Comments on: What’s in a name?

By: Orin Kosobucki

Orin Kosobucki — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:34:11 +0000

hell ya bro! im working on a genealogy project for an english class and im putting him in it. howdy? haha Wisconsin all the way

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:52:35 +0000

As far as I’m concerned, Orin, we are related to old Stefan. Which also makes us distant cousins. Howdy, cuz!

By: Orin Kosobucki

Orin Kosobucki — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:04:25 +0000

my mothers madien name is charnetski (Czarnecki) the church made my grandfather (Daniel Charnetski, Czarnecki) change it for some odd reason. but i was wondering if any of us are related 2 Stefan Czarnecki. or if i am? that would kickass

By: Jay Czarnecki

Jay Czarnecki — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:59:54 +0000

To ?ukasz Czarnecki:
Thanks very much for your message ( I’m sorry that the first letter in your name is being shown as a ?). It’s great to hear from a Czarnecki “cousin” from Poland.

It’s my opinion that many Americans are interested and often proud of the heritage of their immigrant ancestors, however distant. And that goes for Polish-Americans too.

Could you tell us the name of your city or town? I’d like to find it in my atlas.

Dziekuje!
Jay

By: ?ukasz Czarnecki

?ukasz Czarnecki — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:39:54 +0000

Hi Jay! That was a great lecture! And comments too. It’s kind of weird but simultaneously interesting. I never had to look on our name form yours perspective. I’m Polish(-Polish :]), living in Poland where everybody just say it right . It’s nice that my name, well, our name wasn’t transformed like mentioned Yuszkiewicz (from Juszkiewicz). It seems to me, in its original form, it sort of links to a place of its origin, even if it’s pronounced wrong (till 40, wow). Sorry to say this, but I’m actually happy by the fact. Well, at least we don’t have to say something like Trzetrzelewski or Brz?czyszczykiewicz ;).
And another thing, just when I was loosing hope that Poles over the ocean mostly feel ashamed of their Polish heritage, strangely I found this site thru twitter and.. I’m proud! Really! Now I need to change my thinking on the subject, at least a bit.

By: Jay Czarnecki

Jay Czarnecki — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:34:30 +0000

Thanks for the comment Kate. You’ll have no troubles when you visit Poland someday if you haven’t already)!

Now you’ve piqued my curiousity … I wouldn’t mind hearing a little more about those Stefan Czarnecki bedtimes stories.

Jay

By: Kate Czarnecki

Kate Czarnecki — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:29:46 +0000

My whole life I’ve heard people butcher my last name so much! I grew up listening to bedtime stories about Stefan Czarnecki and have always known my background, so I have always pronounced it “charNETSki” but to be honest, once you explain the way it is actually pronounced to people…its not that hard to pronounce. It really isn’t much of a tongue twister once explained correctly…the trick i thought up when I was younger was when I met people I would tell them my last name was made up of three english words…”char”..”net” …”ski”. and everyone to this day that i’ve told that to says it correctly. One good thing about having this last name is that you always know when a telemarketer is calling cuz they are the ones that butcher it the most! haha

By: Don Yuszkiewicz

Don Yuszkiewicz — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:22:50 +0000

Jay Cz – my parent pronounced it Yuz kev ich but some people say Yosk o witz,

By the way Paul, my cousin from Little Neck, NY was also a Paul and his sister Barbara.

By: Jay Cz

Jay Cz — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:46:09 +0000

Don,
Greetings (distant) cousin! I think Yuszkiewicz is the winner. Let me take a guess on pronunciation: YOOSH-kya-vich?
Jay Czarnecki

By: Don Yuszkiewicz

Don Yuszkiewicz — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:22:21 +0000

My mother was Alexandra Czarnecki and her bother Zigmund, sisters Helen and Theresa all lived in either Little Neck or College Point, NY from about 1915 to 1970′s. There children and grand children still live on Long Island. What’s harder – Czarnecki or Yuszkiewicz??