Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

What information do I need to begin searching back my family tree? I have very little information. And, would it even be traceable back that far? To the Tatars?

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

The last part makes sense. I'm only 1/4 pole but look very much like my grandmother who is full pole, and my father who is half. But whenever my dad is in Russia they think he is native russian.

We have high cheekbones, dark small squinty eyes, sloping noses with a little ball on the end, thin lips and sort of blocky shaped heads. I don't know if those are Polish traits or not. I have no asian ancestors.