Yvonne and Rob, The name Otremba does appear in the LDS IGI and the LDS Ancestral File. There are 4 listed in the IGI from Germany and all are from Schwarzenau, Westpreussen and were born/baptised from 1813 to 1824. Of the two in the LDS Ancestral File, one (whose birthplace is identified as "Mn") of their spouses was born in "Chonic, Porrussia". ShtetlSeeker does show a GERTHAUSEN and a GRIETHAUSEN in Germany today that are also somewhat phonetically similar. In addition, there is a KROTOSHIN in the Ukraine. >Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:53:10 -0500 >From: "Robert E. Hausman" <hausman@bio.bu.edu> >To: PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [PFALZ] Otremba from Grotizin, Germany > >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 > -- mailto:fhheld@netzero.net _______________________________________________ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html