About ANTHONY RACZKIEWICZ (who came from Tomaszow Lubelskie Poland to Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) and his family
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Why did The Neidvied Family Move from Uhnow, Galicia to Tomaszow? (Curt Wolf's Story)
Curt Wolf was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is my 4th cousin. As you can see from the picture, his relative Juliana Kaszucka married a Niedzwiedz. Julianna and my 2x great grandfather Jozef were siblings. The family she married into also originated In Uhnow so he has been trying to determine why they moved:
Why did our family move from Uhnow, Galicia to Tomaszow?
In the last letter (Part 6), I mentioned that the Niedvieds came from UHNOW (now Ukraine) to Tomaszow in the very early 1800s. Thanks to Paulette Longwell's research, I discovered probable reasons why. In the late 1700s, the Austrian assumed power over an area just south of Tomaszow called Galicia. Uhnow was in Galicia. With new international border came the cutting off trade routes to Uhnow. The Hapsburgs, who ruled Austria at the time, didn’t want this area to focus on trade anyway. They solely wanted it to be agricultural to produce food for the Empire. Furthermore, Austria raised taxes and a famine began early in the 1800s. Above that, the Austrians began conscripting men into their Army. Our family had no allegiance to this this new dominating Power so for all the reasons above they moved to Tomaszow. Ironically, the same Hapsburgs that were making it hard on our Niedzwiedzki ancestors were the ones that had given our Eifler relatives opportunity a decade or so earlier.
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