Mine did, too, I received Polish citizenship this year. If your family came from what is today Poland and you can prove that, you’re eligible. If not, and they came from the territory that is today Hungary, Romania, etc - then check with those countries instead as similar laws apply.
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grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days agoAnd that’s the true story of how I learned all my Polish ancestors came over before modern Poland was a thing, and thus didn’t have Polish citizenship to pass on.
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 days ago
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
broooo! same! the weird part is that the part of so called russian poland my family was from when they evacuated Europe is in Western Ukraine now, so i guess the conclusion is everything’s made up and nationalities don’t matter
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Country borders are just lines on a map. They don’t exist in the real world.
If only everyone was able to experience the overview effect, a lot of our issues could potentially fix themselves.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Similarly fuzzy! I think they mostly came from the “Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria” region of Poland. Some definitely have “Galicia” on their earlier census records, then later records for the same relatives say Poland. Other relatives waffle between Poland and Russia. t National borders are so fuzzy.
The other side of the family is from Appalachia since the 1800s, but sometimes can’t decide if they’re born in TN or KY because they were from a disputed region.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
there are dozens of us with this background! dozens!