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All surnames Zwijas, Kopic, Niemiec, Filip, Ciagwa
All places Waksmund Village Near Nowy Targ, Malawa Village Near Rzsezow Town, Nowy Targ Town, Chmielnik Village Near Rzsezow, Kielnarowa Village Near Chmielnik
Research notes Paternal grandparents, Jan Sebastian Zwijas and Katarzyna (nee Niemiec) both hailed from the village of Waksmund, near the town of Nowy Targ, in the Polish Highlands.



Maternal grandparents, Tomsacz J. Kopic c. 1883 (pos. Kopec/Kopacz, or even, Wosniak?) came from the village of Malawa, near the town of Rzsezow, PL; and Agnieszka, c. 1885 (nee Filip) came from the nearby village of Chmielnik (not the town of the same name).



Ciagwa surname, of supposed ancestor dating from 1615, hailing from Subsuche, then Zakopane region.