Can now trace my Harasim family to 1769r.

[piwo]

Sometime ago, Nancy convinced me to tell the story of my search for my grandmother’s family, Harasim. I was born in her home, and we were very close. Unfortunately, though she lived to age 92, nobody, including her children, knew where she was born. I started searching, and with Nancy’s great help, we came up with this: nancy.polishsite.us/gen_JJ1.html

Not much has changed since she published it, but I have been in contact with numerous people on the INTERNET, some which read the story and asked about the research. Several are definitely related, some we're just not sure, yet. One of the people I'm in regular contact with is Barry Kaminski. Since my family tree and the Kaminski's are tightly inter twined, he has spent quite a bit of time researching my Harasim surname. Barry found what I had been looking for unsuccessfully: the parents of my Great, Great Grandfather, Stanislaw Harasim. Stanislaw was born in 1819, to Gzegorz Harasim and Rozalia Paulakov in Wronowo. Gzegorz was 50 at the time, so I now can trace the family back to 1769. We have the name of some of Stanislaw’s siblings, so there are other branches of this tree to be explored, SOMETIME…..

I can now trace my Grandmother's side of the family to a time before the US Revolutionary war. This is amazing to me. My mother and her surviving brother (he has since passed) didn't even know the first names of her grandparents, so to get this far in just a few years is mind boggling.

Just thought I'd share.......

[jimpres]

Piwo,

Great news, just need to keep up the digging.

[alyssa]

HI..my name is Alyssa Harasim and I am looking for my ancestry. My great grandfather was a Harasim and whene he dies all of our history was lost. As I was reading your post I noticed a lot of names that are similar in my family...get back to me so we can chat..maybe we are related.

[Jaga]

Jul 17, 2008 18:21:56 GMT -7 alyssa said:

HI..my name is Alyssa Harasim and I am looking for my ancestry. My great grandfather was a Harasim and whene he dies all of our history was lost. As I was reading your post I noticed a lot of names that are similar in my family...get back to me so we can chat..maybe we are related.

Hello Alyssa,

welcome to the forum. The last name "Harasim", does not really sound purely Polish. It sound more Russin-Ukrainian-Jewish. Therefore your ancestor might come from Eastern Poland which was the mixture of different nationalities.

We had a great poet - Jerzy Harasymowicz, you can read about him here:
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Harasymowicz

unfortunately this is only in Polish, but it has his picture

I wish I knew what the word "Harasim" or "harasym" come from. It is not that common, maybe you and piwo are the same family?

I will e-mail him

[jimpres]

Alyssa,

The last part of Harasim could have been dropped. It could have been Haraasymowicz or some other version. I will check my references in a few days.

[jimpres]

