Vera, I don't think anyone can say whether your aunt got it right without seeing the original document. Do you have that? Can you post if somewhere and give us a link to it? I used Shtetlseeker (perfect for phonetic place name searches) and didn't come up with anything that I thought was close enough to your spellings of Pichanowisc and Egierz in Poland. Biala is a correct spelling but there are a cart-load of Bia?as in Poland. Are these villages supposed to be located in southern/southeastern Poland (Galicia)? Debbie Vera Miller wrote: Hello all, I hope someone can help. I cannot get further in my research in Poland without knowing the places Pauline Kretzer and Carl Hoffmann were born. I already had my Austrian-American aunt translate the whole document. I just need someone to tell me whether she has the town of Pichanowisc, Poland as the right birthplace of Carl in 1835 and Biala near Egierz, Poland as the right town of Pauline's birth. I have posted an image of this document at [1]http://forumgenealogiczne.pl/viewtopic.php?p=4037#4037. Thank you in advance. I am very grateful for all the members' help on this board. Vera