Any Scottish Poles....or Polish Scots?

[ScotAtHeart]

My mother's family (Dudziak, pronounced somewhere between "do jock" and "du chok") is Polish. A "duda" is a Polish bagpipe and a "dudziak" is a bagpipe player.

Now that it quite interesting.

I don't think my father's name means anything special...it's something along the lines of Miskowicz or Miksowicz....I have absolutely no clue how it's spelled.

[mookien]

It's possible that your father's surname is a transliteration of a common Polish/Russian word. You might check with someone who speaks the language(s) and ask. I wish I could remember my Russian from 45 years ago, so I could help you, but alas, most of it is gone.

Russian and Polish are spoken very similarly. I used to read my Russian lessons to my mother and she understood almost every word I spoke. But, she could not read a word of Russian, because of its Cyrillic alphabet.

By the way, Russian borrows its grammar from Latin, so for example, if you know Latin conjugations and declensions, the Russian analogs are almost identical, but of course in Cyrillic.

[ScotAtHeart]

Yes...I will have to find a local Pole to help me...as I know not a single word of Russian or Polish. oop: I wish I knew how he spelled his surname because it's difficult to try to find any records when there are eighty bajillion ways to spell a name.