GWill65074@aol.com wrote: > I had another person tell me earlier that she doubted that > my ancestors would have lived in the Russian partition > and emigrated from the German partition. Glen, Well, technically, nothing's impossible. <g> Probably very unlikely, yes, but not impossible. It's not an unlikely possibility you'd want to pursue, though, unless you find documentation to support it. You could end up wasting a lot of time that way. > Do you know of a map for Poland for the late 1800's showing the divisions? http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/part.gif http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/ausgeruss.html That's about the best I can find. There are no more detailed maps available online that I could find. > Does the name Lidzbark help? Lidzbark (now Lidzbark Warmin~ski) was in East Prussia - a German-occupied area - more than 150 km north of Pl~ock. When it was in East Prussia, it was named Heilsberg. http://www.polishroots.org/genpoland/eastpr.htm http://feefhs.org/maps/gere/ge-eprus.html Have you found your g-grandfather's passenger record? It may shed a little more light on where he was from - at least it might confirm he was from the German-occupied part of Poland. Also, if your grandmother had siblings, you should request copies of their baptismal records as well. The info can vary greatly from one child's record to another. A friend of mine requested records for all twelve of an ancestor's children. Lucky for her she did, since only ONE of them gave the exact town where her ancestor was born. Regards, Marie