Dear Family Researchers: Rootsweb has been starting up regional/locality/town lists worldwide, as well as surname lists. I am descended from the Quiram family who originated in Prussia and immigrated to places in Illinois and to Le Sueur Co., Minnesota. The main town of origin for almost every Quiram/Quiram descendant that I have made contact with seems to be Schonlanke (now Trzcianka, Poland). This town is located in Kreis Czarnikau, Posen, Prussia, not far from Pila and a town called Quiram/Chwiram. There are others of you researching in Schonlanke/Trzcianka as well, and most of the German Lutheran families there intermarried and immigrated to the U.S. together, etc. So we can learn something from other families who came from this same locality. We also maybe can find out more about where church and civil records from the area might be located, etc. For all these reasons, I have started a list for anyone interested in genealogy research in the town of Schonlank/Trzcianka, Poland. It is called the POL-TRZCIANKA e-mail list. You can subscribe to this list in mail mode by sending a message to: POL-TRZCIANKA [email protected] that contains the word subscribe and nothing else in the body of the message. If you prefer digest mode, you should send the command instead to [email protected] and the word subscribe and nothing else in the body of the message. To post messages to everyone on both POL-TRZCIANKA-L and POL-TRZCIANKA-D, messages should be sent to [email protected] Messages sent there will appear both places. If you have information on research or families in towns located in close proximity to Schonlanke/Trzcianka, that information would be appreciated as well. If you have any further questions about the new list, feel free to contact me privately at: [email protected] Glenn Gohr (QUIRAM, KWIRAM, KWIRANT, and POL-TRZCIANKA List Manager) [email protected] ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237