Hello Sally, the church books from Neidenburg (and the filmed microfiches) are in the Evangelisches Zentralarchiv Berlin. Christenings are available up to 1827. After this time there is a great loss up to 1935. So it is possible that the entry for your Johann Eduard Neumann could be found in the available microfiches. Marriages are only available up to 1810, and then 1915-1945; death entries up to 1808, and from 1915 to 1944. It exists a register for christenings from 1800-1899, but only this register. So it is possible that Neumann is in this register, but one cannot look up the real entries (only up to 1827). I could try to find the birth/christening of Johann Eduard Neumann, if you are interested. 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Eduard Neumann of Neidenburg, East Prussia and Berlin > (Jesse and Sally) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:35:16 -0500 > From: "Jesse and Sally" <bettivys@aol.com> > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Eduard Neumann of Neidenburg, East Prussia > and Berlin > To: <PRUSSIA-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <012201cc6355$bcdcf8f0$3696ead0$@com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the PRUSSIA-ROOTS list administrator, send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the PRUSSIA-ROOTS mailing list, send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of PRUSSIA-ROOTS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 115 > ********************************************* >