This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Przybyla, Kurek Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hdC.2ACI/765.766.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't think any of my Przybyla's ended up in Massachusetts. Przybyla, I've heard, is a very common name in Poland. I do know that my Przybyla ancestor (Antoni) was from Galicia, and immigrated about 1893. He always told the family he was from Posen/Poznan, but whether he meant the city or the area, we don't know. I found a marraige record that said he was from Onlno, Galicia, Poland. He worked in the coal or zinc mines in central Illinois. He did have a brother (John/Jan) that stayed in Chicago, but I've been unable to trace him at all. The only surviving child doesn't remember anything about her uncle other than he was in Chicago.