Place names in Lithuania Minor. Indexed in German, Russian and Lithuanian. http://pirmojiknyga.mch.mii.lt/Leidiniai/Prusviet.en.htm#vietovardziai ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Lipprandt" <rloss@bellsouth.net> To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 4:51 PM Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] German - Polish name changes > The following may be of interest to some of you: > > Script, Old German (view only) > http://www.tr62.de/script/default.html > > Town Locators - Name Changes, German to Polish > http://www.atsnotes.com/other/gerpol.html > > The name city/village name changes above does not include the part of > Ostpreussen (East Prussia) that is now the Russian Oblast (??) Got another > link for those changes somewhere... > > Carol... is the Volhynia that you mentioned part of the Germans to Russia > (Ukraine) and then back to Germany or the US?? > > Somewhere in my files, I have an online group that hold many assets and > information sources of the people that migrated to America and settled in > the heartland North to Canada (Russian Germans). Will send that along > when > I can find it... again! > > Regards, Rollo+~~ > =============== > > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] German only > > >> Rollo, >> My grandmother's family also would not admit to anything other that >> German and living in Prussia, until the St. Petersburg archives >> identified births in Volhynia. When I asked them about the first birth >> record that I found, they said, "No, our family has not lived outside of >> Prussia." Finally, after the 3rd birth record they admitted that it >> truly was their family. My grandmother, Minna Schumann, supposedly was >> born in 1892 in Eichfier, West Prussia. I still have not found her >> birth record, but then SLC does not have all the birth records from >> there. I realize also that Minna may not be the recorded name as another >> grandmother, Amelia, was found to have the birth name of Regina >> Wilhelmine Emelie. Carol >> > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >