I hope I don't lose any readers of this e-mail due to its length. I'll highlight my main questions in bullet points at the end. My focus is in finding the birth record and parents of my great-great grandmother, Maria Louisa Teddick, born June 29, 1818. I have had very good success researching her husband Hugo Glass's ancestors through the LDS church records of Braunsberg, Ostpreussen, but I'm stuck on my Teddick, Tidig, Theidich, Tydyck, Theidigk etc family. My great-grandfather Franz Glass, was born April 10, 1849 in Gross Kronau (now Kronowo, Poland) and his birth is registered at Gross Lemkendorf (now Lamkowo, Poland), but, none of his mother's family appears in the church records. One of the god parents on his christening certificate is a Franz Tydyck and I wonder if that may have been Maria Louisa's brother. I have found another researcher who has conducted casual research of Tydick families in the same area and he found that in Kiwitten there is a marriage record for 33-year-old Franz Thiedigk who married a Theresia Grunert in 1854. Again, this could be the same Franz Tydyck and puts him at the right age to be Maria Louisa's brother. The marriage record indicates that this Franz Thiedigk originated from Lokau, a small village that belonged to the parish of Seeburg, and I'm told that Lokau is only 10 km from Gross Lemkendorf. Again, there are no baptismal records for Maria Louisa in Kiwitten for the years before and after her birth (June 29, 1818) and the Catholic records for Seeburg only cover the years 1876-1947. Protestant records for that town begin only in 1824, but I have ordered the film and will see if a marriage record for Maria Louisa and her husband Hugo Glass exists. She, Hugo and their son Franz Glass left Germany via Hamburg, on September 2, 1850 and arrived in Galveston, Texas on November 13, 1850. I have searched through LDS films for birth records in many parishes in East Prussia and am now honing in on the Gross Lemkendorf / Seeburg / Kiwitten area in general as my focus. Now for my questions: 1. One of the ladies and the local LDS library tells me many Polish churches refused to allow their records to be filmed. Is there any way to find if Catholic records for places such as Seeburg exist but for some reason the LDS church may never have filmed them? If so, how would I find where they are and if it's possible to have someone research them? Is there a Polish church book repository and would they have German records? 2. I believe that for the most part, many of the East and West Prussian church records were taken to a Catholic church book archive in Munich as the Russians were advancing into the area during WW II. The Tydyck researcher I mentioned earlier says he believes German church records are being repatriated to their original parishes now in Poland. If this is true, is there a way to look up the Polish parishes to find their addresses? Were Protestant church records also evacuated from that territory as the Catholic church records were and do we know where they may have been reposted? 3. In the LDS locality index, I find references for church records, and underneath where I usually find whether they are Katholiche or Evangelische, instead it will say, for instance, "Preussen Armee, Dragoner Regiment 06" and list birth, marriage and death records. What exactly is this? Were these churches on Prussian army bases for families to register their births and such? I will be happy to receive any suggestions at all that any of you may have. Thank you all for your help. Chuck Glass