Genealogy / Want to find a person [755]

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Chrapczynski looking for real identity

My great grandfather's name is John Chrapczynski born around 1871 in Poland or Galicia or Czechoslovakia or Austria. He immigrated to the United States around the year 1900 or so and settled in western Pennsylvania. He married a woman named Anna Kosiba. Here is the riddle. His real identity was not John Chrapczynski. He worked for a man named Chrapczynski who was set to travel to the US and he became to ill to travel. So my great grandfather purchased his travel papers and assumed his identity. His real family surname may be something like Gowich or Glowicz. Anyone hear a story like this?

Genealogy / Searching for KAWA, KOSIBA, SOBARNIA family in Łekawica, Tarnow [9]

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Kosiba, Anna family

I'm looking for any information on birth or baptism records for my great-grandmother Anna Kosiba (Koseba, Kosyba). Born 4 Jul 1877 in Poland or Galicia or Austria area.

She immigrated to the United States around 1900 or 1902. I can't find any more information on Ancestry I have hit a dead end. She settled in western Pennsylvania and married a man named John Chrapczynski. thank you