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Hi Tracy,
There are a few U.S. records for the Alex Mieszala family.
There is a 1920 U.S. Census record indexed as Alex Mieszala living at 625 Farnsworth Ave in Detroit Ward9, Wayne County, MI.
There is a 1930 U.S. Census record indexed as Alex Mieszala living in rural Linwood Township, Portage County, WI.
Alex Mieszala was born on June 15 (or June 25), 1891 in Russia/Poland (died in February 1968 in Stevens Point, Portage County, WI 54481, Social Security # 399-05-4416). He married Ludwika/Louise Merchel in January 1913 at St. Stanislaus Kostka Polish church in Chicago, IL. Louise was born in Russia/Poland in 1894. They had four (4) children, all born in Illinois: Casmer born in 1913, Felix born in 1915, Stephanie born in 1917 and Stanley born in 1919.
Alex immigrated to the U.S. in 1910. Louise immigrated in 1912. Alex was still not a naturalized U.S. citizen according to the 1930 U.S. census. In 1920, Alex was employed as a laborer at a Detroit MI auto factory. In 1930, he was a farmer in Portage County WI.
Louise may have died sometime between 1920 and 1930 and by 1930 Alex married a woman by the name of Agnes. Agnes was born in Poland in 1888 and died in Stevens Point, Portage County WI on April 29, 1962.
There is a WW I Draft Registration Card for an Alex Mieszala. He was born on June 25, 1891 in Europe. At the time of his registration on June 5, 1917, he was living with his wife and children at 12?? Dickson Street in Chicago, Cook County, IL. He was still an alien. He was employed in the machine shop of the “Pozott” Company located at North and Noble Streets in Chicago.
The Polish spelling of your surname is Mieszal~a (the polish character “L” has a line through it). There were approximately 1,050 adults with that surname in different parts of Poland in 1990.
In order to search Polish records for your ancestors, you will have to know the EXACT village/town/city in Poland where they were born. This is because the churches in Poland were the official record keepers of the births marriages and deaths of their parishioners. If you do not have any family mementos with information about Alex’s ancestral home, then you will have to get that information from U.S. family church and government records.
The later Day Saints (Mormons) have a microfilmed copy of Alex and Louise’s St. Stanislaus Kostka marriage record. The film number is 1578072 http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/printing/titledetailsprint.asp?titleno=411138
The priest would record in the marriage register where the bride and groom were baptized, the names of their parents and the names of the witnesses. Usually the witnesses were family members or else close friends from the same village.
The best source of information about Alex’s immigration process would be his U.S. Naturalization documents. We can assume that he was naturalized in Portage County, WI sometime after 1930.
Good Luck in your search.
Norbert
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