Hi all. I posted this several days ago but I don't think it was put up. Here is another piece of information about surnames that may be helpful to some of you, especially if you are working between Prussian and Kashuby names. It is almost a given that if you are Kashuby to any degree or Polish, you are Slavic. It is one of the truths brotherhoods that we share and seperates us from the rest of the world.. Being Slavic sets us apart from other races of the world because for one, we all share a DNA factor. Now, there was a time when the Slavic people came across the Oder River from Poland and extended by small groupings only as far west as Northern Germany, or so they thought. It has now been proven that there existed in a small number, Slavic people in Sweden. These people were referred to as REM, and they were a warrior class of people who fought for the king. When Sweden ruled Northern Germany, or Pomerania, the king sent the Slavic Rem people to Pomerania to fight and protect his land. These Slavic people stayed on and married into the Kashuby and Polish people, and the Rem surnames survived even until today. So in our search of surnames, we will even encounter Swedish names, and yet not know how they came to be there. Just thought you'ed like to know. LOTCHO DROM my friends Vilhem(Bill) Hoeft