[email protected] wrote: > > Hello Dieter, Don, Pat, Curt? and listmembers, > > First, let me thank you all for working on this with me. I hope this topic > is not now boring several of you on the list! It appears there are a few > scenarios being put forward as possible answers for finding these two towns. > > 1) Gross Buetzin - in the former Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in > today's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Azelshof as an "unknown" but with three > possible closeby names: Amalienhof, Annenhof and Axelshof. Today I spoke with a few authorities in the area of Groß-Bützin. Of Azelshof no one ever heard. You said that your great-grandfather is born in Prussia and not in Mecklenburg. It is naturally well possible that there was still another Gross-Buetzin in East Germany which today is Polish area. Maybe in Pomerania, eastern Brandenburg or West Prussia. I will try to find a few books in which I learn more about it. A woman in an office promised me to check if there are old recordings, in which Ernst Witt could be registered. I should phone and ask next week again, whether she found somewhat. Perhaps we are lucky with this. > 2) No Gross Buetzin - but rather go with "Gross Buelten" (southeast of > Hannover and west of Braunschweig). This would make it the former Kingdom of > Hannover. Azelshof is again an "unknown" but there is an "Asel" 10 miles > from Gross Buelten. Don't believe. > 3) Gross Buetzin (now spelled "Gross-Butzin") - again in the Mecklenburg > area - then with the JewishGen shtetl seeker and the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex > system - get "Eichelshof" for the Azelshof - and thus find it in > Baden-Wurttenberg near the Neckar River. Surely not. The name "Groß-Bützin" is typically for north east Germany. The areas northeasterly the Elbe river were inhabited some centuries long by Slavic people. After the year 1000 (approx.) the land became German and Danish and it was slowly germanized. Therefore place-names are often of Slavic source; one recognizes it at name endings like ...in (see Berlin). I cannot imagine that You will detect a place named "Groß-Bützin" or alike in central or southern Germany. Those names completely clearly belong to Mecklenburg or Prussia. > 4) "Butzen" in Brandenburg - and "nothing close to Azelshof" nearby. Why "Butzen" if You have "Groß-Bützin" ? (By the way: can You read the book ß and the 'Umlaut' ü ?) > 5) And then of course there is the map program (maps.excite.com) that > wrongly told me that both town names not only exist, but indiscriminately > placed them in the middle of the country - leading me to the postings about > "Thuringia".!! (as Dieter pointed out, any town name it doesn't recognize, > it simply places "there"). > > A thought - where is that "GEOS" program again? I could try both names in > that and see what it finds too... > > It's looking to me like Gross Buetzin in MS is the likely place to start - > and it matches "exactly" to what the parish registers said. (with the umlaut > over the u of course, instead of my ue written in instead). Then, that > "Axelshof" Dieter mentioned as one possible nearby location is really "close" > in spelling to the "Azelshof". Not sure if it is close "by sound". Yes, only the consonant is different. > Dieter, might I take you up on your offer to call Gross Buetzin tomorrow and > see what they think a likely "Azelshof" might be? Please let me know if this > is a toll call of any kind for you - so I can reimburse any costs you have to > place a call. There are no mentionable costs. Let me know, if I can help You anytime by telephone calls or what ever here in Germany. > As for specific names/dates you asked about - they would be: > 1) For Gross Buetzin: Ernst WITT - born 08 Oct 1854 > 2) For Azelshof: Maria W KRUEGER - born 31 May 1859. Family says her > father: Christian F Carl KRUEGER was born 23 April 1824. (married to a > Sophia HIllman?) > > Ernst & Maria's birthdates are from their US death certificates and therefore > are not yet "proven" until the actual birth records are found and Maria's > father's birthdate comes "from family" so I don't really know if it is > accurate or not. All noted. > (Again, Dieter, please contact me privately if you run into any costs on this > so I can compensate you....) > > I find Maria's siblings Hannah, Fred. and Whilamena here in the USA also, but > have never found the parents, so don't know if they left DEU or not.... > > debbie > (One good thing from all this - I went to my basic Encyclopedia Britannica > last night and found a _lot_ of information! Page 38 to page 180 and a great > overview to help my general understanding as I move more and more into > research there...) I know that feeling. A last hint: Take a look at the web site of Karin Schoepke: http://www.on-line.de/~karin.schoepke/ She knows very much about the genealogy of Northern Germany and seems to be very cooperatively. Dieter

Calvin Zippin wrote: > > Debbie & Dieter, > If you use the JewishGen shtetl seeker: > <http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm> > and use the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system, you will find Azelshof (as > Eichelshof) at Lat.49.18/ Long. 9.32 in Baden-Wurttemberg near the Neckar > River. MapQuest says 278.6 Miles SW of Berlin, but it looks further than > that. Gross-Butzin (Grossbutzin) is 53.53/12.28, 102 Miles NNW of Berlin > in Mecklenberg. > > Hope this helps. Pat Schubert Zippin > Good idea, Pat. But I guess the Soundex code is not enough accurate to distinguish the many similar written locations. Dieter

