USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

@Lenka
Yes :)

I read her family's Polish name was originally Szwed - I wonder if they wanted to translate it to Swede and ended up with Swit; )

Looking for a photo of hers I came across an article where she says her grandma would say dużo rosnij and that makes me wonder if she doesn't remember it well or if her grandma already spoke 'American Polish' -thinking of all the bushas over there.

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

@pawian
The photo I posted was of Oprah. She was born in a town called Kosciusko -or something like that; )

Who's the lady in the black and white photo?

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News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

Since it seems Poles in fact are not that hostile towards Germans and we're discussing looks of the guy in the pictures, he sort of looks Balkan to me.

Life / Typical Polish house and family [46]

@Miloslaw
Having a pint or wine to chill in the evening is drinking over the week .... Brits do that a lot. ...
All the pubs would go bankrupt if they didn't and there are lots of pubs and hardly anyone stops with just a pint.

@jackrussel
There are villages that are like mini-towns as you describe it. It all depends.
As for houses often lined up by the street, I don't know who thought of it but the reality is that it does make some sense. Everyone has easy access to the road and their own land in the back - sometimes even orchards.

Genealogy / Funny Polish surnames [64]

Elefant as Elefant - still exists apparently.
I once met a lady called Goryl.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

Oh, come on. Macedonia is Greek or something like that. What was that again?

Yet again photos of a muscular youngish brunette are included. Someone likes such photos :)

The forum apparently needs this sort of entertainment from time to time.

Life / Typical Polish house and family [46]

I agree with Lenka.
From what I have seen Brits drink more than Poles do.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

@Weimarer
My grandparents also had to start everything anew. The country was destroyed. They would always store salt just in case of war... then they were forced to move to another part of the country just to find jobs to support their children. They lived in a one room flat for years - four people - working hard in industry.

I'm talking about my paternal grandparents. I got to know only one of my granparents. The rest of them had died before I was born or learnt to speak. So I don't know much. Still looking for more precise information. Probably just found a document on one of my great grandfathers. My paternal grandma spent four years in Bayern - first on a farm than in a lager. I know the addresses, too :) She talked both about good and bad Germans. The sad fact is that too often even those responsible for the most obnoxious crimes were regular citizens after the war. Just like the guy who would be messaging to Berlin asking for more ammunition to kill civilians during the Warsaw Uprising who was a mayor later on.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

A certain number of Germans stayed in Poland after the war. They're the only minority that have their representatives in the Polish parliament, I think.

Well, if your grandma was only six, she didn't own the house. Her parents did. Now what was their attitude towards Hitler? Were they happy or sad when they got Polish cattle or when Polish forced labourers were made to work for them?

How about millions of Poles that were resettled to make room for Germans due to Lebensraum? How about those who were killed like children of Zamojszczyzna? How about places turned into cities, towns and villages turned into piles of rubble?

I'm not a fan of reparations but I'm a descendant of forced labourers. My family members were torn from their homes and families. One was killed in a concentration camp after he'd escaped from his lovely bauer - a regular German like your great grandparents .

Genealogy / Online access to public / parish records search in Poland? [20]

Look for their wedding certificate, death certificates etc. Anything that provides more details.

Genealogy / Online access to public / parish records search in Poland? [20]

Contact the archives yourself then.
There's a Stanisław Pasiut baptised in Szymanowice on January 16th, 1896 on familysearch. No image available but according to the info there he was son of Joannes (Jan in Polish or John in English ) and Catherina (Katarzyna in Polish) nee Berdychowska.

I thought you meant another place called Szymanowice.

Edit : there's another Stanisław baptised in Szymanowice in 1894, son of Joannes and Marianna Mgischer.

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [140]

Just because something isn't seasoned with super hot spices doesn't mean it's bland.
Ever since I remember different sorts of seasoning has been used in traditional Polish cuisine both by grandma and mum: onions, garlic, allspice, bay leaf, marjoram, parsley, dill and so on.

It's also important to enrich the flavour of the dish with seasoning rather than just to make it disappear or to make everything taste the same. ..

As for trying different cuisines, I have always been into it and I love eating traditional food of the country I'm visiting.

Study / School Uniforms in Poland - not required? [15]

I think Pawian was talking about fartuszki and they were put on regular clothes and made of some nasty synthetic fabric. Something like this
sp1sokolka.pl/images/2016/wydarzenia/konkurs1/prezentacje_konkursowe/praca2_pliki/foto10.jpg

Everyone looked equally miserable in them :)

But my mum wore a school uniform in her high school like a proper one with a jacket and a pleated(?) skirt. They looked great in school photos. And my mum hated them :)

Genealogy / Online access to public / parish records search in Poland? [20]

What Tarnów site?

Was he born in or near Tarnow?
You can't start without his place of birth.

Genealogy / Online access to public / parish records search in Poland? [20]

Start with this. Records from st Margaret's Catholic parish in Nowy Sącz from 1890 -1900 are online here
szukajwarchiwach.pl/31/488/0#tabJednostki
If you don't find him, contact the state archives.

