Creel, There are some excellent online articles to get started - google 'beginning genealogy' and so on for ideas. I would also advise you to find out as much as you can from present day family members (especially the older ones), asking if they will allow you to copy photos and documents they many have, however unimportant they may seem. Is this your location? Milken, *Miłki* populated place 53°56' N 21°52' E <http://data.jewishgen.org/maps/mapdist8.asp?lat=53.9333&long=21.8667> E<http://www.jewishgen.org/cgi-bin/expediamaps2.pl?lat=53.9333&lng=21.8667> M <http://www.jewishgen.org/cgi-bin/mapquest.pl?lat=539333&lng=218667> U<http://www.jewishgen.org/cgi-bin/multimap.pl?lat=53.9333&lng=21.8667> G <http://www.jewishgen.org/cgi-bin/google.pl?q=53.9333,21.8667+(Miłki)> Poland 121.7 miles NNE of Warszawa 52°15' N 21°0' E from http://www.jewishgen.org/communities/loctown.asp http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp will gives information about the place and even an idea who else is looking at this location. Once you have gathered enough information, look for whether ancestors' records exist in: - Polish Archives http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en - Familysearch (Mormons) http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp This site is choc-full of goodies so look at their research helps, check out database for Ivanovski, Iwanowski etc, and look in their library catalogue for records for your location. - Consider also looking at EZAB (since Kartenmeister suggests this was a Lutheran village in 1905): http://ezab.de/e/ebframe.html I hope you can follow the above. Also make sure to ask questions anytime however simple they may seem. If a reply does not help you, it may help someone else on the list ;-) Kind regards, Bronwyn. On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:40 AM, luigi 3953 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > I am new to this and was wondering if anyone can help me get started on a > family tree my problem is that my family came from east prussia and I have > no idea where or how to start. Family name is Ivanovski they are from milken > > > Thanks > > Creel > > _________________________________________________________________ > Looking to change your car this year? Find car news, reviews and more > > http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fsecure%2Dau%2Eimrworldwide%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fa%2Fci%5F450304%2Fet%5F2%2Fcg%5F801459%2Fpi%5F1004813%2Fai%5F859641&_t=762955845&_r=tig_OCT07&_m=EXT > > ------------------------------- > 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 >