Life / New born baby traditions in Poland [26]

@mafketis
There are name days everyone kind of know of like Barbara or Marcin.
As for me, they have never been more important than birthdays. When I was a kid, it was just another chance to get a gift. Birthdays have always been more important.

@Lyzko
Z okazji imienin*

And you send such cards to people who are celebrating name days not the birth of their child. ..

Genealogy / Polish Orphan Refugee sent to New Zealand [7]

@jaimeek
Do you know her story? How come she ended in New Zealand before the end of the war? What had happened to her parents? Had they been to a gulag or something?

Life / New born baby traditions in Poland [26]

The year of conception counts as the year of birth as long as it is the same year.
Name days are popular just like birthdays are.
You usually buy a small gift when you visit a newborn for the first time.

History / BARBAROUS / BARBARIC / BARBARIAN tribes in Poland [62]

@skateboarder0162
Do you want historical or fantasy books?
If the latter, read the Witcher. Or Polish legends.
If the previous, any book on history of Poland will do. The thing is that different Slavic tribes were united so that the formation of the state could begin.

Genealogy / Meaning of surname Wlodarski [26]

Could be. However, as uncommon as it is, the name Lodarski exists in Poland.
nlp.actaforte.pl:8080/Nomina/Ndistr?nazwisko=Lodarski+

Po polsku / Co uczysz się ostatnio w języku polskim? Norma językowa? [35]

No to następna osoba zdobędzie 18, potem 19, a na koniec 20. ;)
Też zgadlam ambaje. Ale jakoś pasowało.

Wczoraj widziałam takiego fajnego mema ze słowami już nieużywanymi. Jak znajdę, to wrzucę.

Po polsku / Co uczysz się ostatnio w języku polskim? Norma językowa? [35]

Fajny, bo nieoczywisty.
Ja zdobyłam tylko punkt więcej.
Pomyliłam części mowy i zdania, pisownię mieszkańca regionu, jednego nie doczytałam, a ostatnie zgadywalam.

History / Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Poland crushes the Red Army [66]

In a way I see your point but ...
Off the top of my head: Polish Tatars fought against the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Vienna. Orthodox Poles were also killed at Katyń.

History / Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Poland crushes the Red Army [66]

All of the religious minorities fought for Poland for centuries. Even during the partitions of Poland. Why would you say they're not Polish?

Genealogy / Want to find a person [762]

@Paulwiz
It'd be Woźniak and Wszołek for women, too.
In the past, you'd come across Woźniakowa and Wszołkowa for Mrs Woźniak /Wszołek and Woźniakówna /Wszołkówna for a Miss.

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

The Internet -a place where you find out Hitler was actually a good guy because he started a war that killed just 50 million of people.

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [477]

@pawian
Yeah, something she will be recognised for. :)
She got some fame for Valentine's Day.

Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [401]

Perhaps Dorohusk
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmina_Dorohusk

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [477]

@pawian
Duh. I'm not into politics but when I see wrong I talk about it. And giving 2 billion to a tv station instead of cancer treatment is wrong.

I actually owe Ms Lichocka a thank you. I wouldn't have learnt about it but for her gesture.

The video of the doctors is on fb and also available in this article along with some more.
google.com/amp/s/wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/lekarze-z-poznania-zachecaja-do-badan-w-odpowiedzi-na-gest-joanny-lichockiej-w-sejmie/q81rfel.amp

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [477]

@pawian
She was just wiping something from under her eye. Totally understandable.
A lot of people do it.
Look at Maciek Stuhr

youtu.be/0g3fmnVT3gA

And there's also a vid where even doctors do it.
A totally normal thing.

Genealogy / Hypothetical cousin from America - genealogy and Poles [20]

A name doesn't tell much. If you're of the nobility it should be in the records.

Genealogy / Polish Romani (gypsy) surnames [64]

@MBuchala
I doubt it was changed. Polish surname Buchała is roughly pronounced as /Buhawa/.

