Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 12:14 am
Post subject: Podkarpackie, Poland/Medzilaborce, Slovakia
The cities in the subject are the current haystack with which I have to work in trying to learn what my mother's maiden name may have been. I found someone on a genetic genealogy website that shared similar markers prompting me to email her, and in turn she responded saying her father was from Medzilaborce, Slovakia. When I went to ancestry.com and typed that in, Podkarpackie, Poland came up in conjunction with Medzilaborce.
Unfortunately, on my records of adoption (1977) my mother's name was typed as Anna Lybia Melendez. While Melendez is my father's surname, my guess is that "Lybia" was the last name of her first husband, and not her maiden name, as it does not come up as a Polish name of any kind. I always get, "Did you mean Libya?"
My mother was born in Poland c 1934, and her mother was Polish, her maternal, and paternal grandparents were Polish, her father was Polish-American. She and her parents migrated to the USA/New York City around 1936 is my guess since the letter states "...she was barely 2..."
I come here taking a chance that maybe someone could offer some some insight on the name LYBIA. or even better, suggest some common Polish names in that region of Poland in the 1930s? (LOL; Quite a tall drink of water I know.) From the quick look I gave of my records, I thought her surname started with an "O" and ended with a "ski". I'm sure that's a long list of names.
If anyone does genetic genealogy, I recently learned my mtDNA is H5a2 (A very nice Polish geneticist confirmed it for me.) and the "Hungarian Marker" as I will call it is 16343G on HVR2
Signed
Needle in Polish Haystack
or Charlie
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 10:11 am
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Hi Charlie,
Do you have your records, or were you saying that you were only given a "quick look" at your records? I ask because you say from a quick look you thought her surname started with O and ended ski. You also referred to a letter. Perhaps more text from the letter or your records might provide a clue that someone here will recognize, but otherwise went overlooked.
If you are uncomfortable sharing this, that is quite understandable and I won't press you for more information.
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 11:45 am
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Hi Shellie
One of the legal documents in my possession, regarding my adoption, has my mother's name listed (typed on one of the "old school" typewriters) as Anna Lybia Melendez, and it is a faded legal duplicate; it has the lawyers' names and document numbers, but I don't think it'd be in any computer database now. My father's death certificate has spouse listed as Anna [no maiden name] Melendez, and this is scanned on ancestry.com (by me).
If anyone has connections with the New York Foundling Hospital, or the Probate Court in New York City??? maybe they can help.
The documents I found when I was in grade school, I think had her maiden name, but all I remember is the 'O' and the 'ski'. I had trouble reading cursive writing at the time, and
when I showed the booklet to my adoptive mother she chose not to explain anything to me; and I never saw it again. I already knew I was adopted; it didn't happen when I was a baby.
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:41 am
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Well ancestry.com has completed the New York portion of the 1940s census, and the only search that came up with any logical? results was "Anna Lyba". The census taker put her down as 8 years old, born in Poland and coded as "an American citizen born abroad." Father "William Lyba" born in Pennsylvania c 1900, and "Mary Lyba" b c 1904, born in Poland. No hint leaves have popped up for them yet. Who knows what Willam's family name might have really been. Lyba can be Leib or a truncation of a much longer name. Until I learn more, I guess this is where this ends. The O???ski could have been babcia's maiden name, but that's only a big guess. No siblings were on the census either.
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:34 am
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And after all is said and done, I found out Maria Lyba née Pysznyk was born in Chyrowa, Galica, Austria, and Anna Lyba was born in the same city, but in Podkarpackie, Poland. So, I guess I was wrong about Lybia being her ex husband's surname, and at the same time it is frustrating to know court papers can have errors. And this means my search is done, and I thank everyone who may have read this thread.
Just a note. while it says my grandfather's parents were also Polish, I found a whole bunch of Lybas on the 1940s census, and the place of birth was Ukraine which of course lies on the eastern borders of both Slovakia, and Poland, so I wouldn't be surprised if his parents came from that same town.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 3:03 pm
Post subject: Chyrowa
Lyba and Orletsky familes are interwoven... in and around Chyrowa.
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