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 Radüge 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 >