I am curious of the info that your father-in-law found a polish name in the French National Archives. Why was the name there? By chance, was Smolikowski one of the Polish officers who left Poland after the Third Partition to become part of Napoleon's forces (some of whom were sent to Haiti) to put down slave rebellion in 1802. Would appreciate a response. JCR >> If anybody has that Polish Surname Dictionary: >> >> Kzimierz Rymut's "Slownik nazwisk wspolczesnie w Polsce uzywanych" >> >> I would be interested in finding out if Smulikowski is a valid >> surname? My father-in-law, who is searching Smolikowski, found in the >> French National Archives, in Paris, the above surname for a Polish >> officer from Galicia, who died around 1858. Or might this name be a >> spelling error on Smolikowski? > >The Slownik says there are 46 instances of Smulikowski in these counties: >Warsaw 13 >Ciechanow 1 >Czestochowa 1 >Elblag 2 >Gdansk 1 >Katowice 2 >Kielce 7 >Olsztyn 2 >Siedlce 7 >Torun 4 >Wroclaw 6 > >Joe >armata@vms.cis.pitt.edu > > J. C. Robinson