I posted a message a few weeks back about the surnames I am searching, I just gave the surnames. I was kinda hoping someone may have been search these names alsoand I could connect with them. But a lot of you asked what their given names were. Here is what I have: my great grandfather Joseph Bolda (could be spelled Bolde Boldo) born 1860 in Chlapau, West Prussia (now Chlapowo, Poland) son of Joseph Bolda & Marianna Rathenau (Rathenow) they married 1857 in Chlapau. My great grandfather married Susanna Sawitzki (american Zywicki) born about 1868, Nov. 1888 in Detroit, Mi. Susanna died in 1918 and Joseph in 1944, After Susanna died Joseph remarried a Rose Schmidt who was married to an August Schmidt. The children of Joseph & Susanna are. Joseph b. 1889, Clara b. 1891, Bertha b.1892(M. Alexander Measel), Teresa b. 1895, Harry b. 1887 (died in prison 1958), Tillie b. 1899 (m. Lear J. Roby) d. 1977, Rose b. 1901 (m Orla Collier) d. 1966, Twins Helen & Agnes b. 1904 (Helen m. Thomas Barrett) d. 1998, (Agnes m. Anthony Sengstock & Alex Wojick) d. 1979. I have found the family in the 1910 census and some of the names are wrong but these are the names. They were all born in Detroit, Mi. On the other side of my family we have Julius Sengstock b. 1862 who married Mary Pottrykus b. 1867 there children were Agnes b. 1883, Anna b, 1891, Frank b. 1893, Anthony b.1898 (he married Agnes Bolda), Mary Ann b.1904, Clara b. 1907. Any help will be appreciate. Pat --------------------------------- Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection.

Pat, First, I suggest that you not put "Surnames I am searching" in your subject line. Many researchers still browse e-mail list archives manually and all they see are the subject lines. Putting "Bolda" in the subject line would drastically increase your odds of being found if a distant relative was a browsing type of person. Second, "Chlapau" is not listed (at least by that spelling) in the LDS Library Catalog list of places. If that spelling is correct, then it is probably such a small place that the records (both church and civil) are located in a nearby, larger town. Go to your nearest LDS Family History Center and look at "Meyer's Orts" for Chlapau. It will tell you which parish/town where you can find the records. In fact, I just Googled "Chlapau" and found that it is referred to as a "dorf" (see link below, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and look at the highlighted items.). Here in the U.S. a "dorf" would be considered a "bump in the road" kind of place. A one stop light town. So it's highly likely that any records for the inhabitants of that dorf will be held elsewhere. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:or-K3UxLxqQJ:baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/karta.php%3Farch%3D10%26zesp%3D58%26cd%3D0%26referer%3D%26offset%3D300+Chlapau&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us Don't be too quick to look for others researching the same names so you can "connect." Far too often information from those sources are in error, and certainly not considered "proof" by any genealogical standard. Genealogy is difficult enough in trying to avoid our own errors. Don't magnify that by accepting someone else's. Remember, genealogy is not searching for ancestors. It's searching for the records that name the ancestors. Good luck, LGO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat" <ddshepherds@yahoo.com> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 9:21 PM Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Surnames I am searching >I posted a message a few weeks back about the surnames I am searching, I >just gave the surnames. I was kinda hoping someone may have been search >these names alsoand I could connect with them. But a lot of you asked what >their given names were. Here is what I have: my great grandfather Joseph >Bolda (could be spelled Bolde Boldo) born 1860 in Chlapau, West Prussia >(now Chlapowo, Poland) son of Joseph Bolda & Marianna Rathenau (Rathenow) >they married 1857 in Chlapau. > > My great grandfather married Susanna Sawitzki (american Zywicki) born > about 1868, Nov. 1888 in Detroit, Mi. Susanna died in 1918 and Joseph in > 1944, After Susanna died Joseph remarried a Rose Schmidt who was married > to an August Schmidt. > > The children of Joseph & Susanna are. Joseph b. 1889, Clara b. 1891, > Bertha b.1892(M. Alexander Measel), Teresa b. 1895, Harry b. 1887 (died in > prison 1958), Tillie b. 1899 (m. Lear J. Roby) d. 1977, Rose b. 1901 (m > Orla Collier) d. 1966, Twins Helen & Agnes b. 1904 (Helen m. Thomas > Barrett) d. 1998, (Agnes m. Anthony Sengstock & Alex Wojick) d. 1979. > > I have found the family in the 1910 census and some of the names are > wrong but these are the names. They were all born in Detroit, Mi. > > On the other side of my family we have Julius Sengstock b. 1862 who > married Mary Pottrykus b. 1867 there children were Agnes b. 1883, Anna b, > 1891, Frank b. 1893, Anthony b.1898 (he married Agnes Bolda), Mary Ann > b.1904, Clara b. 1907. > > Any help will be appreciate. > > Pat