This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hdC.2ACI/1994.1 Message Board Post: hi David, from Joelle Lemery from France. Here are more pieces of information about my Grand father. My grand father was Wladislaw Switala. He was born in 1909. We have very few elements about his life. He once mentioned Poznan as his place of birth, (but we can remember him speaking of Potok...). He was a Catholic Pole. We think his mother was Maria and his father perhaps Leon. His father married twice. My grandfather had brothers, sisters and half brothers and sisters. Here are some names we remember : Frania (Françoise in French) married to Frank Obala, Théophila, Cécilia. Perhaps a Ludovik. My grand father arrived in the North of France when he was 17, later he married my grand mother Emma Laurent a Belgian woman, then he was taken to Germany as a prisoner. He had three children among who is my mother. He died in 1979.