Roquey G Jobes Jr, wrote: > > Need help in identification of birth palace of heritage, please! > In a citizenship application of 1872 in Texas, USA he > indicated his birth place was: > > +++ " Kreis Leiblenetz, Bezek, Upper Silesia " +++ That must be "Lublinitz, Bezirk Oberschlesien". Guttentag is about 18 km far from Lublinitz (today: Lubliniec), which was the county town there. You will find it north of Gleiwitz and Beuthen. > His name was Jacob ZAJAC ( or Americanized to Jacob ZAIONTZ) > born c. 1819 immigrated c.1854 Texas with wife Agatha (? ANIOL). > There were other ZAJAC relatives known to have lived in > old Germany (Prussia / Silesia) near Guttentag ( now > Dobrodzien ) <an area between Opole & Czestochowa >. East of Oppeln, south of Tschenstochau, yes. Dieter