My Dad is 1/2 pure Polish and 1/2 pure Irish. Both his mother and father's familys came here in the early 1900s. Very, very little is known about anyone on that side of the family...my father and his brothers are the only ones left alive.

>>In my family, scraps remain. On my Mom's side of the family (yes, Koziol doesn't seem Southern and it's not - my Dad's family came here about 100 years ago) we still have Confederate currency, a CSA sword, and other memorabilia.
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>Where did your Dad's family come from?
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>Since I brought up the subject, the Empies came from the Rhine valley some time after the Thirty Years War. Empie is a corruption of some German name, possibly Omichen.
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>All my ancestors would have fought on the Union side if at all. We don't have any memorabilia that I know of.