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/547.3 Message Board Post: Hi Gene, bonjour from Paris. I have replied to your e-mail on the French site "Wirtualna Francjia" - here is my reply, but you will have to on the French site to open the links. QUOTE// Hi Gene, howdy there! Got your e-mail. Couldn't revert earlier since I was on the move. I thought I'd better reply to you on this Forum, on the ground that some other members can read this topic and might have more ideas and information to sustain your search. On the top of that, should you need Polish translations, I have noticed that the knowledge of Polish language is far much highter here than on many US sites. Also many are fluent in English I guess the data you have from the Shipping Manifests ex-Hamburg and Ellis Island records are accuruate. Now, given Dorothee's answer about the numerous similar names, a better path might be to start from Sejmy town and check if some of these names can be found there and in the surrounds FYI, using Dorothee's link - (click here) I found only 2 LINKOWSKI in the area. It's already better than 877!!! (the region concerned is "Suwalskie", code SU) Similarly, there only 9 STRYNKOWSKI in this area, but unfortunately 246 NAMIOTKO as well However the task looks hard. Sejmy is located on the north-eastern Border Lands, a particularly tormented zone for the period 1818-1945. I'm sure you you know this, if not check this site (click here). It's a Jewish site, in English, but you can try to set a request on the page down "contact" link. Keep me posted. //UNQUOTE