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

Well, the surname Moninski appears both nowadays and on geneteka in mazowieckie.
Also there are no Pomaski in Podlaskie so I guess it's more likely Teodor was just giving the name of the bigger administrative unit but that's just a guess.

What parish did you check for Pomaski? Szwelice?

Genealogy / Toboyek Surname Widnace Location Help [13]

When was he born?
There are some records from Wydmusy in the parish of Myszyniec but they're quite recent and as most earlier records were destroyed in a fire in 1914 and then in 1939 - two world wars. The site is in Polish so I guess you'd have to use google translate. The post from October 17th, 2014 by Waldemar Chorazkiewicz. He indexed the available records -births start in 1902.

genealodzy.pl/PNphpBB2-printview-t-34858-start-0.phtml

geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=gt&lang=pol&bdm=B&w=07mz&rid=2087&search_lastname=&search_name=&search_lastname2=&search_name2=&from_date=&to_date=&rpp1=&ordertable=

Among the remaining records there are Tobojkas
In the parish
geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=gt&lang=eng&bdm=B&w=07mz&rid=2087&search_lastname=Tobojka&search_name=&search_lastname2=&search_name2=&from_date=&to_date=

Who were Omelian się, Adamskis and Kochanowskis to Tobojek? Did they come from the same place?
What were their first names?
What years are you looking for?

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

@Lyzko
So tell me what it was like. Did your hosts take two weeks off just to entertain you or did you stay in when they were at work for about eight hours?

What did you see and do in the outskirts of Szczecin for two weeks?
Where did you go out? How did you meet other Poles?
There must have been buses to the city centre and other places in the area.

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

@Wincig
You don't need a passport if you don't plan to travel outside the EU. And since you have to have an id anyway you can travel with it.

You need to show it (or your passport ) at the airport but as Lenka said if you travel by car, you don't need to show it at the border within the Schengen zone. Last time I traveled by car to another European country was to Hungary. No one stopped us when we entered Slovakia from Poland or Hungary from Slovakia or on our way back home.

@Lyzko
I'm sorry you were stuck in the outskirts of Szczecin for two weeks. It must have been quite boring. Just staying in and drinking in the garden? Not my idea of visiting a foreign country but I hope you liked it.

Genealogy / Toboyek Surname Widnace Location Help [13]

@toboyek
In Polish both h and ch are pronounced as h.

As for Ukraine and Poland, you'd have to read into the Polish history. By and large and not in detail, there were lots of Poles living in the territories of present day Ukraine. Poles and Ruthenians married. People migrated. Others were relocated. Surnames of Ukrainian origin are not uncommon in Poland.

Rzeszów is in Eastern Poland and was part of Galicia alongside with some territories of present day Ukraine.
Check geneteka but keep in mind that it's indexed by volunteers and even though they have indexed hundreds if not thousands of parishes, thousands are not there yet.

Also check as many American documents as possible, death certificates, censuses etc.
When did they arrive? What partition?

geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=se&lang=eng

Life / Are Poles flashy? [11]

@JakeRyan
I'm not sure what you exactly mean by flashy but there are a lot of fiestas and peugeots here.
As for what we wear, it all depends on the occassion, location, time of the day etc.
Here's a video from Krupówki, Zakopane so most of the people are tourists

youtu.be/TM8eIObwH6U

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

@Lyzko
You spent several hours here in the 1990s. ..

I dare say I know more about how to meet people in their 20s and 30s in Poland AD 2020 than you do ...

From 1989 Poles didn't have to obligatorily learn Russian at school. The problem was that there weren't enough teachers of other languages. It took several years but gradually English became the most common foreign language in Poland.

Not everyone speaks it perfectly but people in their 20s and 30s are young enough to have learnt English at school.
So things have changed since the 90s. ..

Also I don't think you understand how travelling in Europe works now. Especially within the EU, you don't even need a passport. You buy a plane ticket for pennies and bang! you're in a different country.

Polish students study abroad, there are lots of Erasmus students in Poland, too.
Erasmus projects are also pretty common in schools.
And how am I supposed to believe your story if you've just admitted you'd lie to someone. On the other hand, when you speak, you can't make typos, so your Polish must have been great. :/

Genealogy / Toboyek Surname Widnace Location Help [13]

@toboyek
Polish ł is pronounced as English w so and there's no ś in Widnace so I wouldn't think it's Świdnica.
There was a place called Łydnica in present day Ukraine
radzima.net/pl/miejsce/lydnica.html

Or how about Widnice? It's in małopolskie.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widnica

Does the Ellis Island entry include any information about the country? As cmf pointed out Świdnica doesn't match since it was in the Prussian partition, whereas the regions you mentioned were in the Russian and Austrian partitions.

Kohonuski might be Kochanowski but that's another guess.

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

@Lyzko
Pretending you don't understand when you do is lying. It's both dishonest and stupid.
Someone with good English has most likely had a chance to use it when talking to a foreigner so they'll see you through immediately. And who wants to hang out with a liar?

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

Never ever pretend you don't understand someone when you do. Especially someone with good English. That's offensive.
I doubt a lot of people will want to socialise with you if you're dishonest with them.

