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Question:We would like to know anyone that has information about were this name originated from, the" Country", and any "Religous ties" to this name. Is it polish, Jewish? she mentioned this man was said to be her fathers, father, and of Slavic origens and was told to her that he was a Gypsy. any information is valuable... His first name is unfortunatly not known. Klabonski's out there? know anything about this name help! Thank you

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: We would like to know anyone that has information about were this name originated from, the" Country", and any "Religous ties" to this name. Is it polish, Jewish? she mentioned this man was said to be her fathers, father, and of Slavic origens and was told to her that he was a Gypsy. any information is valuable... His first name is unfortunatly not known. Klabonski's out there? know anything about this name help! Thank you

It's clearly not the original spelling. I can say that with certainty for a couple of reasons. First, there is no one with that spelling who ever filed immigration paperwork with the government and secondly, it doesn't appear in any of the Polish, German or Austrian databases from Central Europe. In order to leave the country where they were born, even a gypsy needed an exit visa and a passport. There's no record of that. Of all countries where we can expect to find them, it's Poland. They didn't allow any peasant immigration from Prussia (the German partition) until the late 1860s. Galicians (from the Austrian partition) weren't allowed to immigrate until the 1880s. The Russian Poles couldn't leave until the very late 1890s. All of their records still exist.

The closest name I can find is Klapiński from the Posnan region. There are members of this family from several towns in Poland. All were Catholic. Johan Klapiński left Poland in April, 1873 and arrived in the US on 20 May 1873.

What you're going to need to do is basic genealogy research to trace back to the late 1800s and figure out who your immigrant ancestor was. Get his marriage and death certificates, any immigration paperwork that he filed (it's stored at the National Archives and Records Administration regional center that handles things from the state where he lived when he was Naturalized), and census records. If he lived in the Midwest, check and see if his state also did their own census mid-decade. If that's the case, then you can get even more detailed information about him.

IT SOUNDS kind of polish... http://www.google.com.au/search?q=origin...

maybe if you email some people from above you might find some help

Who came to this country and when? If it was her father, and he came after 1900 then his immigration papers might have very valuable info for you.

I suggest getting searching for interview questions and asking your grandmother and any of her siblings questions on video or cassette while you still can. See if she has old photos of your ancestors - they might have clues and if they are unlabeled label them QUICK!

http://www.polishroots.org/genpoland/sur...
Has some insight into slavic name meanings. I searched for the name and came up with nothing.