Neal -- can you provide the website link? Alice Harman Digging for Roots in the Haarmann Garden aharman@willamette.edu Neal W. Degner wrote: > If you know the names of your of you g.grandmother's parents or at > least the > last names, don't forget to check the Pommersche Verein Freistadt > website. > Then are a great amount of names in the database. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Karen Schrade [mailto:kschrade@concentric.net] > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 10:05 AM > To: GERMANS-WI-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GERMANS-WI] got the death cert finally! > > > Hi all, I now have in my hands a copy of my g grandfather's death > cert. > yay! I sent to madison for it last september and after six months i > got a > notice that they couldn't find it. I called the milwaukee register of > deeds > at the suggestion of people from this list and they said, 'if madison > doesn't have it, we don't have it'. I whined and begged and the nice > lady > checked. She came back on the phone about two minutes later and gave > me the > volume and page number. Yay! So, now I have it. > > It did tell me some things i didn't know before, like my g > grandfather's > birth date, fathers name, and cause of death. The one thing that has > me > going a little crazy is his place of birth. Everything i find just > says 'germany'. I have the death cert, his dec of intent, and i found > him in 'germans to america'. Nowhere does it give me any more info. > > Now, to my question...if the dec of intent just says germany is it > likely > that the second papers would be more specific or would that just be a > waste > of time and effort? The 1930 census for my grandparents says that my > grandmother's father 'was born in Hesse and spoke German'. I don't > think i > can trust that, though, since it also says that her mother was born in > wisconsin and she was actually born in Pomern and came to wisconsin > when > she was an infant. > > Any suggestions as to where I might find more definite info about his > birth > place would be appreciated. Thanks, friends, Karen > > > ==== GERMANS-WI Mailing List ==== > How to unsubscribe from LIST mode. > Send a message to GERMANS-WI-L-request@rootsweb.com > that contains (in the body of the message) the command UNSUBSCRIBE > and no > additional text. > --- > How to unsubscribe from DIGEST mode. > Send a message to GERMANS-WI-D-request@rootsweb.com > that contains (in the body of the message) the command UNSUBSCRIBE > and no > additional text. > > > > > ==== GERMANS-WI Mailing List ==== > Please remember that Message Board posts are gatewayed to this list > and you need to reply on the board by using the URL provided in the > message. This way your reply will be seen by the original poster and > the list at the same time.

http://my.execpc.com/~pommern/ -----Original Message----- From: Alice Harman [mailto:aharman@willamette.edu] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 7:43 PM To: GERMANS-WI-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GERMANS-WI] got the death cert finally! Neal -- can you provide the website link? Alice Harman Digging for Roots in the Haarmann Garden aharman@willamette.edu Neal W. Degner wrote: > If you know the names of your of you g.grandmother's parents or at > least the > last names, don't forget to check the Pommersche Verein Freistadt > website. > Then are a great amount of names in the database. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Karen Schrade [mailto:kschrade@concentric.net] > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 10:05 AM > To: GERMANS-WI-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GERMANS-WI] got the death cert finally! > > > Hi all, I now have in my hands a copy of my g grandfather's death > cert. > yay! I sent to madison for it last september and after six months i > got a > notice that they couldn't find it. I called the milwaukee register of > deeds > at the suggestion of people from this list and they said, 'if madison > doesn't have it, we don't have it'. I whined and begged and the nice > lady > checked. She came back on the phone about two minutes later and gave > me the > volume and page number. Yay! So, now I have it. > > It did tell me some things i didn't know before, like my g > grandfather's > birth date, fathers name, and cause of death. The one thing that has > me > going a little crazy is his place of birth. Everything i find just > says 'germany'. I have the death cert, his dec of intent, and i found > him in 'germans to america'. Nowhere does it give me any more info. > > Now, to my question...if the dec of intent just says germany is it > likely > that the second papers would be more specific or would that just be a > waste > of time and effort? The 1930 census for my grandparents says that my > grandmother's father 'was born in Hesse and spoke German'. I don't > think i > can trust that, though, since it also says that her mother was born in > wisconsin and she was actually born in Pomern and came to wisconsin > when > she was an infant. > > Any suggestions as to where I might find more definite info about his > birth > place would be appreciated. Thanks, friends, Karen > > > ==== GERMANS-WI Mailing List ==== > How to unsubscribe from LIST mode. > Send a message to GERMANS-WI-L-request@rootsweb.com > that contains (in the body of the message) the command UNSUBSCRIBE > and no > additional text. > --- > How to unsubscribe from DIGEST mode. > Send a message to GERMANS-WI-D-request@rootsweb.com > that contains (in the body of the message) the command UNSUBSCRIBE > and no > additional text. > > > > > ==== GERMANS-WI Mailing List ==== > Please remember that Message Board posts are gatewayed to this list > and you need to reply on the board by using the URL provided in the > message. This way your reply will be seen by the original poster and > the list at the same time. ==== GERMANS-WI Mailing List ==== The GERMANS-WI-L Mail List Home Page is: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/germans-wi-l.htm