Genealogy / Easy way to find out which Polish coat of arm/Clan you belong to. [105]

I am new to this forum. I've recently started investigating my great Grandfathers origins in Poland. The older members of the family were never much for sharing any information about where they came from. They were tight lipped and didn't talk about much.

I've looked up his name - Koprowski and it seems to be connected to these two crests. Alabanda, and Korczak. I would love to know more about this name in Poland, I just have so little to go on. They integrated completely and later altered the spelling of the name after coming to Canada and said very little about history.

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USA, Canada / Better life in USA or Canada? - (Who can I sponge from the most?) [18]

Canada is nice. There are a lot of Canadians with Slavic origin, more Ukranians than any other, 1.5 million roughly. No one really discriminates or looks down on Slavs here for the most part. There was a large wave of immigration in the late 1800's and early 1900's, which is where they all came from.

Economy is not so hot at the moment, Jobs are a bit scarce, particularly manual labor.

Sponging and being on welfare is looked down on though.

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

There are Kachmarchyk's here which are relatives, and is similar. Pretty sure they're Ukranians.

There are also historical records of Kazmiercyzk's and Kazmiercyzak's immigrating to the united states from Poland.

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

I'm imagining Kachmarchyk (as it appears in the local phone book) may be an english-ized version, possibly of the first Kaczmarczyk but not sure, just some locals related by marriage. My great grandfather changed his last name as well sometime in the 1930's. None of us are really sure what his reasoning was for changing it. But it was about the same time he started using the English spelling of his first name too.

Koprowski was his surname, which I've found out more about in the last while than I've known for my whole life.

Love / Just started dating Polish guy - what is typical of a man from Poland? Cultural differences. [78]

Father being a Polish man, pretty sure Dreamergirl is the girl he was telling me to stay away from.