To Malcolm and others with ancestors from Posen: I found this info in the LDS Family History Center.................. "Poznan (in German Posen) is an area in West Central Poland on the Warta River. It began as a small stronghold in the 9th Century and the city became the capital of Poland. The first 2 sovereigns of Poland resided there, and are buried in the cathedral which was built in 968 A.D. It was, for a time, a cultural and trade center of Europe. It declined in the 16th century, and in 1793 Poznan was annexed into Prussia, intensifying a Germanization which had begun in the 13th century. Poznan was under Russian administration from 1807 to 1815, as a part of the Duchy of Warsaw, and then later again reverted to Prussian control. It became part of the German Empire in 1871 (Second Reich). The name was changed from the Polish Poznan to the German Posen at the beginning of the 20th century. After World War I, in 1918, it became a part of Polnd once again. In 1939 the Germans returned and in 1945 the city of Posen was seft in ruins after the Russians beseiged the city and drove the Germans out. In 1946 it again became part of Poland. The LDS Genealogical Society has 22 rolls of microfilm for the Civil Registers of this area. They are for the 1815 to 1855 and cover births, deaths, and marriages. Most of the records, particularly those for the former area of West Prussia were kept in German." My great grand father Frederick Adolph Ulm was born in Posen in 1862 as was his mother Caroline Kruger born in Posen in 1819. They came to LaSalle County in 1878. Her husband and older son came to LaSalle from Posen in 1875 on the SS Suevia which docked in New York on 12 NOV, 1875. (I have a copy of the ship's passenger list from the National Archives) Hopefully we can help one another with research! Cyndi Hanson LaSalle Co. Names: Kruger, Ulm, McKenzie, Taylor, Kessler, Zimmerman