http://www.mmhs.org/prussia/mmhsgen3.htm Dale, Have you done a search at the above Prussia site? You can do a search just with in the Mennonite records. I believe there were often notations of Mennonites in records and often they were included in the Lutheran or Catholic records. I have Mennonite roots and have received a lot of help here. If you would add dates and names I will check if any SAWATZKIs are in my records. Kathy +++++Researching family names of Penner, Jost, Gaede, Loewen, Funk, Regehr, Dirksen/Duerksen, Leppke, Fenske, Sperling, Ewy, Harms, Isaac, Born, Remple, Albert, Feierherrn/Frierhelm and Thiessen, +++++ > I'm researching my SAWATZKI/BAST branch, which came to Michigan around > 1870 from an area near the West/East Prussia border, around Gulbein, > Sommerau Parish, Kreis Rosenburg in 1850. This branch was Lutheran here, but I'm told that SAWATZKI is a fairly > common Mennonite name. A friend has found some Sawatzki names in the > parish records in that area in the 1800-1850 timeframe. I'm unfamiliar > with Prussian research - would parish records in that timeframe include > Mennonites? Would there be an annotation of some type to delineate > Mennonites (or any religious affiliation)? > >