Do a google search for Prussia.? There should be sites to go to for West Prussia. I'm from California. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: JB <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Jul 3, 2009 11:24 am Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Please help me find the link from Castlegarden to Prussia Again, thanks so much to everyone who has offered advice. - Debra, I am going to order copies of death certificates and look for birth city. - Joel, I will pursue church records if I can find a/the church they attended. - Sandy, Are you from Stronghurst? I found records on Castlegarden, but I am trying to tie them back to 'West Prussia' which appears in the 1920 census. Do you have a url for the Prussian site you refer to? - Kathy, I have subscribed to Dvhh's mailing list. - Sheila, the church records I know about are the well organized and indexed Swedish church records. Is there a central repository for US church records or must on seek out records from individual churches? Regards to all, JB > 1. Re: Please help me find the link from Castlegarden to Prussia (JB) > 2. Re: Please help me find the link from Castlegarden to Prussia > (D.L. MacLaughlan-Dumes) > 3. Re: Please help me find the link from Castlegarden to Prussia > (Joel S. Russell) > 4. www.castlegarden.org ([email protected]) > 5. Re: Please help me find the link from Castlegarden to Prussia > ([email protected]) > 6. Re: Please help me find the link from Castlegarden to Prussia > (Sheila Kapella) > 7. Re: Please help me find the link from Castlegarden to Prussia > ([email protected]) > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:56:23 -0700 > From: "D.L. MacLaughlan-Dumes" <[email protected]> > > 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? > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:15:26 -0400 > From: "Joel S. Russell" <[email protected]> > I know I've said this on the list before, but you have to look at > U.S. records to find them in Germany. The most reliable source I've > found is in church records. Check the immigrants funeral record or > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Th u, 02 Jul 2009 15:10:14 -0400 > From: [email protected] > > 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.? > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:03:36 EDT > From: [email protected] > > JB: I would contact the Dvhh.com group, they have some people that are > from > Germany and they also have books that they can look up the family name > .Just re-put all the info you have again, and you should get something > back. > Kathy > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:29:59 -0500 > From: Sheila Kapella <[email protected]> > > JB: The LDS microfilm is a photocopy of the actual manifest, the same one > as on Ancestry. The best place I have found for info on the exact place > of > origin has been in the US church records. One other mention I might make > is > following through on the records generated by the children of Ferdinand > and > Anna. Their marriage and death records often contain the info you are > seeking. Every rock needs to be turned over. Sheila K. ------------------------------- 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