Dear Brian, Have you tried the Suwalki Lomza Interest Group? Contact Marlene Silverman, Box 228, 3701 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington DC 20008, USA. CHAKIELSON is a common name from that area which I have seen mentioned several times in Landsmen, its publication (August one now due). Barnett is of course a patronym – like Abrahams and Jacobs. One branch of my Servian family (came to Liverpool 1875) emigrated again to Chicago in 1905 and called themselves Max, Marks or Maxwell after ancestor Mordecai Serwianski (translates as Max). Barnett is an Anglicisation of first name Baruch - my Servian great grand uncle changed his name from Baruch Serwianski (born Sejny in Suwalki gubernia) to Barnet Servian (in Liverpool) to Barnet Silverman (in Liverpool also) to Barnet Maxwell (in Chicago). Did your family go to North Wales or South Wales as there is quite a difference? People from Liverpool moved into North Wales (Mold, Flints), as part of my Servian family did so briefly (but returned to Liverpool after a typhus outbreak). But many families moved direct to South Wales on emigration, often to the Swansea area. British celebrity comedian and writer David Baddiel appeared in the first series of BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? and his family came from Swansea. I have Sandler in my family tree married to an outlying Servian branch called Server who came to Sunderland in NE England in early 20th century from Vishtinetz in Suwalki Gubernia, before some also moved to Chicago. The Server émigré was a rabbi in Sunderland. Barnet Servian (mentioned above) married Annie Sanders/Sandys which sometimes became Sandler. He moved to Chicago (with his second wife and adult children) at the same time as the Servers/Sandlers on the same boat and stayed at the same address in Chicago briefly. Jill Whitehead, Surrey