Hello Debbie, I phoned today once more to the local administration of Groß-Bützin. Unfortunately they did not find anything. No tracks of Ernst Witt. Indeed they don't have there any really old documents, only books which lead back to 1945. Today there is no family named Witt, which one could contact. In the afternoon I visited one of these genealogical research centers of the Mormons. An expert there has a lot of bibliofilms with all Prussian place-names. Even groups of 5 houses are recorded. Result: No Groß-Bützin in whole former Prussia. Well, I believe now, that in all likelihood this Groß-Bützin near Teterow _is_ the wanted place, though it does not lie in Prussia, but in Mecklenburg. Azelshof seems to be Axelshof near Demmin in Vorpommern (12°52' east, 53°46' north). That is Prussia. Both places are 30 km away of each other. Dieter