STASAR - A Polish surname?

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OrpelCh

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Aug 25, 2002, 8:24:47 AM8/25/02

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The Slownik of Polish surnames do not list any Stasar in Poland .

See www.herby.com.pl

Robert Jerin

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Aug 25, 2002, 1:50:13 PM8/25/02

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"Frank Kurchina" <fra...@worldnet.att..net> wrote in message
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> Connie wrote:
> >
> > The daughter of a polish family who lived around 1930 in Ohio,
> > married a man with the surname Stasar. Is this a polish surname, too?
> >
> > Thank you for any help
> >
> > Connie
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> Stasar is not in Germany telephone directory , nor is it a Polish
> surname.
> A Mathias Stassar was born in OH in 1924.

Mathias STASSAR is also the only STASSAR/STASAR record found in SS Death
Index. No phone listings in US for either surname.

Robert

Connie

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Aug 26, 2002, 11:01:03 PM8/26/02

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Hello Robert and OrpelCh,

Thank you for your help. I found out that the name "Stasar", which is
mentioned in an obit, has been misspelled there. The correct name
should be "Slosar", but I still don't know where it is coming from.

Connie

Alexander Sharon

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Aug 26, 2002, 11:53:17 PM8/26/02

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"Connie" <genealo...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Connie,

Slosar has originated from German "Schlosser" - a locksmith or sometime also
a mechanic.

Slosar could be the name used in German-Polish culturally mixed regions such
as Upper Silesia (Oberschliessen), Lower Silesia (Niederschlessian) or any
similar regions.

Hope this help,

Alexander Sharon
Canada

Robert Jerin

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Aug 27, 2002, 4:36:55 PM8/27/02

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40 listings are found at Ellis Is

Robert

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Luke89

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Aug 29, 2002, 5:59:54 PM8/29/02

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Użytkownik "Alexander Sharon" <a.sh...@shaw.ca> napisał w wiadomości
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> Slosar has originated from German "Schlosser" - a locksmith or sometime
also
> a mechanic.
> Slosar could be the name used in German-Polish culturally mixed regions
such
> as Upper Silesia (Oberschliessen), Lower Silesia (Niederschlessian) or any
> similar regions.

Slusarz is kind of a mechanic in standard polish, not only in the
south-western regions. Some centuries ago it was spelled "slosarz", but
never "slosar". It's rather uncommon as a surname, but such variants as
Slusarczyk or Slosarczyk or Slosarski are frequent.
Luke

Alexander Sharon

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Aug 30, 2002, 12:43:12 AM8/30/02

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"Luke89" <lsta...@wp.pl> wrote in message

> Użytkownik "Alexander Sharon" napisał w wiadomości

> > Slosar has originated from German "Schlosser" - a locksmith or sometime
> also a mechanic.
> > Slosar could be the name used in German-Polish culturally mixed regions
> such
> > as Upper Silesia (Oberschliessen), Lower Silesia (Niederschlessian) or
any
> > similar regions.
>
> Slusarz is kind of a mechanic in standard polish, not only in the
> south-western regions. Some centuries ago it was spelled "slosarz", but
> never "slosar". It's rather uncommon as a surname, but such variants as
> Slusarczyk or Slosarczyk or Slosarski are frequent.
> Luke

Well,

As I've said "Slosar" is corrupted or evolved version of the German
Schlosser.

Meet some Slosars that have made it:

St Louis University President and Professor
Dr. John Slosar

http://www.slu.edu/organizations/fs/CommRpts99-00/FacDevel.pdf

Fairfield baseball coach, John Slosar

http://fairfieldstags.ocsn.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/slosar_john00.html

Paul J Slosar, M D

http://www.spinecare.com/staff/SLOSAR.HTML

University of Sherbrooke Profesor, Stanislaw Slosar (originally from Poznan)

http://www.usherbrooke.ca/droit/personnel/slosar_stanislas.html

Psychloogy Professor, Jay Slosar

http://www.usherbrooke.ca/droit/personnel/slosar_stanislas.html

There are more availble

Probably all good Slosars have left for the States to became professors, and
all Slusarczyks and Slosarski have left in Poland to carry out 'kind of
mechanic' work.
--
Alexander

joe

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Aug 30, 2002, 7:21:01 AM8/30/02

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While your information regarding the Slosar surname was a welcome and valid
addition to the post, and you should receive appropriate thanks for
it...your editorial comments regarding emigrating Slosar professors vs.
Polish resident mechanics borders on ethnic slurs and nothing short of a
retraction and apology are appropriate.

Our surnames and their respective histories/ heritage are highly personal
issues in which we should likely all take interest and pride. Groups such as
this can go a long way in furthering the search for information about our
respective roots. Comments such as yours do nothing to enhance this
concept... and frankly come a bare notch short of making my blood boil. YOU
may have found your cheap Polack joke entertaining... but as one the
multitudes of folks of Polish heritage who use this board, I was more than
offended. In spite of their rich and successful cultural histories ,
peoples of Slavic heritage have all too often been the objects of scorn ,
riducule, invasion. persecution and worse at the hands of their northern and
or western neighbors and their self serving quests for physical and
emotional leibensraum at the expense of their neighbors.

Again.. regardless of your intent, I'll suggest that comments such as this
poor attempt at humor have no place on a board like this.

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Irena

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Sep 2, 2002, 12:30:59 PM9/2/02

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There is a Slosar family in Rijeka, Croatia. I don't know of their
origins, but it is worth to try on a Croatian phone book page.
http://imenik.hinet.hr

--
Irena Biro