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susan

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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:17 pm Post subject: Dygon

Please enlighten me to the origin of the DYGON surname. My maternal grandmother, Julianna Dygon was born 1874 in Moszczenica (Gorlice). Family lore has it that the surname is French.

Zenon
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:13 am Post subject:

Welcome to the Forum Susan,

Dyg-; Dygoń (n with accent ' above 'n') from Polish dygać 'to wobble, curtsey'

In 2002 there were 294 people by the surname Dygoń living in Poland. Detailed maps of your Dygoń surname deployment on present-day Poland territory can be found on the website here https://nazwiska-polskie.pl/Dygo%C5%84 .What may be interesting for you there are still many Dygońs in Gorlice and neighboring Jaslo areas.

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susan

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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject:

Zenon,
Thank you for your prompt reply about the DYGON surname. It helped clear up family lore.

My grandmother (died in 1968 in Ohio/USA) was one of 9 children, but she and a younger sister (died in 1939 in Mosczcenica) were the only ones who survived childhood disease there in Moszczenica. I do correspond (with language constraints) with my grandmother's niece still living in Moszczenica. Now my desire is to locate other Dygon 'cousins'.

Are there genealogy societies in Poland who work with those of us who are not adept in the Polish language?

Susan

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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:15 am Post subject:

Susan,

There are a few local genealogical societies in Poland like, for example, Małopolskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne (Malopolska Genealogical Society) http://www.mtg-malopolska.org.pl/ with its seat in Krakow covering your Gorlice/Moszczenice area. There is also Polskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne (Polish Genealogical Society) http://www.genealodzy.pl/index.php?&newlang=eng and a few other local societies.

However, as you can see on their pages, there are not too many materials in English. The societies are mainly concentrated on internal activities like indexing and digitizing available records, education, cooperation with State Archives.

What specifically I can advise you now is to start from posting information about your search in different places (forums, websites). I can see that you already put information in our database: http://polishorigins.com/surnames/show/id/176 . You can also post short message about your search in our Forum in 'In search of relatives' section here: http://forum.polishorigins.com/viewforum.php?f=23

If you have your family tree in gedcom file format and some pictures we can also create simple page like the ones here: http://polishorigins.com/document/relatives in Krewni/Relatives section available from our main page.

I also contacted Tad Wysocki from RootsPoland http://www.rootspoland.com with whom I have had luck to cooperate for a few years and who, I think, many of you already know. He promised to look closer at your post and answer if he finds anything.

Zenon
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:03 am Post subject:

Susan,

Tad was so kind and a few days ago sent me a bunch information which may be useful for you.

Here is more about Moszczenica borough in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmina_Moszczenica,_Lesser_Poland_Voivodeship & many other webpages in internet.

According to Polish phone book there are still at least four living Dygoń in Moszczenica (if you want I can forward you the names by e-mail).

Tad also asked simple question which I hadn't thought about before (because it was obvious for me) but..., just in case.... have you asked your cousin in Moszczenica about other Dygoń cousins?

susan

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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:36 pm Post subject:

Yes, e-mail me the addresses of the Dygons in Moszczenica:
[email protected]

I also need to re-inquire of my grandmother's niece for more information on the family. I have asked of her late husband's grandmother (my grandmother's sister), but she had nothing to share, which is not unusual since his grandmother died in 1939 and she didn't enter the picture (marriage) until 1955. Since language is a constraint, it proves cumbersome.

My original inquiry into the Dygon family was in 2004 with Rev Czeslaw Muszynski, the parish pastor, who is now retired. 2004 was my first trip to Poland and he was very kind to arrange a meeting with a (Skrobot) family who may have been a relative of my grandmother's sister, but proved otherwise. When we left that family, we drove 3 houses further and met another (Skrobot) family...and yes, they were descendants of my grandmother's sister...this is the niece I correspond with during the holidays.

On that same tour, I was also taken for a school tour. Time was limited but I learned that some students are learning English as an alternate language. I failed to asked if genealogy is perhaps in their curriculum, as I would venture that would be a win-win situation of matching up students with 'American Moszczenica cousins' via the Internet.

Zenon, Thank you for your assistance.

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