I sent to Michigan for my Great-grandmother's death certificate. Rather than it answering some questions it's only creating more. Partly because of the handwriting on the original record, and partly because of conflicting information. I was hoping for a definite birth location, but only got "Germany". On well. Could be worse I guess. But the big questions are regarding names. On my grandfather's marriage record from Windsor, Ontario he gives his mother's maiden name as BRUCHESCI. I assumed there may have been a spelling error but that the correct name would at least be something similar. But no! On her death record her husband gives her father's name as John KUSC, and her mother's maiden name as Tesia (?) MARQUADT. Is MARQUADT a German name? It almost sounds a bit French to me. And how does one get BRUCHESCI from KUSC? I have to assume that the information on the death record is more accurate because it was provided by her husband, rather than one of her children. Thanks for any input or advice. Elaine O'. in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks

Have you tried to locate any obits on any of those who immigrated? Newspapers are a big help. Many times the older papers had a lot of local news in them. Remember, if these were German speaking people they more than likely might subscribe to the nearest German printed newspaper. An example of this is in Sauk City, Wisconsin which had an early German newspaper. However, Prairie du Sac, just next to Sauk City, had an English printed paper and many times they picked up the information and printed it in English. Some of my immigrants lived near Peoria, Illinois and I located quite a bit of information from the local newspapers, German and English. If you would forward names, dates and places, I could check the files at the Wisconsin State Library to see if any newspapers were available. Wisconsin has the second largest newspaper collection in the country, the National Archives being first. Thanks to Mr. Draper. Sandie in Wisconsin PS - The Marquadt surname may also be Marquardt. And yes, that is a German name. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elaine O'Neill" <elaineoneill1948@gmail.com> To: <PRUSSIA-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:04 PM Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Kusc - Marquadt >I sent to Michigan for my Great-grandmother's death certificate. > Rather than it answering some questions it's only creating more. > Partly because of the handwriting on the original record, and partly > because of conflicting information. > > I was hoping for a definite birth location, but only got "Germany". > On well. Could be worse I guess. > > But the big questions are regarding names. On my grandfather's > marriage record from Windsor, Ontario he gives his mother's maiden > name as BRUCHESCI. I assumed there may have been a spelling error but > that the correct name would at least be something similar. But no! On > her death record her husband gives her father's name as John KUSC, and > her mother's maiden name as Tesia (?) MARQUADT. Is MARQUADT a German > name? It almost sounds a bit French to me. And how does one get > BRUCHESCI from KUSC? I have to assume that the information on the > death record is more accurate because it was provided by her husband, > rather than one of her children. > > Thanks for any input or advice. > > Elaine O'. > in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Could MARQUADT be spelled MARQUARDT if so it is Prussian. If your Grandfather was from Ontario,Canada there are a lot of Marquardt near Eganville, Ontario. They settled there before 1879, that the year they Johann & Emilie- Brudowski join the church up there.They were from West Prussia. Don C. MI ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elaine O'Neill" <elaineoneill1948@gmail.com> To: <PRUSSIA-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:04 PM Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Kusc - Marquadt I sent to Michigan for my Great-grandmother's death certificate. Rather than it answering some questions it's only creating more. Partly because of the handwriting on the original record, and partly because of conflicting information. I was hoping for a definite birth location, but only got "Germany". On well. Could be worse I guess. But the big questions are regarding names. On my grandfather's marriage record from Windsor, Ontario he gives his mother's maiden name as BRUCHESCI. I assumed there may have been a spelling error but that the correct name would at least be something similar. But no! On her death record her husband gives her father's name as John KUSC, and her mother's maiden name as Tesia (?) MARQUADT. Is MARQUADT a German name? It almost sounds a bit French to me. And how does one get BRUCHESCI from KUSC? I have to assume that the information on the death record is more accurate because it was provided by her husband, rather than one of her children. Thanks for any input or advice. Elaine O'. in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.3/824 - Release Date: 5/29/2007 1:01 PM

If you can stand one more e-mail regarding this topic, I can tell you that about 15 years ago, I did extensive research on my Glass line through the Sankt Katharina Braunsberg Katholic Kirche (St. Katherine's Catholic Church, Braunsberg, Ostpreussen, Prussia) LDS microfilm records. It was a gold mine of information giving me complete family trees for my great-great grandfather's family (though I came up completely dry for his wife!) going back 200 years. One name that I encountered very often was "Marquart." This name initially caught my eye because I, too, didn't think it sounded German, and it was as far away from France as you could get in Germany. The main reason that I remember that name, though, is that a vast majority of the Marquart births were marked with an "X" to denote illegitimacy, and it made me wonder about those Marquart girls! Another name that I ran across in those records, though only once, was the only noble birth I encountered, that of a child born to a von Frankenstein family. I'm sure there was no connection to the fictional characters, though. -----Original Message----- From: prussia-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:prussia-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Elaine O'Neill Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:05 PM To: PRUSSIA-ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Kusc - Marquadt I sent to Michigan for my Great-grandmother's death certificate. Rather than it answering some questions it's only creating more. Partly because of the handwriting on the original record, and partly because of conflicting information. I was hoping for a definite birth location, but only got "Germany". On well. Could be worse I guess. But the big questions are regarding names. On my grandfather's marriage record from Windsor, Ontario he gives his mother's maiden name as BRUCHESCI. I assumed there may have been a spelling error but that the correct name would at least be something similar. But no! On her death record her husband gives her father's name as John KUSC, and her mother's maiden name as Tesia (?) MARQUADT. Is MARQUADT a German name? It almost sounds a bit French to me. And how does one get BRUCHESCI from KUSC? I have to assume that the information on the death record is more accurate because it was provided by her husband, rather than one of her children. Thanks for any input or advice. Elaine O'. in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message