Hello again, ><HTML><PRE>Subject: Re: Quidzinsky and Lemke in Gischkau (Danzig) Poland >From: [email protected] (Steen Venbjerg) >Date: Thu, Aug 13, 1998 13:32 EDT >Message-id: <[email protected]> > >Kaszubik wrote: > >>There is no Q in Polish surnames. There is also no suffix -sky in Polish, it >is >>correctly -ski. > >This is interesting news for me. I have only seen the name in german >and danish sources. They all agree about the letter Q but some of them >do use the -ski suffix. > >What would be the most probable correct spelling? > >Best regards >Steen Venbjerg, Denmark. ></PRE></HTML> KK> I would guess it is probably a Germanized version of Kwidzinski or Kwidzynski which is a very common surname around Danzig [Gdansk]. I have seen the surname Kwidzinski become Germanized to Quide. This surname is a toponym from the city of Kwidzyn just south of the city of Gdansk and is on most maps. Keith A. Kaszubik Mieszkam w Nowym Jorku