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Question: What nationality is Schlinow is it Austrian or Ukranian,!?
My Grandfather Victor Schlinow came to Australia after WW2 and I would like to find out more about his family but he has passed and this is all I knw where do I start!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I could be quite wrong, but Schlinow, with the 'ow' at the end is more like a Polish name !

This paragraph is in an article about Polish names that I've just found :-
Slavic linguists have written articles on when and why -ew-/-ow- is added in some cases, and -in-/-yn- in others, but that gets into complicated issues that are best left only to those who want to study Slavic linguistics in a serious way!. The bottom line is that once either set of suffixes -ow/-ew and -in/-yn has been added to a stem to form a place name X, the suffix -ski can be further added to them to mean, in effect, "one from X!."
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