Re: Wlodyka, Niemiec

mmaxwell — Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:48 am

Author: mmaxwell

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:48 am

Thanks for the information, Zenon, and thanks for a great trip!

Mike Maxwell

Wlodyka, Niemiec

Zenon — Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:53 am

Author: Zenon

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:53 am

About two weeks ago I had a great pleasure to assist Michael in his Forefathers Traces Tour. We not only visited his ancestors villages and had luck to find lots of important records in parish churches, but we also found relatives still living there about who existence we had no idea before our arrival

Now Michael asked me to explain meaning and origin of his family names: Włodyka and Niemiec.

Włodyka in old Polish - headman, bishop of the Greek rite. Also, can derive from root włod- "władać" or in old Polish "włodać" - "to reign, rule", or dithematic names such as Władysław, Włodzimierz.

In 2002 there were 1025 people using the surname Włodyka in Poland, more then 1/3 of them (370) lived in one county - Strzyżów. Detailed map of the surname distribution can be found here https://nazwiska-polskie.pl/W%C5%82odyka .

Listen how your surname is pronounced in Polish (speakers turned on): http://say.expressivo.com/wdqvoLRA .

Click here http://polishorigins.com/databases/index?s=w%C5%82odyka to check what can be found about your surname in Polish Genealogy Databases.

Niemiec literally in Polish German.

In 2002 there were 13267 people using the surname Niemiec living mainly in south-east part of Poland Detailed map of the surname distribution can be found here https://nazwiska-polskie.pl/Niemiec .

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And here you will find other PolishOrigins members interested in Niemiec surname: http://polishorigins.com/surnames/search/string/niemiec .

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