Nick Gombash's Genealogy Blog

The Szepessy de Négyes family was the first connection to "large" nobility I had in my family tree. I discovered this cousin line...

Long has this family been a mystery to me up until a few years ago, when I started to finally make some breakthroughs. Martin is the surname...

Miklós Horthy was born into a family of mixed religions and backgrounds. His paternal family were middle-class to upper nobility and were...

Czarny is the surname of my paternal grandmother's mother. They were a Polish family who immigrated to Chicago from a village called Oso...

Back about 5 years ago, I discovered a newspaper article from the late 1910's that stated an Emma Gombash was divorcing an Alex Gombash...

Grządziel is the surname of my paternal grandfather's mother. I don't know too much about this line considering the Roman Catholic ...

Have you ever seen a family use the mother's surname, instead of the father's? My maternal grandmother, Elaine Stuempges, is the gra...