User:Rymaszewski

The Rymaszewski families lived in the north-east of the Polish Commonwealth or Polish Republic (which was a constitutional monarchy) since the 16th century.

Rymaszewski (Rymashevski) Rimaszewski (Rimashevski)

In the Russian Tsarist times the old family documents of the Rymaszewski families were either in Polish or in Russian language. The catholic churches, for example, were issuing birth certificates in Polish.

When reading or transcribing such documents from one language to another, the Polish letters "y" and "i", handwritten as Russian letters, look very similar and also they sound the same ( ee ), therefore errors were often made. This is how the difference between Rymashevski and Rimashevski spelling occurred.

But in fact, they all belonged to the same Rymaszewski noble family (rod) and they lived in the same territory.

In Polish, Belarus and Lithuanian heraldic books the name Rimaszewski is not found under any coat of arms. Only the Polish name Rymaszewski that used the . Since Rimaszewski was a noble name (dvoryanin) therefore they must have been the bearers of the "Pobóg" coat of arms, so their name was originally Rymaszewski.