Any idea of heritage in the last name Orlowski or Orlowsky?

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Any idea of heritage in the last name Orlowski or Orlowsky?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Orlowski
Polish (Orlowski) and Jewish (from Poland): habitational name for someone from any of the numerous places in Poland called Orlów, Orlowo, or Orly, named with Polish orlów, possessive case of orzel ‘eagle’.

Place of
Origin Orlowski Immigrants
Germany 38
Preussen 36
Russia 11
Austria 8
Grantens 6
Poland 5

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The best way I know for you to learn about your roots is to:

Build your family tree on line.
You can use a paid site like:
http://www.ancestry.com/

OR You can do this for free on:

http://www.tribalpages.com/

Start with yourself, and then attach living family members.
Find out all you can about you family from living members, then attach it to your tree.
Now it is time to look for historical records and attach the info to your tree:

It is ALL about census records, and other historical records!

You might get lucky and others may have done some work on your family tree. Google family members names i.e. "Mary Smith" + "family tree"

Free sites:

http://www.searchforancestors.com/...

http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739...

http://www.usgenweb.com/

http://www.census.gov/

http://www.rootsweb.com/

http://www.ukgenweb.com/

http://www.archives.gov/

http://www.familysearch.org/

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/...

http://www.cyndislist.com/

http://www.findagrave.com/

Genealogy message board:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/messageboards/newgu...

http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx...

http://boards.ancestry.com/

http://www.gensource.com/common/search.c...

http://messages.yahoo.com/yahoo/family__...

http://genforum.genealogy.com/

http://www.genealogyforum.com/messages/...

http://www.progenealogists.com/messagebo...

http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/b...

http://boards.rootsweb.com/

ECT.
The time may come when you want more information than you can find for free. When this happens you can back up your "tribalpage" tree to your computer on a "GEDCOM" file
you can then go to (I think it is the best subscription site)

http://www.ancestry.com/

Upload your "GEDCOM" file
and start to work!
You might need to make a few adjustments to your tree to make it look better. Source(s):
z Sounds Polish Central European databases show it's primarily from the western province of Poznan in Poland. That was part of the German partition during the 1800s, so you'll find immigrants from there either listed as German or Polish, depending on who took down the records.

Here's a link to the Poznan Marriage Project. If you type in the surname in the upper right corner, you'll find there are 64 marriages documented, including hometowns and the parish where you can find the records. If you can find your immigrant ancestors, the odds are you'll find the corresponding marriage records and can continue your research back in Poland. http://bindweed.man.poznan.pl/~bielecki/...