On my fathers side of the family through my grandma everyone is polish. And after this past weekend I discovered a lot about my family that I never even knew. Back track for a minute, this all started about a year ago my aunt starting doing research on the family and every time she comes up she always has something new to tell us about the family and I always find it so fascinating to learn where exactly I came from. Anyways back to my weekend of discovering my heritage, I found out that this side of my family is actually new to America, and that I still have family over in Poland that I could go visit one day. You see the only family that I had come over here were my great grandparents the rickly's and my cousins the Visnieski's, they arrived in the late 1920's and ended up here in Oklahoma. I am still amazed that I have family in Poland and to be honest its definitely inspired me to want to learn more about my family, maybe even learn how to speak polish, because I have always wanted to visit Poland just because that is where a big part of my family is from and I know by going there I could learn even more about my family heritage. Also being able to speak the language wouldn't hurt either especially if I end up meeting the other half of my family.Tuesday, June 15, 2010
1/4 Polish
On my fathers side of the family through my grandma everyone is polish. And after this past weekend I discovered a lot about my family that I never even knew. Back track for a minute, this all started about a year ago my aunt starting doing research on the family and every time she comes up she always has something new to tell us about the family and I always find it so fascinating to learn where exactly I came from. Anyways back to my weekend of discovering my heritage, I found out that this side of my family is actually new to America, and that I still have family over in Poland that I could go visit one day. You see the only family that I had come over here were my great grandparents the rickly's and my cousins the Visnieski's, they arrived in the late 1920's and ended up here in Oklahoma. I am still amazed that I have family in Poland and to be honest its definitely inspired me to want to learn more about my family, maybe even learn how to speak polish, because I have always wanted to visit Poland just because that is where a big part of my family is from and I know by going there I could learn even more about my family heritage. Also being able to speak the language wouldn't hurt either especially if I end up meeting the other half of my family.
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Thats really cool, I always love discovering new thing about fam!
ReplyDeleteI'm half Italian on my father's side, and I learned a lot about the family from my aunt (92 years old in August) when I was younger. I sure hope she had the forethought to write stuff about her family down, because if she didn't, it will be lost when she eventually passes away.
ReplyDeleteGreat discovery. It's a big thick book, but James Michener's novel "Poland" will give you a lot of history aboutthe country, up through the Soviet occupation.
ReplyDeleteThis kinda stuff is fascinating. Have you tried ancesty.com? I tried their 2 week trial a few months back. I learned some interesting stuff going back to about 1850 Finland, but had to give it up before the free trial ran out.
ReplyDeleteStep that is amazing I hope your able to found out more on your family especially through your aunt before she passes! And thank you for the suggested reading Dr. Clark thick or not I know ill probably read the whole thing!
ReplyDeleteAndy- actually my aunt is the one who has been doing that she started out with ancestry.com and has moved to the point of extreme reseaching shes even taken a class for it lol so she already has so much information because I thought about doing that but all I have to do is call her and she can tell me so much.
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