Aaron, the mobilization records could be really exciting. Keep us posted. Now, if they could just post the images. I guess it's asking too much that they could be transcribed. Karl von Loewe On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Aaron Hill <aaronjhill@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I have been looking through records seized by the United States, mostly at > the close of World War II. Has anyone ever looked through some of these? > For example, are the names of individual soldiers included on the rolls of > Prussian Mobilization Records, 1866-1918? > > Captured German and Related Records on Microform in the National Archives > National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized (Record Group 242) > > > http://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/foreign-records-seized.html > > CIVIL RECORDS > -- Miscellaneous German Records Collection, 1892-1945 > -- Records of Former German and Japanese Embassies and Consulates, > 1890-1945 > > Records of Private Individuals and Enterprises > > German Military Records Antedating World War II > -- An Exhibit of German Military Documents from the Heeresarchiv Potsdam, > 1679-1935 > -- Records of the Royal Bavarian War Ministry and Other Bavarian Military > Authorities, 1866-1913 > -- Prussian Mobilization Records, 1866-1918 > -- Official and Personal Papers of Prussian Military Leaders > > http://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/microfilm/m962.pdf > > -- Aaron > > http://aaronjhill.wordpress.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 > -- Karl von Loewe Somerset NJ

I have been looking through records seized by the United States, mostly at the close of World War II. Has anyone ever looked through some of these? For example, are the names of individual soldiers included on the rolls of Prussian Mobilization Records, 1866-1918? Captured German and Related Records on Microform in the National Archives National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized (Record Group 242) http://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/foreign-records-seized.html CIVIL RECORDS -- Miscellaneous German Records Collection, 1892-1945 -- Records of Former German and Japanese Embassies and Consulates, 1890-1945 Records of Private Individuals and Enterprises German Military Records Antedating World War II -- An Exhibit of German Military Documents from the Heeresarchiv Potsdam, 1679-1935 -- Records of the Royal Bavarian War Ministry and Other Bavarian Military Authorities, 1866-1913 -- Prussian Mobilization Records, 1866-1918 -- Official and Personal Papers of Prussian Military Leaders http://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/microfilm/m962.pdf -- Aaron   http://aaronjhill.wordpress.com/

Here is info on the town today... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olsztyn Almost certainly all of your German relatives would have been ethnically cleansed from that region in 1945-1950. Polish folks may remain unless they were considered ethnic German by the Poles & Russians. Pax Vobiscum, ...mark (Mark Rabideau) ManyRoads Family Genealogist (Rabideau-Henss Family); *Professional Genealogist * *Visit us at: http://many-roads.com <http://many-roads.com/> * *Snail mail at: *711 Nob Hill Trail - Franktown,CO USA - 80116-8717 *phone:*+1.303.660.9400 *fax:*+1.303.660.9217 *member:*Association of Professional Genealogists & National Genealogical Society _____________________________________________________________________ *"It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't."* Rabbit, Pooh's Little Instruction Book (Winnie the Pooh) On 02/12/2012 02:31 PM, Jan Pace wrote: > WITTINGSWALDA PROV.,- ALLENSTIEN, KRAPLAN > > > > IT WAS IN GERMANY (1827) BUT NOW THINK IT MAY BE IN POLAND > > FELL THAT RELATIVES COULD STILL BE IN THAT AREA > > > > LOOKING FOR NAMES REINHOLDT , SCHEMANSKI, GOLEMBIEWSKI > > > > ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED. > > > > JAN GOLEMGESKE > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

WITTINGSWALDA PROV.,- ALLENSTIEN, KRAPLAN IT WAS IN GERMANY (1827) BUT NOW THINK IT MAY BE IN POLAND FELL THAT RELATIVES COULD STILL BE IN THAT AREA LOOKING FOR NAMES REINHOLDT , SCHEMANSKI, GOLEMBIEWSKI ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED. JAN GOLEMGESKE

