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/AdC.2ACE/1119.1 Message Board Post: Ted, These sites can help: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Genealogy:_Locating_the_previous_overseas_residence http://polishroots.org/ Immigration through Ellis Island can be searched through www.ellisisland.org http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html Where in the US did this family live? Best wishes in your search, Mary