I have been unsucessful for a few years in tracing my gt grandmother, Augusta Hassenfeldt [Hasselfeldt]. From her tombstone in Ashford, Cattauragus County, New York, her birthdate is said to be Jan. 2, 1836 and she died Jan. 20, 1923. From US census records her birthplace is said to be Prussia. From the 1861 Canadian census, she is said to have been born in Prussia as was her husband, but his birthplace was actually Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In the 1871 Canadian census, both are said to have been born in Germany. An elderly cousin told me years ago that Augusta and her sister as young girls emigrated and, on the ship, the sister died. The censuses would indicate that the emigration was about 1854 and I have a copy of an Affidavit from 1909 indicating that she and her husband were married at Buffalo, New York on Dec. 26, 1855. But searches in the marriage register where her husband's brother was married have been unsuccessful. Searches of ships' records so far have not yielded any positive results. The only indication I have of her maiden surname is from the Ashford Roman Catholic Cemetery listing of her daughter's burial, in which her mother's maiden name is listed as Woscha. (The family I am tracing is Ev. Lutheran, but the daughter married into a R. C. family.) I think the surname could have been Wosche, with the pronunciation sounding to non-Germans as ending in an "a". Anyone have any ideas? Sandra Harris (geb. Hassenfeldt) Brantford, Ontario, Canada hassenfeldt@sympatico.ca

Searching for any information on the above families. Part of family came from Memel. Jack & Marianne Dibean - Lansing Michigan GenWeb Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/marriages/michigan/michigan.htm Email Address: jackdibean@modempool.com WWII Memorial: www.wwiimemorial.com

(It helps to put a precise place in the subject line) According to Meyers-Orts (the 1912 gazetteer - THE place to look for genealogists, printed in German fraktur, but you can figure it out with practice) there are 13 places called Altona, most of them miniscule. You MAY be talking about the village outside Hamburg, now a suburb. In 1826 a city directory shows: (with occupation, street address, separate index) Hinrichs, Claus Hinr., Collecteur, Gewürz, Palmsitte (? blurry) N.S. no.51 Hinrichs, Hein Ww. Fenwaarenhandt, Sestermaunstr. no 218 Hinrichs. Pet. Arbeitsm. Neueburg no 61 K. and lots of Hinrichsen and Hinsch entries. In the City of Hamburg itself, 1826: Hinrichs, Carl Adolph, Porcellan u. Steinzeng, Paulsstr. no 152 P.5. Laden in der isten Braudtstw. no 17 Hinrichs, C. F. Kunsthandl. Bleichenbrücke, Wohnung daselbst. no 361 Hinrichs, Eduard Phil., Dr.Ph. Schmiedestr. no 86 Hinrichs, Gerhd. Christo. Böhmkenstr. no 210 Hinrichs, Joach. Schiffszimmerm. Langerereihe b. d. Vorsetzen no 122 M. 11 Hinrichs. Joh. Carl, Goldl-und Silber-Tressen-Fabrik, B. Cto.Schmiedestr. no 69 P. Hinrichs, Joh. Nic. Böhmkenstr. no 209 Hinrichs, Joh. Peter, Patent-Pianoforte-Fabrik, Caffamacherreihe no 174 and lots more Hinrichsen, Hinsch. Spelling with one n or two makes little difference in old records - listen to the sound. Maureen Schoenky in CA USA ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

Great, Abby - remember to include a return envelope and money or German postage if you have it. Don't use IRC coupons. Need about $4 or $5.Look for him on Google or Dogpile and see if maybe he has an e-mail by now. Maureen ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

Altona is now a part of Hamburg. LDS has church records. jdbentz@prodigy.net

I am wondering where I might look to search for records for Altona,Prussia, Germany. I am looking for William Hinrichs or Hinnrichs. According to his WW1 draft record he was born August 29. 1894. I am not sure when he immigrated to the US. But he filed his first papers in 1917. I am trying to find info on his family. Thank you Judy _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglinemarch07

Maureen, Thankyou for sending this address. I will try to get a letter off to Joachim Wolters and see if I get a response. Thanks for you help Abby ----- Original Message ---- From: "Spaghettitree@aol.com" <Spaghettitree@aol.com> To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 12:02:48 PM Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Wolters in Hannover Hello Abby - The surname Wolters rang a bell, and although I have not traced it or researched it, there are a number of "Familienbrief" newsletter-type publications written by Joachim A. Wolters, whose address is: 63 Resedenweg 28 22339 Hamburg Germany telephone 40-50-51-86 This was his address in the 1994 telefonbuch for Hamburg; you can go to www.dastelefonbuch.de and enter the name and Hamburg and see if he or a relative is still at that address. The dates on the family newsletters ended around 1990. If you are interested in copies or research, let me know. These are located at the Southern California Genealogical Library in Burbank, California. www.scgsgenealogy.com Maureen ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html

