Ancestry. com
also said that my DNA showed I am 40% western European, close but no cigar! I am a Polack, is Poland western or eastern
European? How do I know that my ancestors
came to America from Poland? My last name
is Goslaw, which is also a small town in northwest Poland. The Goslaw family or person migrated from
Poland to Canada and America in the late 1800’s, there are some records of the Goslaw
name in the Quebec area and grave sites in upstate New York but did the original migrants identify themselves by the name Goslaw?
The first
adventures of my family to the new world probably had another Polish sounding
name. I’m guessing of course. I would like to engage them or him in a
conversation and ask, why did you make a name change in the new world, or did
you? Did the change make sense because
another sir name would sound not so Polish?
Was the change intended to make getting along in the new world more
comfortable because of the racial identifies of that era?
If this was
your motive for the name change to Goslaw, then you caved to the negative racial attitudes
of the time. The change seems to us to
be a denial of who you were and by extension, a denial of our family history. The Polish people have a proud history, why weren't you proud of it? I would like to have heard your response to
that accusation, I’ll bet it would have stirred a fire in your belly.
Would you have shot back, ask me another question, why did I choose my hometown in Poland as my new
sir name?
G.Goslaw
Landers, CA
