This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sowadski, (Sowatzki?), Witkowski, Nowack, Grzechowiak, Szyparski, Ahlenius, Schuler, Rostol, Ryden, Wennevold, Hanke, Simmons, O'Brien Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DGC.2ACI/750.756.758 Message Board Post: I am researching the Sowadski line and came across my family in the Cook Cty, IL 1880 census, which has the last name as Sowatzki. In this census it states they came from Prussia, but in the 1900, it has them coming from Hungary. The immigrants names are Franz b. 1850 and Josefa (Josepa) b. 1856. Thank you, -Sarah Clausen