Through my grandfather Stephen GRACZYK, I have many ancestors from Poland. They were from western Poland, mainly around the Poznań area, Oborniki, Środa Wielkopolska, Mogilno, and Witkowo. These places belonged to the German part of Poland prior to WWI. Surnames of interest include:

ANDRZEJEWSKI, BORUCKI, DOLATA, FREDYK, GACA, GRACZYK, IGŁINSKI, KOŚCIELNIAK, KRZEWINSKI, LIS, MACIEJEWSKI, MROZIK, PIASECKI, PRZYBYLSKI, WESOLEK, ZAMIARA

I also have ancestors from Prussia through my grandma Rita (ROMANE) KANALLEY. They were from both West Prussia and East Prussia, modern-day Poland. These towns of origin were generally south of Gdańsk and west of Olsztyn. Surnames include:

BIRKHOLZ, BONA, HAPP, KAISLER, LUCZKOWSKI, NAX, PIOTROWSKI, ROMANN, ROMANOWSKI, ZDUNEK

My wife Laura has ancestry in all 3 former partitions of Poland – German, Austrian, and Russian. I am researching her lines as well. Surnames include:

GIL, GRZYB, JAKUBASZEK, JOZEFIAK, KITRYS, KLAJA, KOSIERADZKI, KRASOWSKI, LESNIAK, MADEJ, NYKIEL, OSTROWSKI, PAPROCKI, PARTACZ, PLUTA, ROKITKA, SAWICKI, WIERCIOCH, WOJCIK, WOJTOWICZ

Please get in touch if any of these surnames are of interest to you, especially if you have links to Buffalo, New York, where many of these families settled.