If anyone can help me just even give a clue of what religion and background it seems my great grandparents were?

Gypsyfish

The problem is that the boundaries shifted a lot in previous centuries. What's Slovakia and Poland today was once part of Greater Germany. Many of the people who came here from Russia and other parts of eastern Europe in the 1800s were Jewish- they were driven out. However, your ancestry report should if they were originally from the Middle East or Ashkenazi Jews. Also, who is popping up on your relatives list?

JUANA

In the nineteenth century people tended to marry people of their own faith or at the very least convert to a single faith. Austria is a Catholic country so is Poland. A sizeable minority of Ukrainians are Catholic. In the nineteenth century the Ukraine and Poland sizeable Catholic German minority’s living within their borders, southern Poland then known as Galacia was a province of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire as well as Slovakia what was called Moravia. So it’s quite a strong possibllity they were Catholic

Sunday Crone

Austria and Poland as well as a portion of Germany were known to be Catholic

Chris

I see a lot of other answerers think you are either Catholic or Jewish. As to the first, Jews within the Russian empire were 98 0/0 Yiddisch speaking+-exempli gratia, the greatest industry for Jews was textiles and the 2 great centres were Berdicheff, Russia and Lodz, Poland because, the border had been redrawn since Prince Radziwill established The Textile Monopoly in 1797. Radziwill owned millions of square miles within the Russian empire and with it millions of people, serfs or, "souls" as they called them. But Russians spoke Russian. Possibly they turned away from Orthodoxy and fled into the Habsburg Empire which included mostly Roman Catholics.

kristin

Start looking at church and synagogue records in the area he grew up in and see if his name is listed on their records. The only way to know your family history and genealogy (who you are related to) is to do the research or pay someone to do it for you, which can get very expensive very quickly. (Professional genealogists charge on average US$20-$23+ an hour.) Start with yourself and work your way backwards, one generation at a time. Gather up your records, such as a birth certificate, marriage certificate (if applicable), newspaper articles and clippings regarding some of your accomplishments, journal entries, etc. Do the same for your parents, grandparents, etc You could take a DNA test, but such tests are meant to be a TOOL and not a substitute for proper genealogical research

Amaretta

If your grandfather is still alive, ask him what religion he was raised in and what languages his parents may have spoken. Ask your parent what they know about their parents' and grandparents' background. Use Ancestry to do your own research, again looking for clues in census data and other records to find out what their background is. If you were not raised Jewish and your mother was not born Jewish, then you would not be considered Jewish (but your ancestors would be).

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Observer

There is no enough information to GUESS on the religion of your family and a good Genealogical Researcher would never guess. You are making to many assessments without evidence to support it.. You might check the death records/certificates, or where they were buried. Jews were not buried in Catholic Cemeteries and not all people who belonged to a particular religion were buried in a cemetery dedicated to that religion.

adam

In the nineteenth century people tended to marry people of their own faith or at the very least convert to a single faith. Austria is a Catholic country so is Poland. A sizeable minority of Ukrainians are Catholic. In the nineteenth century the Ukraine and Poland sizeable Catholic German minority’s living within their borders, southern Poland then known as Galacia was a province of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire as well as Slovakia what was called Moravia. So it’s quite a strong possibllity they were Catholic

Anonymous

coptic christian.