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Last Post: 20 Nov 2020
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Tbard   
20 Nov 2020
Genealogy / Toboyek Surname Widnace Location Help [13]

@etoboye
Thats interesting you mentioned Lawrence. Is the Lawrence side Pole?

The reason i ask(fellow Sconnie i am via Chi Town). I have two sides of Poles/Ukr. Cebulski and Lawrence(supposedly later changed). The name change in my family has always been troubling to as when and how. It was supposedly changed in he homeland. B/c there where to many Lawrences.
Tbard   
8 Nov 2020
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1040]

@pawian
Thats why i was asking if anyone here, just want to connect and offer their expertise casually.
Tbard   
21 Oct 2020
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1040]

Merged:

Random transltations Angieski to Polski



So im just expanding my vocabulary and not sure where to turn and would like someone to,help me instead of threading everytime i have a querry. Any takers of Polski speakimg originals drop me a note.

Thnak you/ Dziękuję

Thomas
Tbard   
15 Oct 2020
USA, Canada / My grievances with the American-Polonia [54]

Just a thought i would add.

My background: I am male in his 40's. My Grands escaped as young children the Pol/Ukraine border area during the German invasion. By the grace of my great Grand father who was a Commandant in the Russan Army during the war, he was able to get his family out and defect to Chi Town via Canada. He was also a "white".

As stories have been told to me, of course they were persecuted in the homeland, then when they arrive in the US the persecution continued. We were dumb Poles, my Great Grand had Russian ties( even though they were "whites again") it had no bearing. In Chi Town, you had "neighborhoods", if you ventured out of your neighborhood, you risked beatings, ridicule or even death. My dad, his brothers and sisters, sought assimilation the thrive in the US. They had to forget were they came from to survive.

The US, through both no fault and fault is a melting pot of nationalities. Citizens have to both change and if they chose keep their roots just to survive. If those want to thrive, they have to, for the most part, assimilate to US cultures. The problem, there in, the US has no Nationailstic Ideal of culture. The US has no, main religion, no central idealized National Ideal of persona( other than being fat americans). The US is a melting pot, again, no fault.

So where am i going with this. Ultimately all i want to offer is an idea of consideration. Polonia in the US had to assimilate and now its up to those who chose, like myself, to regain our Polska roots. My parents, who assimilated to the US culture have nothing to teach, we have to back generations and its hard sometimes.

Just a thought.

Żyć Polska
Tbard   
13 Oct 2020
USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [300]

@Crow

True. It all started with Italians.

Not to start a fight, but not all Dagos were/are at fault. My uncles married a few Italians from around the neighborhood. It took awhile to be accepted into the neighborhoods as Poles, but once that happened. When he crap hit the fan, the Dags stood up for us.. and trust me " we got hooked up" protection, jobs both on the straight and not so if wanted.