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Polish citizenship by descent for "Brześć nad Bugiem" born 4 grand-parents? [15]
Thanks for the encouraging responses, very much appreciated.
- About the archives, it is what I was told in Minsk when I tried to gather more documents about my genealogy, they said they have limited access to archives, and most of them should be sought from Poland, which either was a lie to discard my request, or could be the truth based on this link I was given:
archives.gov.by/home/genealogiya/dokumenty-genealogicheskogo-haraktera-gosudarstvennyh-oblastnyh-arhivov/dokumenty-genealogicheskogo-haraktera-gosudarstvennogo-arhiva-brestskoj-oblasti
If you go there, you'd see all the docs were issued by Poland, and the number of files they have right now inside Belarus is really limited and small, but I will look more into it, until I exhaust all the possible means I can use.
- I was taught both Polish and German as a kid, until the government closed our Polish school for good, and I never knew why was I taught Polish back then, and why my grandparents spoke a mixture of Polish and Belarusian, and I still use words that are Polish in my discussions with mom, so I'd call it a Creole, not a pure Polish, but as I grew up and learned to keep my mouth shut, I was told why we were taught and still use Polish words, unfortunately, Belarus is not the best place a Pole can reside at, at least at some other places showing your identity wouldn't cause you persecution, and I don't know what the government expect from tens of thousands of people who are true Poles and were swallowed by the USSR after WWII, are we supposed to just disappear or erase our origins and pretend we're Russ as well!? People should celebrate their country's diversity and be proud of it, I guess, not here though.
- No I don't have the card, I was raised by my mom, and she's the most peaceful woman that walked the earth, and she is/was very protective and fearful about me, that she hid our origins, until my grandparents broke me the news when I hit 19, that was 2 years before they passed away. So, I might seek to get the card without telling my mom, because I know she would oppose that, and let alone seek the citizenship, because she thinks the KGB will make me disappear, and I think that is exaggeration from her, that could be the case may be in the 80s, but not in 2021, things are changing, and this is nothing that could be seen as a threat or something, I just want to belong where we always belonged originally. Even my great-grand-parents were born in Terespol, but there was no Poland back then, but the point is our blood is Polish regardless.
Wish me good luck guys, I will start preparing my trip to Minsk, and if you can recommend a legal firm, or a lawyer/attorney who can help me with this, plz refer me their websites or emails here.
Thanks for your time guys :)