David, I would recommend you give what information you know about the family, especially in terms of location and years, to receive potentially helpful information. What do you already know from your research? Bronwyn. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:49 PM, David Kettle <davidkettle55@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Does anybody out there have any info on the Fliess family? > > David > Ledbury Herefordshire UK > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Does anybody out there have any info on the Fliess family? David Ledbury Herefordshire UK

Regarding military age for WW1 Germany, I think you will find this article most informative... http://www.greatwar.com/scripts/openExtra.asp?extra=10 Pax Vobiscum, ...mark (Mark Rabideau) ManyRoads Family Genealogist (Rabideau-Henss Family); *Professional Genealogist * *Visit us at: http://many-roads.com <http://many-roads.com/> * *Snail mail at: *711 Nob Hill Trail - Franktown,CO USA - 80116-8717 *phone:*+1.303.660.9400 *fax:*+1.303.660.9217 *member:*Association of Professional Genealogists & National Genealogical Society _____________________________________________________________________ *"It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't."* Rabbit, Pooh's Little Instruction Book (Winnie the Pooh) On 02/08/2012 04:07 PM, Marsha Ensminger wrote: > If Frederick was 20 when he arrived in the US in 1880, he would have been 56 in 1916... seems a bit old for a soldier. Perhaps the record you found was for a cousin or nephew? > > Marsha L. Ensminger > > > --- On Mon, 2/6/12, jkolpack21@roadrunner.com<jkolpack21@roadrunner.com> wrote: > >> From: jkolpack21@roadrunner.com<jkolpack21@roadrunner.com> >> Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] German Military question >> To: PRUSSIA-ROOTS@rootsweb.com >> Date: Monday, February 6, 2012, 11:50 AM >> >> Hello, Louisa and Frederick Reh came to the US >> from Prussia in 1880. It seems that when WWI broke out >> Frederick headed back to Germany and died fighting for >> Germany. He was listed among the German war dead in 1916. >> Can anyone tell me why he would travel back to Germany to >> enter the war after living here for 30 >> years? Researching the Kolpack and Schmick >> families from Kreis Rosenberg. >> Thanks, Jeffrey Kolpack >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

If Frederick was 20 when he arrived in the US in 1880, he would have been 56 in 1916... seems a bit old for a soldier. Perhaps the record you found was for a cousin or nephew? Marsha L. Ensminger --- On Mon, 2/6/12, jkolpack21@roadrunner.com <jkolpack21@roadrunner.com> wrote: > From: jkolpack21@roadrunner.com <jkolpack21@roadrunner.com> > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] German Military question > To: PRUSSIA-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Date: Monday, February 6, 2012, 11:50 AM > >   Hello,  Louisa and Frederick Reh came to the US > from Prussia in 1880. It seems that when WWI broke out > Frederick headed back to Germany and died fighting for > Germany. He was listed among the German war dead in 1916. > Can anyone tell me why he would travel back to Germany to > enter the war after living here for 30 > years?   Researching the Kolpack and Schmick > families from Kreis Rosenberg.  >    Thanks,  Jeffrey Kolpack > > ------------------------------- > 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 Jeffrey, which list of German war dead do you mean ? Are you shure that this Friedrich Reh among the list is really your ancestor ? There were many persons with this name in Germany. Best regards, Stefan Rückling ----- Original Message ----- From: <jkolpack21@roadrunner.com> To: <PRUSSIA-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:50 PM Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] German Military question > > Hello, Louisa and Frederick Reh came to the US from Prussia in 1880. It > seems that when WWI broke out Frederick headed back to Germany and died > fighting for Germany. He was listed among the German war dead in 1916. Can > anyone tell me why he would travel back to Germany to enter the war after > living here for 30 years? Researching the Kolpack and Schmick families > from Kreis Rosenberg. Thanks, Jeffrey Kolpack > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Similar circumstances with two brothers of my mother. Both immigrated to the US in 1929. This was after a talk from my grandfather advising all his children to leave before things really got bad! Anyway, one went back because he did not like America and the other felt his obligation was to his aged parents and another brother that was not military material (retarded). Both were conscripted and both ended up as POW's, one in Russia and the other in England. You had to know what was in their heart before determining the reason for returning. Robert Lipprandt >>>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] German Military question > Possibly because he felt strong family ties to his Fatherland > (Vaterland) and home (Heimat). > > Pax Vobiscum, > ...mark (Mark Rabideau) > > _____________________________________________________________________