If you want to practice Polish, just ask.

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]

There's one about crayfish - when it pinches you, it will leave a mark.

Idzie rak nieborak. Jak uszczypnie, będzie znak.

youtu.be/-V_tSf6nm2s

Genealogy / Does "Ryszard" work as a surname in Poland? [37]

Rysiu may also be used in the nominative case.

@gumishu
Your first thought? :S

Genealogy / Does "Ryszard" work as a surname in Poland? [37]

@mafketis
Polska straciła Ryśka i Hankē mniej więcej w tym samym czasie :(

Genealogy / Does "Ryszard" work as a surname in Poland? [37]

It's Rysiu and Rysiek.
Panie Rysiu/Panie Ryśku.

It's ś not sz.

Genealogy / Szwachta Family [3]

@AmyN
Try contacting the diocesan archives of Kraków
archiwum.diecezja.pl/kontakt/

Genealogy / Does "Ryszard" work as a surname in Poland? [37]

@Rich Mazur
And I grew up where język polski was spoken :)

Apparently, Ryszard is used as a surname
nlp.actaforte.pl:8080/Nomina/Ndistr?nazwisko=Ryszard

Genealogy / Does "Ryszard" work as a surname in Poland? [37]

@Rich Mazur
Yyyyyy, that might have been caused by growing up in a country where Polish is not spoken.

Glad I taught you something.
You're welcome.

Genealogy / Does "Ryszard" work as a surname in Poland? [37]

*Ryśku

Genealogy / British name Russell in Poland [26]

@mafketis
However, the thing is that the names you mentioned sort of became known to Poles due to celebrities or characters appearing in films or tv series etc. That's the point I was making - Jessica or Brajanek became symbols of those living off the social welfare in a way.

Oskar or Oliwier are pretty popular now, both pretty uncommon and 'foreign' 20 years ago. Dunno why but I guess they're less uncommon than Angus or Russell, for example. I'm not an expert but are such names really common in English speaking countries?

Genealogy / British name Russell in Poland [26]

@NieNazwany
Because most of the names you mentioned are obscure or not even known in Poland whereas both Barbara and Robert are common and widely used - for decades if not centuries, see Barbara Radziwiłłowna.

These as well as national versions of Adam, Ewa, Dorota, Katarzyna, Anna, Izabela, Antoni, Jan, Franciszek, Piotr, Patryk, Mikołaj etc are commonly used throughout Europe. They're part of the European heritage, names of saints, rulers or scientists.

You could ask why the names you list are not used in Slovakia, Italy or Ghana. The problem is that they're not known in most cases or obscure.

Alan is pretty common. In fact, it's often ridiculed by swapping the consonants. ..
Donald will still be Donald Duck I'm afraid.
Sometimes children are named after popular characters like Andżelika or Klaudiusz. Or allegedly Isaura but I have never met one. But not Lolita - who wants to name their baby girl after a character who was a teenage object of sexual fantasies of an old guy?

Genealogy / British name Russell in Poland [26]

@Atch
Right. :)

Actually, Sonia is very rare but it's used. As for Noemi, it's a Biblical name and even though it's even less frequent it's sometimes used.

But Lolita? Come on.

Genealogy / British name Russell in Poland [26]

Why would Poles give these names to their kids?
Why would they look for an obscure foreign name?

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

As far as I remember from my history lessons, at least some of the countries mentioned weren't free from foreign invasions.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Apparently, Asian features are also in the eye of beholder. They're somehow more 'striking' if the object of the observation is Polish, as far as some people are concerned.

The photos I posted depict:
Young Judi Dench
Two Swedish sports people Jens Byggmark (with very obvious epicanthic fold (which is present among certain Europeans as well ) and Anja Perrson.
The last photo shows young Heinrich Himmler.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

@Lyzko
I'm used to your typos -no need to explain your typos.
Now if high cheekbones and uneven facial fat distribution don't necessarily indicate Asian heritage of that lady, why would they in case of Poles?

Now the 'Asian' shape of eyes -the epicanthic fold.
Before I reveal who the first lady was, how about these people?
The last one might be easily recognisable.

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Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

@Lyzko
I often read about your typos :) very often.

So any links to articles and experts?

How about this lady?

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Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

@Lyzko
I don't expect you to know them z pamięci but the Internet is full of sources so you can link them here :)
BTW, I just googled that designer and it turns out he wasn't half Polish. Only his step father was. His mother was of German-Italian origin and his father was Japanese.

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Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

There are some Mongolian Polish celebrities like Bilguun or that child actress from Rodzina zastępcza, Misheel (?). They do stand out in the crowd, I'm afraid.

There are Poles with Asian origins like that girl from Donatan's videos -one of her grandmothers was Chinese, I think.
Or that Polish -Japanese fashion designer who passed away several years ago. And you can see some Asian features in their faces but their Asian roots are pretty recent.

I'm sorry but I just can't believe a claim that Asian features are prevalent in Poles due to an invasion several hundred years ago.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

@Lyzko
Read Ziemowit's post and try to understand it.

Genealogy / Polish Romani (gypsy) surnames [64]

Polish Gypsies have Polish surnames.