On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 17:23:48 -0300, you, (Claude, boloz@total.net) said: >My name is Claude and I'm from Quebec city (Canada). Recently, I have >buy an old cover sent by a lady named: Hania Kirschner. > >The 29th of september 1937, she has sent a letter to "His Excellency >Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt" (prisident of United States of America). > >I would like to have more informations about this lady or her family. >Her adress then was: Hania Kirschner > Lwow, Poland > Ul. Sobieskiego 9 > >Thanks a lot! > >Excuse my english cause here in Quibec, I speak only french. > >Claude > >boloz@total.net > Bonjour Claude!, "Hania" is a diminutive form of "Anna", like "Bill" for "William" or "Bob" for "Robert" (right? :->). So I think that she was a schoolgirl when she wrote that letter. I think that it is rather unlikely for an adult Polish woman of those times to use a diminutive form of her name in such an official correspondance as a letter to a president of the USA (not like today when even the president himself uses a diminutive form "Bill" :->). Does her handwriting (or was it typed?) support my supposition?. Does it look like written by a girl?. Don't be confused if not - they really learned beautiful caligraphy back in those days in elementary public schools in Poland, the letter is probably written in that magnificent handwriting of those years which I know quite well from the old family papers, it is probably written in the caligraphy which only elderly ladies can do today and this is probably why you think that it was a "lady". But all the "ladies" were small girls one day and even as small girls they could write like that, not like today when even adult people write like kids :->. Her Germanic surname ("Kirschner") can be explained by the fact that in Lwow there were quite many Germanic immigrants who accepted the Polish culture. Today it is Lviv in Ukraina. mes salutations! - regards! - Kaj Malachowski, co-moderator of the Polish Genealogy List; sggmwwoy@plearn.edu.pl http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2739; Miklaszewskiego 14/13, 02-776 Warszawa POLAND, tel. (48-22) 641 24 11;