Hello, Louisa and Frederick Reh came to the US from Prussia in 1880. It seems that when WWI broke out Frederick headed back to Germany and died fighting for Germany. He was listed among the German war dead in 1916. Can anyone tell me why he would travel back to Germany to enter the war after living here for 30 years? Researching the Kolpack and Schmick families from Kreis Rosenberg. Thanks, Jeffrey Kolpack

Possibly because he felt strong family ties to his Fatherland (Vaterland) and home (Heimat). Pax Vobiscum, ...mark (Mark Rabideau) ManyRoads Family Genealogist (Rabideau-Henss Family); *Professional Genealogist * *Visit us at: http://many-roads.com <http://many-roads.com/> * *Snail mail at: *711 Nob Hill Trail - Franktown,CO USA - 80116-8717 *phone:*+1.303.660.9400 *fax:*+1.303.660.9217 *member:*Association of Professional Genealogists & National Genealogical Society _____________________________________________________________________ *"It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't."* Rabbit, Pooh's Little Instruction Book (Winnie the Pooh) On 02/06/2012 12:50 PM, jkolpack21@roadrunner.com wrote: > Hello, Louisa and Frederick Reh came to the US from Prussia in 1880. It seems that when WWI broke out Frederick headed back to Germany and died fighting for Germany. He was listed among the German war dead in 1916. Can anyone tell me why he would travel back to Germany to enter the war after living here for 30 years? Researching the Kolpack and Schmick families from Kreis Rosenberg. Thanks, Jeffrey Kolpack > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Hello,    Hoping for info about Johann Heinrich BECKMAN who was born in the Kingdom of Hanover in1823. He was in USA (Ohio) by 1850.

Does anyone know if German Records exist for Iron Cross awards made in mid 1915 in Russia Poland on the East Front? A contemporary US trade journal documented an American photographer was granted the award by a German general for flying over Russian trenches and taking helpful photos. I was hoping I might be able to find a German record to confirm the claim. Any helpful information or suggestions appreciated. Thanks, James Castellan

Hello,   Albert Muth <albertmuth734@gmail.com> Wrote: The pradziad database will tell you which regional archive holds these records (http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en).   From, Bob McClure   Amazing this must be a way to find primary source information on an ancestor.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t bring up any results without today’s province in the dropdown list.   (information from Kartenmeister) German Name Pyritz Alternate Name 1: Phyris 1188 Alternate Name 2: Piriz 1217 Alternate Name 3: Pyriz 1186 Polish/Russian Name Pyrzyce Kreis/County Pyritz German Province Pommern Today's Province  Zachodnio-Pomorskie     The PRADZIAD database:   enter the name of the town where the parish, the public registry office or the religious community were located Pyritz   enter the name of the commune on the territory of which the town searched for is located, or the county on the territory of which it was located before the war: Pyrzyce   select the name of the province within the 1975-1998 or 1918-1939 borders:  Zachodnio-Pomorskie(today’s province) # Berlin # Frankfurt an der Oder # Görlitz # Gumbinnen # Königsberg in Preussen # Köslin # Liegnitz # Löbau # Marienwerder # Potsdam # Schlesien # Stettin # Zittau bialskopodlaskie Białoruś białostockie bielskie bielskobialskie bydgoskie chełmskie ciechanowskie częstochowskie dolnośląskie elbląskie gdańskie gorzowskie gubernia suwalska jeleniogórskie kaliskie katowickie kieleckie konińskie koszalińskie krakowskie krośnieńskie legnickie leszczyńskie lubelskie lwowskie łomżyńskie łódzkie nowogródzkie nowosądeckie obwód kaliningradzki olsztyńskie opolskie ostrołęckie pilskie piotrkowskie płockie poleskie poznańskie przemyskie radomskie Rumunia rzeszowskie siedleckie sieradzkie skierniewickie słupskie stanisławowskie suwalskie szczecińskie tarnobrzeskie tarnopolskie tarnowskie toruńskie wałbrzyskie warszawskie wileńskie włocławskie wołyńskie wrocławskie zamojskie zielonogórskie § Kowno § Kurlandia § suwalska § wołyńska    select the denomination or religion in respect of which the register was kept: ewangelickie(Lutheran)   select the type of event: urodzena(birth)   match case:  