For more information on Mecklenberg try http://pages.prodigy.net/jhbowen/. You will be able to find the 1819 census microfilm number that covers your Gross Buetzin Arnold ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 9:01 PM Subject: [GERMANKING] Gross Buetzin and Azelshof > Hello Dieter, Don, Pat, Curt? and listmembers, > > First, let me thank you all for working on this with me. I hope this topic > is not now boring several of you on the list! It appears there are a few > scenarios being put forward as possible answers for finding these two towns. > > 1) Gross Buetzin - in the former Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in > today's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Azelshof as an "unknown" but with three > possible closeby names: Amalienhof, Annenhof and Axelshof. > > 2) No Gross Buetzin - but rather go with "Gross Buelten" (southeast of > Hannover and west of Braunschweig). This would make it the former Kingdom of > Hannover. Azelshof is again an "unknown" but there is an "Asel" 10 miles > from Gross Buelten. > > 3) Gross Buetzin (now spelled "Gross-Butzin") - again in the Mecklenburg > area - then with the JewishGen shtetl seeker and the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex > system - get "Eichelshof" for the Azelshof - and thus find it in > Baden-Wurttenberg near the Neckar River. > > 4) "Butzen" in Brandenburg - and "nothing close to Azelshof" nearby. > > 5) And then of course there is the map program (maps.excite.com) that > wrongly told me that both town names not only exist, but indiscriminately > placed them in the middle of the country - leading me to the postings about > "Thuringia".!! (as Dieter pointed out, any town name it doesn't recognize, > it simply places "there"). > > A thought - where is that "GEOS" program again? I could try both names in > that and see what it finds too... > > It's looking to me like Gross Buetzin in MS is the likely place to start - > and it matches "exactly" to what the parish registers said. (with the umlaut > over the u of course, instead of my ue written in instead). Then, that > "Axelshof" Dieter mentioned as one possible nearby location is really "close" > in spelling to the "Azelshof". Not sure if it is close "by sound". > > Dieter, might I take you up on your offer to call Gross Buetzin tomorrow and > see what they think a likely "Azelshof" might be? Please let me know if this > is a toll call of any kind for you - so I can reimburse any costs you have to > place a call. > > As for specific names/dates you asked about - they would be: > 1) For Gross Buetzin: Ernst WITT - born 08 Oct 1854 > 2) For Azelshof: Maria W KRUEGER - born 31 May 1859. Family says her > father: Christian F Carl KRUEGER was born 23 April 1824. (married to a > Sophia HIllman?) > > Ernst & Maria's birthdates are from their US death certificates and therefore > are not yet "proven" until the actual birth records are found and Maria's > father's birthdate comes "from family" so I don't really know if it is > accurate or not. > > (Again, Dieter, please contact me privately if you run into any costs on this > so I can compensate you....) > > I find Maria's siblings Hannah, Fred. and Whilamena here in the USA also, but > have never found the parents, so don't know if they left DEU or not.... > > debbie > (One good thing from all this - I went to my basic Encyclopedia Britannica > last night and found a _lot_ of information! Page 38 to page 180 and a great > overview to help my general understanding as I move more and more into > research there...) > > > > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-KINGDOMS Mailing List ==== > Sister, > Can you spare $10 dollars to support Rootsweb? > Ask me why..... mailto:[email protected] >

For what it's worth, there is also a 15913 Butzen 14 miles northwest of Cottbus in Brandenbburg on Route 320 very close to the Butzener See. But alas, nothing close to Azelshof in the area.

Debbie & Dieter, If you use the JewishGen shtetl seeker: <http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm> and use the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system, you will find Azelshof (as Eichelshof) at Lat.49.18/ Long. 9.32 in Baden-Wurttemberg near the Neckar River. MapQuest says 278.6 Miles SW of Berlin, but it looks further than that. Gross-Butzin (Grossbutzin) is 53.53/12.28, 102 Miles NNW of Berlin in Mecklenberg. Hope this helps. Pat Schubert Zippin >At 7:01 PM -0700 9/28/99, [email protected] wrote: >In a message dated 9/28/99 5:02:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > ><< Because I did not find any Azelshof or Groß-Bützin in my maps, > Sorry.> > Dieter >> > >Ah, this is not good news, Dieter! The USA (Buffalo, NY) German Evangelical >church records for the children's baptisms list these two places for the >towns of birth for the WITT and KRUEGER parents! >I need to find more maps? I have to explore other types of >records? (will do this in any case) >debbie in california > >______________________________

