Family Tree ~ Pio-Ulski
The Pio-Ulski family was a branch of the Ulski family, which were located in northeastern Belarus, especially in the Polotsk, Vitebsk, Mogilev triangle, and which originated from at least the early 17th century.
There is information about members of the family on the Family Pio-Ulski page.
Family Tree Pio-Ulski
My father’s great-great grandfather was Alexander Pio-Ulski/Pioulski, who was a noble landowner. His great grandfather was Jerzy/Egor Alexandrovich, who was a judge and landowner, and his grandfather was Wladyslaw/Vladyslav Egorovich (who was a mathematics teacher and secondary school inspector, as well as being a Court Counselor). He married Sabina Bronislawa Biestrzykowska, who came from a noble family in western Poland.
Sabina’s parents were Teodor Biestrzykowski from Biestrzyków, whose family carried the Prus (I – Turzyna) and Marianna Rozalia Masłowska from Masłowice, whose family carried the Samson crest.
The Pio-Ulski/Pioulski family was a branch of the Jan Ulski family which was located in northeastern Belarus, especially in the Polotsk, Witebsk/Vitebsk, Mogilev triangle, and which originated from at least the early 17th century.
Pio-Ulski Family Tree (1700s-1800s [courtesy Viktoria Pilnik]
Updated Pio-Ulski Family Tree
I recently (2018) had a DNA test just for the heck of it and must say the results were a bit disappointing 😒
The first one was done by MyHeritage and it said that I was 56.6% Baltic (I guess that was okay since that would be around Belarus), 48.3% Balkan (I suppose they didn’t have much in the way of Russian markers so clumped me under Serbian) and then these weird percentages : 2.1% Central American (what?) and 1.0% NIGERIAN (what what what?? 😄)
I can tell you my family didn’t stop teasing me about the Nigerian percentage!
I then uploaded my data to the Family Tree DNA site to see what their assessment of my DNA was.
Well I was relieved to see they said I was 96% Eastern European but I had a few markers which had me down as < 1% North and Central America; < 2% Northeast Asia and < 2% West Middle East but each of these had an annotation which said …. «A trace percentage indicates a very small amount of shared DNA in common with the corresponding population. In some cases this minor percentage could be attributed to background noise.»
I agree that those anomalies were “background noise” and I was also happy to put the Nigerian teasing behind me and stride forth as a 100% dinky di Eastern European!
WOOT \o/ 😁