Thanks Al. Can you tell me which records or archives that currently available via digital images? Thanks Doug Plowman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Muth" <albertmuth734@gmail.com> To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 2:03:35 PM Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] new Polish State Archives digitization project In an e-newsletter, the Polish State Archives announced today (13 January 2012) that they are expanding their digitization projects now into the branch archive at Kalisz. Of the highest priority will be church and civil records of births, marriages, and deaths (*akta metrykalne i stanu cywilnego*). All scanned materials will eventually be available for free in the Internet. Al Muth Michigan ------------------------------- 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 Doug, VERY FEW regional archives in the Polish state archive system have their complete scanned inventory available for consultation online. The beta projects have barely begun themselves (since 2010): Poznan and its spinoff Konin, Warszawa, and Lublin come to mind. Very little has been indexed in a way that leads directly to a scanned record. The national society (*Polskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne*) has a small number at http://metryki.genealodzy.pl/. This is the exception! The best analogy I can think of at the moment is the following. Imagine that someone has gone through your office bookshelves scanning what you have. There is no index. How do you know whether there is anything that you want in any of them? Your bookshelf has tens of thousands of pages that have become images. To find the image you want, you must know enough about the subject matter to find the book that it came from. Now we are starting to have digital images of records from Poland. Only a trickle. You want grandpa's birth record. To search a name, you must know the exact place of birth, marriage or death. Furthermore, you must also know the appropriate parish or civil registry office for that village (this is why you must learn to use gazetteers in your research, see https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Poland_Gazetteers). The pradziad database will tell you which regional archive holds these records (http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en). If you can find the scans, then, you must search through them year by year, page by page (one year may have 200 pages). If you have a specific date, the search is somewhat easier. If you are familiar with using microfilmed records from the LDS church, then you know that it is possible in the filmed records of some regions to find an index somewhere for the year. I am thinking of 19th records whether Lutheran, Catholic or Jewish, in Russian Poland. In my experience working in Lutheran records in West Prussia (Prussian Poland), an index is often on a completely separate film. Mostly non-existent. And when I say index, i do NOT mean computer searchable. The Kalisz archive is just getting going. Their equipment was just purchased in late December. It will take years for them to get it all out there for us (even the other BETA projects are off to a slow start). At this stage of the digital projects in Poland, research in them requires a proactive approach. They are nothing like the databases of ancestry.com<http://www.ancestry.com/>or familysearch.org <http://www.familysearch.org/> or the better known ones in Poland at http://bindweed.man.poznan.pl/posen/search.php or http://www.ptg.gda.pl/ No English. No convenient search boxes. Even the inventories of the completed BETA scanning projects do not link directly to the records themselves. About the research process itself, nothing has changed. Name, exact date and place. If you are lucky enough to have ancestors living in the few areas where scanning is taking place at the moment, you may be able to save a few dollars since you do not need to rent an LDS film. (What am I saying, one film? I usually end up with at least five microfilms per parish, or more). We might all wish for the digitizing process to go quicker (my grandpa Muth's ancestry will be in the records of Konin archives, now in BETA). I have used films for years; these records will be part of what becomes available, but NOTHING HAS, so far. Remember my original analogy: even if the records are digitized, they are not indexed in a way that a computer can search through them. Quicker is definitely not better. LDS cannot keep up with the pace of growth of its own catalog. Currently, films and scans are cataloged in two separate places. Films are cataloged geographically using a certain set of administrative jurisdictions; scans of Catholic church records are organized by diocese. For using the scanned Polish records at www.familysearch.org see https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Poland,_Roman_Catholic_Church_Books_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records ) At present, most historical images from Poland are limited to members of the LDS church. To see which ones are, and which ones are not, see https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Poland,_Roman_Catholic_Church_Books_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records)/Known_Issues Don't get upset about this if you are not LDS; it is simply a matter of waiting for the church to implement the appropriate technology of user authentication. Keep your shirt on! Citing one's sources is becoming harder and harder as new formats keep appearing. Now, we must reference the online digital image of an original historical record in a foreign archive. I know that, at the Archive, a lot of thought went into how to present the images in a way that would ease the task of citation. Since the images are online, we must cite a URL that is unchangeable. Doing genealogy on ancestors living in the area of today's or yesterday's Poland grows easier and easier. I have merely been drawing attention here to some of the growing pains. Al Muth On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:39 PM, <dplowman@frontier.com> wrote: > Thanks Al. > > Can you tell me which records or archives that currently available via > digital images? > > > Thanks > > > Doug Plowman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Albert Muth" <albertmuth734@gmail.com> > To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 2:03:35 PM > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] new Polish State Archives digitization project > > In an e-newsletter, the Polish State Archives announced today (13 January > 2012) that > they are expanding their digitization projects now into the branch archive > at Kalisz. > Of the highest priority will be church and civil records of births, > marriages, and deaths > (*akta metrykalne i stanu cywilnego*). All scanned materials will > eventually be available > for free in the Internet. > > Al Muth > Michigan > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

