Lucie, You may find more help on a Prussia Mailing list. This lis deals with ethnic Germans who lived in Bohemia. West Prussia was a different part of Europe. A search wih: West Prussia Genealogy has a lot of good hits. Some of them are in German but many of the sites at "genealogienetz.de" are now translated to English. Check them out!! Karen Westpreußen / West Prussia Familienforschung in Westpreussen / Family Research in West Prussia (German and English), an excellent resource for West Prussian genealogy, by Hans-Jürgen ... http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/WPRU/wprus.html Putzig, West Prussia Genealogy Records 1660-1890 Extracted genealogy records from Putzig, West Prussia, Germany (today Puck, Poland). http://germanroots.home.att.net/putzig/ The Schwerdtfeger / Schwert Families --- West Prussia Resource Link... Genealogy in Historical Eastern Germany - Hauke Fehlberg's site includes resources and maps that greatly assist with family research for West Prussia. ... http://schwertfamily.net/links_west_prussia.htm PGSA - West Prussia Click on "Home" for latest Website updates. West Prussia ... Copyright © 2001 — Polish Genealogical Society of America — All Rights Reserved ... http://www.pgsa.org/wprussia.htm In a message dated 3/15/2006 4:11:12 PM Mountain Standard Time, LUJAMAKS@aol.com writes: I'm looking for for my gg-grandfather and his family. His name was Christian Schlieske b. abt. 1810 m. Caroline Sonnenberg had 10 children, only three lived past childhood they were August Philipp Schlieske b. 6 Dec 1832 - Henriette Wilhelmine b. 26 Dec 1845 and my g-grandfather Julius Herman Schileske b. 25 mar 1850 - all were boren in Krojanke Flatow, West Preussen, Pressen. Hope someone out there can help. Lucie