Grażyna Rychlik is researching her own family, too. She works on 8 great grandparents' lines and their ancestors and descendants. Below you can see these families listed. The menu in this section will take you to family trees which have been determined so far. As you can see there are more family names in the menu than listed below.
Grażyna Rychlik tested mt-DNA on her mother and father and both have been determined to belong to haplogroup J (with variations). She also tested Rychlik Y-DNA and so far it has been determined to belong to haplogroup I1c.
All DNA tests have been done through the National Geographic Genographic Project and first results became available in July and August 2009.
maternal great grandparents:
Marcelli Szaniawski b: 4 Jun 1860 in Kotarwice (par. Radom), d: 1912 in Radom
+Feliksa Bieniek b: 15 Mar 1868 in Janiszew (par. Radom), d: 1956 in Radom
Antonina Kaleńska (later became Kalińska) b: 30 Aug 1874 in Gilino (par. Bielsk), d: 24 Jun 1961 in Zawiercie
+Adam Skwark (later became Skwarek) b: 23 Feb 1869 in Zawiercie (par. Kromołów), d: 8 Apr 1934 in Zawiercie
paternal great grandparents:
Stanisław Franciszek Rychlik b: 17 Sep 1866 in Wielgie Grabówiec (par. Stoczek Węgrowski), d: 19 Feb 1948 in Majdan (par. Łochów)
+Apolonia Borowa b: 5 Feb 1880 in Wielgie Grabówiec (par. Stoczek Węgrowski); d: 6 Dec 1917
Jan Dołecki b: abt 1867 so far not known where, d: bef 1910 prob. in Pittsburgh, PA USA
+Konstancja Lipińska b: 1864; d: 29 May 1942 in Warszawa
Of all the family names in the many family trees of Grażyna Rychlik's ancestors the oldest so far is the family name Pieniążek* which appears in the written sources in a royal document from 1336 (please see a separate article on the Pieniążek family).
Second oldest ancestral family name in Rychlik. It appears in the written sources in 1429*. One family story has it that these Rychliks came from Bohemia but so far it has not been confirmed - mainly because the research is still underway and has not reached early 18th century or even earlier times. However, some family members appear in records as colonists which means at least that they came from somewhere else to settle around Stoczek Węgrowski. Many Rychliks who have been contacted during the research have their roots in Biskowice near Lviv (today's Ukraine) but detailed comparative information was never provided - mainly, it is believed, due to the fact that the research into Rychliks of Biskowice back in time was not carried out - and hence so far it is not possible to establish any connection between these two very different and distant locations for the same family name.
Family trees presented in this section show 5 years of research into all these families. Work is still in progress and as all genealogists know there is no end in view.
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*based on Słownik najstarszych nazwisk polskich (Dictionary of the oldest Polish family names), vol. I - Zofia Kowalik-Kaleta, Leonarda Dacewicz, Beata Raszewska-Żurek, published by the Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Slavonic Foundation, Warsaw 2007 [translation by Grażyna Rychlik and may differ from official translation used by the publisher and authors]
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