Thank you, Janet, for this link. Looks like it could help some of us. Judy Anchorage, AK On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Janet <9whitegardenia92@comcast.net> wrote: > Ray, I don't know if this would be of any help to you or not. I stumbled > across it a little while ago and bookmarked it - just in case - but have > not > checked it out. > > http://www.ezab.de/e/eaframe.html > > Janet > > -----Original Message----- > From: RayS > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 11:44 AM > To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Suggestions re: On Line Prussia Ancestor > Research > > Hi all, > > As many here (I suspect) find, Prussian immigrants are difficult to > track back. As I understand, there is no centralized German > resources, like in Sweden, and even the churches were fractured by > war and politics. > I had heard vaguely from one older family member about "Regensburg" > mentioned, but no specifics. I just found a new Illinois death > recording in "Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947" which lists "Berlin, > Germany" as the immigrant's (her father) place of birth. But this is > the first reference in 15 years of looking and I'm naturally suspect. > The daughter's surviving husband was probably the informant, and > Berlin might not have been the actual birthplace, as the other poster > commented - people move. > > If anyone has good suggestions for Berlin resources, I'll look of > course, or even hire a local, which worked well for getting a Swedish > g-grandmother's info. > > At 11:40 PM 9/30/2011, you wrote: > >I had a problem with my g-grandparents, no village or town listed on any > >official records. When I started researching the births of their > >children I found the baptism records listed the village names for each > >of the parents. > > I found a number of Antone Schumacher's children in Chicago Catholic > baptismal records (Latin) in the LDS films, but none mentioned a > village. They are still a good source of other info, especially as > the Great Fire destroyed all civil records, like their marriage and > his naturalization. > I searched all area church's records for an ~1861 marriage to no > avail; it might have been a justice of the peace in little Niles > Township. Most children were married Catholic, but some not. > They were baptized in at least 3 different Chicago churches, not > corresponding to their residence at the time. I found it amazing they > would travel 8 miles in 1860s with an infant for the baptism. > > > > On 09/30/11, judy petersen wrote: Plenty of info > > >> on his years in Chicago, but no idea where or how to look for him in > > >> Silesia. I'm also interested in any ideas on how to approach this. > > I too found a lot of info post-fire, but by then he was married with > 5 children. His wife, Maria Klinge, was 1st generation American and > so her parents are in the same informational black hole... > > Basic info on who I'm searching for: > Antone Schumacher b.1837 (Berlin?) Prussia, imm. ~1848 > parents: Antone Schumacher - Ann Maria Krupp, Prussia > m. ~1861 Niles Ill. to: > Maria Anna Kilnge b.1844 Niles > parents: Carl Klinge - Gertrude Falkenberg, Prussia > > Ray Schumacher > http://rjs.org/geneaology/ > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >