Castlegarden is in New York.? It's where passengers came to immigrate from other countries, not just Prussia or Germany, but all countries.? It's also kindof hard to find passengers on a ships list.? A person needs to know the exact spelling of a name and an approximate year of immigration.? Also, in the census records from here, there may be a city listed where your ancestors are from.? Most times it's only the country.? Have you been to castlegarden.org?? Have you done a search on Prussian site.? Are you sure your ancestors were from West Prussia? Prussia was desolved into three countries that I know of, Poland, Germany, and Russia.? I hope this is of some help Sandy Harp [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: D.L. MacLaughlan-Dumes <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, Jul 2, 2009 11:56 am Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Please help me find the link from Castlegarden to Prussia On Jul 2, 2009, at 11:43 AM, JB wrote: > Thanks to everyone for your comments and suggestions. I have > copious info > on Ferdinand and Anna's family here in the US. What I have not been > able to > find is where they were living in 'West Prussia.' Do you think the > LDS > microfiche might have more detail than just 'Germany' as > Castlegarden and > Ancestry have it? If so, I will pursue that path. Does anyone have a > referal for a good professional German genealogist? Before you can look at microfilm or hire a genealogist, you'll still need to find out where in West Prussia you need to look. The area is too large to search with no clue where to start. Do any of the documents from sources in the USA (death certificate, naturalization papers, etc.) give a town of origin, or even a town of previous residence in West Prussia? Regards, Debra MacLaughlan-Dumes http://sakionline.net/familypage ------------------------------- 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