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/JGB.2ACI/681.1 Message Board Post: Marzynski is a name that entered my family through my paternal grandfather, Daniel Marzynski, who adopted my father, Marian Marzynski, after WWII. As far as I can tell, my grandfather traced his roots back to a family of department store merchants in Germany. MM