Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [571]

My maternal grandfather's parents immigrated to the U.S.A. from Poland,and their journey is really bizarre.To start with they were both born in Massachueetts,and their parents had immigrated here from Poland .They both moved to Poland with their parents when their parents moved back to Poland.And when they became adults they moved back here,and fortunately it was before the Holocaust.She was Ashkenazi Jewish.I thought he was full blooded Polish as did everyone in the family.His last name was Brzoska.I took an ethnic online D.N.A. test by the company 23andme,and they let me know that I also have Romanian ancestry which I know definitely had to come from my maternal grandfather because the rest of my grandparents have only Irish,English,and Native American Indian ancestry.Another D.N.A. test that is a lot more in-depth told me that the Nazis would have definitely hated me.Anyways I learned why my maternal grandfather did not look like his Polish siblings,but instead took after something deeper in his ancestry.I am still very proud to be part Polish though.I read that Poland is the most mixed Slavic country,.so now it all makes sense.And too my greatgreat grandparents that were Polish said they were born in Russia because Poland was a part of Russia at the time.,My mother's babcia,and dziadzio considered themselves Polish,even though she knew that she was Ashkenazi Jewish