Hello Bob, The LDS has film for the village of Czerwinsk back to the 1600's. You may want to check this out, as this will give you records prior to 1880. If Czerwinsk is not your village, then we must look for a clue to the correct village, before you can begin a new search. Best regards, Ralph Harris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Kowalski" <rak@doc.ic.ac.uk> To: <PolandBorderSurnames-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 4:11 AM Subject: [PBS] Lendzion-Naiman > Many thanks for so many interesting and helpful replies. So much for my > theory about the origins of the Lendzion surname. Perhaps there are > several > different origins. And perhaps it is not unusual that it occurs as both a > Polish and German family name in that part of the world. > > I am now also beginning to have second thoughts about the link between > Lendzion and Czerwinsk. It seems that my great-grandmother outlived three > husbands, and she may have been married to one of them and lived in > Czerwinsk with her husband's surname before immigrating to the US. My > grandmother Mary's brother Frank was in fact her half-brother. My father's > notes include the surname Czanowski as a possible surname for Frank's or > Mary's father. > > In fact, I drove to Poland (from England) last year and briefly visited > Czerwinsk. I visited two of the local cemeteries and couldn't find a > single > Lendzion, Czanowski or Skowronski surname. I wrote afterwards to the > priest > in Pieniazkowo (the Catholic church for Cziewinsk), but he could find > nothing, and his records went back to only around the 1880s. > > I am not too sure where to go from here. I have visited the LDS family > centre in London in the past. Do you think it might be worth another > visit? > I visit Poland from time to time, and am always looking for an excuse to > go > back. Is there anywhere else I might visit while I am there? Pultusk? > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.28/1122 - Release Date: > 10/11/2007 10:41 AM > >