Stefan: How do you search this database? I'd like to see if there are records for my relatives, who left Hamburg in 1868, lived in Podjass (today Podjazy) On 9/29/2011 1:56 PM, Stefan Rückling wrote: > Mary, > > the LDS church has filmed the card file of emmigrants leaving Brandenburg > (central part of Prussia). > http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=767068&disp=Auswanderungskartei > &columns=*,0,0 > > The original cards are in Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv in Potsdam > (near Berlin, former capital of Prussia). > > Since in America your ancestor was written Libbons or Libbens I gues it > could also be Lübbers which is a very common name. The American people don't > know the german ü and understand i. > > If you pronounce "Lübbers" in German it sounds like "Libbors". So you have > to play with many possibilities if you check a database. > > Stefan. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Ellen Chambers"<maryln61@yahoo.com> > To:<prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:05 PM > Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Suggestions re: On Line Prussia > AncestorResearch > > > Thank you Lorene. Will check this out. Took a glance at it, realize have a > lot > to go through. Maybe will delegate some to my siblings! > > Appreciate the avenues you and Stefen have suggested to pursue. > > Mary Ellen Chambers > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Lorene Seman<lmseman@wisc.edu> > To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thu, September 29, 2011 11:37:58 AM > Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Suggestions re: On Line Prussia Ancestor > Research > > Here is a database of church records in Prussia. > > Go to PomGenBase If you find the family, I know of a guy who has CDs > for sale with the actual records. > > http://www.ptg.gda.pl/ > > > > > > > On 9/29/2011 10:12 AM, Mary Ellen Chambers wrote: > >> My family has tried to trace my g grandfather back to Prussia but have >> not >> had any success. Part of the issue is all we have is Prussia which is on >> the >> few records we have as place of birth. Realize that is like saying New >> England! >> We have tried passenger lists coming into Baltimore, approx. 1850 to >> 1860. We use this time-line because, he married my g grandmother 1860 to >> 1864 >> in either Cecil County or Baltimore County, MD. MD civil records did not >> > start > >> until 1898. About 1869 he moved his family to Crestline Crawford Count y >> OH. >> My g grandmother's family also moved with them. She was American born 1845 >> > but > >> her father was from Hesse Darmstadt per 1880 census& her mother from >> Bayonne. >> > >> Again huge areas of Germany to try to find the "Needle in a haystack". His >> name >> John Ludwig Kiel/Kile/Kyle. >> I noticed on the list that there are Civil Records available for some >> areas in the late 18th century. Would there be a list/index for the >> various >> areas of Prussia which state the start for their civil records?? Even >> though >> there may be numerous men with the same given& surname, it might give us a >> more >> defined area to search. >> It appears that my paternal g grandfather's surname LIBENS (various >> spelling) is often in what is now Belgium. However, I have been told that >> the >> part of Prussia which is now Belgium was changed D/T Napoleon's defeat. I >> > have > >> a b. year for him of 1836 which would have been long after the defeat. >> Therefore, find it strange that Prussia continued to be used as his place >> of >> birth if he was actually born in that part which changed. Or would using >> it >> > be > >> better define that part??? >> Would anyone on the list have any ideas? >> My g grandfather was John LIBENS b. 1836 Prussia, expired 1879 >> > Crestline > >> Crawford County OH. On the 1870 census the surname was spelled LABENS and >> on >> other census LIBBENS, LIBBONS. >> Once the families settled in OH, we have numerous records. It is MD >> back >> to Prussia which is our brick wall. In MD both families lived in Rising >> Sun, >> Cecil County MD; near Elkton. They were of the Lutheran faith. >> >> Mary Ellen Chambers >> Lakewood, OH >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> > -- Lorene Seman, MBA Assistant Administrator Department of Anesthesiology School of Medicine and Public Health University of Wisconsin 600 Highland Ave, B6/319 CSC Madison, WI 53792-3272 Voice: (608)265-0588 FAX: (608)263-8111 lmseman@wisc.edu