Karen, Kaliningrad used to be called Konigsberg (careful how you spell/type Kaliningrad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad Debbie Karen C wrote: > This is my first posting to this group. Thank you for allowing me to join. > > I have two family records for my Bartz family that indicate a place of birth > (1840's) as Schoenthal R. B. Koningsberg, Prussia. I have been told that > Koningsberg could be Kallingrad, Russia today. I have looked through some old > some maps and part of the old district looks like it is now in Russia while the > other portion is in Poland. > > Does this place look familiar to anyone and what the Schoenthal would be > called today? > > I know that the mother to these two sons had family in Neustettin (now > Szczecinek, Poland) Prussia. Kallingrad seems so far away but maybe there was > political or economical reasons that they would have moved there between > 1830-1845. Would they have traveled by train? > > Karen > >

Karen, Has your family name ever been spelled "Bartys?" Dee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbie Greenlee" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [POLAND] Bartz family of Koningsberg > Karen, > > Kaliningrad used to be called Konigsberg (careful how you spell/type > Kaliningrad. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad > > Debbie > > > Karen C wrote: >> This is my first posting to this group. Thank you for allowing me to >> join. >> >> I have two family records for my Bartz family that indicate a place of >> birth >> (1840's) as Schoenthal R. B. Koningsberg, Prussia. I have been told that >> Koningsberg could be Kallingrad, Russia today. I have looked through >> some old >> some maps and part of the old district looks like it is now in Russia >> while the >> other portion is in Poland. >> >> Does this place look familiar to anyone and what the Schoenthal would be >> called today? >> >> I know that the mother to these two sons had family in Neustettin (now >> Szczecinek, Poland) Prussia. Kallingrad seems so far away but maybe there >> was >> political or economical reasons that they would have moved there between >> 1830-1845. Would they have traveled by train? >> >> Karen >> >> > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at > [email protected] > ---------------------------------- > Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as > long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: > researching our Polish roots. > ---------------------------------- > Browse the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots > Search the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Dee, I've seen a few spellings, ie. Baarz, Baartz, Barths but not that spelling.  Doesn't mean that it was never spelled that way but so far I have not seen it any of the records.  Karen <snip> Subject: Re: [POLAND] Bartz family of Koningsberg Karen, Has your family name ever been spelled "Bartys?" Dee