Hello, I am interested in attempting to locate some of my cousins who probably still remain in Europe. This is what I have: Peter Bubak, his wife Anna, and their five children emigrated to Tarentum, PA from Gutwasser (in the Wald near Hartmanitz) on the steamship EMS arriving on 12/15/1884. In Bohemia, this Bubak family moved around. They were in Gutwasser for just 11 years, having moved there from Krombach/Schanzendorf in 1873. They moved to Krombach (speaking German there) from Zarican, East of Czaslau in 1834. Before 1834, the family had Czech first names and lived in what I believe was a Czech area. These immigrant children went on to live a long time. Among them was Frederick Bubak, my great grandfather who died in Butler, PA in 1960. The last of these siblings died in Tarentum, PA in 1970. In the 1950s, Frederick corresponded in German with his first cousin Anna Bubak Gath, who lived in Krombach probably until the 1945 expulsion. (I have tracked Anna down in the Austrian census until 1922.) Unfortunately, the correspondence is lost, but I do have a 1953 portrait of her which was taken in Zittau, East Germany. I was told by my Aunt Charlotte (who grew up in Fred's house) that Fred would send care packages to Anna during the 1950s. I am not sure that this was really possible during the Cold war. Was it? Or perhaps she made it to West Germany? Based on Anna's 1953 photo, I'm wondering if she might have relocated in nearby Zittau, Germany after 1945. I checked the German telephone book, and there are only about 30 Bubak listings in the whole of Germany. I plotted these out on a map to see which Bubaks lived in proximity to Bohemia. Is it appropriate to send a search letter to these people, or is there a better way to locate Bubak cousins presently with us? I am open to any suggestions and insights that you have. Thank You, Martin