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    1. Re: [POLAND] POLAND] Myrithin ?
    2. singmore
    3. The name Myrithin is obviously an error. It is not Polish, it is not German, it is not Ukrainian, it is not Latin. So giving you any hints (wild guesses, really) is pointless until you find the original document from which this transcript was made. Ancestry.com transcripts are not a reliable source in terms of the names of people and/or the names of the places from non-English speaking countries. Many, many transcripts are horribly misspelled, garbled and just plain wrong. People who did/do the transcripts have no knowledge of the languages involved, the era, the geography, the history and the handwriting styles of the time, and because of that they cannot form the correct word associations as a native could when the writing is hard to decipher. Only by looking at the original you might get an indication of what was actually written there. But even that is not a guarantee that the place name was spelled correctly! It all depends if it was written down just by hearing the name being spoken (and who the scribe was - a native speaker or a foreigner) or written down from an official document like a passport or a travel document. But, the worst original is always better than the best transcript. Always! Any transcript - coming from the Ancestry.com, Ellis Island or whatever.com - should be taken with a great dose of salt. You must make an effort to find the original document, and take it from there. That's the bad news! But the good news is that the original obviously exists if there is a transcript made from it. ella

    03/07/2011 07:43:41