You certainly have quite a bit of information and documentation! Illinois Archives: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases.html If you click on the Global Database Search, you will see several databases to check for Plinske, Plinsky, and Plinski. Any marriage and death records found can be ordered inexpensively online through chicagogenealogy.com. Eugen and Emilie (index Ennilie) PLINSKY, with their children, arrived at Ellis Island on March 30, 1892, on the ship Moravia. Free registration required for Ellis Island; click to enlarge the ship manifest. Their 'Hailing Place or Place of Starting' was listed as Kinten, Austria; all census records and other online records show them to be German. http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?pID=104919090864 Steve Morse search engine for Ellis Island: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html Records for Kinten, Germany, for 1803-1875 were microfilmed by the Mormons and can found using the Place Search in the familysearch library catalog: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp Parish registers of baptisms and marriages for Kinten (Kr. Heydekrug), Ostpreusen, Germany; now Kintai, Luthuania. Text in German. By using 'view film notes', you can find the numbers of the microfilm to order from a Family History Center. 1810870, 1810869, 1810871 Items 1-2 Location of Family History Centers: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp At the pilot site for family search, you can download the 1900 census for the family in Cook County. It is indexed as Chas Planske, appears at the bottom of the page and continues on the next page. http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1325221 For census purposes in 1900 and 1910, Eugene used the name Charles and his death certificate may be under that name in the deaths in the Chicago Archives. In 1920, Amelia, widow, and children are found in Cook County. Let me know if you would like me to send you the census pages. There is a downloadable birth certificate for August Wilhelm Plinsky, son of Eugene Plinsky and Emilie Berman, from Kinten, Germany in the Cook County Birth database at the familysearch pilot site, also. http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1462519 You may know the spouses of Charles and his brother and sisters; if so, you may find the marriage records at: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1463145 All collections at familysearch pilot site are found here: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#r=0;p=allCollections Did your grandfather Charles Plinske change his name to Charles Williams? What was the name of his wife? He was still living with his mother in 1920, so marriage occurred after that. Best wishes on your search, Mary Ellie Dowling wrote: > Thank You Mary! I just tried searching for the Plinske name several places > and batted zero again...I wrote to Marlo with all the information I have on > Charles and his dad Eugene Plinske. I tried the site mentioned and so far no > success , but I need to go back to it when I am less tired, and try > different combinations of the facts? that I do have. I have his > naturalization papers, and even the record of his name change, but when I > went to the cook County records in Illinois, I couldn't find him under > either Charles Plinske or Charles Williams. I know when he married my > grandmother and when he died and can't pull up anything on that either. I > tried what I knew actual dates on first to see how it works. Tried some > Ellis Island sites too and got nowhere.. Oh well, if at first I don't > succeed I will continue to try. thanks for writing, I can use all the advice > I can get. Ellie Oh Happy almost New Year > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Mary Snow" <marysnow@bellsouth.net> > Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 10:01 PM > To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [PBS] Charles Rollo Plinske - (was Genealogy Joy!) > > >> Ellie Dowling wrote: I know my grandfathers name, Charles Rollo >> Plinske, and his birth and death >> dates .but I want to find out more about his origins. >> >> Ellie, >> >> The information you seek will be in documents in the United States. >> Documentation will be your key to finding information. If you post >> where your grandfather lived and died, dates, names of wife, children, >> brothers, sisters, we may be able to jump start your search for you. >> The courthouse of the county where your father died will have his death >> certificate, which can give place of birth. Naturalization papers may >> be filed there, also. If you know the church he attended, you can >> contact the church for records, also. There was more than one Charles >> Plinske in census records (Kansas, Michigan, Connecticut, Wisconsin, >> Missouri, Chicago), so more specific information will help us help you. >> >> You can search at ancestry.com without cost. If you click on the link >> below, you can see what is available to know whether you wish to >> subscribe to see the information. Members of this list have >> subscriptions to various databases. Just let us know so we can try to >> get you started! >> http://www.ancestry.com/search/ >> >> > ------------------------------- > 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 > >

