The answer is under the following link:
http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/ancestry/Polish.txt . Please let me
know if you know about any other reliable, more accurate source of
information about number of Persons of Polish Ancestry. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Marcin Chwist
Other useful links:
Census web site:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0029/twps0029.html
INS web site:
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/statistics/illegalalien/index.htm
#Table1 ,
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/statistics/index.htm
Chicago Statistics (prepared by a Polish radio station):
http://www.polskieradio.com/polskieradioreklama.shtml, and New York
Statistics (prepared by Polish radio station):
http://www.polskieradio.com/polskieradionyreklama.shtml
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> The real number, listed by the census, is 9.3 million. Given
> natural increase
> and an annual (legal) immigration from Poland of 25,000-30,000,
> ten million
> is a nice round number.
>
> Estimates of 12 million, 40 million, 60 million, or 6 million are
> fantasies.
> There is only one reliable mode of data collection on ancestry--the census
> long form.
>
> I would be curious to know where the 6 million number comes from. Certain
> individuals in Polonia are given to wild exaggeration and fantasy. (E.g.
> Poles invented baseball, a Pole discovered America, etc. Many of these
> stories can be traced back to Artur Waldo.) However, I've never
> seen anyone
> estimate low.
>
> --John Radzilowski
>
