This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/DFC.2ACE/485.565 Message Board Post: Betty, My name is Brian Burclaw. I have some information on my family, and a few others that you mentioned. I am just starting to look in to family trees. I started one on this website, but it is very incomplete. My father's mother was a Landowski. Her first name was Valeria, but she went by Laura. I know she had a sister Minnie, and a brother Julian. She had more siblings but I don't know the names. My mother, Zepherine (Sadie) Stankowski had a sister (Esther) that married a Frank Brzezinski, and another sister (Regina) that married a Groshek. I think his name was Francis, I'm not sure. There is a Stankowski family tree setup at another website. There are over 300 descendants from my grandparents on that side. (Joseph and Suzanne Stankowski) As far as the Burclaw's go, this is what I have. My grandfather, Joseph Burclaw was thirteen when he came over from Germany with one brother, I am not sure of his name, and their father Jacob. Their last name was not Burclaw at that time. My father is not sure what it was. Joseph's brother went by the name Burclaff. I think that may have been what Joseph went by until my grandmother (Joseph's wife) went to the courthouse and had the name changed to Burclaw. According to my father the original name is something like Burschlaff or Bueschlau. The latter is my best attempt at spelling what my dad pronounces Booshlau. The lau is pronounced like wow. My father came from a family of ten. He is the oldest. They are: Anton (Tony), Emil, Leonard, Sylvia, Tekla, Clara, Lydia, Wanda, and John. That may not be the correct order either, and I know I am missing one. There were also ten in my family. Chester (Chet), Mary Jane, Randy, Duane, Robert (Bob), Susan, Jeffrey, Lori, Brian, and Lyn! nette (Lynn). Randy passed away as a baby in 1952, and Jeff passed away on duty as a fireman for Rosholt in 1988. I hope this helps you a little bit.