Im trying to find out my family history where could i go to find out about the name GOSTYNSKI?

Question

Ive found polish clans that have my name in it such as the Lubicz. But i still dont know where i started and things like that if i can find a family tree somewhere?

Answer 1

You didn't say if your family was Jewish or not, but I found

522 matches found for the name Gostynski on www.jewishgen.org

Searching for Surname GOSTYNSKI

Description Press the Button to view the matches--From Jewish Records Indexing-Poland

   List 121 records from Kalisz Gubernia

   List 6 records from Kielce Gubernia

   List 116 records from Piotrkow Gubernia

   List 56 records from Plock Gubernia

   List 48 records from Warszawa Gubernia

   List 2 records from Krakow Wojewodztwa

   List 1 record from Tarnopol Wojewodztwa

   List 14 records from no specified Region

Jewish Family Finder-- List 17 records

The JewishGen SIG Lists Archives-- List 48 records

JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry - Piotrkow  --   List 7 records  

The Brest Ghetto Passport Archive  --  List 1 record  

Galicia 1891 Business Directory  --  List 7 records  

Index of 1890 and 1891 NY Immigrants from Austria, Poland, and Galicia  --  List 20 records  

Warszawa Gubernia Duma Voters Lists, 1907  --   List 7 records  

JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry - Canada - Ontario --    List 1 record  

Sugihara Database --   List 2 records  

Pinkas HaNitzolim II  --  List 5 records  

Czestochowa Forced Laborers --   List 2 records  

Lodz Ghetto List  --  List 36 records  

Lodz Ghetto Hospital Death Records --   List 4 records  

Lodz Ghetto Volume 5 --1 record

To check them out, you have to register with a user name/password. Though it is NOT necessary, you can make a tax deductible contribution (http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosi...  tells how to do so), donate  material , or even volunteer to help the site (like transcribing records, etc. I assume).

www.familysearch.org

GOSTYNSKI--Matches: All Sources - 28

Piotr Gostynski--Male--Birth:  1595   Of, , , Poland  is the earliest listing.

Here are a few samples from other sites, looked up on www.myheritage.com: Total matches:  1,316  in  55  databases

1. MyHeritage--12

2.www.worldvitalrecords.com--69

3. www.Genealogia.com --2 family trees

4. www.GeneaNet.org--17 matches

5.www.findagrave.com--3

6.www.ellisisland.org--40 matches

7.www.gencircles.com--2 matches

8. www.icq.com/people/?searched=1&gender=&f...

9. www.veromi.net--Death Search--21 Matches Found,  GOSTYNSKI

Answer 2

If you want a family tree, you have to make one.

Two of the  very few with this name on ancestry.com had a Russian birthplace, which could be in Poland now.

But don't forget, your heritage is more than one surname.

Good luck on your search.

( This can be a very addicting hobby.)

Answer 3

google it on the internet, find others & contact them to find out if you are related.

Answer 4

The problem is that you're jumping several generations to find one answer somewhere back in the past. The problem with that is that spelling in Poland is notoriously "fluid". They changed spellings every time the political powers that be changed...and that was often. I found 32 entries from the Poznan Marriage project just with the exact spelling and another 40 or so with similar spellings. http://bindweed.man.poznan.pl

To solve the mystery, you need to do some talking to people in your family as the first step. Your goal is to figure out everyone in your father's line all the way back to the ancestor who came to the US. Don't be surprised if you start looking at obituaries and getting records from churches and find out that the spelling has changed here and there. The goal is to actually figure out if the current spelling is the same as it was in Poland in 1850.

The good news is that Polish genealogy isn't too hard. There were three countries that had Poland split up in the 1800s and until the end of WWI. They were Prussia (which later became part of Germany), Austria-Hungary and Russia. The year that your immigrant ancestors came over tells a lot. The Prussians/Germans were the kindest to their Polish people. They allowed them to start emigrating in the 1860s. German Polish immigration was at its peak from 1870-1885. Before 1880, there was almost no emigration from the Austrian partition (called Galicia) or the Russian partition (East Prussia and the former Congress of Poland and Lithuanian Poland).

The Galicians were the second group allowed to emigrate. It didn't start until the early 1880s and it peaked in the early 1890s. They still had Poles emigrating as late as the 1920s, but in a trickle.

The Russian Poles (often called Carpathians and Ruthenians) were the last group allowed to emigrate. Russia considered them pseudo slaves and wasn't kind to them. Emigration didn't start until the 1890s and it peaked after the Russian Revolution.

By 1900 the US was starting to keep much better records. The majority of Poles coming over after 1895 came through Ellis Island and by 1900 their town of birth was listed on the passenger records, as was the last town where they lived before leaving. If your snooping with your family can get you the name of your immigrant ancestor, the records at http://www.ellisisland.org will be a great help in finding where they were from. Once you know which partition they were from, you can start looking for records from the LDS Family History Center to track them back in Poland through Catholic and Orthodox church records.

The family tree of most Poles has never been done. So you get to do the research and become the expert on your family's history. It's wonderful, especially if you can make it into a family project. You'll be amazed at how much it brings everyone together.