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spelling of Kazimir Pulawski

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spelling of Kazimir Pulawski

jpulawski  (View posts) Posted: 16 Dec 2004 7:39AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Pulawski, Pulaski, Polaski
Why is it that the spelling on the General's Ancestral home back in the Homeland and the most common spelling of his name in America different? The Polish American Museum in New York spells his name Kazimir Pulawski, but in Georgia and Illinois and almost everywhere in the US the name is spelled Pulaski.
Also, I am confused about all the people with the Pulaski or Pulawski or Polaski name that are said to be directly descended from Kaz, because he was not a married man. He had a few brother's and a sister that never left Poland, and I have read that she was in a Religious Order. One brother was killed by the Russian Occupiers at a young age before Kaz left Europe. The DNA testing that has been recently conducted on the remains found in his tomb in Georgia are being compared to his brother's decendants for probable verification.
Is this spelling riddle a Peking/Beijing, Rome/Roma sort of thing or are there two different family lines?

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