What nationality is Schlinow is it Austrian or Ukranian,?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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."

http://www.polishroots.org/surnames/surn...

Answer 2

Go to www.familysearch.org there you will be able to research your family tree in detail for free.