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/2002 Message Board Post: I am researching my great-grandfather, Francisczek Szmala. All I know about his birthplace in Poland is "Posen." He came to Chicago about 1882. He was first married to Marta Blok, who died at 24, and then to Veronica Ukrzewska, my great-grandmother.