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Tag: origins of surnames

How Surnames Came Into Being in Poland

On 28 November 2017 By Agnieszka Pawlus In Polish Genealogy Research, Life of Our Ancestors

  During the First Rzeczpospolita (Republic of Both Nations), from the mid-1500 to 1795, (Poland’s borders included then the majority …

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