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MichelleRZ

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:49 am Post subject:

Hi Gilberto,

There are too many coincidences to ignore this information! Could the last name originally have been spelled with a D? I don't know enough about the Polish language. This is the earliest record of him being in the US and all of this is very interesting. I will look at this in more detail later this afternoon and post again later today.

Thank you for finding this!
Michelle

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 1:45 pm Post subject:

MichelleRZ wrote:

Michelle,
My first choice when I saw your post was Dzięgielewicz.
After seeing Marcel's response and the naturalization papers I would also consider Żygielewicz.
You can listen to how they sound by typing them (copy and paste) in Google Translator and click on the loudspeaker icon.
The spelling he used when signing that papers, Zengelewicz was not found in www.herby.com.pl

Gilberto

MichelleRZ

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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:06 pm Post subject:

I did a quick search on FamilySearch and I think I found his death notice. Unfortunately he left my grandmother (with 8 kids) in Erie, PA in 1927 to go back to Chicago to find work but we all suspect that he left her for another woman. I knew he was back there in 1930 because he is on the 1930 Census. We knew he died young but I could never find anything. With the new spelling, I found he died on 3/2/1932 and was living in the same boarding house when he died. All of the information listed fits with what you found.

This is amazing, I have been looking for him for a very long time. I'm still searching but this has to be him.

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