Brzozowa Poland from my understanding there are several places with that name i dont have much information to go on other then is fathers and mothers name was Josephus Podwika and Anna Uchwat
My grandparents came from Poland. I believe from the Warsaw area. Last name was Brudnicka and Scislowicz. I would appreciate any information on the meaning of these names.
Brudnicka is connected with brud - dirt, filth. Imagine the name Joe Dirtnick - how does it sound? Ścisłowicz sounds more neutral - ścisły means tight or precise. Imagine AbrahamTightovitz - how does it sound?
it means from/of Kielkuty (or possibly Kielkut) where Kielkuty is a place name (most probably a village) - the place can't be found in present day Poland and it sounds like a polonized Lithuanian place name
there is a village Kiełkuty near Olsztyn in Poland but the area was not part of Poland before 1945
(as an afterthough Kiełkuty may be the origin of your surname but it's not certain)
... or in this case it may come from the name Brykcy (today Brykcjusz), noted in Poland since the 12th century - this hint comes from the genealodzy website.
Anything is possible. Some Polish Jews bear typical Polish names while non-Jewish Poles have Jewish surnames. It is all mixed up. Frejdlich sounds neutral. If you said Rozenkrantz, I would say that there is a 97,56% chance for its Jewish background
That's because of the whole crypto jew phenomenon... tons of jews changed their names to sound more Polish. Just look at the original names of a handful of the old PO "reformed commies"
