This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mindak, Mendyk, Grott Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5g.2ADI/153.1 Message Board Post: Noted that you have John Mindak as a godfather of Lea Grott. Lea was my grandfather's sister. The Grotts immigrated from Kruszewo in the Czarnkow, Kr. Czarnkow, Posen Province. In this parish was the surname Mendyk. If this was the original spelling of Mindak, they may have known each other in Poland.