This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GMB.2ACI/574.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My great-grandfather was a Corbran and was Polish, but there is some evidence to suggest the family started out in France. My great-grandfather became a citizen in Buffalo. There are still Corbrans there. I never saw the name spelled with a K.