Anna's surname appears on different documents as Malkowsky, Moskorski, Malkosky and Moskowski. Her descendants believe that Malkowsky is probably the correct spelling.
Family lore suggests that Anna was a twin and that her mother died in a subsequent childbirth. The father remarried and the stepmother sent Anna to the US as a teenager. Anna told her children that she came to help an aunt at the aunt's hotel but no record has been found to confirm that. There is also a feeling that she may have been sent to the US for an arranged marriage.