The Kin

    The family split into several branches in the early 16^th century, beginning the Kozar families in the Podlaskie, Bracław, and Vitebsk voivodeships; the Lisiczyński and Naczowicz families in Volhynia; the Sakowicz family in Podlaskie; and the Netczuk, Saczuk, Naczowicz, and Ostaszowicz families in Podlaskie, Lithuania, and Ruthenia.

    Polish branch. The Netczuk surname is used in Międzyrzec exclusively by descendants of the mayor Nacz Sakowicz, following his son Ostasz Nieczkowicz alias Sakowicz, continuously from its formation between 1610 and 1645. The mayor's grandchildren used the nickname Ostaszowicz, but only the children of his son Nieczek Ostaszowicz Nietkowicz gave rise to all the contemporary Polish Netczuks and Sakowicz-Saczuks of Międzyrzec.

    Ukrainian branch. The surname Netczuk appeared simultaneously in the branch of Nacz Sakowicz's brother or uncle, Maksymilian Netychuk, who remained in Volhynia, where in 1515 he was a boyar in Peresopnica near Klevan. He is most likely the progenitor of the Netkowski family, also known as the Neczkowski, including Krzysztof Netkowski, hetman of the Zaporozhian army in 1596, and the eastern (Ukrainian) branch of the Netczuks.

    The descendants of the Ostaszowicz family after mayor Nacza, split into two families in the 17^th century: the Sakowiczs, who produced Symeon Sakowicz, the Greek Catholic parish priest of the Old Town in Międzyrzec, and the Netczuks.

    At the turn of the 18^th and 19^th centuries, three sons of Fedor Netczuk (1766-1832), a deacon and teacher at the Międzyrzec greek-catholic church school, founded three large branches of the Netczuks. Two of these became numerous, while the third died out in Poland at the end of the 19^th century, and its descendants now live only in America. These were Wiktor, Jan, and Ignacy.

    Currently, descendants of Wiktor and Jan's Netczuk branch number 94 in Poland (according to the PESEL database statistics as of January 22, 2025 – 51 men and 43 women) in this number 50 person of Jan branch, 22 of Wiktor branch and 22 of both branches but not connected to MyHeritage tree. This raises questions about the validity and method of presenting the data in the table. According to the "Search for a Surname" database, there are 65 Netczuks in Poland, which is an underestimate. As of early 2025, our tree contains 72 people with the Netczuk surname living in Poland. Three Jan's members have settled permanently in Canada. Descendants of Ignacy's branch had the surname spelled Natchuk and lived in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and the USA. Approximately 10 people from this branch live abroad (approximately 6 in Canada, approximately 2 in the USA, and 1 in Brazil). They perform various important professions. The number of descendants from all branches is currently unknown. The Ukrainian branch's members in 2025 number ca. 368:
- Natchuk: Russia - approximately 49, Belarus - approximately 45,
- Netchuk: Ukraine - approximately 25, Russia - approximately 5,
- Netychuk: Ukraine - approximately 210, Russia - approximately 25, Belarus, Mladoviya, Uzbekistan - 3.
Furthermore, the relationship status with the Nadczuk family is unknown, as of 2025 it numbers 26 in Poland and 1 in the UK. Representatives of this family live primarily in Lesser Poland and the Subcarpathian regions. Stanisław Netczuk (born September 22, 1889) lived in Jedlicze, near Krosno, with his wife Zogfia, née Jaworska, from the Wiktor's branch, he studied in Kraków and was also associated with Rzeszów. We currently have no knowledge of his descendants.

Our Family

    The Netczuk Family Club was founded on the initiative of the Netczuk family from Wrocław, belonging to the Jan branch, particularly thanks to Tadeusz Netczuk from the Mikołaj subbranch – the Eugeniusz line. Cultivating the best traditions of the family, our family established organizational structures in the form of an archive, library, and family administration in 1967, upon the marriage of Tadeusz Netczuk to Henryka née Puszcz (of Bońkowski - Czachowski family origin). From the outset, the documentary aspect of our heritage has been extremely important to us.

    Organizationally, our family operates as a trustee with its own statute and code of honor. The organic statute, a collection of the most important values ​​and traditions, is enforced through adherence to the principles of the code. Today, there are no legal means of protecting the interests of family communities in our country. The legal system of the Second Polish Republic officially had no place for such organizations, but at least the state did not hinder them, allowing them to thrive. Unfortunately, our family community was already experiencing a crisis at that time, primarily for economic reasons. After 1944, the situation changed. Everything related to civil liberties was abolished and stigmatized. Our statute and code are written collections of traditional values ​​to which we have been faithful for generations. They were passed down to us by our ancestors orally, as part of family tradition. As Tadusz Netczuk researched his family history, the idea of ​​gradually returning to these traditions arose.

    In the context of our family's mission, maintaining knowledge of the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) language and the Greek Catholic rite is particularly important, as we are the last family in our kin to be formally and practically Greek Catholic. Despite ongoing social changes, we maintain tradition at the center of our lives, not as an relic of the past, but as a living beacon of values.

    The idea of ​​the trust of Eugeniusz Netczuk's successors, renewed in 1967, harks back to the family trust of Jan and Mikołaj Netczuk from the mid-19^th century. Contrary to appearances, this family organization does not restrict freedom; on the contrary, it organizes day-to-day, social, and family matters, and above all, it unites and teaches responsibility. This form is very rare in our country today.

    Since leaving Wrocław in 2017, Tadeusz and Henryka have run an apiary in Zieleniec, cultivating our family's beekeeping and gardening traditions. The legal successors of Tadeusz and Henryka are their son Łukasz and his wife Ewa.

Tadeusz	Henryka
Łukasz & Ewa