There are other places besides Footnotes to check. I think your first step is to get their census records to try to pin down the dates better. And you can probably get free access to census records thru 1920 at Heritage Quest online at home from the public library if you have a library card. Since the 1920 census gives immigration status, it would suffice. I have links to library information at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~thecohens/resources.html#library You also can search for free for their likely docking in the UK (on the way to the US) by searching the passenger list database at http://findmypast.com where you would have to pay for images, but the search results page alone might turn up some likely dates for you. And you can check Ellis Island for free as well, for their arrival here in the US. http://ellisisland.org Once you have enough information, they could consider ordering their naturalization files from http://www.uscis.gov but that is expensive, although a little less expensive if you already have their case number from a FHC or maybe Footnotes. On 1/1/09, usinet.sbeggs <[email protected]> wrote: > Happy New Year, and thanks to everyone at Poland Border Surnames who helped > me to find and visit my Krawiec and Karlitsky relatives in southeast Poland > this past June! It was the highlight of all my travels. > > My friends are over for New Year's Day, and we were talking about their > Polish relatives. I told them how helpful PBS members have been toward me. > > Aleksandra Grochowska is my friend's paternal grandmother, born Sept. 1 1887 > in Barglow, Poland. Her paternal grandfather, Ignacy Smuszkiewiecz, was > born July 16 1890 in Kouinaki, Poland. > > Does anyone know where Kouinaki or Barglow are now? > > They came to the U.S. between 1910 and 1920, to Chester, Pennsylvania. We > don't know who their parents were. If anyone could point us in the right > direction, we would be eternally grateful. They were both Roman Catholic. > We don't have their records for naturalization, but my friend says they were > naturalized. I have been trying to look at Footnote.com, but have not > succeeded due to problems with my active X script controls.