This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Berndt, Wiese Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hdC.2ACI/1942 Message Board Post: I am trying to find the ancestors for my grandfather, Fritz or Fred Berndt, b. 15 Apr 1862 in Kreis Deutsch Krone, and his wife, Lena Tews, b.Feb 1864 in the same area. They married about 1888, and emigrated to the United States via Canada in May 1891 He left from Hamburg on the ship "Grimm" and arrived in Montreal in that same month. They then travelled to Indiana by way of a train through Detroit, Michigan. With them was their son Otto, b. 25 Feb 1889. In his naturalization papers, Fritz stated that he had last resided in Jastrow, hence my wishing to search in that area. He was listed on the ship manifest as a laborer, although in later life he had his own dairy farm in Porter county, Indiana, USA. If anyone has any suggestions as to how I might locate his parents, (also his wife's parents), I would welcome any help that you might be able to give me. I can not believe that he did not have parents, but I have run into a dead end. I can read some German, so if that ! is the language you wish to reply in, feel free to do so. I can not speak or understand one word of Polish. Sorry.