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Zamojda

Updated April 18, 2002

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Our family name was changed from Zamojta to Zamojda. My great-grandfather was in the Czars palace guard, ( who later went to New York to become a professional wrestler but later returned home with his young wife). When the Czar and his family fled to the Urals compliments of the Bolsheviks,my grandfather went home to his wife and kids. To get across Russia, being considered a deserter by some factions, he decided to change the T to a D, disclaim an knowledge of any Zamojta and live to fight another day.
When I was in Warsaw I stopped of and talk to this gentleman who dealt with
Polish heraldry. The Polish side is Zamojski (well to do) but he told me to look further back into the Lithuanian Princes. Polish "royalty" comes from the Latvian/Lithuanian lineages.
Past generations have lived in Nowogrod, previous (medieval capital) of
Russia; Vilno, capital of Lithuania; and Riga, capital of Latvia.
Also, there are many Zamojda's on the Ellis Island website and there was aslo a Kuryowicz connecting somehow with a Eugenia Zamojda. Please post a message!

 
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