You are very welcome. There are many other tools for researching, but I think since you are probably anxious to find records, you may have fun with the LDS film. Be sure to search all religions if you lose track of people. In some areas, please were more liberal in their thoughts and inter-married with people of other faiths, even though their parents didn't want them to do it. Tina On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Maria Peck <peckconstruction@interbaun.com > wrote: > Hi Tina, > > Thank you very much for answering my e-mail. I already had the Polish > names for my towns but I did check out the Kartenmeister website and > found lots of other information such as Parish, population figures, > etc. It is a very interesting site. I've never been able to find > anything on the LDS family history site for Hirschberg, Gillau or > Lengainen. But since the parish for Hirschberg and Lengainen is > Wartenburg I will order the films for the Wartenburg church records > (there are quite a lot). The parish for Gillau is Gillau but I > couldn't find anything on the LDS site. There is quite a lot of > information for different Hirschbergs but not Jedzbark which was the > in the former Kreis Allenstein. You said there were records available. > Perhaps I'm missing something. What records did you find? > > Regarding Bischofsburg I won't order any records yet because from > family lore, Unknown Stopienski and Unknown Stegen had one child who > died at an early age. She wasn't born in Bischofsburg. I was just > hoping that there would be some history on the town so that I could > check if Unknown Stegen was really the Oberburgermeister. I did find a > very interesting site http://www.bischofsburg.de/ which listed all the > employed individuals in 1939 with their position and home address. I > have e-mailed the originator of the website to see if he knows > anything about Mr. Stegen. > > I use the Google Language tools quite frequently as I still have > relatives living in Germany. Unfortunately, they are not interested in > family history and are unable to help me out. > > Tina, thank you very much for providing me with a very interesting > website. I'll do as you suggested and keep the list informed about > anything I find out from the LDS films on Wartenburg. > > Maria > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >