I think I found my g grandfather in Castle Garden? the place he lived was BERGFELD would anyone have any Idea where this is? On marriage it states Hessian Thanks for any help. Lorri searching-for ancestors GEIGER-Veach-Allen-Barnett-CARROLL -GEARIN-KANE-SMITH-MOYLAN DONAHUE-BURNS-Fowler-Fahey UHLE -MANTZ -PSCHYBYLSKI -GRIGOLEIT BUSCHMANN -MONTING-ODONNELL

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