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sagewiz   
10 Oct 2013
Genealogy / Ancestors from Galicia - does this mean you are Polish? [18]

My ancestors were from that area and called themselves "Polish". however there were many ethnicities and minorities in the area. Politically, at different times the region belonged to Ukrain, Austro-Hungary, and Germany. I have read that some Poles in other parts of the country refer to many of them as "Ukrainian". I have researched a family word "Pedahea" which is what my grandparents called what most people refer to as "pierogi" and it turns out that it is a regional pronunciation that Poles use that sounds like the Ukrainian word for that food.
sagewiz   
10 Oct 2013
Genealogy / H.F. Glade sailing from Bremmerhaven, Germany to Honolulu, HI 1897 & 1892 Galicians [11]

I just received a copy of a letter sent to one of my uncles in 1967 from a Theodore Luciw of Minneapolis. Included is a list he typed from the handwritten ship manifest of the H.F. Glade which apparently brought two groups of immigrants to work on plantations in Hawaii.

I just scanned them but this board does not appear to allow uploads. There are a few hundred names that appear to be Polish, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Russian, Slovak, German, and possibly other ethnicities.

I would be happy to email you a pdf if it would help in your genealogy search. I am looking for names of Benczarski, Tymkiv/Temkow/Timkov from the area of Southern Poland around Krakow, specifically in the villages of Kossov, Rajskie, and Solinka where the names appear to have originated.

There appear to be a few groups of the Benczarski line that emigrated to Hawaii, Nova Scotia, Canada, Michigan, Argentina, and Venezuela, but not many in Poland.

I hope this will help.