Mary Snow, Hi. You are wonderful! So if Teckla's maiden name was Podraza, how is Jan Lis her father? Was he a stepfather? This is great - I was stuck. I knew that John Wiktor and Teckla Podraza had gotten married at Holy Trinity church on October 23, 1900. I'll check all of those links now. Susan In a message dated 6/4/2009 6:43:02 PM Central Standard Time, marysnow@bellsouth.net writes: Tekla Podraza immigration in 1899; note, she, like Tekla Wiktor, was blind in one eye. http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?pID=603076060370 Mary Mary Snow wrote: > Hello, Susan, > > Here is the link to the manifest for a 1914 return to America for Tekla, > Jozef, Jewka, and Stefania - going to husband and father Jan Wiktor. > Closest relative in Poland was Tekla's father, Jan LIS. Dennis will > tell us about the town of Brzostok, Zaborze - my read of the spelling. > This page and previous page. > http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?pID=100473010228 **************Limited Time Offers: Save big on popular laptops at Dell (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221354145x1201369495/aol?redir=http:%2F %2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B215221161%3B37268813%3By)