Hello Ron, Perhaps you should do a little reading on the partitioning of Poland, I am not a big wiki fan, however this will give you a bit of a summary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland Marie On 5/16/08, rgdtad05@aol.com <rgdtad05@aol.com> wrote: > I was never really quite good at American History, in fact I failed it miserably and had to repeat it in Summer school. Well anyways enough of that. I was wondering, with what I been learning of my polish ancestors, some came from Austria, now I always assumed Austria meant German, not Polish. Now I have read recently that the Nazi's invaded Austria making it part of Germany. Now most of my ancestors that came from Austria came before the 1900's or before 1911. So what basically my question is, do I have Polish roots, or German roots, or Austrian? I know like I said its weird, but its making me confused. If someone could explain I would really appreciate it. > > Ron > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at Poland-Roots-admin@rootsweb.com > ---------------------------------- > Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. > ---------------------------------- > Browse the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots > Search the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLAND-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >