Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 2:21 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2021 5:49 am
Post subject: Re: Inbreeding
| MikeBayko wrote: |
| I am not sure where to post this (a better place may be the ancestors' daily lives subforum but I am unsure) sorry in advance if this is not the correct place to post something like this, I am also unsure if anyone will be of any help regarding this issue but I have to try to find answers.
The paternal line of my family goes back to Greek Catholic inhabitants of Jabłonica Polska and neighboring Malinówka. They were extremely inbred, to the point where that line of my family has neurological diseases, extreme nervousness, etc. On all of their pedigrees families repeat very aggressively, you see the same surnames very frequently in the pedigrees and it was not uncommon for two people of the same family to marry. For instance my 3rd great grandparents Janko Bayko and Maria Bayko (Bayko was her maiden name) were 3rd cousins, but were also cousins through the other greek catholic families of the village. Marrying with outsiders, whether Greek or Roman catholic from other villages was rare, and marrying with the roman catholic inhabitants of Jablonica Polska and Malinówka seems non existent. For the most part they only seemed to marry with the other Greek Catholic families form Jabłonica Polska and Malinówka which is a pretty small list of families, the Bayko, Kmetko, Szulyk, Stepanyk, Zyłka, Reszka, Hrynik, Woytowicz, Baydowicz, Szurgot, Dereń, Kuzemczyk, Senczyk-Nehyr, Harasym, Lewicki, Skalski, Raczyński, and Naydecki families. I can not stress enough the extent that these families were interbred with one another it was very excessive, if you descend from any of these families, then you also have genes from all or most of the other families in the list with very little to no genes from "outsider" families so to speak. None of my other family lines whether noble, or peasant from Poland, Hungary, and Croatia were anywhere near being this inbred, except for my one great great grandmother's line in Gerlachov Slovakia (the Bereszky/Zbereszki/Zbereska/Bereski family) which may be the most inbred part of my family tree with most of the members on that pedigree all having the same weird Zbereszki/Bereski surname (which i don't even know if it is the correct surname as there are so many confusing variants it seems and no information on any of them), but that is a topic perhaps for me to discuss about in another thread someday. To conclude, was this degree of inbreeding common throughout Poland? If so, is there any particular or general reason why such aggressive inbreeding was so common? If not and this is just a strange isolated instance, is there any possible reason why this part of my family would have been so inbred? |
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