Genealogy / Hypothetical cousin from America - genealogy and Poles [20]

Before I got interested in geneaology I knew names of only my great granparents (except for one great grandmother as my father didn't remember it. He was born when she was in her seventies and lived miles away from where his parents originally came from. Later it turned out both of his grandmas were Zofia).

I doubt my brother or cousins even know that.
Distance and the age gap make a lot of difference. In the past people would have children for 20-25 years after the marriage. One of my great great grandfathers was born over 200 years ago. My great grandfather was born when his mother was 47 and his father was in his 60s.

My great grandparents came from three different regions of Poland. And actually from different towns and villages in each of these regions.
People moved more than we imagine. Some moved abroad and overseas after all.
Some stayed.
There might be some distant relatives in the places your ancestors were born in but it's hard to say whether they're interested in geneaology and know all their ancestors' children and cousins.

I personally just looked up my my direct ancestors. I don't even remember all of my granparents' siblings.

History / Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Poland crushes the Red Army [66]

@Torq
For centuries Poland was far more heterogenous when it comes to religion: we can't forget about the Orthodox, the Jews and others.
Poland has been so religious-wise homogenous only after ww2.

The cult of Virgin Mary is very typical to Catholicism in Poland. I'd say (and someone will surely disagree with me pretty soon), the cult of the saints is not so widespread as in other Catholic countries.

Interestingly enough, when I was in Malta I learnt about a similar miraculous rescue that happened on 15th August (would have to google it ).

Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]

@Ziemowit
I've know that Latin was used then. Duh. By why choose a Polish university if you don't consider yourself Polish?

*I know

Unless there were no 'German' universities that would equal the one in Kraków.

What do you guys think?

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

@Weimarer
Nah, we don't have airports here.

Genealogy / Funny Polish surnames [64]

@johnny reb
No.

Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]

So when Kopernik was born, Toruń belonged to Poland.
The idea of nationality was kind of vague back then afaik.

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

Yeah. I remember now. But I doubt anyone willing to head butt another person sees the difference between any accent.

Genealogy / Funny Polish surnames [64]

Piwowarski makes sense -a person who brews beer.

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

I've had something similar in Bulgaria, too but they were smaller and wrapped into vine (?) leaves.

Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]

@gumishu
At the same time he never studied at a German university -just Polish and Italian. And he took part in defence against the Teutons. In Frombork probably?

Toruń belonged to Poland despite a large German speaking community.

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

I've seen Germans in Poland since I was a kid. No one points fingers at them. I haven't heard of any cases of hostility towards Germans. If it happened, it was probably from far right hooligans. Just a guess though -for which I might get a little 'explaining' from certain posters here; )

Two years ago I met a woman from Germany abroad. She said she had been to Poland in the 90s as a teenager - she took part in some sort of an exchange programme.

There have been numerous attempts at bringing the nations together.
I'm surprised you're not aware of that if you're from Eastern Germany.
My grandma was a member of the Polish German Reconciation Foundation in the 90s.
The thing you need to understand is just because the government of a given country claims something, it doesn't mean it reflects the attitude of the whole nation.

Although you should understand that if you claim to disagree with Merkel and co.

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

@Ironside
I'm not influenced by anything. I'm talking about my observations. People travel and meet foreigners, you know.
As I said -a mixture of different European traits.
This guy's family is from Silesia as he stated so that already gives place to people of Germanic, Polish and Bohemian origin. He mentions some 'Danish' dna so it could be any other group of people who at some point migrated or invaded Poland -Swedish Deluge, the Dutch, the Scottish and as for the other parent's origins it might have been influenced by the Turkish in fact - the Ottoman Empire were far more present near Austria than in Poland.

But again from all the people I have met he mostly reminds me of the Balkans.
Assuming it's actually his photo.

And no one puts gel on their eyebrows.

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

@Weimarer
It's not a cheap insult. It's how I see it -if you remind me of anyone it's of people of the Balkan origin. Mostly of one guy from Kosowo I used to know in London.

If that's really your photo, your hair is pretty dark. It's not that common in Poland (brown or blonde or dark blonde hair is far more common than dark brown or black hair).But you have blue eyes.

Plus the shape of the skull.
You're probably a mixture of different European traits.