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/485.5.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Go to http://www.genealogy.com. On the left hand side of the page, type in John Premielewski. I believe this is your ancestor. I'm at work right now, and do not remember for sure, what you told me in your email. was not able to find his wife listed. If she lived until after 1965, she should be in the Social Security system. You can request her application. The cost for his is $27.00, and hers would be $29.00. They will need to know where she lived and her husband's. Make sure you let them know they were in Buffalo. If you know where she was living at the time of her death, that would be good to add to your letter. Click until you see this data on him: Name SS# Issue State Birth Death Death State Last Known Residence Last Payment Location AutoWrite Letter PREMIELEWSKI, JOHN 071-05-8767 NY 29 Jul 1902 Jan 1982 NY Buffalo, New York 14221 Write It Click on "Write It" on that page at the far right of his name. A preformatted letter will appear, which you can copy and past to a document, so you can send it to them. If no one knows his father's name or his mother's, you can request a copy of his application, which he completed after 1935. Do not order the Computer Extract. That will not give you the names of their parents. Once you know the names of their parents, you can search ship manifests to learn where they came from in Poland. I have a feeling your family is most likely from the sam area as mine. I'm going to be ordering microfilm of records for my great grandmother's parish. Maybe if we can get the name of John's father, I will find him in the records also. Let me know as soon as you know anything. I don't mind helping. Tina Ellis