This database is incomplete. It contains only a few counties of Brandenburg. One day it will be complete. Stefan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bronwyn Klimach" <bronklimach@gmail.com> To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 2:44 AM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Suggestions re: On Line Prussia AncestorResearch Is this the same as one can search here? http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4121 One needs to sign in (free) too access this database. Bronwyn. 2011/9/29 Stefan Rückling <rueckling@gmx.de>: > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp > > Place search: Brandenburg > > and then search under "Emmigration". > > If you do this with Westpreussen you don't find such a card file of > Westprussian emmigrants. But there are several documents about persons who > left Westprussia. These documents (permission to leave the home) are in > the > State Archive in Danzig (today Gdansk). > > Stefan. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lorene Seman" <lmseman@wisc.edu> > To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:38 PM > Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Suggestions re: On Line Prussia > AncestorResearch > > > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------- 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