Szymanowice in wielkopolskie are also indexed at geneteka so look him up there. If you find him, a scan of the record might be available on the right.

geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=gt&lang=eng&bdm=B&w=15wp&rid=3452&search_lastname=&search_name=&search_lastname2=&search_name2=&from_date=&to_date=

Language / Dziadzia / Babcia - help me with spelling/pronunciation [81]

Cioteczna babka

Genealogy / Online access to public / parish records search in Poland? [20]

@mowkep
What parish are you looking for? What's his place of birth?

Genealogy / Online access to public / parish records search in Poland? [20]

@Mowkep
It depends. Some records are available online. Some are not .
Even if they're not, you can contact the archives yourself. In most cases state archives will do.
Whatplaces and years are you looking for? What religion?

History / MAP OF POLAND IN 1880'S [95]

It might be Grudna nea r Łódź.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grudna

Genealogy / ANTONOW Family search for relatives information [5]

According to Polish wiki, Lesko was known as Lisko till 1931. So it may be it. Or the place in present day Ukraine.

Genealogy / ANTONOW Family search for relatives information [5]

I'm not sure but I think Tarnów is on familysearch.
As for Lisko, isn't it Lesko?
What religion were they?
If it's Lesko, contact the state archives in Rzeszów.

Genealogy / Need help with family history/surnames: Netzel, Petke, Gruzlewski [24]

@dannetzel
Start with what you can access in the US. Who was immigrated from Poland. Check ship manifests etc.

They might have been Germans living on the territories of present day Poland or Poles.
Since Clayton doesn't sound Polish or German, start with Theodore. There are some results for Theodore Netzel on familysearch. Check the birthdates etc.

Life / How to really meet Polish people in Poland and actually socialize with people in their Late 20s/Early 30s? [34]

@Miloslaw
Of course I have some sort of an accent.
Plus I probably look 'Polish' - it's happened to me on several occassions in different countries that people assumed I was Polish even though I had not said a word (or waved the Polish flag above my head :)

Life / How to really meet Polish people in Poland and actually socialize with people in their Late 20s/Early 30s? [34]

@Lyzko
And that's true - no one criticised my English.
Yet I have never claimed I was mistaken for a Brit.

And you're not 'anyone' :)

Life / How to really meet Polish people in Poland and actually socialize with people in their Late 20s/Early 30s? [34]

@Lyzko
I have never claimed anyone mistook me for being English. Lol. Wth are you talking about?
Either you're taking me for somebody else or making things up having run out of arguments :)

And your story IS inconsistent. I have already explained why. And all of this comes after you admit you'd lie for your own purpose. So ....

Life / How to really meet Polish people in Poland and actually socialize with people in their Late 20s/Early 30s? [34]

@Lyzko
And what was inconsistent in my story?
Will you please remind me?

Life / How to really meet Polish people in Poland and actually socialize with people in their Late 20s/Early 30s? [34]

@Lyzko
OK, let's finish this silly conversation as it's obvious I have always considered your stories about Poland and Poles 'slightly' far fetched so to speak.

Since in this very thread you have admitted you'd lie for your own purpose I really stopped believing what you say. Especially that it's very inconsistent: in one post you talk about spending just several hours in Szczecin, in another you say that'd you visit it by bus or your host would drive you there. Those Polish friends of yours have a teenage daughter who uses a Russian name and in another post she's already at university. And train journeys from Szczecin to Berlin obviously were shorter in the 90s than in 2020.

And these are just a few things that don't add up.

Now is it so difficult to understand that some people really need to get reliable information about Poland? So inconsistent stories from the 90s really are not helpful -at least not for them.

Genealogy / Looking for leads on Moninski family from Makowskie area, Poland [5]

@Jmoninski
Szwelice is only partly indexed at geneteka. Did you actually go through the scans of the records or did you just look up the names in the search machine?

Life / How to really meet Polish people in Poland and actually socialize with people in their Late 20s/Early 30s? [34]

@Wincig
I was talking about Polish citizens (not Brits) who need to have an id once they turn 18 and about passports. And you don't need one if you travel within the Schengen zone. You can travel with your id.

Did I ever say you don't need a document when you travel? Of course you do but an id will do. You don't need to have a passport issued if you don't plan to travel outside the EU.

@Lyzko
Oh, I thought you said you'd spent just several hours in Szczecin but now it turns out you probably went there more often.
The trains to Berlin must have been faster in the 90s then.
Were they of Russian origin to call their daughter Annuszka? :)

Genealogy / Toboyek Surname Widnace Location Help [13]

@toboyek
There are links to the scans of actual records on the right. Unfortunately, it was in the Russian partition so they are written in the cyrillic. There should be some info (age, sometimes job) on the parents, especially in birth records. However, sometimes it's not precise.

You may try having it translated but get someone who's done it before as even people fluent in Russian sometimes have trouble translations 19th century records.