Trying to pin down where my great grandparents are actually from, but this is all I can find. The state and nation listed are Poland, Russia, if that helps.
This is probably not going to work. You would have to provide the entire document for a qualified answer. Even then I doubt this reddit is helpful. If you’re on Facebook, I can recommend this group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Polish.Genealogy/?ref=share.
this does not look polish imo, i tried to find it and i got no clue. looks more like something russian
It says “Kuseloviw” (although really, no idea what next-to-last letter is) which is not a polish name, might be russian spelling of a polish city though, but which one is hard to tell.
“Kasedorew” is the best that I could extract frol this. Not correct though.
Indeed, having more samples of the handwriting would be beneficial here. If you could at least get here some neutral parts, like given names, months, occupation etc.
The handwriting is absolutely terrible and I rather won’t give any better answer than the others, but maybe that’s somewhat useful to you as sort of a hint ‐ the document seems to be more russian than polish. The month at the top is some variation of December, which is not being used in Poland, as we have our Grudzień for this. Does not mean 100% sure that it cannot describe Poland though. The complex bit is that if you’re tracking the history of your great grandparents, then you’re probably looking at something from the period of partitions of Poland, which means that the territories of Commonwealth ‐ west, south and east were taken by Prussia, Austria and Russia respectively. The russian partition was being russified, so it’s actually possible that these docs were also being issued like that there.
This is exactly how my last name changed from German-Polish border switches, documentation and poor handwriting.
The first three are definitely “Kas”, whole thing seems like “Kaseloviw”, which does *not* sound Polish in the least (we don’t really use “v”).
If the second is not “a” then it’s either “u” or “ie”.
Does not fit anything on the list of townships, maybe it’s a transcription by someone who didn’t actually speak Polish?
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Trying to pin down where my great grandparents are actually from, but this is all I can find. The state and nation listed are Poland, Russia, if that helps.
This is probably not going to work. You would have to provide the entire document for a qualified answer. Even then I doubt this reddit is helpful. If you’re on Facebook, I can recommend this group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Polish.Genealogy/?ref=share.
this does not look polish imo, i tried to find it and i got no clue. looks more like something russian
It says “Kuseloviw” (although really, no idea what next-to-last letter is) which is not a polish name, might be russian spelling of a polish city though, but which one is hard to tell.
“Kasedorew” is the best that I could extract frol this. Not correct though.
Indeed, having more samples of the handwriting would be beneficial here. If you could at least get here some neutral parts, like given names, months, occupation etc.
The handwriting is absolutely terrible and I rather won’t give any better answer than the others, but maybe that’s somewhat useful to you as sort of a hint ‐ the document seems to be more russian than polish. The month at the top is some variation of December, which is not being used in Poland, as we have our Grudzień for this. Does not mean 100% sure that it cannot describe Poland though. The complex bit is that if you’re tracking the history of your great grandparents, then you’re probably looking at something from the period of partitions of Poland, which means that the territories of Commonwealth ‐ west, south and east were taken by Prussia, Austria and Russia respectively. The russian partition was being russified, so it’s actually possible that these docs were also being issued like that there.
This is exactly how my last name changed from German-Polish border switches, documentation and poor handwriting.
The first three are definitely “Kas”, whole thing seems like “Kaseloviw”, which does *not* sound Polish in the least (we don’t really use “v”).
If the second is not “a” then it’s either “u” or “ie”.
Does not fit anything on the list of townships, maybe it’s a transcription by someone who didn’t actually speak Polish?