Tina, my ancestor was born in 1843, not 1943. The name was Raduge. Thanks, Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: <polandbordersurnames-request@rootsweb.com> To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:01 AM Subject: POLANDBORDERSURNAMES Digest, Vol 5, Issue 26 > > > When replying to a letter, which is in the digest format, please delete > the other letters out of your message. Please, also, change the subject, > so the person to whom you are replying understands that your reply is for > him/her. > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: German areas now Poland (Tina Ellis) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:40:40 -0800 > From: Tina Ellis <polska.research@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [PBS] German areas now Poland > To: polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <f0f3f15e1001252340h1ec7792di735411362b68c89e@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello Ann, > > Since your immigrant relative was born in 1943, his record of birth should > still be in the Civil Registry. Stegers is now called Rzeczenica. > > I used this site to find it: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_placenames_in_the_Province_of_Pomerania > > This is their address: > > Urzad Gminy Rzeczenica > Czluchowska 26 > 77-304 Rzeczenica > Polska - Poland. > > You will need to write your letter in Polish. Check out the form letters > that the PGSA has on their site at http://www.pgsa.org. That's the Polish > Genealogical Society of America. > > If you can get his birth record, it will tell you how old his parents > were. > Records for them may also be in the same place. It probably wouldn't hurt > to ask for them also. Records over 100 years old are sent to the state > archives. > > Good luck. > > Tina Ellis > > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Ann Bradford <genie@iwaynet.net> wrote: > >> My ancestors came from Stegers, West Prussia which is now Polish. Any >> research suggestions for this area? Where would I look for records? >> They >> were Lutheran & my immigrant Carl Rad?ge was born in 1843. >> >> Thanks, Ann >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the POLANDBORDERSURNAMES list administrator, send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the POLANDBORDERSURNAMES mailing list, send an email > to POLANDBORDERSURNAMES@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of POLANDBORDERSURNAMES Digest, Vol 5, Issue 26 > *************************************************** >