A few years ago I went looking for the villages of my ggrandfather in West Prussia, now Poland, near Bydgoszcz. Lukasz Bielecki [bielecki@rose.man.poznan.pl] assisted me. He lives in Poznan and drove up to meet me, then drove me around the area to see the villages and talk to people. Lukasz speaks English, German & Polish. He works with the Poznan Project, and puts out a newsletter. http://www.discovering-roots.pl/poznan_project/project.htm He is very knowledgeable and I recommend him. -----Original Message----- From: prussia-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:prussia-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Grunty@aol.com Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:52 PM To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Researchers in Poland Would the person who posted the information regarding researchers in Poland please repost, I somehow accidentally deleted when attempting to print. s

Maureen, I would be most interested in this information as well as I had his name years ago for my Wolters family research (Hannover > PA), thank you for posting about this information, Lisa ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:02:48 EDT From: Spaghettitree@aol.com Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Wolters in Hannover To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <d17.9479807.33300e28@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Hello Abby - The surname Wolters rang a bell, and although I have not traced it or researched it, there are a number of "Familienbrief" newsletter-type publications written by Joachim A. Wolters, whose address is: 63 Resedenweg 28 22339 Hamburg Germany telephone 40-50-51-86 This was his address in the 1994 telefonbuch for Hamburg; you can go to www.dastelefonbuch.de and enter the name and Hamburg and see if he or a relative is still at that address. The dates on the family newsletters ended around 1990. If you are interested in copies or research, let me know. These are located at the Southern California Genealogical Library in Burbank, California. www.scgsgenealogy.com Maureen "whoever said seek and ye shall find was not a genealogist!"

In a message dated 3/20/2007 2:07:49 AM Central Daylight Time, prussia-roots-request@rootsweb.com writes: Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:02:48 EDT From: Spaghettitree@aol.com Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Wolters in Hannover To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <d17.9479807.33300e28@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Hello Abby - The surname Wolters rang a bell, and although I have not traced it or researched it, there are a number of "Familienbrief" newsletter-type publications written by Joachim A. Wolters, whose address is: 63 Resedenweg 28 22339 Hamburg Germany telephone 40-50-51-86 This was his address in the 1994 telefonbuch for Hamburg; you can go to www.dastelefonbuch.de and enter the name and Hamburg and see if he or a relative is still at that address. The dates on the family newsletters ended around 1990. If you are interested in copies or research, let me know. These are located at the Southern California Genealogical Library in Burbank, California. www.scgsgenealogy.com Maureen ===== I am related to Wolters who came to Missouri in the 1830s and 1840s from the Lingen area and have information I can share. Please contact me if you are interested. Gloria in Missouri ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

For those of you that use the free database access at the FHL's, you will be unhappy to learn that most will soon be discontinued. What follows is a partial quote from a posting at _pommern-L@genealogy_ (mailto:pommern-L@genealogy) .net "I heard word today that Ancestry.com is discontinuing free access to the Ancestry.com Databases to all Family History Libraries worldwide as of April 1, 2007. After much disbelief and many e-mails, it is true as our local FHL director just received an e-mail message concerning this." "Free access through Ancestry.com to a few databases will continue - at this time. Complete information can be found on Everton's Genealogical NewsLine at: <http://genealogyblog.com/date/2007/03/16/>" Reasons and comments from Ancestry to the above announced discontinuance can be read at Everton Publishers blogsite at; _http://genealogyblog.com/ancestrycom/another-side-of-the-ancestrycom-removal- from-the-family-history-centers-5877_ (http://genealogyblog.com/ancestrycom/another-side-of-the-ancestrycom-removal-from-the-family-history-centers-5877) Donald Portland Oregon ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

Would the person who posted the information regarding researchers in Poland please repost, I somehow accidentally deleted when attempting to print. Thanks ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

Hello Abby - The surname Wolters rang a bell, and although I have not traced it or researched it, there are a number of "Familienbrief" newsletter-type publications written by Joachim A. Wolters, whose address is: 63 Resedenweg 28 22339 Hamburg Germany telephone 40-50-51-86 This was his address in the 1994 telefonbuch for Hamburg; you can go to www.dastelefonbuch.de and enter the name and Hamburg and see if he or a relative is still at that address. The dates on the family newsletters ended around 1990. If you are interested in copies or research, let me know. These are located at the Southern California Genealogical Library in Burbank, California. www.scgsgenealogy.com Maureen ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

