Hi! Chicago is part of Cook County in Illinois and they have this site - that has a lot of information. I found a lot of Malek's too, but not hyphenated. Here's the site. http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases.html If you think they might have gone to a Polish church then you might try http://www.pgsa.org/index.htm - I've called two churches now, asking for baptism and marriage records and everyone has been super nice. here are some Glosa from the first site. Last Name First Name Middle Name Sex/ Race Age Cert # Death Date County City Date Filed 3 records are displayed. The maximum number displayed is 500. If a MORE button appears below, click for additional records. GLOSA EWA F/W UNK 6033045 1917-11-08 COOK CHICAGO 17-11-10 GLOSA FRANK J M/W UNK 6026215 1927-09-27 COOK CHICAGO 27-09-27 GLOSA I GEORGE M/W UNK 6008540 1934-03-23 COOK CHICAGO 34-03-25 "Samuel P. Leavitt" <spleav@t-online.de> wrote: Hello everybody, I am looking for info on following names Mosa; Glosa; Paatsch; von Malek-Podjaski, Stobba from the area of Danzig(Gdansk) West Prussia and Berlin. My family immigrated to Chicago, Ill in the early 1900th and until 1953. I would appreciate any info. Chris from Germany -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.2/442 - Release Date: 9/8/06 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com