Could it be that the death certificate was giving Tillie's maiden name? Mary MichellesBigBash@aol.com wrote: > > Hi, > My name is Susan. > > My grandmother, Eva Wiktor, was born in Chicago in 1908. Within a few years > of her birth, my great grandfather, John Wiktor, his wife, Tekla (Tillie) > Podraza Wiktor, and Eva went back to Poland. Times were tough, jobs were > scarce and within a few years, John Wiktor came back to Chicago. Tekla and Eva > stayed behind in Poland to sell their house and land. However, as WWI was > looming, they left the land with relatives to sell and came back to Chicago. > > The story goes that either a relative (possibly to the Podraza family) or a > very close friend begged them to take their son, Richard Lis, with them and > claim that he was their son so that he wouldn't have to go into the Polish > military. They may have reentered the US as the Lis family. > > Eva had a younger sister name Stefania. On Stefania's death certificate, > their mother's name is listed as: Tillie Lis (not Tillie Wiktor). (Note that I > checked this out and Teckla was never married to a Lis.) > > Eva married Walter Filar who died in Chicago in October 1969. A Richard Lis > attended his wake. > > In summary, I am unsure if I am related to the Lis family or not. If anyone > has any information, please feel free to contact me. > >

Strike that. I see her maiden name was Podraza. Mary Mary Snow wrote: > Could it be that the death certificate was giving Tillie's maiden name? > > Mary > > MichellesBigBash@aol.com wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> My name is Susan. >> >> My grandmother, Eva Wiktor, was born in Chicago in 1908. Within a few years >> of her birth, my great grandfather, John Wiktor, his wife, Tekla (Tillie) >> Podraza Wiktor, and Eva went back to Poland. Times were tough, jobs were >> scarce and within a few years, John Wiktor came back to Chicago. Tekla and Eva >> stayed behind in Poland to sell their house and land. However, as WWI was >> looming, they left the land with relatives to sell and came back to Chicago. >> >> The story goes that either a relative (possibly to the Podraza family) or a >> very close friend begged them to take their son, Richard Lis, with them and >> claim that he was their son so that he wouldn't have to go into the Polish >> military. They may have reentered the US as the Lis family. >> >> Eva had a younger sister name Stefania. On Stefania's death certificate, >> their mother's name is listed as: Tillie Lis (not Tillie Wiktor). (Note that I >> checked this out and Teckla was never married to a Lis.) >> >> Eva married Walter Filar who died in Chicago in October 1969. A Richard Lis >> attended his wake. >> >> In summary, I am unsure if I am related to the Lis family or not. If anyone >> has any information, please feel free to contact me. >> >> >> > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at GALICIA-admin@rootsweb.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GALICIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >