Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

Kaszuba...from Kaszuba? peasant stock?
Kasubinski...named changed in US during the 1940's.

Ryba (I know, fish)...Galilcian?

Maslanka (does it really mean buttermilk??)...is it a common name? My Maslanka relatives came from Swiatkowice near Warsaw...does this village/town still exist?

Koslowski...from the same area.

Thank you.

Food / Polish Duck Soup [117]

I grew up with Polish grandparents and czernina was a staple...Babci used to kill the duck herself. The kartofle were fabulous...any of my non-Polish-American friends just about gag when I tell them about it...usually in the context of enjoying the foods that you were exposed to as a child and they don't seem strange.

Interestingly, the grandmother from Warsaw made the better of the soups...the grandmother from Galicia didn't quite make the grade with czernina.