My g-g-grandfather, Johan Eduard Neumann, was born between 1823 and 1826 in Neidenburg (now Nidzica), Province of Olsztyn, East Prussia (now Poland). His 1891 obituary (for "John E. Neumann") in Galesburg, Illinois provides his birth place, with his age of 65. His obituary also said he was a blacksmith early in his life. Eduard (as he was always called) moved from Neidenburg (Nidzica) to Dirschau (now Tczew) in West Prussia sometime before 25 Aug 1850, where he married Josefine (or Josephine) Maruszewska on that date. Dirschau (Tczew) is about 20 miles south of Danzig (now Gdansk). I found microfilmed church records for Dirschau many years ago, in which I found his marriage, christenings of his children, Josefine's christening, and even a death record for Josefine's father (Johann Marzewski). The surname Maruszewski/Marzewski is spelled various ways in records. However, I did not find any church records for Neidenburg, East Prussia. Did I miss finding church records, or is there another source of records where I could look? Perhaps new records have been released? I do not know anything about Eduard's parents or siblings. He might have moved with his parents from Neidenburg to Dirschau, or maybe he moved there as an adult. Several Neumann families already lived in Dirschau in the 1700's and 1800's. Possibly some of them were relatives of Eduard's family. However, Neumann is a fairly common name. (Eduard's daughter, Valeria Neumann, my great-grandmother married a man in Galesburg named Josef Neumann, who had come from Bohemia a year after her immigration. They had the same surname!) Eduard and Josefine and their children moved from Dirschau to Berlin, Germany between April 1862 (when Valeria was christened in Dirschau) and April 1876, when Valeria took her First Communion in St. Hedwig's Catholic Church. (My mother had saved an old, tattered prayer book that contained Valeria's certificate of Communion.) I know nothing about the years they lived in Berlin, but Valeria considered Berlin her home. She and Josef Neumann raised my mother in Galesburg. Then Valeria had lived with my family before she died in 1940. I remember my mother weeping when Berlin was bombed in World War II, though my brother was serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Eduard, Josefine, and two of his children came to New York on the ship "City of Montreal" in July 1881. The family was listed as Swedish because ditto marks were used from the top of the page. Most people on that ship were from Sweden. (My family group was not listed in any ship passenger index.) Eduard was called an "engineer" in Galesburg, where he worked for a company that made machinery. His obituary stated that Johann Eduard Neumann had several brothers and sisters living in Germany. I would love to find their descendants. Any advice would be very much appreciated. Sally Ivy, Bettendorf, Iowa