Wow, I have so many places you have found for me to look! I would love the census pages. It sure gets confusing with folks changing names all the time. Carl apparently was called Charles by his parents when he got to America. He didn't change his name to Williams till he became a naturalized citizen. His mom married a Williams , so he decided he liked that name... Thanks you for so many directions to look. It amazes me that I found the site and found you!!!!I didn't have the foggiest what I was signing up for! Thanks , Ellie -------------------------------------------------- From: "Mary Snow" <marysnow@bellsouth.net> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 3:13 PM To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [PBS] Charles Plinske > You certainly have quite a bit of information and documentation! > > Illinois Archives: > http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases.html > If you click on the Global Database Search, you will see several > databases to check for Plinske, Plinsky, and Plinski. Any marriage and > death records found can be ordered inexpensively online through > chicagogenealogy.com. > > Eugen and Emilie (index Ennilie) PLINSKY, with their children, arrived > at Ellis Island on March 30, 1892, on the ship Moravia. Free > registration required for Ellis Island; click to enlarge the ship > manifest. Their 'Hailing Place or Place of Starting' was listed as > Kinten, Austria; all census records and other online records show them > to be German. > http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?pID=104919090864 > > Steve Morse search engine for Ellis Island: > http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html > > Records for Kinten, Germany, for 1803-1875 were microfilmed by the > Mormons and can found using the Place Search in the familysearch library > catalog: > http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp > Parish registers of baptisms and marriages for Kinten (Kr. Heydekrug), > Ostpreusen, Germany; now Kintai, Luthuania. Text in German. > By using 'view film notes', you can find the numbers of the microfilm to > order from a Family History Center. > 1810870, 1810869, 1810871 Items 1-2 > Location of Family History Centers: > http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp > > At the pilot site for family search, you can download the 1900 census > for the family in Cook County. It is indexed as Chas Planske, appears > at the bottom of the page and continues on the next page. > http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1325221 > > For census purposes in 1900 and 1910, Eugene used the name Charles and > his death certificate may be under that name in the deaths in the > Chicago Archives. In 1920, Amelia, widow, and children are found in > Cook County. Let me know if you would like me to send you the census > pages. > > There is a downloadable birth certificate for August Wilhelm Plinsky, > son of Eugene Plinsky and Emilie Berman, from Kinten, Germany in the > Cook County Birth database at the familysearch pilot site, also. > http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1462519 > > You may know the spouses of Charles and his brother and sisters; if so, > you may find the marriage records at: > http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1463145 > > All collections at familysearch pilot site are found here: > http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#r=0;p=allCollections > > Did your grandfather Charles Plinske change his name to Charles > Williams? What was the name of his wife? He was still living with his > mother in 1920, so marriage occurred after that. > > Best wishes on your search, > Mary > > Ellie Dowling wrote: >> Thank You Mary! I just tried searching for the Plinske name several >> places >> and batted zero again...I wrote to Marlo with all the information I have >> on >> Charles and his dad Eugene Plinske. I tried the site mentioned and so far >> no >> success , but I need to go back to it when I am less tired, and try >> different combinations of the facts? that I do have. I have his >> naturalization papers, and even the record of his name change, but when I >> went to the cook County records in Illinois, I couldn't find him under >> either Charles Plinske or Charles Williams. I know when he married my >> grandmother and when he died and can't pull up anything on that either. >> I >> tried what I knew actual dates on first to see how it works. Tried some >> Ellis Island sites too and got nowhere.. Oh well, if at first I don't >> succeed I will continue to try. thanks for writing, I can use all the >> advice >> I can get. Ellie Oh Happy almost New Year >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Mary Snow" <marysnow@bellsouth.net> >> Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 10:01 PM >> To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> >> Subject: Re: [PBS] Charles Rollo Plinske - (was Genealogy Joy!) >> >> >>> Ellie Dowling wrote: I know my grandfathers name, Charles Rollo >>> Plinske, and his birth and death >>> dates .but I want to find out more about his origins. >>> >>> Ellie, >>> >>> The information you seek will be in documents in the United States. >>> Documentation will be your key to finding information. If you post >>> where your grandfather lived and died, dates, names of wife, children, >>> brothers, sisters, we may be able to jump start your search for you. >>> The courthouse of the county where your father died will have his death >>> certificate, which can give place of birth. Naturalization papers may >>> be filed there, also. If you know the church he attended, you can >>> contact the church for records, also. There was more than one Charles >>> Plinske in census records (Kansas, Michigan, Connecticut, Wisconsin, >>> Missouri, Chicago), so more specific information will help us help you. >>> >>> You can search at ancestry.com without cost. If you click on the link >>> below, you can see what is available to know whether you wish to >>> subscribe to see the information. Members of this list have >>> subscriptions to various databases. Just let us know so we can try to >>> get you started! >>> http://www.ancestry.com/search/ >>> >>> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 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