This Web Page is intended to be a repository of information about  my grandfather's village of Strubowiska, the village of Smerek, and the surrounding  villages in Gmina Cisna. Strubowiska and Smerek are located in southeastern Poland, geographically near the location where the present borders of Poland, Ukraine, and Slovakia meet.

Here I will post information about the villages obtained from my research, and the research of others, including maps, history, surnames, genealogy information from census records, cemetery transcriptions, passenger arrival records, etc.

In addition, this site will also provide information about the villages where immigrants from these villages settled in the U.S., primarily Clearfield County, PA.

If you are researching this area and would like to join our Smerek discussion group on topica.com to share genealogical information, please enter your e-mail address below  and click on join. Note, this discussion group is for a rather small geographic area -- the 20 listed villages.  Please consider these limits before you ask to join our listserver group.