Jackie, and Lyn, Lyn's email has been sent to everyone who subscribes to the Prussia-roots list, as has yours Jackie. SoLyn should have received it, along with the rest of us on the list :)) You will receive all manner of queries, and hopefully learn from the answers that get posted to them. If they do not interest you directly it is still a good idea to read them and learn about how others are solving their genealogy problems!! Lyn, I've had a quick look at a few sites and not come up with anything obvious about your family. The most important thing you need to find to try and research them in what was Prussia is the name of the villages, or collection of towns and villages, they were connected with in Prussia. You need to carefully search out all available records in Australia to see if such a location is listed. Many Church books give more detail than is on certificates, and some priests/pastors kept a sort of family roll, listing all the family members and where they were born. In my case this was crucial for finding my ancestors. The Christian names change in the expected way for a family moving from Prussia to an English speaking region of Australia; do you know if there are variations of the surname Rust? Are there shipping records - do you know the year of emigration? At this stage it is difficult to know which of the family stories will turn out to be 'reliable'. Have you also looked at NAA records http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/ResearcherScreen.asp and Aussie newspapers? http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Kind regards, Bronwyn. On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Jackie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am also new to this. I only found Prussian site earlier in the week and > havnt figured out how to find anything yet. How did you find my e-mail? > I > don't mind, I am trying to learn it as well. > Unfortunately I don't have any info on your people. They sound very > interesting, good luck on your research. I havnt been able to find anything > specific on the Prussian people, sorry. > > Jackie Lewis > Texas, USA > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John and Lyn > Baker > Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 10:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] RUST surname - ? Prussia > > Hi > > I am new to Prussian research and am looking for any information on > > Charles Francis Augustus Ferdinand Rust (anglicized) born c 1834. > > parents listed as Karl Franz Rust , (supposedly surgeon general to > Napoleon) > and Dorothea Sudas - names from his marriage certificate in Australia. > Karls > father was also meant to have been a surgeon in the army. > > He was a strange man and moved around frequently. He changed him name > often, > and is buried under John Rust. I only found him when I found the wife > dead. > He was a 4th year medical student and was meant to go into the army, but > did > not want to do this and escaped supposedly in a wine barrel. (Family letter > gives these details, unsure how much is fact). Charles was a chemist in > Victoria. > > Any suggestions gratefully received. > > regards > Lyn Baker > Australia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

That was a very kind response you just made here. ?So often, a newbie to genealogy is also a newbie to email "on a massive scale". ?We all had to learn somehow and at some time about both. al -----Original Message----- From: Bronwyn Klimach <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, Jun 28, 2009 3:41 pm Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] RUST surname - ? Prussia Jackie, and Lyn, Lyn's email has been sent to everyone who subscribes to the Prussia-roots list, as has yours Jackie. SoLyn should have received it, along with the rest of us on the list :)) You will receive all manner of queries, and hopefully learn from the answers that get posted to them. If they do not interest you directly it is still a good idea to read them and learn about how others are solving their genealogy problems!! Lyn, I've had a quick look at a few sites and not come up with anything obvious about your family. The most important thing you need to find to try and research them in what was Prussia is the name of the villages, or collection of towns and villages, they were connected with in Prussia. You need to carefully search out all available records in Australia to see if such a location is listed. Many Church books give more detail than is on certificates, and some priests/pastors kept a sort of family roll, listing all the family members and where they were born. In my case this was crucial for finding my ancestors. The Christian names change in the expected way for a family moving from Prussia to an English speaking region of Australia; do you know if there are variations of the surname Rust? Are there shipping records - do you know the year of emigration? At this stage it is difficult to know which of the family stories will turn out to be 'reliable'. Have you also looked at NAA records http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/ResearcherScreen.asp and Aussie newspapers? http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Kind regards, Bronwyn. On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Jackie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am also new to this. I only found Prussian site earlier in the week and > havnt figured out how to find anything yet. How did you find my e-mail? > I > don't mind, I am trying to learn it as well. > Unfortunately I don't have any info on your people. They sound very > interesting, good luck on your research. I havnt been able to find anything > specific on the Prussian people, sorry. > > Jackie Lewis > Texas, USA > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John and Lyn > Baker > Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 10:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] RUST surname - ? Prussia > > Hi > > I am new to Prussian research and am looking for any information on > > Charles Francis Augustus Ferdinand Rust (anglicized) born c 1834. > > parents listed as Karl Franz Rust , (supposedly surgeon general to > Napoleon) > and Dorothea Sudas - names from his marriage certificate in Australia. > Karls > father was also meant to have been a surgeon in the army. > > He was a strange man and moved around frequently. He changed him name > often, > and is buried under John Rust. I only found him when I found the wife > dead. > He was a 4th year medical student and was meant to go into the army, but > did > not want to do this and escaped supposedly in a wine barrel. (Family letter > gives these details, unsure how much is fact). Charles was a chemist in > Victoria. > > Any suggestions gratefully received. > > regards > Lyn Baker > Australia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] 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 > [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message