B Prussia and Germany were two different countries only on the same land. Prussia extended from Russia to France and very wide that was before it was Germany. Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bbfritch@aol.com> To: <germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 4:42 PM Subject: [G-P-L] Prussia > > I thought Prussia was part of Germany? This correspondence sounds as if > they are two different countries?? > > Betty > FL > > Susan: > > I apologize!!!!!!! > > I was able to magnify the image you sent me, and it seems as if someone drew > some sort of parenthesis above and below the word "Germany" to indicate > which passengers are which. Thank you so much for pointing this out to me or I > would have contnued believing she was from Prussia. > > These lists are about as clear as mud! Very hard to decipher. > > Still, I'd be interested to see if Ger to Am has a code next to her name--or > even if that particular passenger list was transcribed. > > Thanks for going to so much trouble for me. I appreciate it very much! > > Joanne > > Susan Clark <susan.g.clark@comcast.net> wrote: > Joanne, > > Some lists do give more specific info on the place in Germany a person was > from, but many don't. I haven't looked at Germans to America for a while, > but I suspect it doesn't give specific codes for everyone. Someone more > familiar than me with the series could say if this was the case or not. > > I'll send you the original image I found so that you can look at it. > > Susan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joanne Schmidt" > To: > Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 12:13 PM > Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Germans to America --response to Susan > > > > Maybe I need to go back and look again, Susan. I would have sworn that > > there was a ditto mark next to her name indicating she, like the > > passengers immediately ahead of her on the list, was from Prussia. But it > > wouldn't be the first time I misread something. > > > > I do have a general question for those expert in the Germans to America > > Series: if the information provided on passengers listed in Ancestry is no > > less than that found in the G to A series, then where does the latter get > > the info that goes in the codes. (E.G., HD000 with the HD representing > > Hesse Darmstadt and the number next to it indicating the town in the code > > list at the front of each volume?) > > > > Please forgive my ignorance if everybody already knows the answer to > > this. I'm still feeling my way along and learning as I go. It would help > > me tremendously if I understood how the various sources assemble their > > info and who copies from who. > > > > Joanne > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello: Not having read the history of Prussia yet and just catching your statement -- is the 'P' placed in front of 'russia' to mean/stand for Paris, France? I will have to read history re the name Prussia since I've stirred my own curiosity at that - <g>. Regards, --Manaia Frank Brehm <nikomahs@bellsouth.net> wrote: B Prussia and Germany were two different countries only on the same land. Prussia extended from Russia to France and very wide that was before it was Germany. Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 4:42 PM Subject: [G-P-L] Prussia > > I thought Prussia was part of Germany? This correspondence sounds as if > they are two different countries?? > > Betty > FL > > Susan: --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates.