This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Wg.2ADE/1544.1592 Message Board Post: There are only a few famiilies with the name Flachs in Germany. My grandfather Otto Flachs, who died in 1945, came from Pommern, Ex-Germany now Poland. My father Gerhardt is still living in Berlin, Germany.