Sue, No doubt your ancestor was born in Bayern (English Bavaria,) as that place was very often mispelled in the records. Bavaria was never part of Prussia, however, so you might want get help about this family from the Roots mailing list _http://www.rootsweb.com/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/) that covers Bavaria. Also, remember there was no "Germany" before 1871, so the census takers listed the province or duchy names instead. Karen B. Whitmer ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Karen, I thought the same too regarding Bavaria never being a part of Prussia, but one day I was in my local LDS center and I met someone who had been doing a lot of German genealogy and he pointed out a map that showed that it actually was as one point in time. I'm not sure of the year, but I can try and get a hold of him to find out. I was very surprised. ----- Original Message ----- From: WhitmerJ@aol.com To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] ROSENHAUER FAMILY Sue, No doubt your ancestor was born in Bayern (English Bavaria,) as that place was very often mispelled in the records. Bavaria was never part of Prussia, however, so you might want get help about this family from the Roots mailing list _http://www.rootsweb.com/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/) that covers Bavaria. Also, remember there was no "Germany" before 1871, so the census takers listed the province or duchy names instead. Karen B. Whitmer ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- 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