In an e-newsletter, the Polish State Archives announced today (13 January 2012) that they are expanding their digitization projects now into the branch archive at Kalisz. Of the highest priority will be church and civil records of births, marriages, and deaths (*akta metrykalne i stanu cywilnego*). All scanned materials will eventually be available for free in the Internet. Al Muth Michigan

Hi Dottie - this is the website I used : http://www.navalhistory.dk/danish/officererne/officerslister/officerer_p.htm. I think the 'p' at the end got me the 'P' listings but it is such a long time since I last went into the site that I've forgotten. Hope it works for you. Melva ----- Original Message ----- From: <dottiew2@verizon.net> To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 6:16 AM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Can someone please help > > Melva: > Do you have a web site for the Danish Naval History lists? > Dottie > > > On 01/11/12, Melva Maguire<p.maguire@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > > Hi Stefan - My 4x g.grandfather was Marquard Ludvig von Printzen and he > was > born in 1736 in Kobenhavn - his father was Friderich Wilhelm von > Printzen > and his mother was Susanna Elisabeth Clavel de Letang. He had an older > brother called Heinrich Wilhelm who was born in 1734 - I found his name, > along with that of Friedrich Wilhelm, in the Danish Naval History lists. > My main problem is with Hjob/Hiob - I found his military records and he > was > in Boynenburgs regiment (I think that's what it says) in 1690. I am > pretty sure that he is related to the same family as the other Marquard > Ludvig Freiherr von Printzen - they both have the same famiy crest for > one > thing and the names seem to trickle down through the family - right down > to > my 2x g.grandfather who was also a Marquard Ludvig von Printzen. We > still > have the wax seal used by earlier generations of the family - an owl > sitting > on a branch. To be honest, I hadn't picked up on the death of a Marquard > Ludvig buried in 1735 at Garnisons, so must look. I do know that Hjob > was buried inside Garnisons church but I thought that was in 1740. I > also > feel that it must have been a rather substantial funeral as there was a > large payment for the service - much higher than for any other > individuals > in church records around that time. On Hjob's Danish military records it > says 'Pommersk og Brandenburgst Adellegt' or something like that - the > writing is hard to read but someone told me that it means that he is > from a > noble family from Brandenburg. I really would like to establish his > parenthood if at all possible. Thanks for taking an interest. > Regards, Melva > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stefan Rückling" <[1]rueckling@gmx.de> > To: <[2]prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:07 PM > Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Can someone please help > Hi Melva, > "Mark Brandenburg" was a German dukedom, today Brandenburg is a > "Bundesland" > in Germany. > I have found Marquard Ludvig von Printzen who was burried in 1735 in > Kobenhavn (Garnison). Is this a relative of your family ? > If your answer is "yes" there should have been any connection to > Marquard > Ludwig von Printzen (born in 1675, died in 1725) who was a minister of > the > duke of Mark Brandenburg