A surname is just a word and words come from languages not countries.
Word history has zero to do with family history ..........

I can find no Russian or Polish records online of this surname they are all American, so it is more likely to be an Americanised version......... follow the real records that you family generated during their lifetime if you wish to know anything at all about your family history

Kodiak gave you FamilySearch and it is a great website and I believe it along with Ancestry.Com which many public libraries have you can use for free, each probably have more records online than all the others put together, not that all records are online.

With those 2 websites or ANY website you must distinguish between the records they have and their subscriber submitted family trees which you should personally verify with records before accepting what you see in them as fact. This is true if you see the absolute same information on the same people from a ton of other subscribers as too many dingbats copy without verifying. No way do the websites hire people to verify what their subscribers submit as it would be far too costly. I view any website that only has family trees as a trash website. With the records on websites, sometimes the website has copies of the original images of the records and sometimes they are only on an index. However, when they are only on an index it is far less costly to write the county courthouse, state library or whatever and get a copy of the original than to travel many miles across country to get it.

But let me tell you something. You don t start with the web. Start with your own family and find out what all they might have. Do you have your birth certificate? It has the names of both of your parent including you rmother s maiden name. How about your parents and grandparents? Do they have theirs? Also death certificates usually will have the names of both of the parents of the deceased including mother s maiden name. Now you will get back to a time before births and death were recorded and then church records can be valuable such as baptisms, confirmation, marriages and deaths.

Find out if any of your family has any old birth, marriage and death certificates on your ancestors. Find out if they have any old baptismal, confirmation, marriage certificates from your ancestors churches Maybe they have some old family bibles, old family photos, old wills, deeds, and othe records.

Also it is wise to talk to senior family members and tape them if they will let you. Chances are they will get into telling stories of days gone by you wouldn t write down but in those stories all too often are clues that will help you break through a brick wall in your research. You should go back now and then and listen to the tapes again as you will probably hear things you didn t hear the first time around. Now, no way do all family stories pan out but you should get them anyway as there still can be clues in them.

Then go to a Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. If you find anything in their database you would like to view and print off a copy of an original document, they can order microfilm for you to view there for a reasonable fee of about $5. I have never had them to try and convert me nor have I heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources. Just use the following link to find the nearest Mormon FHC.

https://familysearch.org/locations/cente...

After you have done the above use the web as a tool only. Also you will have a better idea as to what to look for on the web.
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