Hi Al and Stefan, I have ordered microfilm for the birth and marriage records from the Family History Center online. Maybe some hopes exists. If I don't find anything, maybe one day I'll find a match on ancestry.com. Vera ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 17:22:26 -0400 From: Albert Muth [1]albertmuth734@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Hoffmann and Lamprecht from Ciechanowiec To: [2]prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <CAOHiF6X3MnkYT3DHYzp3NNVXOtcCz3[3]iRb7D8N4GSowjEVaqTUA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Vera, I have followed your postings on several mailing lists. The Bia?ystok area was in Grodno gubernia, not Russian Poland during this time, so Prussia-Roots is probably not the best mailing list to seek answers on. Ciechanowiec and Bia?ystok would have been in Russia, Russia. Not Prussia. That being said, through my research across Russian Poland, I am familiar with your family, have Carl's 1855 marriage in Bia?ystok. You know, Ciechanowiec is some 67 km. SW of Bia?ystok, so I am thinking, you should be looking in a Catholic parish. In Russian Poland, which I am a lot more familiar with, the law ALLOWED for the various religions (Catholic, Greek-Catholic, Lutheran, Jewish etc) registering their own vital statistics from the year 1826. However, this did not become mandatory until the early 1840's. Around almost every Evangelisch-Augsburgisch church (Lutheran) in Russian Poland--and there are dozens of these--I can name a cluster of Catholic churches that contained Lutherans until 1826. Then, I can name a lesser number that continued registering Lutherans until the early 1840's. LDS has filmed records for the Catholic parish of Ciechanowiec. Try there! Al Muth Michigan References 1. mailto:albertmuth734@gmail.com 2. mailto:prussia-roots@rootsweb.com 3. mailto:iRb7D8N4GSowjEVaqTUA@mail.gmail.com