Peterski
06-18-2025, 09:12 PM
I have just applied to set up the “Poles from Kresy” project on Family Tree DNA (FTDNA), of which I will be the main administrator. The purpose of the project will be to study the genetic ancestry of Poles from Kresy, including analyzing in what proportions they are descended from colonists from lands west of the Bug River, and in what proportions from Polonized Ruthenians, Balts, Baltic Germans, Jews, Tatars, Armenians, etc., etc. - and what these proportions of origin looked like in the various sub-regions of the Kresy. Ultimately, only those people of Kresy descent who identify themselves as Polish will be able to become members of the project, not every person from the area, but self-identification will be the criterion here. The Project will include both Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups and, if possible, also autosomal data. The territorial scope of the Project will be: East Galicia (part outside the borders of present-day Poland), Bukovina, Suwalki Governorate (part outside the borders of present-day Poland), Grodno Governorate (excluding Bialystok Oblast, i.e., part outside the borders of present-day Poland), as well as Vilnius, Minsk, Vitebsk, Kaunas, Mogilev, Courland, Livonia, Smolensk, Volyn, Podolia, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Poltava, Bessarabia and Kherson Governorates. The territorial extent, along with approximate percentages of the ethnically Polish population in each county in the second half of the 19th century, is shown on the map:
https://i.postimg.cc/WT48KjWj/Poles-Kresy.png
Map was made by me based on the following sources (titles translated to English):
Krzysztof Zamorski, “Statistical guide to the history of Galicia”,
W. Studnicki, “Statistical and economic outline of the northeastern lands”,
A. Tichomirow, “Religious composition of the population of Minsk Governorate in the 1850s-60s”,
A. Tichomirow, “Religious and ethnic structure of Vitebsk Gubernia in the first half of the 1860s”,
A. Tichomirow, “Poles in Mogilev Gubernia in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the light of statistics”,
Algirdas Budreckis, “The ethnographic eastern and southern borders of Lithuania”,
Wlodzimierz Wakar, “Territorial development of Polish nationality” part 3,
Russian population census of 1897, data on religions and languages,
For Bukovina data on languages from the Austrian population census,
Lucjusz Dura, “Map of the distribution of the Polish population”,
Piotr Eberhardt, “Nationality transformations in Lithuania”,
Piotr Eberhardt, “Nationality transformations in Belarus”.
https://i.postimg.cc/WT48KjWj/Poles-Kresy.png
Map was made by me based on the following sources (titles translated to English):
Krzysztof Zamorski, “Statistical guide to the history of Galicia”,
W. Studnicki, “Statistical and economic outline of the northeastern lands”,
A. Tichomirow, “Religious composition of the population of Minsk Governorate in the 1850s-60s”,
A. Tichomirow, “Religious and ethnic structure of Vitebsk Gubernia in the first half of the 1860s”,
A. Tichomirow, “Poles in Mogilev Gubernia in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the light of statistics”,
Algirdas Budreckis, “The ethnographic eastern and southern borders of Lithuania”,
Wlodzimierz Wakar, “Territorial development of Polish nationality” part 3,
Russian population census of 1897, data on religions and languages,
For Bukovina data on languages from the Austrian population census,
Lucjusz Dura, “Map of the distribution of the Polish population”,
Piotr Eberhardt, “Nationality transformations in Lithuania”,
Piotr Eberhardt, “Nationality transformations in Belarus”.