"Janice Nightingale" <nightingalejanice@hotmail.com> wrote: > From: "Janice Nightingale" <nightingalejanice@hotmail.com> > To: AUS-QLD-SE-Germans-L@rootsweb.com > > Thanks Eric and Daph, > Confused by the disparity in the two replies. I know that Kaufmann means > merchant. Preussen Missionär 31 I assumed means Prussian Missionary aged 31 > which is correct. Preussen refers to his former place of residence - For. Pollitz in Preussen (Prussia). > Can either of you tell me if he was a full paying > passenger or assisted immigrant? I now have another mystery. He was born in > Niemegk Brandenberg, why was he in Pollitz, Hanover. I would have thought if > anything he would have listed his residence as Berlin which is where I > assumed he trained with Grossner Mission Society. I do not know why he was in For. Pollitz - could he have gone there to work? Perhaps as an assistant to a church or a Pastor? The Gossner Missionary Society was keen for its missionaries to have practical skills - perhaps Anger was at For. Pollitz to learn aspects of a trade. > While I'm writng, can anyone give me ideas on how to get general information > on Niemegk, I know where it was, but is it a big town, a village, rural, > industrial etc? the Qld State Library couldn't help, although they went to > the trouble of contacting the German National Library on my behalf. there > are many websites re. Niemegk but all in german. Short of paying a German > researcher I'm running out of ideas. I would recommend using "Meyers Orts und Verkehrs Lexikon ..." Many of the LDS Family History Centres have mirofiche or microfilm copies, as does Queensland Family History Society at Albion. You do need to do some homework however before you look at it. Most good books on German Genealogy have a section on making the most of "Meyers ..." Greetings from Brisbane Eric Kopittke