Marv, it is important to remember that the polish, russian, german, and jews wound up as residents of these areas. Understanding the partitioning, and the intergration of the cultures is important. On 5/16/08, Marv Pozdol <Marvpozdol@roadrunner.com> wrote: > Ron: Assuming your ancestors, like mine, where in Austrian Poland and also > called Galicia, then they are Polish! Many, Many Poles who lived in that > part of Poland controlled by Germany/Pruissia or Russia still considred > themselves Polish not German or Russian. > > Marv in Cleveland, Ohio > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <rgdtad05@aol.com> > To: <POLAND-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:06 PM > Subject: [POLAND] A weird question > > > >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 > > ********************************* > 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 >