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/466.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: SOPOCKINIE (SOPOTSKIN) 5350 2339 V Belarus 159.5 miles W of Minsk SOPOTSKIN 5350 2339 N Belarus 159.5 miles W of Minsk The place you seek is in Belarus ... also known as White Russia. It's a country to the east of Poland. My Bogdan cousins live in Kruszki, Poland in the parish of Przerosl. I don't know if their ancestors were from Belarus. Tina