This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WFC.2ACI/543.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Lori, Unfortunately I never traced my Fonfara family back past my great grandparents who were Wawrzyniec Fafara and his wife Anna Kolbusz Fafara. They lived in the village of Markuszowa which isn't far from Strzyzow in the southeast of the country in the Rzeszow region. The correct Polish spelling of the name is Fafara (with a hook under the first a), but it's pronounced Fonfara, which is why a lot of people in the States spell it that way. I was in the cemetary in neighboring Dobrzechow not long ago looking for their graves and I was surprised by how many graves had the name Fafara on them. Maybe your family came from this part of Poland too. Have you checked the Ellis Island web site or www.stevenmorse.org yet to find exactly where they came from? It's worth checking out. Have you also looked into the origin of our name Fafara yet? Let me know what you find out. Thanks, Russell