Dennis: I've followed many of your posts regarding the Lemko people. I've visited your web pages and found them quite helpful on various matters. I've gotten some assistance from others researching my interests also. My grandfather and his brother came from Myscowa, former Galicia. I have other relations from Bzrezowa, Desznica, and a straggler who was sent to Jarabina. All the surnames began as TYRPAK. Some spelling variants occurred upon arrival to the US. Here is my dilemma and I'm hoping with your vast knowledge of the area, you might perhaps know something I don't or am just missing by looking at the info too long: Andrzejowka & Mylyk parish records were filmed by the LDS. The other villages were not. I've written to the Polish Archives in Przemyl but was told my query was too broad so to speak. I asked for all Tyrpak males born between 1870 and 1890 from the villages of Desznica, Myscowa and Bzrezowa. I sent again as three separate village requests but have not received any type of response. From what I can see by surname distribution, this surname was quite common in those villages and after WWII< spread over Poland and into Europe further also. Am I asking the right archive for those villages' parishes? My hope is with you extensive knowledge of this area, you may be better equipped to point me to the correct archive, or perhaps suggest how I can limit my scope for their ease of finding. Grandfather was John here in the US, so he could have been Iwan, Jan or even something else at home. Great Uncle was Samuel here, but I've got several documents which he uses Simeon/Szymon on. Their father is listed as Paunko Typrak on the one document I have that gives a parental name. Any input or suggestion would be useful. Thanks in advance! Cyndi