My great grandfather came from a little city close to Gr Knicpoff, Prussia where my ggrandmother was from. Can anyone tell me where in Prussia this place was or is. I suspect the name has changed, does anyone have any ideas of what it might be. My grreat grandfather and his mother and sibilings ended up in Cleveland about 1885 - The last name was Knopp. Thanks las **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.com. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002)

Prussia is a part of Europe/Germany as I have ancesters from Losheim, Pruissa. They were germans. I have articles on this, I will try to look them up. Loretta. -----Original Message----- From: LAS500@aol.com To: OHCUYAHO-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 5:39 pm Subject: [OHCUYAHO] Gr Knicpoff, Prussia My great grandfather came from a little city close to Gr Knicpoff, Prussia where my ggrandmother was from. Can anyone tell me where in Prussia this place was or is. I suspect the name has changed, does anyone have any ideas of what it might be. My grreat grandfather and his mother and sibilings ended up in Cleveland about 1885 - The last name was Knopp. Thanks las **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.com. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHCUYAHO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

re: My great grandfather came from a little city close to Gr Knicpoff, Prussia ... Knopp At http://hinterpommern.de/ I plugged in the surname Knopp in the Suchen (Search) box. Click on Pommernkontakte and it comes up with a list of places. Take from this the county names. In your case they list Belgard, Koslin, Lauenburg, Neustettin, Rummelsburg, Schlawe, Schlochau, Stolp. The most hits were in kreis Koslin, then kreis Neustettin. http://hinterpommern.de/Karten/ scroll down to einzelne Kreise and select the kreis to pull up it's map. Look for any name that looks similar to Gr. Knicpoff, in case it was spelled differently. Jan Prussia surname Kassulke of Neustettin

There is a site called Shtetlseeker, maintained by Jewish Genealogy but for anyone, that will often help identify place names that are misspelled or garbled. http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/ Use the "Search for places by name" function, and type the spelling you have. This site is not able to do miracles. For example, the place name I found on a passenger list is Wennigdorf, which turned out to be Schwenningdorf. I found it from another source--ShetetlSeeker didn't find it. This is one more source to try. Good luck! Lila ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan" <scjbwaugh@msn.com> To: <ohcuyaho@rootsweb.com> Sent: 01 December, 2008 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [OHCUYAHO] Gr Knicpoff, Prussia > > re: My great grandfather came from a little city close to Gr Knicpoff, > Prussia ... Knopp > > At http://hinterpommern.de/ I plugged in the surname Knopp in the Suchen > (Search) box. Click on Pommernkontakte and it comes up with a list of > places. Take from this the county names. In your case they list Belgard, > Koslin, Lauenburg, Neustettin, Rummelsburg, Schlawe, Schlochau, Stolp. > The > most hits were in kreis Koslin, then kreis Neustettin. > > http://hinterpommern.de/Karten/ scroll down to einzelne Kreise and > select > the kreis to pull up it's map. Look for any name that looks similar to > Gr. > Knicpoff, in case it was spelled differently. > > Jan > Prussia surname Kassulke of Neustettin > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHCUYAHO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I found the image and I don't think it is Knicpoff, Kniepoff might be better. Googling it gets a lot of hits but not as a town <G> and I really don't think it is an "N" but I can't say it isn't but looking at the other names like Minnesota I think it is likely to be an R for Kriepoff. I am going to save the image and anyone who wants to take a run at it <G> maybe we can figure what it is. For Ancestry subscribers the URL is' http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYM237_609-0538&fn=Auguste&ln=Podrasy&st=d&ssrc=&pid=4000367161 Eliz On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Jan <scjbwaugh@msn.com> wrote: > > re: My great grandfather came from a little city close to Gr Knicpoff, > Prussia ... Knopp > > At http://hinterpommern.de/ I plugged in the surname Knopp in the Suchen > (Search) box. Click on Pommernkontakte and it comes up with a list of > places. Take from this the county names. In your case they list Belgard, > Koslin, Lauenburg, Neustettin, Rummelsburg, Schlawe, Schlochau, Stolp. The > most hits were in kreis Koslin, then kreis Neustettin. > > http://hinterpommern.de/Karten/ scroll down to einzelne Kreise and select > the kreis to pull up it's map. Look for any name that looks similar to Gr. > Knicpoff, in case it was spelled differently. > > Jan > Prussia surname Kassulke of Neustettin > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHCUYAHO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I had a go at google, they sometimes turn up trumps for European place names. This time they turned up only Ellis Island Records for one family who used that (or were transcribed as being from) Knicpoff, Prussia. I think you are going to have to try and get a better spelling. Where do you get the name from? Prussia is a problem since it also included much of Poland. I searched and with only a surname got a few hits from Hamburg passenger lists for 1890 and too many to try with EIDB. The Hamburg ledger is a bear to read and I can't say that they even transcribed it correctly but they have Pollnitz, Westpreußen which doesn't look like your town. Eliz On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:39 PM, <LAS500@aol.com> wrote: > My great grandfather came from a little city close to Gr Knicpoff, Prussia > where my ggrandmother was from. Can anyone tell me where in Prussia this place > was or is. I suspect the name has changed, does anyone have any ideas of > what it might be. My grreat grandfather and his mother and sibilings ended up in > Cleveland about 1885 - The last name was Knopp. > Thanks > las > **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW > AOL.com. > (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHCUYAHO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >