Source: The Chytrowski Family History 2007 by Bolek and Yvonne Chytrowski

Date: 2007 [unknown]
Location: California, United States
Surname/tag: Chytrowski

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"The Chytrowski Family History" was a family history book created by Bolek and Yvonne Chytrowski in 2007 in Sacramento, California, United States. It recorded the details of their ancestors from personal knowledge - either their own or information passed down to them.

This page does not transcribe all of the information from that book. Much of it has been used to create the individual WikiTree profiles for the people in the book.

There is some general information in the book that is transcribed on this page.

Contents 1 Transcribed parts of the book 1.1 Outline 1.2 Ancestors of Bolek Chytrowski 1.2.1 Father's side 1.2.2 Mother's side 1.3 Ancestors of Yvonne Mende

Transcribed parts of the book

Outline

In reading and viewing the Chytrowski family genealogy, you will notice that you are viewing an international family migration. First in Europe where three generations migrated between Poland and Germany this was associated with Poland's partitions during the wars in Europe.

The Mende family was rooted in the region of Breslau and Ratibor in the German sector of Silesia. The oldest ancestor Mathias Bednorz was born on the family farm in 1821. The farm was in the family for about 200 years until after the World War II when the last heir, Gunter Mende was expatriated and exiled to Germany.

After the Second World War the younger generation immigrated to Western Europe and from there some individuals like us and others continued the emigration through Canada to the Promised Land America.

In our Family Tree, you will find individuals of Polish, German, Belgian, Russian, English and American descend. The senior core of the family derives from Poland and Germany.

We are the so called "Silesians", located in the south west corner of Poland, bordering with the Czech Republic and Germany. It is the most industrialized portion of Poland that competed with Westphalia in Germany. Silesia was on-and-off German or Polish. The targets always were the rich coal deposits and heavy steel foundries. Uprisings and fighting for independence were quelled by the powerful neighbors.

Ancestors of Bolek Chytrowski

Father's side

Wojciech Chytrowski with his wife Maria Tlauka had a large family. They are the oldest relatives that we could find in our records.

Wojciech Chytowski was born in 1872. They had five sons and three daughters, all born in Bottrop, near Essen, Germany.

Albert Chytrowski and Wanda Trzoska are Bolek's parents. Albert Chytrowski was known as the 'family diplomat' and Wanda Trzoska the business woman.

Bolek grew up in a large circle of relatives; they lived all in the same village.

Mother's side

On the side of Bolek mother Wanda Trzoska, her father Ludwig Trzoska, born in 1871 and his wife Katharina are the oldest relatives we could find in our family records.

They were Bolek's grandparents. They had a large family, five sons and three daughters, all born in Essen, Westphalia, Germany.

Bolek remembers almost all of the children his uncles and aunts. They were a very close family and most lived not far from Bolek's family home.

Ancestors of Yvonne Mende

Mathias Bednorz and Katharina Konierko are the oldest ancestors in the Mende family register. Mathias Bednorz was born in 1821. Both were born in Germany.

Lucian Mende and Elizabeth Klockiewicz are Yvonne parents, Lucian Mende was a medical doctor and practiced medicine for over 50 years.

Jerzy Klockiewicz, Yvonne's maternal grandfather, was born in the same part of Poland, Wielkopolska, as Bolek's grandfather Wojciech Chytrowski. He married Jadwiga Blazy. They were an outstanding Polish family. Yvonne grew up with these grandparents close by. She saw her grandmother Katharina Kulig only once as a child.