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
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 > > > > > ==== GermanRussian Mailing List ==== > For questions or with comments about this list, contact the list administrator at > > mailto:GermanRussian-admin@rootsweb.com. > >