Thank You Ardell Drube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just received a post from Ray Karels containing a lot of information on the lines I am researching--plus he sent a post to others researching these lines--and hopefully they too will get in touch with me!! All thanks to your kindness in passing my information posted on the Minnesota list, on to him!! His email address is the same as you've listed here! He emailed me from that address--and I emailed back to that address!! Thank YOU!!!!! Patti Laessig at [email protected] ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:43:34 EST From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [MINNESOTA] Minnesotans from Pommern Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Vo-Pommern became East Germany after the war, and Hinter Pommern became a part of Poland along the Baltic Sea. The Oder River divided the two Pommerns. Soon I will send some web sites for this area, as there are many Pommerns in Minnnesota. There is a young man in Nevada, who has one of the largest data bases for Pommern, especially the County of Schlochou. I think he still helps people and his address is ([email protected])--if you contact, let me know if it still works. His name is Ray Karels. Ardell