Searching for Maito

[persephone]

Hello all -

I found this board after looking for the place in Poland my great-grandfatehr came from.

He arrived in Ellis Island in 1914. On the ship's manifest, it says he was from Maito, Pyanswysz, Russia (which was later Poland.)

I cannot find any info anywhere on Pyanswysz, and it's very possibly misspelt.

I found a Miaty, Poland, which might be the right spelling of Maito, but I'm not really sure.

Any help much appreciated!

[tuftabis]

Jul 31, 2010 12:44:19 GMT -7 persephone said:

Hello all -

I found this board after looking for the place in Poland my great-grandfatehr came from.

He arrived in Ellis Island in 1914. On the ship's manifest, it says he was from Maito, Pyanswysz, Russia (which was later Poland.)

I cannot find any info anywhere on Pyanswysz, and it's very possibly misspelt.

I found a Miaty, Poland, which might be the right spelling of Maito, but I'm not really sure.

Any help much appreciated!

Hi Persephone. I have checked and Miaty are in this part of Poland which was never occupied by Russia. As to Pyanswysz - it is very posotievelyt misspelled. Maybe it was Pszasnysz in original...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przasnysz