gumishu 11 | 6,017 6 Feb 2012 #61Everyone claims to be of nobility in Poland - but really, the vast majority were just peasants.if nobility were 10 per cent of the population in the mid of 18th century then as people started to mix more (with a kickstart in the middle of the 19th century and hardly any notion of nobility as a separate caste after the WW2) there is a great probability you have some ancestors from former nobility - simply remember that before 19th century the nobility mostly kept to themselves (if one was of nobility they had...