My maternal family is almost entirely Polish. I have found information on all my great aunts, except for one. The youngest of my grandmother's sisters remained in Poland an to everyone's knowledge never immigrated.
I know her married name - Jadwiga Skórnicka nee Juzak - and have her last known address from a ledger my grandmother kept. It's on Mickiewicza street somewhere in Szczecin. I would try writing to this address, but seeing as she was born in 1920 I'm not sure she will be alive or living there now. Even if someone at the address could help me out, I'm not sure they would respond to a letter from some great niece she never knew. She never even knew her niece, my mom.
So I read about how you can attempt to write to the USC in Poland for birth, marriage, and death records, and I am very tempted to. I know only an estimate of when she was born and that before Szczecin, she was likely born in Tyszowce where her mother was born. But I cannot turn up anything about her life from online resources.
My question is, for anyone who knows of the USC records and writing to them successfully, how exactly should I write the request?
Do I include everything I know about her, such as maiden and married name, where she lived once? And is it necessary to write everything in Polish? Should I include some information about her genealogy...?
Also, how do I format the mailing address? I assume Szczecin would be the city I write to, but... I'm stumped. I'm new to genealogy research to begin with, let alone international research into my ancestry.
Greatly appreciate answers and even tips and suggestions, alternate ways of going about this.... I just really want to find her. For my interest and sake and those of my mom.
-Descendant of Helena, Celina, Regina, Wanda and Jadwiga Juzak