Polish ancestors?

[zajaczek]

does anyone here know good sites for tracing the Polish half of my family?

[Buenchico]

You might find some useful links here:
http://genealogy.abou...gy_Family_History.htm

Assuming that you speak Polish, searching for 'przodkowie' (or possibly 'pochodzenie'?) on Google Poland might lead you to some relevant websites:
http://www.google.pl/

Chris

[dotty.]

Your main problem will probably be the variations on the surname once they arrived here, they tended to anglicise their names to avoid discrimination but also because many many of them fled their country during the persecutions in the early 1900s, were they Polish Jews? If so I have extensively researched a line of my own for a family that came from the Ukraine and the research that has been done by some very very dedicated people is amazing.
There has also been alot of work done on recording information in towns affected by occupation and the migrations, which you would find useful.

[zajaczek]

thanks for your replies
not Polish Jews but Catholics from Rowne (Polish Army Settlers and families settled post ww1) who were taken by the Russians in 1941 to labour camps in Russia. Have detail on that part of story from survors, mostly my mother but would like to track back further as there is some connection to the aristocracy of old Poland. Agree about the name changes though but my family never did probably because the name had a sensible number of consonants and no zzzzzzzs