Be sure to check Lutheran records and Civil Records. If the LDS do not have them, check tghe State archives and the archives in Berlin. On Nov 11, 2007 2:11 AM, Bob Kowalski <rak@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote: > 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 >