As you likely know, you have an interesting question. If you put Grotizen into the Shtetlseeker search engine you turn up no really good match, the best being Groothusen which hardly qualifies as Prussia, even in 1870 and through the fog of some immigration agent's perception of Germany. While perhaps other will have a better idea, my best guess is that your translation is faulty. While I could be wrong, neither Grotizin nor Otremba sound particularly Germanic. Rob Hausman At 05:48 PM 11/21/00 -0600, you wrote: >I am researching Martha Otremba born 11-Sep-1870 in Grotizin, Germany. >Can anyone tell me where this place is. Her mother was Anna Hesch and >her father was Johann Otremba from Grotizin, Prussia. > >Any help is greatly appreciated. > >Yvonne > > >==== PFALZ Mailing List ==== >Going on vacation longer than 4 days? Go to >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/PFALZ.html >to unsubscribe ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Robert E. Hausman hausman@bu.edu www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/a/u/Robert-E-Hausman/index.html HAUSMANN, ROUSSELET, HEERE, LAUBER, LATUS