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Marriage: Children:
  1. Joseph Victor Mytlinga: Birth: 10 FEB 1902 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA. Death: 03 AUG 1973 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States of America

  2. Sophie Mytlenga: Birth: 10 MAY 1903 in New York. Death: 19 JAN 1992 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States of America

  3. Cecilia Mytlenga: Birth: 26 SEP 1904 in New York. Death: 21 FEB 1956 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA

  4. Stanislawa Mytlenga: Birth: 10 MAY 1906 in New York. Death: ABT 1915

  5. Mariana Mytlenga: Birth: 25 NOV 1908 in Buffalo, NY. Death: 01 JUL 1981 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA

  6. Aniela Mytlenga: Birth: 10 JAN 1911 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA. Death: 25 MAR 1911

  7. Hattie Mytlenga: Birth: 1913 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA. Death: 21 DEC 1989 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA


Sources
1. Title:   U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992 (Indexed in World Archives Project)
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors in partnership with the following organizations: Anchorage Genealogical SocietyCalifornia State Genealogic;
2. Title:   1930 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1930; Census Place: Buffalo, Erie, New York; Roll: 1426; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 134; Image: 1119.0.
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626,;
3. Title:   1920 United States Federal Census
Page:   Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Buffalo Ward 16, Erie, New York; Roll: T625_1105; Page: 19A; Enumeration District: 128; Image: .
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
4. Title:   Public Member Trees
Page:   Database online.
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;
5. Title:   1900 United States Federal Census
Page:   Database online. Year: 1900; Census Place: Buffalo Ward 9, Erie, New York; Roll: T623_1026; Page: 20B; Enumeration District: 71.
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;
6. Title:   New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Page:   Database online. Year: 1895; Arrival: , ; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll: M237_643; Line: 12; List number: .
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
7. Title:   New York, State Census, 1925
Page:   Database online.
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
8. Title:   Naturalization Petition and Declaration
Page:   Michal Metlenga 1910
Author:   US National Archives & Records Administration
9. Title:   Death Certificate Buffalo NY
Page:   Michal Mytlinga Death Cert 6816
10. Title:   1910 United States Federal Census
Page:   Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Buffalo Ward 11, Erie, New York; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;

Notes
a. Note:   Death cause St Stans Cemetery chronic myocarditis grave : Sec FF line 10 grave 31 show age as 64 or 62 yrs 3 mos 22 days ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: surname problem ... ref Bobbi McCaffrey From: [email protected] ([email protected]) To: [email protected]; Cc: Bcc: Date: Sunday, January 22, 2012 2:57 PM Hi, Robert, You wrote: > Well Fred it looks like the name (rare indeed!) might very well be > METLENGA. Found old correspondence and have started a dialog > with the Gdansk clan. Appreciate comments and thanks again! Well, old correspondence and a dialog with the Gdansk clan is exactly the right way to proceed. I hope they can tell you lots of useful things. I will say this. METLENGA really sounds to me like a Polonized version of a German name, something along the lines of METLINGER or MITLINGER. And the Gdansk area is noted for a really large percentage of people with ethnic German roots. Note, too, that Germans often pronounce the -er ending with a very faint -r, to where the ending does sound a lot like -ah or -eh. When Poles adapted German names with -er, it was very common for them to drop the -r altogether, because they didn't hear any -r there. In other words, METELENGA probably was something METLENGER at an earlier stage. I agree that METLENGA is the name to focus on at this point. But don't be surprised if, somewhere along the line, you find out it is a Polish adaptation of a German name. You may or may not find records that go back far enough to document the original, German form. But if you do, I kind of think you'll find it was METLINGER, METLENGER, MITLENGER, or MITLINGER -- something along those lines. Vowels are inconsistent, they can end up changing in unpredictable ways. But the consonants are more stable, and a German name with the consonant pattern M-TL-NG-R is one I'd expect to end up as METLENGA. I often say -- and I always mean it -- if you do a good job researching your family's history, you'll end up being far more of an expert on your ancestral names than I am. I'll just be gratified if somewhere along the line, I give you a little guidance that points you in the right direction. Good luck! Fred Hoffman ======================================================== 1. My grandfather was Joseph Mytlinga aka Mytlinger. I could not find that name anywhere in all of my searches. See http://poznan-project.psnc.pl/ or geneteka.genealodzy.pl for Polish data in Posen and Pomerania provinces. Geneteka allows you to search surnames in Poland. No Mytlinga! 2. Michal , Joseph's father ( my great grand-pere) spelled his name several ways, including Mytlenga on his grave stone. 3. Edmond's letter to my Joseph 'Mytlenga' in 1957 referenced aunt Anna 'Metlenga.' 4 . On ancestry.com, i searched for Michal Mytlenga and came up with a US citizenship petition listing a Michal Metlenga ca 1910 in Buffalo NY. 5. I sent the referenced petition number to the US Archives in NYC, and they sent me Michal's citizenship papers! Voila, it was my Michal!!!!!!! And he spelled his name Metlenga !!! 6. Michal said he was from a town called "Januarwitz" in German Poland. (most likely Posen or Pomerania.) I proposed the name Januarwitz to the "Polish Roots" discussion board and several of them suggested that the town may be a "Janowice or Janowitz" which did exist in the Poznan/Posen province. 7. I then did a marriage search for Metlenga on the poznan-project site and only a "close match" came up for a Jan Metlega (no 'n') marrying a Frances Gajeska or Gajewska in 1868 in Gora parish near the city of Inowroclaw. 8. I ordered a microfilm for Gora from the Latter Day Saints, and looked at the film at the local LDS Family History center near where i live. Found a birth for a Victoria in 1868 whose parents were Jan and Frances "Metlega". As it turns out the funny 'e' makes an 'EN' sound in Polish!!!!! 9 . I then received Michal's death certificate from Buffalo, and it said his father's name was JAN!!! 10. And there just happens to be a 'Janowice' fairly close to Gora. 11. The name Metlega turns out to be very rare. Name searches have shown Inowroclaw, Gdansk, and a town in far western Poland as still showing the name as Metlenga. 12. My deduction is that Jan is Anna's, Michal's , Victoria's father as well as some deductions from Edmond's letter of 1957 indicating other siblings. Edmond is a real key to this puzzle. 13. My assumptions of Jan's ancestry are speculative based on a Matlega family near Gora from the Poznan Project search. ===============================================================================================================


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