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/557.1 Message Board Post: Both the administrative and judicial/tax district for Maruszyna (coordinates 49.25-19.57) was Nowy Targ (Novij Torh in Rusyn language). The Roman Catholic Church was in Szaflary. (Today Szaflary, once an estate w/a fortified palace, is today Zakopane, a mountain resort.) Turn of the century this was part of Galicia (Malopolskie) Province> Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today this is Poland. http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=49.4167&longitude=19.9500&size=big The Tatra Group may be helpful in directing your search. There is a fair amt of village info still under construction. index http://www.mytarg.net/ Home -Geography - Podhale and Tatry http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/geography/regions/podhale/link.shtml PS>Gorale = Highlander Region