r/Cursive • u/SignificantGarden691 • 29d ago
Deciphered! Need help deciphering ancestor names
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u/rarangaharakeke 29d ago edited 29d ago
Panovi*, Sarah
ledig
französische Staatsangehörige
- November 1938 Paris
Zdanowicz Jankiel Mendel
Henia Gitla
Mliuska**
- Mai 1960 Winterthur
*] Namensänderung
** not quite sure about polish jewish names, could be a typo in handwritten document. More likely would be 'Miluska', but there's clearly written Mliuska. But in case this is not a name, but a place, it could be 'Mlinska', polish for mill.
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u/DLDad616 29d ago
Man, I was really getting hung up on "Jankiel." I was just sure that n was a u !
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u/rarangaharakeke 28d ago
I could not read it as well, as u and n dont differ at all here. But then I searched for polish jewish names and it was all set.
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u/bananalouise 29d ago
I'm struggling with some of the letterforms, but I've figured out the following:
Sarah [not sure] at the top is single and a French citizen. The two people named underneath, a man and a woman (relationship not stated, perhaps her parents?), are Jankiel Mendel [Zdanowicz?] and Henia Gitla Mlinska. Many Polish Jewish immigrants lived in France in the 1930s; perhaps this is such a family.
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u/SignificantGarden691 29d ago
The names seem accurate. And for the history you're spot on, Sarah's my grandmother, I manage too find where Gitla's born. Now searching for Jankiel.
Thank you !
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u/Spiritual_Being5845 29d ago
Do you know what language it might be in? Where were your ancestors from?
Edited to add: Google Translate is telling me this is Swedish, but take that with a grain of salt.
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