This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Zgolinski Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hdC.2ACI/403.1.1 Message Board Post: You may be the descendents of my father's lost uncle! My father, Alfons Zgolinski, immigrated to NY after WWII in 1952. He spent 7 years in England before that. He was the only one of his family to leave Poland, except for an uncle who left for the U.S. around the turn of the century (which would correspond with your dates give or take). No one ever knew what happened to that uncle. My father was born in 1909 in a small village called Borzykowo, which is east of Poznan. His father had I think 3 brothers. They were well-to-do farmers. Some of the family lived in Gniezno. Unfortunately, my father passed away in 2001, but a couple of my uncles are still alive and my mother knows quite a lot about the family history. Please email me and I will dig into this to see if there is a connection. If you are indeed relations, and I think you are because Zgolinski is a very uncommon name even in Poland, then we can tell you a lot about your family. It is large and interesting! . We did a search for Zgolinskis in the U.S. a while ago and found only an elderly man on the West Coast whose mother and wife were dead and who had no children. We thought it was a dead end. It gets more and more interesting.....Please do email me. My name is Liz, and I have two brothers, Albert and Andrew. Al and I live in NYC area, and Andy lives in Mexico City. Hope to talk to you soon!