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29 Dec 2016
Genealogy / Piechowski Family [9]
Hello all, I am starting a thread to ask some questions of the forum and hopefully find family members. My family's original surname was Piechowski, which comes from Piechowice outside of Koscierzyna in Pomerania. My male-line ancestor came to the US in 1905 from Nowa Wies outside of Trzcianne. I have seen and read a lot about the family name, and all of it points to the fact that my very distant ancestors were somehow affiliated with the Ostsiedlung and the Teutonic Knights in Pomerania. My first question is, how or why would a family theoretically move from one side of the country to the other before it was easy to do so? Second of all, I'm wondering if anyone has information on the family that I may have missed, or (even better) knows any Piechowscy from the Nowa Wies Trzcianne area (my great-great grandfather had two brothers and two sisters living in Poland when he died in 1950). Any help or input is greatly appreciated.
Hello all, I am starting a thread to ask some questions of the forum and hopefully find family members. My family's original surname was Piechowski, which comes from Piechowice outside of Koscierzyna in Pomerania. My male-line ancestor came to the US in 1905 from Nowa Wies outside of Trzcianne. I have seen and read a lot about the family name, and all of it points to the fact that my very distant ancestors were somehow affiliated with the Ostsiedlung and the Teutonic Knights in Pomerania. My first question is, how or why would a family theoretically move from one side of the country to the other before it was easy to do so? Second of all, I'm wondering if anyone has information on the family that I may have missed, or (even better) knows any Piechowscy from the Nowa Wies Trzcianne area (my great-great grandfather had two brothers and two sisters living in Poland when he died in 1950). Any help or input is greatly appreciated.