Judy, Preussen = Prussia, and covers a huge area. To search records in Europe you will need to learn the names of the towns or villages they came from. My best source has been looking in Church registers where extended family had B D Ms recorded - not all of the information ends up on certificates. Hopefully others will reply giving you some extra tips on US records that are available. Kind regards, Bronwyn. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Mushypeas <catdog7@verizon.net> wrote: > Hello to all: > > > > I would be very appreciative of any help you can give in researching my > husband's maternal family. I'm a casual person at this genealogy thing; > wishing I were better. This is what I have: I've found a ship manifest > (Leipzig) for the following family members: > > > > Audr/or Andr KUBICH b. abt. 1845 PreuBen (I > don't know how to make the proper character so I put in a capital B) > > Wilhelmine KUBICH b. abt 1847 PreuBen > > August KUBICH b. abt. 1874 PreuBen > > Emil KUBICH b. abt 1878 > PreuBen > > > > The manifest gives little additional information; no job description or > last > home address. Oddly they list the "country of allegiance" which in our > case > is the "Balkins." What does that mean? I've asked this of others and they > haven't a clue either. I'm constantly told that the last name is not > German, per se, but possibly Polish. But I don't know for certain. And > did > the person writing the manifest misspell the name? The name KUBICH/OR > KUBIC > shows up in some of the Eastern European countries, such as Poland, > Slovakia, Czech. And at Yad Vashim, they list a couple of Kubic's who died > in the Holocaust. The obituary for August (d. 14 Dec. 1925 - Alexandria, > Madison, Indiana, U.S.A. -- TB) listed him as Lutheran. No naturalization > papers have been discovered as of yet for any family member. August's > death > certificate lists one parent and that name is Andrew. (What happened to > his > parents once they stopped in Chicago, IL? What happened to Wilhelmine and > where is the death information?) > > > > . I should note that a wild search on Ancestry did pull up a > record > for August CUBICH naturalization records (Western PA). However, they list > the date of immigration as 1888. > > > > So, the ship Leipzig departed Bremen and they docked in Baltimore, MD, on > 20 > Mar 1881. From there the family traveled westward as they show up one more > time (all together) in Chicago, IL, with the same last name of Kubich. The > 1900 census shows August as a KUBIC - married to Lillian, with children > and > with Emil living in their home (Indiana I believe). The 1910 census has > Emil KUBIE/KUBIC married to Kate, with three children living in Swissvale, > Allegheny, PA, U.S.A. Two censuses have discrepancies regarding the dates > they arrived in the U.S. (one saying 1888 and the other saying 1890 I > believe). > > > > I have so many questions with very little information to go on as I can't > find "live" Kubic's to help me out. No pictures (other than one daughter > and she died in 1930 - my husband's grandmother); no family; no homeland to > go by; no other death information for the other family members. > > > > So, how do I go about finding out where in this place called PreuBen they > came from? How do I find out what happened to Audr/Andr and Wilhelmine in > Chicago? I've searched everywhere for another possible census for Emil > with > no luck - what happened to him and his family? I keep thinking that if I > found Audr/Andr and Wilhelmine I would find the "homeland" information. > And > how to I find their naturalization papers? > > > > Again, thank you for your help! > > > > Judy Riley > > > > P.S. I had sent a letter to a Debbie Kubich (on the surname list) asking > if > she could help me with some info and I got a message back indicating she > was > not taking messages. > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >