Town or Village of Millisch

Jane Mahlig

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Mar 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/22/00

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I've recently been in correspondence with a very nice gentleman from
Germany (possible distant cousin) who advises that his gr-grandfather
came from the village (or town) of Millisch. I'd like to work back on
this, but the GEO server comes back with no results. In looking on
other servers I can come up similar sounding names in present=day Poland
(MILCE ,MILCZ,MILCZA,MILICA,MILICZ,MILITSCH and MILICZ - this interests
me, as we have some circumstantial information that the family comes
from Schliesen.) Would anyone have any information on this village?
Would one of these Polish locations be a match?

Thanks in advance for any help.
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Jane
Researching
EFFLAND/MAHLIG/MEYER/RADKE/SCHMIEL/SEELIG/SIEKEMEYER
http://www.ncweb.com:80/users/jem630/names.html

Ernest Thode

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Mar 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/22/00

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Milicz.

The "l" has a / diagonal line through it, which is a different letter from the
plain "l."

Ernest Thode

Angelika Beck

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Mar 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/22/00

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Jane Mahlig schrieb:

> I've recently been in correspondence with a very nice gentleman from
> Germany (possible distant cousin) who advises that his gr-grandfather

> came from the village (or town) of Millisch.[..)

> from Schliesen.) Would anyone have any information on this village?

The right German spelling is Militsch. Militsch was a district city
in county Militsch in the former Prussian province Silesia (Schlesien).
After 1945 Silesia became Polish. The Polish name of Militsch is now
Milicz.

There is also a smaller location called Militsch in the former county
Cosel in Silesia, the Polish name of this place is now Milice.

Angelika Beck

Henning Boettcher

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Mar 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/22/00

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I have a list German name to Polish name.
In this list there is no Millisch but Militsch. The Polish name is Milicz,
see e-mail of Ernest Thode.
Milicz is situated 40km northnortheasterly of Wroclaw=Breslau which is
situated in Slaska=(Nieder-)Schlesien.
Write to
Heimatstube Militsch-Trachenberg
Auf dem Burghof
D-31832 Springe
Germany
You can get (old) maps with German names of the villages at
Institut für angewandte Geodaesie
Stauffenbergstr.13
D-10785 Berlin
Ask for
Kreiskarte Militsch 1:100000
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Regards
Henning Boettcher
Switzerland

"Jane Mahlig" <jem...@ncweb.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I've recently been in correspondence with a very nice gentleman from
> Germany (possible distant cousin) who advises that his gr-grandfather

> came from the village (or town) of Millisch. I'd like to work back on
> this, but the GEO server comes back with no results. In looking on
> other servers I can come up similar sounding names in present=day Poland
> (MILCE ,MILCZ,MILCZA,MILICA,MILICZ,MILITSCH and MILICZ - this interests
> me, as we have some circumstantial information that the family comes

> from Schliesen.) Would anyone have any information on this village?

David Weber

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Mar 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/22/00

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Any chance that this was misread. There were two towns called "Militsch". They are now called Milicz and Milice in Poland. Maps are at:
http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_find?link=ia-map-result&event=find_select&level=7&width=500&height=300&lat=515333&lng=172667
http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_find?link=ia-map-result&event=find_select&level=7&width=500&height=300&lat=502500&lng=179500
LDS has microfilm for both towns, so I'd look up the ancestor's name on both records to see which town is correct:
http://www.familysearch.com/fhlc/supermainframeset.asp?display=localityhitlist&columns=*%2C180%2C0&PLACE=militsch&PARTOF=&prePLACE=militsch&prePARTOF=