Thanks for your input Mike. I have had lots of ideas and suggestions from the list and I am poking at all of them. Seems like there are a lot of place names with similar spellings, and place name changes as well. It's just hard to decipher what is a mis-spelled word, and what is not. Thanks again Karen Prytula ----- Original Message ----- From: "mw23522" <mw23522@nyc.rr.com> To: <poland-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [POLAND] GLADYSZ - Does anyone have this surname intheir familytree? > > Karen, > > I don't know of a place called Crotkow, but to me it looks close enough to > "CHOWSTKOW" that they could possibly be the same place. > In some older style handwriting, the lower case "r" (second letter in > Crotkow) and the lower case "h" (second letter in > Chowstkow) can look similar to each other, so it may be that a transcriber > looked at a handwritten "Chotkow" and thought it was > "Crotkow." This is all speculation on my part, of course. There are map > websites where you can look up place names in Poland that are very helpful > with things like this. I used to have a list of them, but my computer > crashed recently and I lost it. I seem to recall that there may have been > a > link to one of these at the Polish Genealogical Society of America > website, > but I'm not sure. Maybe someone else on the list can help you with this. > > Michael Wawrzynski > > ********************************* > 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 >