Good morning Janet! Here's your big teddy bear hug {{{you}}}}! Now here may be a clue for you...alot of the men that came into the county to work the coal mines, worked in the Pennsylvania coal fields before coming here. So you may want to check that area too. Grandpa Brgoch may have been one of them and his naturalization papers may be filed there. I'm sorry I can't give you a more exact location in PA., but if you look in the areas where the coal mines were, you can narrow it down some. Have you got a time frame that he was here? He may have come before or after this listing. Good luck! Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "John & Janet Wasson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 6:42 PM Subject: [COHUERFA] naturalization's Yep, there they are--great grandfather Steve, and his brother Mike! Now, further guessing if we are, who we think we are; we had a land patent that said "Stip Dusnak"--we've thought all these years that the person taking the information didn't understand the "accent" and misrecorded "Steve Duzenack"; however--our fearless leader (Karen!) tells me that in Austrian-German "Stip" would be pronounced "Steef", therefore, probably Americanized to "Steve". And when the surname appeared spelled in newspapers etc. as "Dusnak", the whole family would wonder why it was spelled wrong! So.... given that we now have 2 land patents and the naturalization spelled in the first fashion-that is probably correct, don't you think? But my mom says "Why in the world did they LENGTHEN the spelling!". I was so in hopes that great grandfather Brgoch (Brgoc) was there--oh well--keep on digging! Thanks Karen! Janet