-SKI last name's ending EXPLAINED

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How much do you know about the -SKI ending of one of the Polish last name ?
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[@TheCardboardPizza]

My surname is Markowski, my great grandfather with the name came from the Russian partition of Poland. In some US documents, he dropped the "w", changing to Markoski - I think it was to make the English phonetic pronunciation easier. I'm really happy the family kept the W in the end though, I'm glad my surname is not altered. It makes it easier when I visit family in Poland.

[@veronicamaine3813]

So Jan Kowalski is John Smith in English - also the most generic of English names, and has surely stared in many a math problem :)

[@erikarox12]

My husbands family all say our last name differently. It’s Stokoszynski. The “szy” is where we differ. Some say zzzz, others say shhh

[@jpzajackowski]

Mam nazwisko Zajackowski, it was Zajączkowski until my great grandparents immigrated through New York.

[@cathymiller2790]

Family name Wisniewski. Something to do with cherries 🍒.

[@ahmadsantoso9712]

. . . or balls.

[@edkadyszewski705]

My last name is Kadyszewski. My dad told he that he was not aware of it having any meaning either in terms of place or occupation. Perhaps you can help? Thanks for you videos. I enjoy them very much.

[@timgrabowski718]

Grabowski apparently means "Hornbeam Tree". I used Ancestry to track down my Polish ancestors. All I know that is my great-great-great grandfather sailed from Bremen, Germany in 1872 with his wife, son (my great-great grandfather), brother and sister in-law. They were listed in the passenger manifest as from West Prussia, which technically didn't exist in 1872, so who know where they were really from. Maybe they were German speaking ethnic Poles? It seems like my ancestors were one of the million or so ethnic Poles that left after the German Empire was formed in 1871, mostly settling in major industrial cities in the late 1800's (Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, etc.)

[@TheCardboardPizza]

Same happened with my family, my great grandparents were from the Russian partition of Poland (just east of Warsaw) and are listed as being from Russia or being Russian. Not all ethnic Poles would list themselves as Polish, some would, which makes records like these super confusing. Once the German Empire was formed, there was an intentional Germanization of Poles in Prussia, causing many to immigrate. Your ancestors weren't necessarily German speaking, unless you know that to be true - my grandmother says that her family didn't speak Russian or anything, just their local dialect of Polish.

[@QueenOfTheElephants]

Both my grandpas came from Poland after WWI, from the eastern border. From Ancestry I know that I am mostly Polish, some Lithuanian and a wee bit of wandering Jew. My paternal grandpa was Smigelski; the was actually an extra "i": Smigielski was was removed at some point. The S with the dot above for sh was never in place, but all Poles who spoke with my family pronounced the name Shmigelski, so I'm sure the dot above the S was originally there. My maternal grandpa was Drabick. Of course, this was an incorrect spelling, as the Catholic nuns always berated my aunts; it should have been Drabik. We're not sure where the C came from. We also have Mazuchowski and Lewandowski family names. Mazuchowski was my maternal grandma's maiden name. That's all I know! :D

[@bryanvetzcoski6249]

Well...my great grandfather was polish but due a language "conflict" back in 1905 they changed więckowski to Vetzcoski 😅...by the way I'm Brazilian

[@josephososkie3029]

Why does my surname end in a “ e”?

[@michaelkopyscianski2312]

My last name is Kopyscianski but my family is from Ukraine. Does it crossover sometimes?

[@creative-renaissance]

Much of Ukraine was part of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth so your surname has Polish origins.