Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 6:51 am
Post subject: Tosica ?
Could someone help with locating this town? Or something that could sound like it?
Attached is my grandfather's Alien Registration Card from the WWII time frame. I just obtained this document and this is the first document I have found where he mentioned a town. A couple of his kids, my father included, listed Warszawa on a couple of their documents when asked about father's place of birth. So- perhaps in that general area?
Would love to be able to locate Antoni's birth record if I could locate this town.
thanks
Dave
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 11:14 am
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Hi,
Do you have Manifest to Antoni from 1903 or 1909?
-Barb
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 11:19 am
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I don’t have a manifest. That name or similar names are
very common, even with a date of birth, and I have never been able to verify any of them.
I only received the alien form this week so i have not dug too deep into those exact arrival dates. If his memory was correct.
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 1:16 pm
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| dshizak wrote: | Could someone help with locating this town? Or something that could sound like it?
Attached is my grandfather's Alien Registration Card from the WWII time frame. I just obtained this document and this is the first document I have found where he mentioned a town. A couple of his kids, my father included, listed Warszawa on a couple of their documents when asked about father's place of birth. So- perhaps in that general area?
Would love to be able to locate Antoni's birth record if I could locate this town.
thanks
Dave |
Note: I deleted information since it was incorrect.
Trish
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 2:33 pm
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That manifest is likely. The destination seems to be Johnstown PA which is about 65 km from where he would be in 1912
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TrishPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 4:11 pm
Post subject: Re: Tosica ?
| dshizak wrote: | Could someone help with locating this town? Or something that could sound like it?
Attached is my grandfather's Alien Registration Card from the WWII time frame. I just obtained this document and this is the first document I have found where he mentioned a town. A couple of his kids, my father included, listed Warszawa on a couple of their documents when asked about father's place of birth. So- perhaps in that general area?
Would love to be able to locate Antoni's birth record if I could locate this town.
thanks
Dave |
Dave,
Do you have records from the USA on your grandfather such as his death record. census records, baptismal records of his children? All these records could have clues on them.
Was he always in West Virginia? I'm having trouble finding records on him.
Regards,
Trish
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 4:26 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 5:17 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 6:07 pm
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Thanks all for the responses. I do have other documents. His name became Andy Shizak, and under that name I have WW1 and WW2 cards, all the censuses, city directories and his death. He lived in Mt Braddock PA and then Star City/Morgantown WV.
Really stuck on the Polish origins. He used Antoni Cajkoski when he bought property and his will had both old and new names. His marraige license had Alexander as his father- spelled Caikoski then with mother as Julia (no maiden name) His SS application also had his father as Alexander. But here is mother is Josephine Basistsky.
Birth seems to be Aug 6 1881, but have seen Sept 6 1881 as well. To my knowledge, we have not located any brothers.
Unable to post additional documents right now, but wanted to provide more context.
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2026 7:50 am
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Here are a few other documents that show various spellings of his name.
What I would really like to obtain is the original town (Tosica ?) so that we would have a chance at the online archives.
I have also seen Warszawa listed, but I could not quickly find that document today. But, did he mean the city, or somewhere near there?
His WWI and WWII do not give clues as to where he was from.
One last clue- my father always told us that the name was pronounced like the composer Tchaikovsky. So doing searches for Anton/Antoni Czajkowski (allowing for spelling variations) is a bit like searching for a John Smith in the US. It is a very common name
Thanks for any help you could provide.
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TrishPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2026 9:47 am
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Hi DAve,
I am waiting for others like Barb and Sophia to give their opinions on the subject. I don't want to be sending you down the wrong path.
Happy Easter!
Regards,
Trish
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2026 11:11 am
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Hi Trish and Dave,
From the beginning and the first post to Dave: I am unable to trace the place. I have never heard of a place called Tosica, which is why I asked about the 1903 or 1909 manifest.
I have searched for an Antoni Czajkowski / Czaykowski / Czaikowski, born between 1879 and 1884, on Genetyka without any success. The exact date from the Alien Registration Card is not necessarily correct, as we have seen in several other cases.
If the first manifest posted by Trish is the correct one, I can see two places mentioned there: Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz) and Montwy (now Mątwy), which is now part of the city of Inowrocław. Both are located in Kujawsko-Pomorskie, about 40 km apart. I still cannot find any place called Tosica nearby.
In the Declaration for Naturalization, Edmund states that he is from Kruschwitz (now Kruszwica), a town located 17 km from Inowrocław.
The person mentioned in the 1910 manifest and the WWI Draft Card is the same (same occupation and date of birth).
It is difficult for me to believe that Andy Shizak and Antoni Czajkowski are the same person, but as mentioned earlier, we have seen many unexpected things before.
I will try to see if Aleksander / Julia / Jozefine Czajkowski can lead me further.
Trish, are you able to find Edmund’s manifest? It could confirm whether his place of origin is the same as Antoni’s.
-Barb
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2026 11:28 am
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Dave also mentioned the Warszawa region as a possible place the family may have come from. In Mazowieckie, there is a place called Łosice. This is the closest I can find to the name “Tosica.”
-Barb
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2026 2:25 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2026 2:32 pm
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