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Re: Help with town name

Elzbieta Porteneuve — Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:37 pm

Author: Elzbieta Porteneuve

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:37 pm

Krishy88 wrote:

Elzbieta,

Is smolica or snolica a place in Poland? Or was it a place in Poland in the early 1900's? I suspect that his death certificate has snolica or smolica as his birthplace. However, an immigration record has smolice listed as their town.

Yes, Smolice is a place in Poland, 5 villages with the same name:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolice

Best,
Elzbieta

Re: Help with town name

Krishy88 — Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:32 pm

Author: Krishy88

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:32 pm

Elzbieta,

Is smolica or snolica a place in Poland? Or was it a place in Poland in the early 1900's? I suspect that his death certificate has snolica or smolica as his birthplace. However, an immigration record has smolice listed as their town.

Re: Help with town name

Elzbieta Porteneuve — Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:20 pm

Author: Elzbieta Porteneuve

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:20 pm

Krishy88 wrote:

Could someone please tell me where the Michael Kohola mentioned on this death records was born? I cannot make it out. Also, any help with the Kohola surname would also be much appreciated! My family now goes by the surname Hahula. Is there any relation between these two names or is this perhaps just a misspelling or a language barrier issue?

Thanks in advance!

Krishy,

Hahula is Polish name.
Kohola does not exist in Poland. I guess a typo or bad deciphering, not to mention a mishmash between Latin and Cyrillic.

Hahula:
http://www.stankiewicze.com/index.php?kat=44&sub=538

Hahuła - od chachulić ‘ukrywać coś’, chachuła ‘pysk, morda’.
Hahula - od chachulić ‘ukrywać coś’, chachuła ‘pysk, morda’.
verb: ‘ukrywać coś’ = to hide something
noun: ‘pysk, morda’ = mouth

14 Hahuła
http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/hahu%25C5%2582a.html
4 Hahula
http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/hahula.html
1182 Chachuła
http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/chachu%25C5%2582a.html

Alas, I do not have enough letters to try to find the place name. I think it ends with -lica.

Best,
Elzbieta

Help with town name

Krishy88 — Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:45 pm

Author: Krishy88

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:45 pm

Could someone please tell me where the Michael Kohola mentioned on this death records was born? I cannot make it out. Also, any help with the Kohola surname would also be much appreciated! My family now goes by the surname Hahula. Is there any relation between these two names or is this perhaps just a misspelling or a language barrier issue?

Thanks in advance!