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Post by nicoli on Jan 4, 2008 19:52:08 GMT -7
Thankyou Pawian and rdywenur You are right rdywenur, Nicoli is my italian last name, but my family and friends call me "Nicoli" since a was a child!
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Post by Jaga on Jan 4, 2008 19:56:06 GMT -7
Thank you both Jaga and Charles for your warm welcome! Good luck for this new year. Unfortunately Poland as well as other european cultures are totally unknown to us but it's always nice to find a forum like this. There a lot of interesting and useful posts here that I enjoy reading. Thanks again. ;D I met some interesting people from Venezuela when I was in Greece. We had a school for physicists from developing country. This guy from Venezuela was half-Hungarian. So it is hard for me to believe that there are really not Eastern Europeans there. There were also several Venezuelan people at the university in Pocatello, ID where I used to work.
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Post by nicoli on Jan 4, 2008 23:00:12 GMT -7
Hi Jaga,
Actually here in Venezuela live many Eastern Europeans, in fact my grandmother was born in Romania, unfortunately she died when my mother was just a child.
Both Venezuela and Poland have very good economic and political relations. Sadly many people do not know about important topics on every day life in Romania, Poland and the rest of Eastern countries for example local music, traditional festivals, and so on.
Some years ago I used to listening to shortwave programmes of Radio Romania International, Radio Poland, Radio Bulgaria, etc. and it was always nice to know that there were many Shortwave listeners here in Venezuela and Latin America interested in the language and traditions of those countries, that's why it was very difficult to see this kind of information on the local TV stations, fortunately we have Internet now.
I hope you all understand what I've written here, because sometimes my English is not very good.
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Post by Jaga on Jan 5, 2008 10:10:18 GMT -7
Nicoli, yes, I forgot your previous post that your mom was from Romania. I guess, people in Poland are not very much informed about what is going on in South America. Did you ever heard about Kapuscinski? He was a Polish reporter, he wrote wonderful books about life and politics in South America. All are available in Polish, some in English also. Referring to Romania, I was there during Causescu time. It was a sad and poor country but it had great people! It had a great folklore. We were trying to have a class about Romania in my daughter's school but we have trouble to find materials about Romania! In our local library there was more about Kenya and Uganda, Poland and Austria than about Romania! By the way, could you pin to our map? We need more people from South America there: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art85fr.htm
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Post by katesmom on Feb 29, 2008 10:03:23 GMT -7
I was born in Elizabeth NJ; moved to Southeastern KY when I was 8. That is where my father and his people are from. My mother and her family are Polish from New York. I'm a stay-at-home wife and mom. Our daugther is 8 and I have a son who is in the military. I have a younger(by 11 months) sister and an older brother who live in the same area as I do. My dad passed on 32 years ago and my other older brother passed on 3 years ago and we lost my mother 7 months ago. So my main passion(besides my immediate family) is getting all the info on my ancestors that I can dig up. Hi to everyone.
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Post by jimpres on Feb 29, 2008 12:51:23 GMT -7
katesmom,
Welcom to the forum. You can start digging for your ancestors right here. We will do our best to help.
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Post by hollister on Feb 29, 2008 13:55:11 GMT -7
katesmom, Welcome! Can't wait to hear more about your family.
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Post by katesmom on Mar 7, 2008 18:54:06 GMT -7
I know most of my ancestors on my dad's side cause everyone down here knows everyone else, but its my mother's family I know nothing about. All I do know is that her family name is Pasiak. Her mother died when she was about 7 and her dad couldn't take care of her so he put her in St. Joseph's Orphanage and Asylum for girls in Brooklyn. She was what they called a half orphan. She did have an older brother who had been in Sing Sing prison. My mother had dymenchia and her memory went quickly. So I'm on a quest to find that side of my family.
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Post by Jaga on Mar 7, 2008 21:31:56 GMT -7
Kate, the story of your mother's family sound sad. Thanks for sharing. Here is another tool which can help. There is a website which helps to find distribution of last names in Poland. The link is here: nancy.polishsite.us/art158jagafr.htmFind your Ancestors in Poland - Search by Surname and Province It would be of course very nice if you know where in Poland the family of you mom comes from but try at least to see the disctribution of the name Pasiak there.
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Post by Jaga on Mar 7, 2008 21:35:07 GMT -7
No, sorry, I just check the website. The link which should find a surname: www.herby.com.pl/herby/indexslo.htmldoes not work anymore. Does anybody know what is the current link to search names website?
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Post by jimpres on Mar 7, 2008 22:30:36 GMT -7
Try this one instead www.herby.com.pl/ then type in your last name and hit search/ szukaj I just did mine and it worked
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Post by Jaga on Mar 8, 2008 5:42:10 GMT -7
Jim, thanks!
I looked there, the name Pasiak is found about 700 times, the most people live in Tarnobrzeg area, which is in Eastern Poland.
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Post by jimpres on Mar 8, 2008 8:41:31 GMT -7
Jaga,
No problem. I also have Fred Hoffman's Polish Surnames which shows distribution of names relative to the 1990 census. Also tells what the surname could mean.
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Post by katesmom on Mar 10, 2008 11:00:55 GMT -7
Thanks Jaga and Jim. More on my family; after my mother and dad met married and had 4 kids we all lived up in NJ.Then we moved to rural Kentucky. My sister and I were 8 and 9 so it was a lot of fun for us to be living on a farm. But poor mommy who had been born and raised in a major city had the roghest time. We had no running water so water came from a well; mommy had to cook on a woodstove after being use to just turning a knob and we lived across a creek and the only way across was by boat. The only heat came from fireplaces which meant hauling in wood and coal and taking out ashes. I do have two older brothers who helped out a lot as did my dad. We eventually got modern conviences but for her I know it was not easy. But you know what? she lived to be 88. God bless her and I miss her.
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Post by jimpres on Mar 10, 2008 11:09:20 GMT -7
Katesmom,
That is not unique for those of us a little older. My mom only had a wood stove, outhouse, we did have running water. We did not live in Kentucky but in Denver, Colorado. Eventually we did get a gas stove and indoor WC. I remember crashing my toy plastic planes on the hot wood burning stove and watching them curl up
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