Marge, My wife got me a book (Atlas of World History, from the Ancient World to the Present), at Barnes and Noble. The book was about $20.00 and has the history on the world. This should answer your question, and more. I was trying to answer your question, but just looking fast through the book, I could not find the date. Will keep looking, as I too am researching family in Germany. Richard Swank in So. California On 1/14/2010 8:05 AM, Marge wrote: > I think the geography part is confusing. The way I understand it, Prussia > was a loosely knit bunch of countries, ruled by a king and at one time quite > large. stretched far into Poland. I read they acquired land by marrying > into the kingdoms and also war. Germany didn't become a country until after > the turn of the 18th century. Does anyone know the date? And the date that > Prussia started? And even now, they are divided by names like Hesse, ect, > which is sort of like our states or provinces and then farther divided > called a Kreis,or district, and then again into a town or hamlet. We can > all use history lessons when looking for our ancesters. I love this list. > marge > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "juliasgenes"<[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:49 PM > To:<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Place in Germany > > >> Hi, Lorri ~ >> Check JewishGen Communities Database at >> http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp (you may have heard of it >> as "ShetelSeeker", the prior name that means the equivalent of "hometown". >> A Bergfeld search comes out as today's Barchfeld, Hessen-Nassau, Preußen. >> Since I know nothing about German geography (Prussia was near Germany, >> wasn't it? .^_^.), I'll leave you to follow the links from the search. And >> to any comments other Listees care to make. In addition to this list's >> webpage& forum, there's a Rootsweb list called Prussia-Roots that's very >> helpful with these kinds of questions, though I haven't been there in at >> least 1+ years. >> http://www.germanyroots.comhttp://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/DEU/PRUSSIA-ROOTS.html >> Good luck, Julia >> >> --- On Wed, 1/13/10, Lorri<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ...the place he lived was BERGFELD would anyone have any Idea where this >> is?... >> Lorri >> >> >> >> >> >> For all the latest News, please visit our Homepage: >> http://www.germanyroots.com >> >> Please visit and participate in our new forum >> http://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > For all the latest News, please visit our Homepage: http://www.germanyroots.com > > Please visit and participate in our new forum > http://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >