Hello Dick, You can find information about "Rak" immigrants on a website that two friends (also included on this e-mail) and I maintain about our "Lemko ancestral villages" in southeastern Poland. Note that the Raks and numerous other family names mentioned on the website were "Lemkos" from the "Lemkowyna" region of SE Poland. The Lemkos were a "microethnic" group of people that were indigenous to that region of Poland and lived there for centuries. The Polish communists under the sanction of the USSR tried to destroy them as a people in 1945 and 1947 by deporting them to Ukraine and western Poland. Here is a link for the website: _http://avillagecluster.com/_ (http://avillagecluster.com/) Just type in the name Rak in the "search" window on the opening page of the website to go to the pages on the website where the name appears. I would appreciate your comments about the website if you should visit it. Send your comments to my aol e-mail address. Andy Smith ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com