Werner, the person who needs the info is Jakob STEVAHN Reason i gave the http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp is that STEVAHN will likely not show on any of the .DE sites... I will pass this message to Jacob S. and suggest that he may want to explore the STEPHAN version of the name at http://gedbas.genealogy.net/index.jsp Plenty of TOEWSes and plenty of STEPHANs there... ----- Original Message ----- From: "W.Toews" <W.Toews@shaw.ca> To: <GermanRussian-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [GERmanRUSsian] Stevahn family roots > Hello Jay, > Have you tried the German Genealogy website. Genealogy.net > > http://www.genealogienetz.de/genealogy.html > > It's an excellent resource with many links. > > Werner CANADA > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JM_on_GR_G" <JM_on_GR_genealogy@telus.net> > To: <GermanRussian-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 2:19 AM > Subject: [GERmanRUSsian] Stevahn family roots > > > > stevahn@msn.com<mailto:stevahn@msn.com> writes: > > > > > > I have traced my family "Stephan" back to the 1700's in Posen, Prussia > area > > of now Poland. I have found the family name in the Rhineland area of > > Germany, but can not make the connection to Prussia. I have come to a > dead > > end as I can not seem to find German records for that area. Is there a > > website such as Odessa Library that could give me information for my > > research? I have found many Poland websites, but not one that has the > > kind of information I need. > > > > Can you advise me where I might search for my German ancestries? > > > > Thank you Jacob Stevahn >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > Hello Jacob, > > > > U might try http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp > > and see for yourself how many potential sources there are for STEVAHN... > > which i believe is but one spelling of that family name... As U pointed > > out there is also Stephan < more common > in Prussia... > > > > For that matter U will find that name all over the place... including > > outside of what is now Germany... > > > > If U tell us a lil more abt the places that the STEVAHNs are from that U > > connect to, > > perhaps we can help U some more... > > Hope this helps,> >> > Jay