Thanks to all...this is a great resource, it actually put my maternal grandmother's name (Scisl~owicz) just slightly northeast of where I would have looked. Dom. "Fire Sprinklers Are Green!" Save your building, save our environment. -----Original Message----- From: poland-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:poland-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Debbie Greenlee Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:49 PM To: poland-roots@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [POLAND] Using "Herby" Dom, This database tells you how many people with specific surnames lived in Poland in 1990. It's not completely accurate (the 2002 database is better) but it does the job. Type the surname in the box. The site does require Polish diacriticals however. You can usually cut and paste most of them from the web page itself. Or, you can use an asterisk * in place of a letter with a diacritical. You can find a detailed how-to in an old issue of Gen Dobry e-zine: http://www.polishroots.org/gendobry/PDF/GenDobry_VII_11.pdf Start on page 4. Debbie Dominick G Kasmauskas wrote: > Looking at www.herby.com ...where can you search genealogy? > > Dom. > > > I don't understand, Alan. When I search for MIGDA? on the Herby site (using > the wild card ? so as to match plain L and slash-L), I find 178 Polish > citizens named MIGDAL, and 2,783 named MIGDAL with slash-L: > > Migdal 178 Wa:14, BP:3, Cz:1, Gd:1, Go:7, Ka:12, Lu:56, Ld:31, Ol:4, > Pt:11, Pr:7, Ra:4, Sr:14, Sz:2, Ta:1, Wl:2, Wr:3, ZG:5 > > Migdal 2783 Wa:107, BB:251, By:30, Ch:1, Ci:5, Cz:124, El:2, Gd:52, > Go:59, JG:61, Kl:28, Ka:210, Ki:68, Kn:56, Ko:7, Kr:404, Ks:4, Lg:45, Ls:8, > Lu:12, Ld:68, NS:13, Ol:22, Op:77, Os:6, Pl:17, Pt:36, Pl:1, Po:54, Pr:8, > Ra:51, Sr:15, Sk:16, Sl:11, Su:11, Sz:72, Tb:8, Ta:531, To:15, Wb:55, Wl:2, > Wr:72, Za:8, ZG:80 > > > It appears to me the Migdals are right where they should be. Did I > misunderstand your question? > > Incidentally, you can get more accurate and more recent data (2002) on > MIGDAL with plain L here: > > http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/migdal.html > > And 2002 data on the far more common form with slash-L is here: > > http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/migda%25C5%2582.html > > I hope this clarifies things a little. Or if I misunderstood your question, > tell me so. > > Fred Hoffman > ********************************* 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