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/532.1 Message Board Post: Hi! This TARNÓW is a town or village? In Poland is only one (rather big) town Tarnów and 4 villages Tarnów... See: http://www.pilot.pl/index.php3?Z_CITY_NAME=Tarn%F3w&form_t=1&lang=pl This is the town Tarnów (MAŁOPOLSKIE Province): http://www.pilot.pl/index.php3?z_city_id=1069&lang=pl See this town Tarnów on old postcards (internet auctions of postcards): http://www.filokarta.pl/auction/auctions.jsp?mode=auctionsbysubregion&id_region=129 Surname BORKOWSKI: see: http://www.herby.com.pl/herby/indexslo.html and write this surname - You`ll see that there are 32555 persons (in 1998year) with this surname in Poland! In Tarnów region there are 114 persons (abbreviation: Ta:114 ) See also this site: http://www.tarnow.pl/tarnow/ang/index.php This is the website of the town Tarnów. You may to write e-mail (link "contact", because the link "guest book" is wrong...) - in English, I think :) and to write that You a looking for persons with surname Borkowski (the text in Polish may be: " Mój dziadek wyjechał z Polski, z Tarnowa, jako 13-letnie dziecko w 1913 roku. W Tarnowie prawdopodobnie została jego siostra, ale nie mam jej adresu. Czy ktoś z Państwa mógłby mi pomóc w odszukaniu krewnych o nazwisku Borkowski mieszkających w Tarnowie lub okolicy? Jeśli to możliwe - prosiłabym o odpowiedź w jęz.angielskim. Serdecznie pozdrawiam!" - and Your signature Best regards! Maria (Poland)