Ruth J. Thompson: I am "shirt tail" related to the family whose member was the Mayor of Linde during the 1930's. He had 4 children that are still alive and living in Northern Germany. The one son is interested in genealogy and has much info about the LInde area. His name is Reinhard Bullert. I have visited with the Bullert family. You can say that Arnold Ross gave you his name and here is his e-mail address: _bullert-thoms@t-online.de_ (mailto:bullert-thoms@t-online.de) Arnold Otto Ross Following is a message sent by Jane regarding micro film for the Battrow/Linde area. I asked her to aid me in getting the microfilm. Arnold You may already be aware of this but just in case. The FHL film 1496970 has parish register transcripts of births, marriages and deaths for Battrow, Westpreussen, Germany; now Batorowo, Koszalin, Poland; an affiliate of Grunau parish --- Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1798-1874. I have the film on indefnite loan and if you'd like I could see if the marriage in 1844 is there before you order the film? Jane West Fargo, ND An ancestor of mine, Anna Lubnow, her father Franz Lubnow and mother Auguste Koetzing may have been from the area you have mentioned in the following post. Anna said she was from Linde Germany. YOUR POST in Prussia Roots: ca 1850s, East Prussia "The village next to Battrow was Linde(now Lipka) and this is where my father was born and probably there were Rohs/Ross relatives there." I know this family had strong Lutheran ties and continued in this faith after coming to America in 1884-1885. A brother of Franz named Carl/Charles/Karl came later to Rochester, New York, but he came about 1890. Carl's surname appears to be spelled Lubneau in Rochester records. Believe this family was Carl, Caroline, Gustave, Ottillie and I would be interested if you could let me know if there are LDS films within this time frame for searching, or how have you researched for your kin? Or do you have further knowledge you could share. I am from Rock Island, Illinois Ruth J. Thompson <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.