Hi Robecca, You are lacking dates to go with the names you have. One of the first places I would check is the Ellis Island web site. The names you have in your message are not American. If they came to America during the early part of the 20th Century, you might find their names there. The address is http://www.ellisislandrecords.org Another place to search in at the LDS website at http://www.familysearch.org/ Cyndis List would be the next place to try. The address is http://www.CyndisList.com There are links to many places to check from that website. > I am so lost. I am doing a genealogy book for my daughter so that she can > always have it and know where she comes from, but I am running into all > kinds of brick walls on my husbands side of the family. Unfortunately for > him, his family - both paternal and maternal, do not talk at all. He knows > the basics. His fathers name, his mother's name and his maternal > grandparents. And the names are all strange and unusual - in my opinion. > Can anyone help to solve my problem. > I am looking for information on any Puszcz's in the Schenectady, New York > area. My husband's grandmother was Genevieve Rosalie Puszcz. > His grandfather was Stanley Blaski - former Blasczienski. He changed his > name because he was deaf and Blaski was easily for the deaf community to > sign. His family lived in Fulton, New York. > Genevieve was also deaf. And I am told that her mother's name was Rosalie. > And then there is my husband's father. Douglas Albert Schermett. He died > in May of 1990. Married to Marie Anna Blaski in 1972. No known information > on his family, except that maybe his grandfather's name was Albert > Schermett. Richard