Lynn,

Here are some variations on the Hassim name from a Polish site that you can search.
roszę czekać
TRWA POBIERANIE DANYCH
!!!
Nazwisko Ogólna liczba Rozmieszczenie
Harasim 1765 Wa:112, BP:18, Bs:99, BB:7, By:29, Ch:64, Cz:1, El:12, Gd:67, Go:2, JG:4, Kl:9, Ka:84, Ki:2, Ko:55, Kr:11, Ls:7, Lu:165, Ło:10, Łd:8, NS:1, Ol:80, Op:8, Os:5, Pl:10, Pł:4, Po:25, Pr:8, Sd:205, Sr:1, Sk:8, Sł:22, Su:293, Sz:8, Tb:24, To:5, Wb:5, Wł:4, Wr:3, Za:256, ZG:24
Harasimczuk 291 Wa:11, Bs:198, El:7, Gd:9, Go:1, Ka:3, Ko:3, Ls:5, Ło:2, Łd:11, Ol:6, Op:13, Os:5, Pł:5, Sł:3, Su:6, Wr:2, ZG:1
Harasimczyk 51 BB:4, By:10, El:2, Ka:4, Kn:5, Ko:8, Ol:2, Op:1, Su:5, Wb:2, ZG:8
Harasimiak 37 Wa:18, Gd:7, Lu:4, NS:1, Sd:6, Sk:1
Harasimianek 1 Łd:1
Harasimienko 0 0
Harasimik 63 Bs:5, Kl:4, Ka:2, Ko:4, Pl:4, Su:43, Sz:1
Harasimiok 1 Kr:1
Harasimionek 10 Łd:4, ZG:6
Harasimiuk 861 Wa:89, BP:490, Bs:7, El:5, Gd:31, Go:4, JG:5, Ka:19, Kn:2, Ko:45, Kr:3, Ks:2, Lg:12, Lu:29, Łd:12, Ol:6, Op:13, Pl:3, Po:1, Sd:25, Sr:2, Sł:14, Su:5, Sz:7, To:5, Wb:8, Wr:12, ZG:5
Harasimko 0 0
Harasimków 0 0
Harasimow 6 JG:5, Wr:1
Harasimowicz 1652 Wa:93, BP:59, Bs:155, BB:1, By:63, Ci:3, Cz:11, El:77, Gd:108, Go:82, JG:79, Kl:3, Ka:57, Ki:16, Kn:6, Ko:107, Kr:18, Lg:58, Ls:3, Lu:9, Ło:8, Łd:26, NS:3, Ol:71, Op:21, Pl:47, Pt:8, Po:31, Pr:13, Ra:3, Sd:3, Sr:4, Sł:34, Su:78, Sz:91, Tb:3, Ta:7, To:21, Wb:47, Wł:14, Wr:54, Za:8, ZG:49
Harasimowski 12 Wa:12
Harasimów 13 Ka:1, Ko:3, Wr:9
Harasimuk 33 BP:23, JG:2, Ka:3, Po:1, Sz:4

[jimpres]

Here is the key to the counties where the names are located
Key to the counties below:
BB bielskie

Op opolskie
BP bialskopodlaskie

Os ostrołęckie
Bs białostockie

Pl pilskie
By bydgoskie

Pł płockie
Ch chełmskie

Po poznańskie
Ci ciechanowskie

Pr przemyskie
Cz częstochowskie

Pt piotrkowskie
El elbląskie

Ra radomskie
Gd gdańskie

Rz rzeszowskie
Go gorzowskie

Sd siedleckie
JG jeleniogórskie

Sk skierniewickie
Ka katowickie

Sł słupskie
Ki kieleckie

Sr sieradzkie
Kl kaliskie

Su suwalskie
Kn konińskie

Sz szczecińskie
Ko koszalińskie

Ta tarnowskie
Kr krakowskie

Tb tarnobrzeskie
Ks krośnieńskie

To toruńskie
Lg legnickie

Wa warszawskie
Ls leszczyńskie

Wb wałbrzyskie
Lu lubelskie

Wł włocławskie
Łd łódzkie

Wr wrocławskie
Ło łomżyńskie

Za zamojskie
NS nowosądeckie

ZG zielonogórskie
Ol olsztyńskie

[freetobe]

alyssa,

It may me of interest tp you, that Harasimowicks were known to my family. There is a listing in the Suffolk county telephone directory for a Jan Harasimowicz on Claus Ave in Riverhead,N.Y. If I remember correctly(it's been a long,long time) the Harasimowicks were farmers in Yaphank or Calverton, L.I.

[freetobe]

alyssa, just spoke to my oldest relative and she remembers visiting the Harasimowicks. They were farmers and lived in Calverton, L.I ,N.Y Over the years some of the family changed their name to Harris. My family name is Zaniewski and I believe my father, John(Jan) knew the Harasimowicz family

[piwo]

Michigan is full of Arasim, which is Harasim only with the H removed... which is what the governments "soundex" recognizes it as. I don't think it is as prevalent as other Polish "surnames", but there are plenty out there. I've never talked to any Harasim (who didn't change from Harasimowicz or some derivative) who were not Roman Catholic. There are Harasim back to the early 1700's in the vicinity my family is from, which is in fact northeastern Poland, so it's not a modern derivation.

Alyssa has not logged in since sending her first post. Not sure how to get in touch with her....

[Jaga]

John,

I sent you Alyssa's e-mail. I hope she would come back.

[piwo]

Jul 24, 2008 18:14:10 GMT -7 Jaga said:

John,

I sent you Alyssa's e-mail. I hope she would come back.

I'll drop her a note. Thanks!