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/569.1 Message Board Post: What makes you think he was from the Podlaskie area on NE Poland? Have you found a document giving the family's location? I have checked a telephone directory. There are no people in this province named KRUKOW, who have a phone number. There are many people listed with the names KRUKOWSKA and KRUKOWSKI, but not KRUKOW or KRUKOV, as you have spelled it. Do you think maybe he dropped the -SKI from his name? People did that. There is a village named Krukowszczyzna in Podlaskie. Tina Ellis