Lynette Here is what is online of Anna Bluemel's Parents , and one sibling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Husband Adolf Johann Joseph Bluemel Pedigree Birth: 24 OCT 1830 Neurode, Schlesien, Preussen Christening: Marriage: 06 FEB 1855 Ludwigsdorf, , Schlesien, Preussen Death: 20 AUG 1887 Ludwigsdorf, , Schlesien, Preussen Burial: Father: Joseph Anton Bernard Bluemel Family Mother: Johanna Clara Antonia Jaesehke ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Wife Maria Magdalena Suendermann Pedigree Birth: 30 DEC 1819 Neu Moelke, Schlesien, Preussen Christening: Marriage: 06 FEB 1855 Ludwigsdorf, , Schlesien, Preussen Death: 05 MAY 1894 Herrngrund, , Schlesien, Preussen Burial: Father: Anton Johann Suendermann Family Mother: Maria Franziska Hoffmann ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Children ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 1. Anna Bluemel Pedigree Female Birth: 21 JUL 1857 Staedtisch Eule, , Schlesien, Preussen Christening: Death: 1886 Burial: Karl Roussin ====================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 2. August Bluemel Pedigree Male Birth: 04 DEC 1859 Staedtisch Eule, , Schlesien, Preussen Christening: Death: Burial: ----- Original Message ----- From: <LynetteTholkes@aol.com> To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:33 PM Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Anna Bluemel 1857 > > Hi list, > > I am having a tough time of finding anything of my ancestor, Anna Bluemel. > She was (b) 21 Jul 1857 in Staedtich Eule, Silesia, Prussia. She (d) 1886 in > > Herrngrund, Silesia, Prussia. > Her parents were Adolph Johann Joseph Bluemel and Maria Magdelena > Suendermann. > > Thanks for any help you can offer me. > > Lynette in CA > > > > > > > > ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. > Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi list, I am having a tough time of finding anything of my ancestor, Anna Bluemel. She was (b) 21 Jul 1857 in Staedtich Eule, Silesia, Prussia. She (d) 1886 in Herrngrund, Silesia, Prussia. Her parents were Adolph Johann Joseph Bluemel and Maria Magdelena Suendermann. Thanks for any help you can offer me. Lynette in CA ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

Arnold I sent you an email last Saturday with an attachment. I'm just wondering if it arrived as sometimes attachments get blocked. I have additional slides to send if they are getting through okay. Jane On 3/8/07, LGO <le_geefted_one@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > >From: ARoss14573@aol.com > >Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Rohs/Ross and Bullert > > > >Jane Cumber, I have put some info after the message you sent me. > Arnold > >Ross > > Arnold Ross, > > Have you looked at the LDS microfilms of church records for the village of > Battrow, Kreis Flatow? Did you know it contains records of births, > marriages, and deaths for the period of 1798 through 1874 - the time period > you're asking about? > > See this link . . . > > > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=90135&disp=Kirchenbuchduplikat%20%20&columns=*,0,0 > > Here is another link for microflmed records of other villages in Kr. > Flatow . . . > > > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localityhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&PLACE=Flatow&PARTOF=&prePLACE=Flatow&prePARTOF= > > Have you looked at any of these? If so, and you found nothing, then you > may have the wrong locale for your ancestors. If you have not looked at > them, it seems a waste to go to the records office in Berlin or Leipzig > without looking at these first at your nearest LDS Family History Center. > > Good luck, > > LGO > > > > > >I am looking for the children of Michael Rohs, born in Battrow, Kreis > Flatow > >and was married to Karoline W. Roeding on 9 Jan 1844 in Battrow. I > would > >also like info on the parents of Michael Rohs. Mainly trying to get > paper work > >for verification. > > Believe that one of the children was August Albert Rohs(Ross) born > Nov. > >1850 in Battrow and married Wilhelmine Gerth. Would like to also verify > >that this was a child of Michael and who were the other children? > > The village next to Battrow was Linde(now Lipka) and this is where > my > >father was born and probably there were Rohs/Ross relatives there. Since > the > >Germans were moved out of Poland after WWII there are no Rohs/Ross's in > the > >area. I have found that my father and 2 aunts did not leave much > information > >regarding relatives they left behind when they came to America. > > Shirt tail relativea are named Bullert. Johann Bullert was mayor of > >Linde in the 1930's. You might find something on them. > > Looking for help from anyone. > > I will be going to Germany to visit relatives (in some cases I know > more > >genealogy than they do) and wish to visit the records office's in Berlin > and > >also the one in Leipzig. Has anyone had experience with these two > offices? > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Ruth, Thank you very much for researching Johannes for me. It was so kind of you to do so. :) Unfortunately, I already have that information. In fact, some of it was my own. LOL Johannes was listed in the 1930 census, but "disappeared" either shortly before that census or immediately after it. I'm trying to track him down now......find out where he went. Plus, locate information on his family in Germany. He's a slick customer, though! :) Thanks again, Ruth! -Kat-

