Valene, your story of the Rosno family going to Texas for awhile might tie in, if others from their area were there. Possibly you know all this but here are some other links to a John and Joseph Rosno.......the first being Marge Sandliers. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sandlier/pol-neb/r.html ========================================================================= The Duncan area..... http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/Platte/pages/hpcn0045.htm ========================================================================= St. Stanislaus Church History Around 1860 the first pioneers began to arrive and settle around the Duncan area. Among them were the Swiss settlers, John Ernst and George Berney, and settlers from new England like Guy Barnum who settled about a mile south of Columbus. Attracted by cheap homesteads, the families of Walenty Jarecki, Joseph and John Rosno, Lawrence Kujawa and Anton Micolajczek arrived in either March or April, 1868, and settled some six or seven miles west of Columbus. ======================================================================= In reading about the Rosnos, and Kujawas, the name of Anton Micolajczek comes up, and one of our relatives married a Micolajczek (different spellings) They lived in Sherman Co Ne for awhile, and I wondered how they got there, but they obviously linked to the Rosnos, some of whom also lived in Sherman Co. That group above was not from the same area as alot of the Poles who came to Columbus, so I wondered how they got together. I also came across the old link for St. Johns Church in Columbus that our Tom Lassek, I believe, had posted way back in 2002! I need to go back and look at those again. KathyB ____________________________________________________________ Groupon.com Official Site 1 huge daily deal on the best stuff to do in your city. Try it today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4debb3f530b5728929bst04duc