This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jany/Yany Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hdC.2ACI/1958.2.1 Message Board Post: Hello: I'm looking for ancesters from the Oppeln, Prussia area of Europe. My Grt grandfather Bartholomew Jany migrated to the USA abt 1870 at age 20. He came to the MPLS, MN area. I'm trying to reach beyond this time period to find earlier ancesters and perhaps even living realatives.