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

We're in the allentown/bethlehem area of PA, and my grandparents were from wilkes barre

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

That's great to hear! In the meantime I think we'll work on trying to go back far enough and see if there were any other branches

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

Hi kristhomp!

We're going down that route as well. I know there's a lot of very similar, but longer, surnames so a change somewhere could be a possibility. Ancestry.com is proving to be a good starting point but I don't know how good the records will be outside the US