Hello, Albert Muth <albertmuth734@gmail.com> Wrote: The pradziad database will tell you which regional archive holds these records (http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en). From, Bob McClure Amazing this must be a way to find primary source information on an ancestor. Unfortunately, I couldn’t bring up any results without today’s province in the dropdown list. (information from Kartenmeister) German Name Pyritz Alternate Name 1: Phyris 1188 Alternate Name 2: Piriz 1217 Alternate Name 3: Pyriz 1186 Polish/Russian Name Pyrzyce Kreis/County Pyritz German Province Pommern Today's Province Zachodnio-Pomorskie The PRADZIAD database: enter the name of the town where the parish, the public registry office or the religious community were located Pyritz enter the name of the commune on the territory of which the town searched for is located, or the county on the territory of which it was located before the war: Pyrzyce select the name of the province within the 1975-1998 or 1918-1939 borders: Zachodnio-Pomorskie(today’s province) # Berlin # Frankfurt an der Oder # Görlitz # Gumbinnen # Königsberg in Preussen # Köslin # Liegnitz # Löbau # Marienwerder # Potsdam # Schlesien # Stettin # Zittau bialskopodlaskie Białoruś białostockie bielskie bielskobialskie bydgoskie chełmskie ciechanowskie częstochowskie dolnośląskie elbląskie gdańskie gorzowskie gubernia suwalska jeleniogórskie kaliskie katowickie kieleckie konińskie koszalińskie krakowskie krośnieńskie legnickie leszczyńskie lubelskie lwowskie łomżyńskie łódzkie nowogródzkie nowosądeckie obwód kaliningradzki olsztyńskie opolskie ostrołęckie pilskie piotrkowskie płockie poleskie poznańskie przemyskie radomskie Rumunia rzeszowskie siedleckie sieradzkie skierniewickie słupskie stanisławowskie suwalskie szczecińskie tarnobrzeskie tarnopolskie tarnowskie toruńskie wałbrzyskie warszawskie wileńskie włocławskie wołyńskie wrocławskie zamojskie zielonogórskie § Kowno § Kurlandia § suwalska § wołyńska select the denomination or religion in respect of which the register was kept: ewangelickie(Lutheran) select the type of event: urodzena(birth) match case: