Hello Please help me to understand the Jewish site. I put the name Bengsch in the search box and it came us with some names, none were Bengsch (a i could read it) . Would the name spelling change a lot when i ask for the Polish records? Also is it hard to order records from the Polish archives? Darlene ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:01 AM Subject: PRUSSIA-ROOTS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 111 > > > ***IMPORTANT*** > When replying to a digest message, DO NOT just hit Reply (which will send > the entire digest back to the list). Remove all text (the rest of the > digest) leaving only the specific message to which you are replying. > > Also IMPORTANT, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it > coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. > > Failure to do so will result in a change of your subscription from digest > to single message mode. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. family search (luigi 3953) > 2. Re: family search (Bronwyn Klimach) > 3. Re: family search (Karl Roussin) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 18:40:34 +1000 > From: luigi 3953 <[email protected]> > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] family search > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > 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 > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:35:08 +0100 > From: Bronwyn Klimach <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] family search > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 > > 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, *Mi?ki* 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+(Mi?ki)> > 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 >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:19:13 -0500 > From: "Karl Roussin" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] family search > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Creel > Here is a link that should show You the LDS FHC microfilm that You > could > order , from the FHC library > > > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C180%2C0&titleno=87512&disp=Kirchenbuchduplikat++ > > Karl Roussin > ============================================ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "luigi 3953" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 3:40 AM > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] family search > > >> >> 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? 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