There are 62 L~a~kis in Poland. They are spread all over the map, Łąki Jim On Apr 20, 2008, at 7:20 PM, John Ruther wrote: > I have a marriage record of a family member, Valentine Bednarz, and > in this record it states that he is from a town in Poland with > which I am having difficulty identifying. It is La~ki, L~a~iski, > Gal., Polonia. Is this familiar to anyone and if so, might you know > its location? > > Thank you, > > John > ********************************* > 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 jimpres1@mac.com

Jim and John, Although an initial search for the term "Łąki", meaning "meadows" at http://mapa.szukacz.pl/ identifies 62 locations *containing* that word, only 20 or so are actually named "Łąki". And of those an even smaller number are located in the former province of Galicia. However, it seems that you need some more collateral information, perhaps also available on the marriage document you cite, that will further clarify or identify your village. By the way, the spelling is likely "Łąki" (pronounced "wonkey"), not "Ląki". [Use Charecter Encoding UTF-8 to properly display this message.] Roman Kuba wrote: > There are 62 L~a~kis in Poland. They are spread all over the map, > Łąki > > Jim > > On Apr 20, 2008, at 7:20 PM, John Ruther wrote: > >> I have a marriage record of a family member, Valentine Bednarz, and >> in this record it states that he is from a town in Poland with >> which I am having difficulty identifying. It is La~ki, L~a~iski, >> Gal., Polonia. Is this familiar to anyone and if so, might you know >> its location? >> >> Thank you, >> >> John >