This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chalko/Shaloiko/Moshieko Novik/Novick/Nowik Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TZ.2ADE/4864.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Sarah, Thank you so much for your response. You probably won't be able to help me, as I was hoping that someone named Chalko (or similar) would surface. My grandmother immigrated from Russia (Belarus) in the early 1900s. She settled in western new york with a brother and sister (the maiden name of Shaloiko.) This name has come in a multidue of variations that soundex can't help with. (Salajako, Moshieko, Szalajko to name a couple). We think we have found her immigration record (Melania Shaloiko - on Ellis Island as Melanja Chalko, heading to Lowell Mass.) We don't know of any particular person in Bridgeport, but do know that the family had ties there, and made trips there to visit. (1910-1925) I gave up on finding more of her family a long time ago, but occassionally will leave a message to see if someone reacts to the name. She married Alexander Novik. Thanks for taking the time to read this! Melissa