Is there any way I can find my grandmother name translated in ENGLISH
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Is there any way I can find my grandmother name translated in ENGLISH
thank you
Her American name was Sadie M Kusba
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@KathyPassariello I have been trying to help you solve your mystery! Your grandmother's last name is easy, Spelled Kuzba on the record, with Kusba as the English translation. Kuzba is a recoginzed Polish surname. The Z would have been pronounced softly in Polish, so it makes sense to spell it with an S in English. The first name took me a while. The record appears to have two given names and I tried all kinds of combinations, most of which were not Polish. I finally saw her first name, which I believe is Stanislowa. There appears to be a cross bar above the L, which makes it look like a T, however, I can't see enough of the record to see if that is an extra mark from the line above her name. Once I saw Stanislowa, I really began to believe this is the name the record keeper intended to write. Stanislowa is a Polish woman's name, meaning either glorious or glorious one, depending on who is giving the meaning. AI also adds that Stanislowa was often translated to the English name Sadie when people migrated to English speaking countries. What do you think, can you see it? I would love more opinions on this, but I'm hoping we have the correct name for your grandmother!
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@betsy123 I don't know whether this is relevant to the discussion in this thread, but you may perhaps not be aware that Ł with a slash through it (pronounced w) and L without are two different letters in the Polish alphabet. Perhaps the cross bar you found indicates Ł.
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Wikipedia has an article on the given name "Stanisława" - note the letter "a" throughout and the L with the slash through it. (I'm sure that there must be a proper name for that letter but my Polish consultant is no longer available 😉 ). Always tricky to claim you know the mind of someone who wrote something but I suspect therefore that the precise Polish letter is as suggested by @MandyShaw1
Wikipedia didn't mention any English equivalent but I see no reason to doubt @betsy123 's suggestion, especially as it matches @KathyPassariello 's grandmother's name.
Other Slavic languages appear to use a normal L.
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Looking again this morning, I think the a throughout is correct. Stanislawa is more likely the spellling. I do not speak the Polish language, but I had a real desire to help @KathyPassariello discover her grandmother's name. Than\ks all!
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The name is Stanisława Kuźba in Polish and Stanislawa Kuzba in English. Not sure what you mean by translating to English? The same as my Christian name is Tadeusz in Polish and Tadeusz in English it doesn't change, the equivalent name in English would be Thaddeus.
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