Kat, I couldn't find John Henry Martin Richter (and alternate spellings) in the 1910 census, But the Carl Weichel family was living in Kingston at this time, as well as the 1920 and 1930. --------- In the 1920 census for Kingston, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, John stated that he emigrated in 1904. Lena and their 3 children, Charles, Edward, and Walter were living with him, as well as Lena's father, Carl Weichel, and her 2 brothers and 2 sisters, Carl Jr., Elizabeth, Katherine, and Herman. ---------- I did find John in the 1930 census. He was still with his wife and children and Lena's father and her married sister. 1930 US Census Kingston, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Carl Weikel, head, age 66, widow, maried age 23, born abt 1864 Germany, parents born Germany, emigrated 1883, alien Lena Richter, daughter, age 39, married age 20, born abt 1891 Massachusetts, parents born Germany John H Richter, Son-in-law, age 46, married age 27, born abt 1884 Germany, parents born Germany, emigrated 1900, alien, occupation: rope factory Charls O Richter, Grandson, age 19, born abt 1911 Massachusetts, father born Germany Edward J Richter, Grandson, age 17, born abt 1913 Massachusetts, father born Germany, mother born Massachusetts, Occupation: Dresser?, woolen mak? Walter W Richter, Grandson, age 16, born abt 1914 Massachusetts, father born Germany, mother born Massachusetts, Occupation: rope ?????, rope factory John W Richter, Grandson, age 13, born abt 1917 Massachusetts, father born Germany, mother born Massachusetts Russell M Richter, Grandson, age 4 years, ? months, born abt 1926 Massachusetts, father born Germany, mother born Massachusetts Katherine L Loring, Daughter, age 24, married age 22, born abt 1906 Massachusetts, parents born Germany Ruth L Loring, Granddaughter, age 1 year, 6 months, born abt 1928 Massachusetts, parents born Massachusetts ---------- According to this family tree on ancestry.com, John and Lena were married 27 AUG 1910. Have you tried to find a marriage record for them in Plymouth County? The marriage record should list John and Lena's parents. http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=3-cats&id=I15420 ID: I15420 Name: John Henry Martin Richter Sex: M Birth: 1885 in Germany Father: Ernst Richter Mother: Marie Peerree Marriage 1 Lena Weichel b: 16 JUN 1890 in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Married: 27 AUG 1910 in Massachusetts ----------- Also, have you tried to look for John Richter in the city directories for Plymouth County after 1930? How about Lena? The city directories may list whether Lena was a widow or not. Hope this helps, Ruth Pokorny >>> Searching for any information on Johannes Heinrich Martin Richter (or >>> any name variation thereof), born Sept. 24, 1884 in either Germany or >>> South Africa.<<<

I am new to the list. I am trying to research family from BLENDER-BY-VERDEN JOHANN HEINRICH WOLTERS b. 1822 married GESINE FRIEDRIKE SCHMIDT b. 1822 A cigar maker, they emigrated to New York USA with part of his family in 1866 it is said. Later some of the family moved to Jersey City NJ. children: Fritz born ? Germany Johann Heinrich Andreas Wolters b. 1853, Lehe, Hannover Adele Wolters b. 1857 Hannover Emelie Wolters b. 1858 (twin) Hannover Rebecca Elise Wolters b. 1858 (twin) Hannover Georgine Caroline Wolters b. 1860 Hannover Any information at all about this family or from their original home would greatly be appreciated. They were Lutheran. Thankyou. Abby ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091

Searching for any information on Johannes Heinrich Martin Richter (or any name variation thereof), born Sept. 24, 1884 in either Germany or South Africa. Johannes/John immigrated to the US abt. 1900. In 1910 he married my grandmother, Lena Weichel, in Plymouth, Ma. By 1929 he had disappeared, never to be heard from again. Supposedly, John's parents names were Ernst E.E. Richter and Marie Perrie (Germany). He had a sister, Johanna Schonherr, who was still living in Germany in 1952. His two other siblings ( 1 brother, 1 sister) were deceased. Apparently, they were living in the Leipzig, Germany/Erzgebirge Mountain area. John was missing two fingers on his left hand as a result of an accident at the Plymouth Cordage Company where he worked before 1929. It is suspected he changed his name when he "disappeared", but the missing fingers would be an identifying mark. If anyone has any information on either John or his family in Germany, I would greatly appreciate it. -Kat-