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Old 03-10-2014, 08:13 PM   #13
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POLISH-AMERICAN NAMES (nameset 15)

3.2% of American population

There were a fair number of spelling errors that needed to be corrected in this database - not surprising, perhaps, given how daunting Polish spelling can be. All diacritical marks were removed. Some nasalized vowels received an -m (e.g. Dąbrowski was changed to Dambrowski). Russian/Ukrainian names ending in -sky were deleted, as were feminine (-ska) versions of names ending in -ski. Some names were omitted to avoid repetition with the Jewish nameset.

Sources that I used include:

Some prominent Polish-American ballplayers:
  • Al Simmons (Aloys Szymanski)
  • Stan Musial (Stanislaw Franciszek Musial)
  • Carl Yastrzemski
  • Stan Coveleski
  • Bill Mazeroski
  • Moose Skowron
  • Doug Mientkiewicz
  • Richie Zisk


15 polish-american first names.txt

15 Polish-American names.txt

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