Sam, There may be a misunderstanding here. You seemed to indicate that you met people at your local FHC who were doing Polish research. I was referring to the films that your FHC may be holding on "indefinite loan" which anyone can use. You might find films for your ancestors' parishes at your FHC. It would be unusual to find other people who have done research in your ancestral village however, it certainly does happen but these connections are only made when people see a common surname and/or village name on the internet. When enough people "find" each other generally they will start-up an email list just for people researching that surname or place name. If you are having trouble getting information out of the parish in Nanticote, I suggest you contact the diocese involved and find out if they have any of the Nanticote church records in their archives. You mentioned you found a death record for a child in Nogat. On exactly which film did you find this? Do you have the title or number? Debbie SamE797@aol.com wrote: > Debbie, > > I am just outside of Philadelphia Pa. I checked with the local LDS and > very few here are checking Poland. The one I talked to has only been in the > US 10 years and he is using LDS and his know relative to get data. > Unfortunately he is from Warsaw. My family settled in Nanticote Pennsylvania in late > 1884. A lot of them stayed in the area. So most of the information on the > ones in Pa I have. It is getting information on the roots in Poland. Again > they came from the Grudziadz area. However the only record I have found so > far from LDS is the death of a child and the town was listed as Nogat. > (Latin Nogath) From what my Aunt remembers (she had a very good mind) most of > Nanticote was Polish and most were from the same area in Poland. The catholic > church there was started in 1870. Unfortunately the church is not very > cooperative. The Phila Catholic church will NOT let the LDS copy any records. > Some of the churchs will help but most will not from what I have been told. > The local court house records were in Scranton Pa and that burned down some > time in the mid 1900 so a lot of those records were lost. So they say. > > Thanks for the help. > Sam >