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Joined: 1 Apr 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 9 Apr 2008
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witek   
7 Aug 2007
Genealogy / Polish Surnames Anglicized? [48]

Not Americanize but Anglicize

In America foreign surnames were willingly or unwillingly Americanized just like in Poland some Ukrainian, German, Lithuanian and Jewish names were Polonized. In England Irish, Scottish and Slavic names were Anlicized.

There are lots of Polish surnames that are hard to pronounce (Mike Krzyzewski - a famous American basketball coach, for example).

that is why they call him "Coach K"
witek   
30 Jul 2007
Genealogy / I am 1/8 Polish on my mother's side - not Polish enough / Lithuania and Zmudz in Poland's ancestry [110]

In Litwa they were all composed in Russian. The surname as rule was formed by father's name according to Russian standards. If an ethnic Lithuanian had a father by the name of Pawel he became Pawlowicz and not Pavlauskas as today.

Pawel is a Polish name and Pawlowicz a Polish surname , in Lithuanian it is Pavlavièius wheras Pavlauskas comes from Pawlowski. Many Lithuanians borrowed Slavic suffixes such as avièius (from "-owicz") and auskas (from "-owski") was and is very common.

only one family with Rusin surname Anisimowicz

if you type the surname Anisimowicz into GOOGLE today you will find that the majority of the people that carry this surname are Polish today. This does not mean that the surname did not originate from Belarus.
witek   
24 Jul 2007
Genealogy / Lukianski, Onichimowski, Wolkowysk, Hryncewicz, Stryewski, Szymont, Jacunski, Szyszko, Korbut, Norbut origins [14]

Narbut or Norbut is a Polonized form of a Lithuanian name, NARBUTAS or NORBUTAS. It comes from two Lithuanian roots joined together to form a name which is the way many old names were formed by the Poles, Lithuanians and Germans. The Lithuanian roots were nor, "to want, desire," and but, "to be."

Thus Narbut or Norbut means " want to be "

Today there are many Poles, Belorussians and Lithuanians who carry Polonized surnames Norbut and Korbut that originate in the Grand Dutchy of Litwa.
witek   
17 Jul 2007
Genealogy / I am 1/8 Polish on my mother's side - not Polish enough / Lithuania and Zmudz in Poland's ancestry [110]

In 15-18th Century Grand Duchy of Lithuania nationalism was not present and nobles who migrated from one place to another would adapt to a new locality and take local religion, language and culture.

surnames ending with icz represent only 2.5 % of all Polish surnames and they are considered to have originated from Belarus and Litwa.

more specifically the owicz/ewiczsuffix originally came into Polish from Belorussian
witek   
17 Jul 2007
Genealogy / I am 1/8 Polish on my mother's side - not Polish enough / Lithuania and Zmudz in Poland's ancestry [110]

such nationalistic concepts of being purely Polish or Lithuanian are fairly new.

family Pawlowicz. Ruthenians with Polish surname?

surnames ending withiczrepresent only 2.5 % of all Polish surnames and they are considered to have originated from Belarus and Litwa.

As to Polish origin, what are your reasons for such conviction?

Litwa, Belarus and other lands were quite multicultural as there were Lithuanians, Poles, Belorussians, Ruthenians, Germans, Jews and others living there. For example it is said that 10% of Saint Petersburg's population is of Polish origin
witek   
17 Jul 2007
Genealogy / Lukianski, Onichimowski, Wolkowysk, Hryncewicz, Stryewski, Szymont, Jacunski, Szyszko, Korbut, Norbut origins [14]

Lukianski isn't a Polish surname

£ukiański is a Polish surname , some belonged to the herb Jasieńczyk

Hryncewicz is a Ruthenian-Polish surname they belonged to herbPrzegonia

ONICHIMOWSKI is also a Polish surname - Herb Kotwica

it looks like you are more Polish than you thought

£UKAŃSKI / LUKIAŃSKI family where under HERB PRZYJACIEL
not herb Jasieńczyk
witek   
15 Jul 2007
Language / Ideas of messianism of Adam Mickiewicz - more info needed [21]

By calling Lithuania his "Fatherland" Mickiewicz was referring to a region of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth he loved. Let us not forget that Mickiewicz wrote his masterpieces in Polish and that he was a Polish patriot as he died in Turkey raising Polish forces to fight against the Russians in the Crimean War in 1855.
witek   
21 Jun 2007
Law / how do i change my Polish last name [40]

polish surnames are difficult to pronounce and most of them end with ski or ska.

nobody in Canada has pronounced my surname right, it starts with an i and ends with icz. masakra.

they even have trouble with my name Witek

they pronounce my name Why-tek

i tell them that it is pronounced vtec like the honda engine or vtec phone.
witek   
9 May 2007
Love / Why are Polish women so sexy ? [390]

Figuring out statistics --I wish I knew how to figure out the percentage of my chances to marry {woo, I dont often say that} a man of Polish National -

your chances of finding a Pole in Minnesota?

Probably not too good.

there must be a few Poles in Minneapolis

i guess we are everywhere



witek   
9 May 2007
Love / Why are Polish women so sexy ? [390]

There is wide geographical variation,density of hot babes is clearly higher in Poznan and lower in Katowice and Wroclaw.

Lodz has the most best looking girls in Poland.



witek   
7 May 2007
Genealogy / I am 1/8 Polish on my mother's side - not Polish enough / Lithuania and Zmudz in Poland's ancestry [110]

my mother's side

1. mom's father. my grandfather's family were Silesian and moved from Silesia into Central Poland after the 3rd Silesian Uprising of 1921 . my great-grandfather and other family members took part in the 3rd Silesian uprising. Then they built an Iron Works Mill in Opoczno before WWII. However only my grandfather survived WWII , the rest of the family was shot by the Gestapo.

2. on her mother's side the family is Polish and comes from landowners and villagers around the Opoczno area.

my dad's side
1. his father's (my grandfather) family was Polish or Polonized landowners settling in Poland (Opoczno area) and the Kiev area of Ukraine after they were expelled from Lithuania in the 18th-19th Century.

2. His mother's side comes from Tczew area and are mostly Kashubian.

3. I also believe someone in my Dad's family was Jewish. (Great Grandmother?)
witek   
5 May 2007
Life / Do Polish People steal a lot? [330]

Nearly all of the people involved in crime have come from LODZ and POZNAN.

haven't met my friends from the Praga neighbourhood of Warsaw yet?