[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German form of Meychlow

Otto otto at schienke.com
Thu Feb 19 21:18:14 PST 2004


Richard,
The only example I found of the use of "Meychl" as a substitute for  
"Michael."
http://www.planet-interkom.de/andre.eitner/fb97p_teilnehmer.htm

Remember we are using a phonetic medium- "sounds like"

Meychl +ow  - Meychlow    -of the family of Michael.

http://www.distantcousin.com/SurnameResources/Surname.asp? 
Surname=Michael
http://distantcousin.com/links/ships/search/1800/1892/normandie.html
http://www.angelfire.com/ks/gerrus/

On Feb 19, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Richard A. Stein wrote:

> In a Polish language birth record, the mother's surname is given as  
> MEYCHLOW.
> What would be the correct German form?  The OW appears to be Polish  
> ending
> common in female names.  I searched the Pedigree Database for names  
> beginning
> with MEI and MEY, but did not see an obvious answer.  The only name  
> with an L
> was MEISEL.  Could the name be MEISCHEL?
>
> Dick Stein
>
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