History
Prehistory
Thanks to an amazing development of science and technology in the field of genetic
research, we know much more now about our past distant by thousands of years from
the presence than our history 200 years ago...
Our genes belong to haplogroup R1a1 of the Y chromosome, which indicates that about
10 thousand years ago our great-great-fathers resided the steppes of today's Ukraine
(at least according to one of the most popular theories). The were speaking the language
known today as the pra-Indo-European, from which the majority of European and some
of Indian languages derive. Most probably, between V and VII century during the expansion
of the Slavs to the west, our ancestors decided to drift with the current and they
moved into the territories of today's Poland.
Terra Incognita
It is not known, unfortunately, what happened exactly before the mid-nineteenth century.
We know, however, that while some of our genetic cousins have never traveled pass
the eastern part of Poland's borders during the before-mentioned migration, others
(most likely by joining the Vikings) settled down in countries such as Germany, Austria,
Sweden, Denmark (where our closest genetic relative found so far comes from), the
Netherlands, Belgium, England, Scotland or Wales.
XIX - XXI century
Somewhere in the middle of the nineteenth century in St. Petersburg, Piotr Wąsowski
(Vonsovski) became a father of five children: Piotr Wąsowski (1858-1928), Jan, Antoni,
Karolina and Michalina. Where did he reside before the Partitions of Poland? Some
say from Plock, but who knows it today....
Jan had a daughter Zofia, (who was granted a papal dispensation and married her cousin,
Alfons, son of Piotr), and Antoni had a daughter Janina.
Piotr Wąsowski married Karolina Marot (whose father was a tsar's gardener apparently)
and was an absolute champion in terms of number of children: Rozalia Wąsowska (1887-1980),
Stanisław Wąsowski (1889-1944; daughters: Lola, Janina, and Gala), Bronislaw (1891
-1986), Piotr (1893-1944, sons: Eugeniusz, Piotr /granddaughter Elena / and daughter:
Lidia), Józef (1895-1934; sons: Victor / died as a child /, Eugeniusz, Władysław,
Paweł - died during the war), Łucja (1897-1989), Eugeniusz (1989-1919), Maria (1906-1997),
Czesław (1911-1919), Alfons (1902-1976, husband of Zofia Wąsowska) and Wiktor Wąsowski
(1900-1982).
After the First World War Wiktor returned to Poland, to Warsaw, where he met Maria
Czerniewska. They got married in 1926, and after the WWII, they moved to Silesia,
where most of their children, grandchildren and grand-grandchildren live today ...
