Have you found immigration documents for the family? That would be the next place to look for corroboration. On 6/30/2011 10:22 AM, Diane Worth wrote: > Hi Elaine, > I've looked at this on Flickr and on Ancestry. It's hard to decipher, isn't it? It could be Luxembourg but it if you look at the very open 'a' at the end of Pennsylvania I wonder if it could be Laufenberg? I think that's an 'f' in the middle, not a 't', if you look at the rest of the page. Do you know when/where Adam was born? > Google maps is a good place to look. > Diane > On 29 Jun 2011, at 22:13, Elaine O'Neill wrote: > > >> My husband's G-g-grandfather, Adam Meyer(s) came to the US in 1834. In >> various records he is said to have come from Prussia or from Germany. Today >> when searching for his children in the US Census I hit what could be a real >> jackpot. On the 1920 census for his son George W. Meyers, in Williams >> County, Ohio, the census enumerator not only listed "Germany" as the >> birthplace of George's father, but he included a more specific location. My >> problem is I can't be sure of what he wrote. It looks to be "Luxemburg", but >> it could also be "Lutenburg." I've cropped the original document and posted >> it on Flickr. Would someone be willing to take a look and give me your >> opinion on what it looks like to you? Here is the link for the cropped image >> http://flic.kr/p/9Y6Y7f . If you have Ancestry and would like to view the >> original image here is a link (I hope) to it: >> http://preview.tinyurl.com/3ddenp6 . George W. Meyers family begins on line >> 43. >> >> Another reason I'm not sure of the location name is that I don't know the >> history of Luxembourg, whether or not there was an area known by that name, >> even though it would not have been on any map. I also don't know if there is >> or was a city of Lutenburg. I would really appreciate whatever help anyone >> can provide. >> >> Thank you so very much! >> >> Regards, >> Elaine O'Neill >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > -- 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