I’m the last one in my family, no relatives that I know of alive anymore to speak of aside from my parents. I want to understand where we came from, what made us who we are, what was home to my kin.
With that I’ve managed to pull out the naturalization paperwork of my Great-Grandfather when he left what was then still under the heel of the Russian empire.
It appears to me he was from Radom, but I figured if anyone could confirm with certainty, they’d likely be in this subreddit. I’d love to visit, I just want to know I’m starting in the right place.
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It does look like Radom to me, so being born under Russian rule is in line with the city’s history: it was part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until the Third Partition, then under Austrian rule until the 1815 Congress of Vienna established the Congress Poland – which then, in an act of supreme idiocy asked to join the Russian Empire and was disabused of that silly notion of “autonomy” by the end of 1860’s.
1922, though, doesn’t quite add up. The handwriting is difficult to parse due to the relatively low quality of the scan, but he seems to be renouncing allegiance to Prussia and Russian, not Poland.
It may be that your ancestor left the territory prior to Poland’s re-establishment at the end of WW1.