[email protected] wrote: > > Ah, this is not good news, Dieter! The USA (Buffalo, NY) German Evangelical > church records for the children's baptisms list these two places for the > towns of birth for the WITT and KRUEGER parents! I even paid a local > researcher who lives there to read the old german script. The entries would > have been made in the years of their children's birthdates - so 1890s. And > the births of the immigrants were in 1854 and 1859.... "somewhere"!!!! > (Guess it's not Thuringia, after all....) > > I was thinking these were much better records to go on than the general > "germany" found in the US Fed Census records - 1900 on... and was excited to > have actual place names. Someone else here sent me the contact information > for Erie County, NY - to try for the naturalization records - so I'll see if > they shed any light or if they are "vague" on placenames too. (_or_ give me > the same town names again!) > > I'm disappointed and a bit frustrated at the moment. Not on any of your > maps..... hmmmm ... What does this mean? The registers were read > incorrectly? I need to find more maps? I have to explore other types of > records? (will do this in any case) > > debbie in california Meanwhile I found Groß-Bützin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (I remember You also did and it seems to be the only place of this name). It's a little village with some dozens inhabitants and today part of Neu Heinde, a not much bigger community 15 km northwest of Teterow. That means, it formerly belonged to the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. But no one knows Azelshof or Atzelshof. Near Groß-Bützin I only read the names Amalienhof, Annenhof and Axelshof. Tomorrow I will phone to anyone in Groß-Bützin or Neu Heinde. Perhaps they know there where or what Azelshof could be. Otherwise you should concentrate to Groß-Bützin first. If You have one or two names and the years of birth You may contact the local civil registrar's office. I would help You if You want. Dieter

Hello Dieter, Don, Pat, Curt? and listmembers, First, let me thank you all for working on this with me. I hope this topic is not now boring several of you on the list! It appears there are a few scenarios being put forward as possible answers for finding these two towns. 1) Gross Buetzin - in the former Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in today's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Azelshof as an "unknown" but with three possible closeby names: Amalienhof, Annenhof and Axelshof. 2) No Gross Buetzin - but rather go with "Gross Buelten" (southeast of Hannover and west of Braunschweig). This would make it the former Kingdom of Hannover. Azelshof is again an "unknown" but there is an "Asel" 10 miles from Gross Buelten. 3) Gross Buetzin (now spelled "Gross-Butzin") - again in the Mecklenburg area - then with the JewishGen shtetl seeker and the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system - get "Eichelshof" for the Azelshof - and thus find it in Baden-Wurttenberg near the Neckar River. 4) "Butzen" in Brandenburg - and "nothing close to Azelshof" nearby. 5) And then of course there is the map program (maps.excite.com) that wrongly told me that both town names not only exist, but indiscriminately placed them in the middle of the country - leading me to the postings about "Thuringia".!! (as Dieter pointed out, any town name it doesn't recognize, it simply places "there"). A thought - where is that "GEOS" program again? I could try both names in that and see what it finds too... It's looking to me like Gross Buetzin in MS is the likely place to start - and it matches "exactly" to what the parish registers said. (with the umlaut over the u of course, instead of my ue written in instead). Then, that "Axelshof" Dieter mentioned as one possible nearby location is really "close" in spelling to the "Azelshof". Not sure if it is close "by sound". Dieter, might I take you up on your offer to call Gross Buetzin tomorrow and see what they think a likely "Azelshof" might be? Please let me know if this is a toll call of any kind for you - so I can reimburse any costs you have to place a call. As for specific names/dates you asked about - they would be: 1) For Gross Buetzin: Ernst WITT - born 08 Oct 1854 2) For Azelshof: Maria W KRUEGER - born 31 May 1859. Family says her father: Christian F Carl KRUEGER was born 23 April 1824. (married to a Sophia HIllman?) Ernst & Maria's birthdates are from their US death certificates and therefore are not yet "proven" until the actual birth records are found and Maria's father's birthdate comes "from family" so I don't really know if it is accurate or not. (Again, Dieter, please contact me privately if you run into any costs on this so I can compensate you....) I find Maria's siblings Hannah, Fred. and Whilamena here in the USA also, but have never found the parents, so don't know if they left DEU or not.... debbie (One good thing from all this - I went to my basic Encyclopedia Britannica last night and found a _lot_ of information! Page 38 to page 180 and a great overview to help my general understanding as I move more and more into research there...)

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In a message dated 9/28/99 5:02:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Because I did not find any Azelshof or Groß-Bützin in my maps, I also asked this maps.exite.com - and right: Both places were indicated in that central position You described. Meanwhile I found out, that this wonderful program places _every_ unknown (or not existent) city to this position, try Peking, Baghdad, Tegucigalpa. Sorry. Dieter >> Ah, this is not good news, Dieter! The USA (Buffalo, NY) German Evangelical church records for the children's baptisms list these two places for the towns of birth for the WITT and KRUEGER parents! I even paid a local researcher who lives there to read the old german script. The entries would have been made in the years of their children's birthdates - so 1890s. And the births of the immigrants were in 1854 and 1859.... "somewhere"!!!! (Guess it's not Thuringia, after all....) I was thinking these were much better records to go on than the general "germany" found in the US Fed Census records - 1900 on... and was excited to have actual place names. Someone else here sent me the contact information for Erie County, NY - to try for the naturalization records - so I'll see if they shed any light or if they are "vague" on placenames too. (_or_ give me the same town names again!) I'm disappointed and a bit frustrated at the moment. Not on any of your maps..... hmmmm ... What does this mean? The registers were read incorrectly? I need to find more maps? I have to explore other types of records? (will do this in any case) Ah well, thank you Dieter. Doesn't look like I should place high value on that map program!!! debbie in california

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