Greetings, group, Here's another comment on post office names. While researching in at the National Archives I in D.C., I started looking at the post office records which had been recommended to me as underused. I was surprised and pleased to see a brother of my great-great-grandfather had been a postmaster for a short period of time in Marathon County, Wisconsin. I followed up in the records about the post offices themselves and found the application to become a post office. Besides a physical description of the location, the potential post master for a new office was to draw a map of the area that would be served (August marked exactly where every farm house was on their "40's" and many of those fold were kin). The name he chose for the post office was Czersk, the Polish name of the town closed to where they had recently immigrated in Prussia. The postmaster rejected the name so August countered with Konitz, the German name of the same town! It was accepted but the post master apparently didn't have the knowledge German spelling of Polish places needed to understand what was written, and the post office was called Konetz. I encourage anyone who has the chance to look at these microfilmed records for the areas their ancestors lived in if they were of the "pioneer" time period for that area. Even if they weren't the post master for the office, there may be interesting information about the physical layout of their neighborhood at that time and the public transportation available. You'll also learn how often they got mail delivered to the area! Enjoy! Joyce Wans Mukilteo WA USA