Love / Questions about Polish Men - flirting, cheating, liking? [44]

Culture all-round is different but biological causation is more or less the same. You love your partner and there is much more than one reason you don't want to cheat her/him even though it doesn't mean you don't thing about it.

Work / Teaching English in Poland? I am American and I have the CELTA certification. [42]

Why Poland ? Do you want start your own business or just become a teacher in one of many English school we just have in Poland ?

google.pl/#q=angielski+dla+prawnik%C3%B3w

Law / I have an Israeli Driving License. What do I have to do to get a Polish driving license? [19]

Seems to me you must have international driving license. It is valid in Poland, but just for 6 months since your arrival - according to act about drivers of the 5th January 2011 - Dz. U. 2011

no 30 poz. 151 - art. 4 ust. 1 pkt 2 lit. a. and art. 5 ust. 4.
Israel was the part of the Geneva Convention about road traffic of 19th September 1949.
To have the local Israel license is rather not enough.
If you want to live in RP longer than 6 months you can change your license after your arrival.
The embassy don't have technical possibility and also rights to do so.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [188]

What do you mean by print of the Lwow Eaglets ?
The painting like below ?

Genealogy / Bernatowicz surname? (I am starting to wonder if anyone in my family was American?) [85]


If your grandad was born in Belarus, whatever it means, maybe you think about nowadays borders, that is not proof he was Belorussian. He can be as well Russian, Polish or Jew.

But if your parents said your grandad was Belorussian it doesn't matter where he was born.

Below some links about Barnatowicz in Poland.

According to same of them surname Bernatowicz become from first name Bernat ( Bernat - Bernatowic - Bernatowicz ). It was known even in the XII Century.

But there was as well the Armenian families with this surname.

And there are more then 1 000 people in Poland now with such surname.

genealodzy.pl/PNphpBB2-printview-t-18944-start-15.phtml
bernatowicz.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=1
moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/bernatowicz.html

Language / Rozumiesz - I have a question on Polish language. [11]

It should be like this:

Nie rozumiesz ? Nie, rozumiem,
Nie rozumiesz ? Tak, nie rozumiem.

My English teacher told me, they ( English speakers ) don't have double negations.
But in Polish we have.

History / Poland: Her heroes and her traitors [221]


Right. Do you know Bren what can happened to someone who returning from West to Poland after II WW after serving in the west army ?

doomedsoldiers.com

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Dziubdziela it is really very rare surname in Poland but it sounds very Polish. Even most Polish at first moment do not understand fully its meaning they said we are sure it would be polish and only polish word. Its etymology from the verb "dziubdziać" e.g. "do something very very slowly". It is rather funny we say this word "dziubdziać" in contrary to its meaning very fast. Word from old Polish now we use it seldom, great pity it's such beautiful word. For you as no Polish it would be rather difficult to pronounce it properly.

And the surnames "Dziuban" and "Dziurzik" have no connection with "Dziubdziela".
Did any your ancestors have this surname ?

History / Poland: Her heroes and her traitors [221]

You can find much more information about Romuald Rais "Bury" on the web sites of IPN ( Instytut Pamięci Narodowej ) e.g.
ipn.gov.pl/wydzial-prasowy/komunikaty/informacja-o-ustaleniach-koncowych-sledztwa-s-2802zi-w-sprawie-pozbawienia-zyc ( sorry only polish version ).


The exact description about the pacification some Belarusian villages. It is something we can't be proud of. The scale of this was much lower than 200 000 Polish people killed in Wołyń, but for survivors and victims it is not important. This wouldn't happened, never.

Law / Poland's Inheritance Law Without Will [21]

Important questions:
1. the date of yours uncle death - there are different rules according to time of death.
2. value of yours uncle property - you need to know is it worth to do anything,
3. place where uncle have lived before he died - to find the proper law court,
4. are you sure, that there was not any verdict about the heritage.
If your uncle died in the year 2004 ( but not later than on 27 of June 2009 ) all children of your father have the right to the quarter of the heritage ( art. 934 polish civil code - walid in the year 2004 ) but one important exception - there are different rules according to farm land - art. 1059 pcc - but only if someone died before 13 of January 2001).

Your cousins needs yours certificate of birth ( and yours siblings if you have any ) and the certificate of your father's death, if they don't want to lie in the law court "your father never exists".

Can I ask one personal question ? Have you ever been to Poland ? and why or why not ?