I want to thank you all for your help, I finally was able to speak to a surviving relative who know a bit a bout her parents the other day. Ruth, Your hunches were right about florian being a brother he apparently owned a farm with his wife (a relative rembers going there to get cheese and some food they took care of them while stanislaw went on a seven year journey as a possible Hobo on the train lines. Flurry or florian had also children Blanch/tony/Helen/Sophie. My Wife's aunt couldn't remember if there was more she also provided Information about a sister Victoria was also here, but I have not been able to figure any other information out about here. Mary Stanislaws wife, i got more information about Mary her last name on her marriage license was written Boruk/but my wife's grandmother thougth it was pronounced boruch or borrah she lived near Kracow, Her mother ( Mary Gotacholz) and father John Boruk moved from Austria to live in that region. she also had a sister who lived here her name was Alicia and her married name was Chesik (thats what she remembers (she was young), the older sister came over first, lived in millers falls, Massachusetts, then moved to New Haven with her husband mary and Stanislaw moved down also, where they had the second to last child Stephie, when her sister Mary's husband stanislaw decided to leave for seven years, they moved back to millers fall and bought the house that her sister Alicia and her husband had. Her Brother and Law Flurry/florian helped her and the family. I guess what I am asking is, this, because I looked the best I could on the Ellis Island site and also the LDS site. 1. Can anyone find anything on Alicia here in the US2. anything about the Boruks from here or there 3. Anything about Gotacholz. 4. when you do your searches , are you able to look at naturaliztion paperwork? Thank you all, please excuse my spelling, my "internal spell check is not on today". sean > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:24:42 -0600 > From: daveg@airmail.net > To: poland-roots@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [POLAND] Help with information on Stanislaw Rydel > > Ruth, > > From what you've written I'd say the city is Ostrol~e~ka with > diacriticals through the "L" and under the "E". > > Debbie > > Ruth wrote: > > I don't want to get too lenghty in this e-mail, so I will make it simple. > > > > I believe Flurry Ridal was Stanislaw/Stanley's brother Florian Rydel, and > > that this Steve Ridal was aka Stanley Rydel. Steve lists a place of birth on > > his Draft card. Anybody care to try to decipher it as something different > > than I have here? Ostrolewka? Lomza, Poland. > > > > Ruth > > ------------- > > World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 > > > > Name: Flurry Ridal > > City: Amherst (where he signed up) > > County: Hampshire (where he signed up) > > State: Massachusetts (where he signed up) > > Residence: Prospect, Millers Falls, Franklin, Mass > > Birth Date: 4 May 1886 > > Race: White > > FHL Roll Number: 1684522 > > DraftBoard: 8 > > Age: 32 > > Place of Birth??: Russia (Poland) > > Occupation: Laborer > > Employers Name: Millers Falls P?????Company, Millers Falls, Franklin, Mass. > > Nearest Relative: Mrs. Katherine Ridal, Prospect Millers Falls, Franklin, > > Mass. > > Height/Build:Med/Med > > Color of Eyes/Hair: L. Blue/Light brown > > Date: Sept 12, 1918 > > Montague, Mass. > > --------- > > World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 > > > > Name: Steve Ridal > > City: Amherst (where he signed up) > > County: Hampshire (where he signed up) > > State: Massachusetts (where he signed up) > > Residence: Prospect?, Millers Falls?, ????????, Mass. > > Alien > > Birthplace: Poland > > Ostrolewka? Lomza, Poland > > Birth Date: 6 Jul 1888 > > Race: White > > FHL Roll Number: 1684522 > > DraftBoard: 8 > > Age: 28 > > Occupation: Mechanic > > Employer: Millers? ????? Co, ????? Mass. > > Dependant: Wife & 2 children > > Height/Build: Med/Med > > Color of Eyes/Hair: Blue/Brown > > Date: June 5, 1917 > > Precinct: 2 > > City or County: Montague > > State: Mass. > > > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at Poland-Roots-admin@rootsweb.com > ---------------------------------- > Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. > ---------------------------------- > Browse the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots > Search the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLAND-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message