What you need to help you find the closest church of that timeframe is an old plat map for the county. Or, preferrably, a detailed plat map for the township that your family lived in. Locate their farm or town that they lived in and then look for little crosses on the plat map that indicate churches. Where did your Ferdinand and Anna Moers settle? Kathy www.Kiva.org - loans that change lives. Change the world one loan at a time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheila Kapella" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 2:20 PM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Please help me find the link from Castlegardento Prussia > JB: If the church is still operating they will have the records; if not, > most denominations have an archive; why would they have attended a Swedish > church - unless, of course, it was the nearest one of their denomination? > Did I find Anna's maiden name to be "Yadea(u)? Certainly weren't many of > them around and it doesn't appear to be German. Have you tried following > up > on it? Sheila K. > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:24 PM, JB <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >>