There were both HASS and HAAS Germans who spent time in Prussia, Romania and Prussia Poland on their way to the Black Sea area of Russia, then known as Bessarabia, today known as Moldavia. (They took many years and about a generation to get to Bessarabia, with many babies born en route who were grown by the time the family finally got to Bessarabia.) Slovakia lies between Poland and Romania. So if you think your old folks might have been some of these people who later became known as Germans from Russia, you might want to check out the G-R lists and web sites. Here are a couple that will get you started: http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/odessa.html This is a site where all of the indexed church records will show up. There are thousands - lots of good G-R volunteers! http://www.AHSGR.org http://www.bessarabia.com http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/gerrus/ If you go to this site and click on Electronic Discussion Groups, you will learn about the various mailing lists for GRHS (another GR society, much like AHSGR). Good luck! Joy Hass Stefan :) joybob@erols.com Researching in Bessarabia & Germany: Hass / Mueller / Kaldun / Pelz / Seefried / Richter / Krueger / Kraft Researching in US, England, Ireland & Germany: Robins / Sloan / Allred / Gosnell / Williams / Sherrod / Miller / Garrett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Hayward" <HAYWARD99@webtv.net> To: <HAAS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [HAAS-L] Haas in Slovakia > Darrel, > > The Haas family I am searching came from West Prussia, Henrietta Haas > married August Raffel. Henrietta Haas Raffel died in LaPorte Co., In. > 1942. I do not know Henrietta's parent's names. > > Thanks for the interest > Sandy >