Ship manifests show people coming into the United States. Registration is required but free at Ellis Island; so, for those records, no subscription is needed. Other ports are found at ancestry.com. They are free to search; subscription required to see ship manifests. If you click on this link, you can use exact spelling and sounds like spelling to find Krakowiaks coming to the United States. When you want to look at a record, click on 'scanned manifest'; sometimes it is on two pages. http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html You will want to gather all the documents about your family in the United States; this will include civil and church records in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Here are some starter sites for your research: Allegheny County Genealogy: http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/genealogy/a/southwestern_pa_2.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~paallegh/ http://www.deathindexes.com/pennsylvania/index.html http://www.vitalrec.com/pa.html Regards, Mary Pamela Jansen wrote: > Wel, I amsaving up for ancestry right now. > I have a hand written note from my mother in law. She is also corresponding with me via email when she remembers things. > > Pam > > Terissa Schor <terissa.schor@gmail.com> wrote: > What records do you have thus far? > > On 9/17/07, Pamela Jansen > wrote: > >> Jan KRAKOWIAK *married* Uliana RZEPKA / somewhere in Poland, maybe >> Ilza >> >> or Biedzychow, or Radom. >> >> >> >> Children: >> >> Antoinette KRAKOWIAK B: 2-16-1887 Biedzychow, Radom, Poland >> D: 9-22-1942 Pittsburgh, >> Pennsylvania, U.S.A. >> >> Bolek KRAKOWIAK B: ? M: ? D: ? Inducted into Russian Army and >> never >> seen or >> heard from again. >> >> Geofil KRAKOWIAK B: ? M: ? D: ? >> >> Teofil (aka) Theofil KRAKOWIAK B: ? M: ? D: ? >> >> Feliks (aka) Felix KRAKOWIAK B: ? M: ? D: ? >> >> Amelia KRAKOWIAK B: ? M: Mr. Zebroski in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania? D: >> ? >> >> Zdieslaw KRAKOWIAK B: ? M: ? D: ? >> >> Stanislava aka (Stella) B: ? M: 1st time in U.S.A. 2nd time in France 1 >> son each marriage. >> D: ? >> >> Can anyone help me find the missing links here ? Thank You, Pamela >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! >> FareChase. >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> > > > >