Thanks Marie, this looks like a lot of useful information for me. I had another person tell me earlier that she doubted that my ancestors would have lived in the Russian partition and emigrated from the German partition. Do you know of a map for Poland for the late 1800's showing the divisions? Does the name Lidzbark help, I vaguely remember something about that and I am trying to locate my Bartkowski book to see what I had for that? Glen