Susan, Betty, Hesse-Nassau was NOT Prussia before 1868. Georg Susan Clark schrieb: >A Prussian could be a German, but not all Germans were Prussians. I don't >think Hesse-Nassau was part of Prussia, but that's just a guess. > >Susan > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <Bbfritch@aol.com> >To: <germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 6:44 PM >Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Prussia > > > > >>Thanks, Susan. I learn something every day. I guess I should have known >>that , but I don't remember everything I read and seeing maps from >>different >>years helps confuse me. Prussia used to look really big, now I wonder if >>what >>is see is really "Prussia.," or what the large area of old Prussia is >>now >>called. >> >>My ancestor who came from Prussia 1851 was listed as German some of the >>time. Is that a misnomer? Is/was Hesse-Nassau part of Prussia? That's >>where I >>have been looking for him because that's the only Fritsch that fit the >>time >>in the passenger lists. >> >>Betty >>FL >> >>Betty, >> >>Germany wasn't united as a country until 1871. Up until then, it was >>divided into duchies of various sizes (Saxony, Hesse-Darmstadt, Bavaria) >>plus the kingdom of Prussia (perhaps others were considered kingdoms, but >>I >>don't think so). Otto von Bismarck, advisor to the Prussian king, >>engineered the unification of Germany in 1871, but I think it was a while >>before people considered themselves Germans. >> >>Susan >> >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>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 >> >> >> > > >------------------------------- >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 > > > >