Dear Heidi, It's great to see someone on this list with family from where my own family came from! First, the correct Polish name is Wegorzewo, and the first e has a little hook on it which makes the vowel nasalized, so it sounds like "Ven-go-ZHE-voh." Lovely location, on the north end of one of the prettiest of the Masurian Lakes. Unfortunately, the Russians shelled the daylights out of it in 1945 and most of the buildings are newer, in the cement-slab style of the Workers' Paradise. The parish church was only partially destroyed, has been rebuilt, and still has an organ built in the mid-1600s. Some of the public records were stored in the castle, which was bombed to shreds and those records lost. Others survive. There's a society in Germany of people who (or whose families) came from East Prussia and they are slowly publishing whatever records they can find. I don't have time to look it up right now, but will do so ASAP. Or just Google for Angerburg. Angerburg was the "county town" and a lot of people "from" there actually were from one of the villages scattered around. So you -may- have quite a bit of searching to do. More later, Bob Copeland -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heidi Arno Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Getting Started with Prussian Roots I am trying to figure out where to begin searching for my mother-in-law's line in East Prussia. She was born in Angerberg East Prussia in 1920. Her parents were Gustave Kiselewski, born 06 Nov 1882, and Marie Mosney, born 23 Sep 1881. Marie Mosney was born in Englestine, Germany. I did find Angerberg town on an online town name 'translator' that shows it is now called Wegorzyno, Poland. The family came to the US around 1924-25. They were Lutheran. I have heard that the Russians have the records and won't give them up, and/or that all records were destroyed. Family Search shows a number of films available under East Prussia, but the labels don't match place names that I have. Maybe some of you have advice on what to look for first or how to begin to narrow the search? Heidi Hennig Arno <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <blocked::http://home.earthlink.net/~heidila6> http://home.earthlink.net/~heidila6 (Smeesters Site) <blocked::http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heidila6/> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heidila6/ (Bertrand Site) ------------------------------- 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

My thanks to all of you who responded to my query. Thanks to Robert for the correct spelling of the town. This has helped me a great deal as I could actually find the location on the map and put it into geographical perspective. Sounds like you have traveled there. Heidi Hennig Arno [email protected] http://home.earthlink.net/~heidila6 (Smeesters Site) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heidila6/ (Bertrand Site) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Copeland Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 7:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Getting Started with Prussian Roots Dear Heidi, It's great to see someone on this list with family from where my own family came from! First, the correct Polish name is Wegorzewo, and the first e has a little hook on it which makes the vowel nasalized, so it sounds like "Ven-go-ZHE-voh." Lovely location, on the north end of one of the prettiest of the Masurian Lakes. Unfortunately, the Russians shelled the daylights out of it in 1945 and most of the buildings are newer, in the cement-slab style of the Workers' Paradise. The parish church was only partially destroyed, has been rebuilt, and still has an organ built in the mid-1600s. Some of the public records were stored in the castle, which was bombed to shreds and those records lost. Others survive. There's a society in Germany of people who (or whose families) came from East Prussia and they are slowly publishing whatever records they can find. I don't have time to look it up right now, but will do so ASAP. Or just Google for Angerburg. Angerburg was the "county town" and a lot of people "from" there actually were from one of the villages scattered around. So you -may- have quite a bit of searching to do. More later, Bob Copeland -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heidi Arno Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Getting Started with Prussian Roots I am trying to figure out where to begin searching for my mother-in-law's line in East Prussia. She was born in Angerberg East Prussia in 1920. Her parents were Gustave Kiselewski, born 06 Nov 1882, and Marie Mosney, born 23 Sep 1881. Marie Mosney was born in Englestine, Germany. I did find Angerberg town on an online town name 'translator' that shows it is now called Wegorzyno, Poland. The family came to the US around 1924-25. They were Lutheran. I have heard that the Russians have the records and won't give them up, and/or that all records were destroyed. Family Search shows a number of films available under East Prussia, but the labels don't match place names that I have. Maybe some of you have advice on what to look for first or how to begin to narrow the search? Heidi Hennig Arno <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <blocked::http://home.earthlink.net/~heidila6> http://home.earthlink.net/~heidila6 (Smeesters Site) <blocked::http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heidila6/> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heidila6/ (Bertrand Site) ------------------------------- 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