since the name Marquard Ludwig von Printzen is > really not common. This Marquard Ludwig von Printzen could have been the > brother of your ancestor (born in 1677). Maybe your ancestor Hiob went > to > his home in 1707 when his brother Marquard Ludwig married. > I didn't find any biographical information of Marquard Ludwig von > Printzen > online, such as parents, birthplace, etc., but I guess this is the > family > you are looking for. > Best regards, > Stefan Rückling > Stefan Rückling > Kröpeliner StraÃe 16 > 13059 Berlin > [3]http://www.rueckling.de/english/index.html > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Melva Maguire" <[4]p.maguire@paradise.net.nz> > To: <[5]prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:51 AM > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Can someone please help > > Hi - I am trying to find birth records for my 6x g.grandfather who was > > said to have come from Markbrandenburg. His name was Hiob/Hjob or Job > > von Printz or von Printzen and he was said to have been born in 1677. > > He died in Denmark in 1740 at the age of 63 years and he is buried at > > Garnison Church, Kobenhavn. His earlier military records show that in > > 1707 he received a permit to travel for four months to his home in > > Markbrandenburg - his coat of arms is an owl. Any help would be much > > appreciated - Melva > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > P[6]RUSSIA-ROOTS-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 > P[7]RUSSIA-ROOTS-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 > P[8]RUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > References > > 1. mailto:rueckling@gmx.de > 2. mailto:prussia-roots@rootsweb.com > 3. http://www.rueckling.de/english/index.html > 4. mailto:p.maguire@paradise.net.nz > 5. mailto:prussia-roots@rootsweb.com > 6. mailto:RUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com > 7. mailto:RUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com > 8. mailto:RUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.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

I am trying to locate more information about my g-grandfather's family from Prussia. Following is the only information I have concerning him: Name: Martin Wilhelm Kohls D.O.B.: 11 Nov 1834 Location: Pommern (Pourmern), Vopersnow? Maybe Wohernow?? Married: About 1865 in Prussia Married to: Auguste Potratz whose father was Christian Potratz Died: 29 April 1918 in Bulverde, Texas Wilhelm and Auguste immigrated to the United States in 1871 via Galveston, TX with their two sons, (K)Carl Kohls and Ernst Carl Kohls. The information I have on Karl is that he was born 21 August 1866, Karlin (Coelin), Pommern, Prussia; Ernst was born 11 July 1869 in same location. However, one record I've found shows that Ernst was born in Oden?, Germany. Family stories say that Wilhelm was a mayor/burgermeister/??? in the area from which he came and that he left due to political and religious reasons. Since I've been unable to pinpoint an actual town/village, etc. for where he lived, it's made looking for him in Prussia somewhat difficult. I have a bit more information if needed. I would be most grateful to anyone who could point me in the right direction for researching more of Wilhelm's family; parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, etc., etc. Thanks so much. Sandra Kohls Giarrusso