This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RdC.2ACI/117.339.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Kelley, This is SO exciting. I have been working for awhile on my family but my grandmother always said she didn't know anything, so this past weekend I went up there to really pick her brain. She insisted there was no family ties to the 2 families. Until we went to visit my great aunt Stella, Peter's daughter, in the nursing home, and she linked the two families without a problem. I have great stuff I would love to send you. Please email me at joannburk@hotmail.com and if you wouldn't mind giving me your snail mail address, I will send you some things. What? The family tree as far as I have gotten, an obituary for Frank Arasim and I think I have one for Apolonia. Oh, my grandmother pronounces the name as AH-RASH-IM. Also, the name is a derivative of Arasimowicz. The family is from Russian/Poland. I will write more in my email! Hope to hear from you really soon!