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yeah not uncommon for place names or even names to be misspelled and then living their own life in documents
Comment by IsaaccNewtoon at 03/02/2025 at 19:36 UTC
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Yeah. Completely common for pre-WW2 poland. Two parts of the family on my mother's side have a different spelling because of clerical errors and my great-grandfather was apparently born in a village 50km away. Literacy in smaller towns was not great at those times and if the subject couldn't check the details themself then tough luck.