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Some office clerk really butchered her maiden name.
Do you have her arrival manifest, her church marriage record, state marriage application, SS-5Form, naturalization intent and petition? All of the mentioned documents should have her place of birth and surname.
STASIAK, EVA 24 Dec 1906 12 Jul 2009 (P) 102 10301 (Staten Island, Richmond, NY) (none specified) New York 104-14-7543
She would have come as Ewa.
Szmidkowski, Szmidtkowski, Szmitkowski, Szmydkowski, Szmytkowski.
take a listen to pronounciation:
http://www.ivona.com/distribution of STASIAK in Poland:
http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/stasiak.htmlmap of Poland's wojewodztwos:
http://www.geneteka.genealodzy.pl/www.surnamenavigator.orgwww.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/index.htmlhttp://genforum.com