MARKOWA , AROUND 1912 ANYONE HERAD OF THIS TOWN?

I know that there are two towns name Markowa in Poland.
www.pilot.pl
www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm (mapquest)

Surname SZPYTMA exists in Poland.
www.herby.com.pl/herby
www.rat.de/kuijsten/navigator
http://vivisimo.com
www.pgsa.org
http://maxpages.com/poland
www.halgal.com

4 SZPYTMAs passed thru Ellis Island and it seems that 3 of them were from Markowa (Warkowa,Harkawa)

To locate an Ellis Island manifest in One Step use :
www.stevemorse.org

Do not over look Grecyan LZPYTMA, Sebastyn SZPYTNA and Michal SZPYTMA as they too were from Markowa.

YES IT IS MICHAL SZPYTMA THAT I AM INTERESTED IN . HE MAY BE MY GRANDFATHER MICHEAL SPYTMA BORN 11/19/1893. SETTLED IN MUSKEGON, MICH. FROM BUFFALO NY.

I would recommend that you post on Poland's Ancestry and Genforum.

Michal Szpytma left a father, Marcin Szpytma living in Markowa. Jan GALA might be related to Michal or just a friend since they were born in same village and same last place of residence.

Hopefully you were notified about my previous post to you since I provided some websites.
It seems that Michael Spytma had social security numbers. You could request the SS-5Form which would give you some usefull information.
http://ssdi.rootsweb.com
If he was naturalized citizen than those papers would have a lot more information.

George, if your family was Polish from Austria, then that means that they were from what was from the late 1700s until 1918 the Austrian province of Galicia, the capital of which was the city of Lemberg (in Polish: Lwow; in Russian: Lvov; in Ukrainian: Lviv).

The province to which the Austrians gave the name Galicia fell to Austria as a result of the three partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795, when Poland was divided among Prussia, Austria and Russia. Poland thereupon disappeared as an independent nation for almost 125 years. Following World War I, the western Allies reestablished an independent Poland. Galicia became part of Poland once again. Following World War II, Stalin decided to keep eastern Galicia (including the city of Lemberg or Lwow, in Russian: Lvov; in Ukrainian: Lviv) for the Soviet Union. Eastern Galicia was made part of the Ukraine and remains part of the Ukraine today. Western Galicia, including Markowa, is still part of Poland. This region has nothing at all to do with today's Austria.

Here is a map of the pre-1919 Austro-Hungarian Empire, so that you can see how Galicia fit into pre-1919 Austria:

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/austhung.htm


You might find the following web page informative:

http://www.polishroots.org/genpoland/gal.htm


Robert

DO YOU HAVE ANY INFO ON PSENRIR, POLAND . MY GRAND FATHER WAS BORN THERE IN 1893 AND LEFT ABOUT 1918.

In 2005 I paid a genalogist to got to both Markowa to research my Grandfather's side Tejchma. We found my great grand fathers parents where Marcin Tejchma and Agnieszka Szpytman and her parents were Jan Szpytman and Franciszka Gala.

In other records the genealogist provided Jan Gala lived in house #233 and was 60 where he died there March 3, 1805. A Blasius Gala died there March 1797 at 70 years of age.



d near by Gac to research my Grandmothers