Judy Casper wrote: > > I found ancestors on the 1920 census and the parents were listed as coming > from "German Poland" and the native language was "Polish". Any ideas as to > what this would mean? They would be from the mid to late 1800's. Thanks Judy "German Poland" is an strange notation I never heard. Many people in the eastern parts of Germany spoke Polish (East Prussia, Upper Silesia, Posen). But may be that the expression "German Poland" in the 1920 years refers to those German provinces, that came to Poland after WW1. Dieter