Thanks for the suggestions.   Harriet, your strategies have not worked for me, but I do appreciate your support.  I have tried all of your suggestions to no avail, that is the reason I put my original post out to the group.  I used your same approach with the Kaminski side of the family and that is how I have succeded to thus far reach back to the mid 1700's.  I think most people don't put as much effort as we have before they give up, but I refuse to quit.  I know there is one clue out there that will help to get me to the right town or village.  The Kozatek's and Rominski's just want me to appreciate all of my research I guess :-)   Tina, the Kaminski's and Blyszczek's were from the Suwalki region.  Janowka and Pruska Wielka to be exact, where they have lived since the 1500's.  However, I don't believe the Kozatek's and Rominski's were.  I am leaning to a little more SW towards Warsaw, since that it is what my grandmother always said.  Although I did find a small village, which I don't think exists anymore, by the name of Warszawa in the Suwalki region. ( It was SE of Dowspuda near what is now Kurianki.) Most of the records that do have any actual residence on indicate that everyone was from the Lomza province (which encompassed the Suwalki area in the1800's).  Except of course my great grandparents Ellis Island records that say they were from Grebonka in the Lubelskie province, but I believe whoever was recording the passengers just lumped everyone on that page into the Lubelskie province if they were from Russian Poland.(Imagine that, mistakes on official records. Unheard of!)  I tend to think Grebonka might be Zielonka and that Zebny may be Zebki (with the nasal e), both just outside of Warsaw.  That is the angle I am working on now.   Happy researching and HAPPY NEW YEAR! Today's Topics:    1. Re: Rominski and Kozatek families in Poland (Bronwyn Klimach)    2. Re: Rominski and Kozatek families in Poland (marlo) ----------------------------------------------------------------------